super_mario

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by super_mario 23d ago
I was in the same situation, I used maxed out 15'' M3 Max MacBook Pro docked to Studio Display closed on vertical stand behind the screen. It was fine for office work, but running local LLMs would definitely overheat it. The batte
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by super_mario 3mo ago
Wikipedia is a good source on this P complexity class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_(complexity) NP complexity class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_(complexity) P vs NP question https:/&
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by super_mario 7mo ago
I run gpt-oss 120b model on ollama (the model is about 65 GB on disk) with 128k context size (the model is super optimized and only uses 4.8 GB of additional RAM for KV cache at this context size) on M4 Max 128 GB RAM Mac Studio and I get 6
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by super_mario 7mo ago
Congratulations to Christian and all the contributors on another vim milestone. Thank you all. I am so thrilled to see vim development continuing. As early vim (vi imitation) user on Amiga, I can't imagine living without it.
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by super_mario 8mo ago
Coaching does not imply superiority. I doubt any sports coach could substitute any player in a competitive game, yet they can coach them to become better version of themselves. What engineers usually struggle with as they grow into more sen
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by super_mario 10mo ago
In ZFC set theory, indexed family over a set (possibly uncountable or even bigger), is just syntactic sugar for a function. So let's say you have a set U (possibly uncountable). To say let {u_i}, i in I (another set, possibly uncountab
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by super_mario 11mo ago
I prefer this test: "Imagine a ball resting on a table. A person walks up to the table and pushes the ball". Question for the test subject: "What will happen?" Everyone answers correctly the ball will roll of the table a
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by super_mario 2y ago
Brings back memories. Aztec C was my first C compiler on Amiga 500 way back in 1990. I learned C, I learned vi. Still have fond memories of those early days.
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by super_mario 2y ago
Can you please elaborate? How are you running ollama? I just build it from source and have written a shell script to start/stop it. It runs under my local user account (I should probably have its own user) and is of course not exposed
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by super_mario 2y ago
Ah, ok, that's a nasty bug/scenario. I long for the good old days one could just rsync the internal drive and bless it and you have a bootable clone, or make compressed disk image. Those were the days.
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by super_mario 2y ago
How did you end up with TM backup larger than original source? Sure, total storage consumed on TM drive can be larger than source, but that is because older versions of files are stored as well. But restoring most recent versions of files s
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by super_mario 3y ago
I view CAP theorem as statement about the universe we live in (information travels at speed of light, "instantaneous" is observer dependant etc), and not as a consequence of information theoretic definitions we chose to adopt (str
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by super_mario 3y ago
As fellow mathematician tutoring my son I found all of the articles incredibly useful. Thank you for writing them and making them freely accessible. Awesome work.
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by super_mario 3y ago
Signal perhaps does not allow you to export your message history through the front door, however decrypting and exporting your message history is relatively low effort. You messages are stored in encrypted SQLite3 database. The Signal encr
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by super_mario 3y ago
You probably don't need to learn C and program in it, but I do think knowing material covered in say [1] Computer Systems - A Programmer's Perspective will make you a better engineer, and historically computer systems were impleme
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by super_mario 3y ago
Yet another background daemon. No thanks. Update when you need to, it's not like it's mandatory.
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by super_mario 4y ago
macOS Catalina 10.15.7 is also affected and there is no official patch from Apple.
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by super_mario 4y ago
Looks like a great machine, however, the screen resolution is a little disappointing. Why can't we have retina screens on non-Apple hardware? Is this due to Linux limitations or manufacturers are just "cheap"?
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by super_mario 5y ago
Engineering a Compiler 2nd Edition by Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon is highly regarded.
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by super_mario 5y ago
Are containers still necessary? Does the Firefox built in privacy (Strict privacy protection policy) provide same or similar functionality?
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by super_mario 5y ago
Why use pyenv when venv is built into Python 3? Also, pip installs your dependencies into active venv, so I don't see a point in using anything else.
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by super_mario 5y ago
You can find out more about Stockfish's NNUE architecture and internal working here: https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch/blob/master/docs/n... It's pretty interesting read.
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by super_mario 5y ago
Alpha Zero would not be competitive in its original implementation. It's neural net is too small (this is why it only took 4 hours to train it, since it stopped learning after 4 hours). Stockfish 14 just doubled its network size from S
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by super_mario 5y ago
Interesting, considering the brain can not metabolize fructose, only glucose and ketones. Liver is the only organ that can metabolize fructose, where it ends up producing metabolites very similar to alcohol, leading over time to non-alcohol
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by super_mario 5y ago
The computer is so thin, the headphone jack had to be moved to the side. Now you have desktop computer with speaker cable hanging on the side going to your external powered speakers. How's that for elegant.
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by super_mario 5y ago
I personally hate typing in Python. Python now feels like Typescript, and when using pyright, you actually get something that looks very much like type file for JS when you step into library code, instead of library source code itself. Hone
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by super_mario 6y ago
Isn't grep really optimal C implementation?
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by super_mario 6y ago
Apparently, protein (Syncytin-1) present in the spike of SARS-COV2 is also present in human placenta. If the vaccine produces anti-bodies for this protein, it could also lead to infertility in women. I think the answer to this questions wou
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by super_mario 6y ago
Absolutely agree with you. But with advent of microservices architecture patterns, it is possible to keep service code within bounds of maintainable size.
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by super_mario 6y ago
I guess their motto is now "Be evil".

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