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by szvsw 1mo ago
You mention a bit about the latent social forces embedded within technological development and how that has related to skin tones and the technologies of color reproduction, so I figured I would share some references: https://can
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by szvsw 4mo ago
I think `uv lock -P <package-name>` to only update a particular package (and transitive deps of course).
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by szvsw 4mo ago
Not sure why petrochemicals and trees ie hydrocarbons are any more or less absurd than the silicon, metals, etc quarried and mined from around the world needed to store information digitally in data centers (or mobile devices). Storing data
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by szvsw 1y ago
Yep, PassiveHouse standards which typically include an extremely tight envelope which forces installation of outdoor air supply famously can get away with just a few hundred watts of heating capacity because of heat exchange on the incoming
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by szvsw 1y ago
Sure I was playing a little fast and loose there, but (a) the large surface area of the home (and resulting conductive transfer through the walls + convection transfer via infiltration through gaps) is directly a result of the fact that you
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by szvsw 1y ago
FWIW, in a typical apartment or single-family home, refrigeration uses a fraction of the energy that space cooling (also via a refrigeration/vapor compression cycle) requires on a warm day (and probably year round too unless in very mi
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by szvsw 1y ago
> I'm particularly annoyed by using LLMs to evaluate the output of LLMs. Even though I largely agree with parts of what you wrote, if you squint your eyes enough you can kind of see an argument along the lines of “difficult to sol
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by szvsw 1y ago
Hey out of curiosity were there any issues with my top level comment? Seemed pretty innocuous, curious what the problem was. Feel free to email me if it’s better suited for discussion outside of post context.
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by szvsw 1y ago
> That "problem" remains unsolved because it's actually a fundamental aspect of reality. There is no natural separation between code and data. They are the same thing. Sorry to perhaps diverge into looser analogy from your
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by szvsw 1y ago
Yeah, I think I’m with you if you ultimately mean to say something like this: “the labels are meaningless… we just have collections of complex systems that demonstrate various behaviors and properties, some in common with other systems, som
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by szvsw 1y ago
I don’t mean to amplify a false understanding at all. I probably did not articulate myself well enough, so I’ll try again. I think it is inevitable that some - many - people will come to the conclusion that these systems have “ethics”, “mor
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by szvsw 1y ago
So the author’s core view is ultimately a Searle-like view: a computational, functional, syntactic rules based system cannot reproduce a mind. Plenty of people will agree, plenty of people will disagree, and the answer is probably unknowabl
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by szvsw 1y ago
On the other hand, IP addresses have crossed into the popular lexicon in exactly this manner… it’s common enough to hear people say “what’s my “ip?” or “are there any free ips?” or what are the IPs for x/y/z”. I agree that it soun
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by szvsw 1y ago
As someone who wrote my first line of code in approx 2010 and used git & GH for the first time in… 2013? it kind of amazes me to remember that Git is only 20 years old. GitHub for instance doesn’t seem surprising to me that is <20 ye
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by szvsw 1y ago
I’ve been using Hatchet since the summer, and really do love it over celery. I’ve been using Hatchet for academic research experiments with embarrassingly parallel tasks - ie thousands of simultaneous tasks just with different inputs, each
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by szvsw 1y ago
Yep - this is also the official recommended method by Hatchet, also sometimes called payload thinning.
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by szvsw 1y ago
There are discussions about lowering the seams (harder to generate spin and makes the same spin rates less aerodynamically effective) as well as lowering the mound.
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by szvsw 1y ago
There’s some consensus though that currently, pitching has evolved much faster than batting due to advances like Trackman and deeper understanding of the relationship between biomechanics, pitch tunneling, spinrate/flight path/mov
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by szvsw 1y ago
The biomechanics involved are insane. You are hitting a baseball-sized object (ha) moving at 90+ mph with massive break, often very late and over two axes, with something a couple of inches in diameter, and need to make decisions and react
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by szvsw 1y ago
There will always be something so beautiful about node/graph programming systems that simultaneously allow you to go back and forth between the text-based program and the graph representation of the program. That fact that Modelica let
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by szvsw 1y ago
I mostly agree with what your are saying but… > passing them means nothing about the ability of neural net-based systems to understand language, regardless of how much their authors designed them to test language understanding. Does this
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by szvsw 2y ago
These ramp functions are actual quite powerful and beautiful sounding when implemented in analog electronic synthesizers - by controlling the ratio of the quiescent and moving phase, and by controlling the ratio of the rise and fall times i
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by szvsw 2y ago
Fantastic write up and beautiful design decisions. Really remarkable work! As another market data point, I would definitely pay a premium price if you were to go to market with it.
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by szvsw 2y ago
I have the ZSA Moonlander and absolutely love it! Definitely recommend it!
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by szvsw 2y ago
> It's DARPA, you're really past the moralizing about war stage here, that's just out of context. I don’t really think I was moralizing… just commenting on the funny juxtaposition of the language and the context - or on th
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by szvsw 2y ago
> feeling overwhelmed only for brief periods of time There is something deeply, darkly comedic (depressing?) about the qualitative language here. Primarily the way it simultaneously intersects with modern discourse around wellness, anxie
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by szvsw 2y ago
Conditional normalizing flows are one of the most beautiful solutions to inverse design problems that I’ve come across, if you have the data to train them. Something about the notion of carefully deforming a base distribution by pushing and
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by szvsw 2y ago
Mate, don’t give up! I think it’s time for you to go work on batteries! Capital is never going away I don’t think, but that doesn’t mean you have to be resigned to its inexorable subsumption of all productive potentials for value extraction
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by szvsw 2y ago
Yes that’s my main point - if you accept the first one, then you should accept the second one (though some people might find the second so absurd as to reject the first). > Imagine if instead of an LLM the billions of people instead simu
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by szvsw 2y ago
The very tricky part then is to ask if the consciousness/phenomenological experience that you postulate still happens if, say, we were to compute the outputs of an LLM by hand… while difficult, if every single person on earth did one o

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