tbagman

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by tbagman 4mo ago
I know this is also a legal question, but I sometimes wonder about ML-based meeting transcription and summary services. Pre-ML, if you wanted to record a meeting, the de-facto process (at least in the US) was to announce before the meeting
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by tbagman 5mo ago
Just a note of caution: sync != backup. When I was younger and dumber, I had my own rsync cron script to do a nightly sync of my documents to a remote server. One day I noticed files were gone from my local drive; I think there were block c
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by tbagman 5mo ago
Wonderful work and writing, Ronan -- I'm appreciative of your careful balance between objective fact-finding and synthesis. For me, a big worry about AI is in its potential to further ease distorting or fabricating truth, while simulta
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by tbagman 8mo ago
>> The most useful, accurate, and honest LLM information I've gathered >> comes from spaces where neither extreme prevails Do you have any pointers to good (public) spaces like this? Your take sounds reasonable, and so I&#x
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by tbagman 1y ago
Evidence?
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by tbagman 1y ago
It's primarily for hobbyists. From the community discord, I know there are also serious rigs out there as well, on which some members are doing some astronomical science...
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by tbagman 1y ago
I can also recommend starfront observatories ( https://starfront.space ) for folks looking to do remote hosting. It's in a remote location in Texas with solid skies and great staff, and has a pretty unique model of high densi
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by tbagman 2y ago
The good news is that training jerprint was probably cheaper than training the latest got models...
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by tbagman 4y ago
Homelessness in the US is a complex problem. I found the Soft White Underbelly interview series by Mark Laita insightful when learning more about it: https://www.softwhiteunderbelly.com Mark spent considerable time earning the
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by tbagman 5y ago
Just to say it explicitly, dang, you're doing a great job.
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by tbagman 6y ago
Confirmed; this is what happened to my 16" after this install. I needed to do a DFU restore (using Apple Configurator 2 -- you can download it to your hopefully spare MacBook from the app store) to get my mac back up and running. Unfor
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by tbagman 6y ago
Saying a different way: for fork/join or barrier style parallel requests, stragglers set overall latency, and though the probability of any specific response being a straggler may be low, the probability of at least one response being
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by tbagman 10y ago
> If you can plug it in, it will work Unfortunately, this hasn't been my experience. As an example, I have a display-port-based Apple cinema display, and I bought this adapter to try to connect it to a new macbook pro 15":
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by tbagman 11y ago
Are you sure? I think you're misremembering.
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by tbagman 12y ago
Does rsync.net backup versions of the files you store on it? If not, a pitfall with your workflow is that if you corrupt todo.txt (accidentally, or if there is a filesystem problem, etc.) and then push it via rsync, you'll have acciden
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by tbagman 12y ago
Agreed on the fantastic-ness -- the first 4-5 in the sequence in particular give you a very nice flavor of working in kernel-space, and they are doable. I taught a senior ugrad OS course and experimented with using this as the project seque
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by tbagman 12y ago
Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film)
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by tbagman 12y ago
Because of compulsory misses -- i.e., the first request to an object is never in the cache.
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by tbagman 12y ago
I understand your point of view, but I have a different opinion. When I see these kinds of claims, my guess is that they are usually based on a failure analysis given a particular replication degree and estimates of failure probabilities of
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by tbagman 12y ago
Wow, how the tides have turned! 15 years ago was: s/Google/Microsoft s/Microsoft/Linux s/Bing/Linux I never would have predicted somebody cheering for "Microsoft the underdog."
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by tbagman 13y ago
The compromise that intellectual property strives for is to encourage innovation by rewarding inventors with time-limited exclusive rights in exchange for disclosure. The world gains the knowledge through the disclosure, the inventor gains
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by tbagman 13y ago
It's a complex situation, as other posters have noted. Here's another complication. Often, faculty need multiple sources of funding over the years to support their research, including federal grants, university support (direct thr
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by tbagman 14y ago
Good idea; I haven't done any latency studies yet, but that's a great next step... The really interesting part would be to compute latencies with minification/gzip/both either on-the-fly (e.g., mod_pagespeed) or done in advance, and to figu
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Baking off JavaScript minification, gzip, and their combination(gribble.org)
5 points by tbagman 14y ago|2 comments