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by tdesilva 2mo ago
Yeah especially for doing math, I've found it's really helpful that I can just select some equations I wrote and shift them down (or insert more space). It helps with adding derivations or additional notes after the fact. However
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by tdesilva 3mo ago
Mentioning neural ODE doesn't make sense here, as this is unrelated. Basically any implementation of transformer uses residuals, but you're not really training a neural ODE here. Also consider getting rid of the em-dashes. I don&#
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by tdesilva 3mo ago
ah nevermind it's just a fork of OpenCode
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by tdesilva 3mo ago
Good, coding harnesses should be open source and LLMs should be treated as commodities. Minimize switching costs for consumers, and let people understand how they're interacting with the context and the LLM outputs. The industry has be
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by tdesilva 3mo ago
is this the ChatGPT finance features they launched in May? it keeps asking me to integrate my finance data, but I have doubts about how useful it would actually be (not to mention some distrust about how well they would actually protect my
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by tdesilva 4mo ago
> But enough people take this scenario seriously that we have to take them seriously. no we don't... not sure where this notion comes from that if enough public figures are worried about something, then we must also
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by tdesilva 8mo ago
glossy screens are better for visual clarity, especially contrast (reduces eye strain when reading text)
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by tdesilva 10mo ago
The interesting part is they chose to go with a normalizing flow approach, rather than the industry standard diffusion model approach. Not sure why they chose this direction as I haven’t read the paper yet.
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by tdesilva 1y ago
We need a dating app with this filter
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by tdesilva 1y ago
As with many startups (especially ones with high burn rates) OpenAI is risky. It could take down SoftBank and its data center vendors. 6% of nvidia’s revenue is not that concerning, as I’m sure they can find other buyers for those GPUs. But
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by tdesilva 2y ago
I'd say it's more like kleenex. Lots of people ask you to 'pass them a kleenex' when their nose is runny, but they just mean tissue. They don't actually care what the brand is. Similarly for LLMs most people may not
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by tdesilva 2y ago
Well this was an entertaining take on the job market. tl;dr he's salty other people ended up better off doing the same work for other companies, based on views of tech compensation that are very divorced from reality: > I look at my
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by tdesilva 2y ago
What ends up being useful is hard to predict, so it's better just to do what you enjoy. Lots of useful math started out as just an idle curiosity, though mostly it ends up being useless. Probably most engineering projects are the same
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by tdesilva 4y ago
That sounds like an endorsement of their ads platform?
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by tdesilva 4y ago
Why do you think that?
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by tdesilva 4y ago
I'm sure ChatGPT has it's uses for some people, but the few times I've tried to use it for tasks I would have used search for it's been confidently, eloquently wrong. A search engine you can't trust, or at least eva
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by tdesilva 4y ago
Unless each parking stall will have an EV charger, you will have to share with others. That means plugging your car in (when it's not occupied) and remembering to go back down, unplug, and repark your car in another spot. When the char
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by tdesilva 4y ago
> > ... which in turn causes people like me, who live in apartment blocks, to not be able to have a EV (I'm not going to spend half an hour and more every few days at an electrical charging station) > You spend a half hour or
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by tdesilva 4y ago
How do self-driving cars funnel money into public transport and and reclaim space? I think they're more likely to do the opposite. Seems silly to rely on self-driving to reduce emissions when we don't know how to build self-drivin
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by tdesilva 4y ago
I profess that I like nice things, and buttons inside cars. If anything is excessive in modern cars, it's the size and amount of touchscreens, not the amount of buttons.
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by tdesilva 5y ago
It's not even a safety thing. Power seats with memory functionality are a must-have for anyone that shares their car with someone else. It's so much less annoying to press one button and have the car revert to your preferred seati
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by tdesilva 6y ago
The fact that everything is on the center display is the biggest reason keeping me from seriously considering buying a Tesla. Distractions don't belong in a car.
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by tdesilva 6y ago
Your article doesn't directly talk about the tax rate for the top 1%. The fact that the percentage of total tax collected attributed to the top 1% has risen from 24% to 30% seems to be more indicative of higher wealth inequality, espec
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by tdesilva 6y ago
It's a lot easier to switch which store you shop than what phone you use. Switching iOS to Android costs a non-trivial amount of money. There's also a lot of lock-in, migrating from apps in Apple land to Android land. Some people
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by tdesilva 7y ago
Yeah. It seems like the author considers himself a generalist, but it sounds to me like he's a front end specialist.
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by tdesilva 7y ago
It's called a fallacy for good reason.
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by tdesilva 7y ago
Or you could use differentially private data collection.
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by tdesilva 8y ago
Sometimes the weather blows.
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by tdesilva 8y ago
It'd be nice if some telemetry came out, when the car started to brake, steering inputs, etc.