wazdra

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by wazdra 18d ago
Sarcasm?
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by wazdra 2mo ago
"gypsie" cannot be substituted by "junky" or "homeless", for the simple reason that those words simply mask the ethnicity and immigration overtones, which are very much present in DHH's blog post. I haven&
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by wazdra 2mo ago
I'm from France, and when browsing, I often get paywalled when I reject all non-essential cookies. The CNIL (who is in charge of the application of GDPR) ruled that this was compliant with GDPR as long as another website was offering a
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by wazdra 2mo ago
> The clearest sign a tool is serving you is that you stop noticing it—it becomes invisible. You don’t celebrate its flaws because you’re not turning them into a hobby, rather you just get mildly annoyed and route around them. I think th
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by wazdra 3mo ago
This is assuming that you'll be priced the fraction of computing that you consumed. But you are actually paying for their infrastructure, for the R&D (and also the computation that went into training the model) etc. It is not clear
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by wazdra 4mo ago
I agree with the feeling. But if you agree with the analysis of the article, this cat & mouse game ultimately amounts to stop disclosing our reasoning threads through commonly accepted linguistic structures. That's quite a price to
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by wazdra 5mo ago
A tautology is a sentence vacuously true. This is called a pleonasm.
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by wazdra 6mo ago
Are you being sarcastic? This has definitely changed with Apple Silicon. Looking at hardware value, the M-series are way more competitive than the Intel macs ever were, and if you want to run an LLM locally, they are undefeated. However, i
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by wazdra 10mo ago
Tails works like this, and has gained a lot of traction in the past few years — although one may argue that running from RAM is only indirectly responsible for its popularity. I think this idea appeals to many people, also concerning remane
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by wazdra 11mo ago
I think there's a large cultural bias at play here. Different nations have different relationships to religion. As a french person, the decision to mark religious content as NSFW seems totally normal to me, but I also know that french
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by wazdra 11mo ago
Valuing how others remember you is definitely a motivation in life for many. I respect that it is not your own, respect that it may be mine. It is by no means "absurd".
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by wazdra 11mo ago
I don't think we have such a lower bound: from a “theoretical" point of view (in the sense of the post), your processor could walk on the cube of memory and collect each bit one by one. Each move+read costs O(1) (if you move corre
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by wazdra 1y ago
(I’m an EU-based user of Apple products) I see your point. However, Apple already provides a translation API[0], a speech recognition API[1], and a Text2Speech API[2], so not a lot more is needed than the API you describe. Also note that, w
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by wazdra 1y ago
Note that this is not incompatible with the author's view. The function abstraction does solve something : a problem we faced in the 20th century. While I don't know whether I agree with their view, I do see that, once we've
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by wazdra 1y ago
Well, doesn't that specific meaning apply here? I mean, the lack of protection for end-users is at first compensated by investment money (low prices and huge effort on support). Once network effect is reached, the unregulated nature of
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by wazdra 2y ago
A few weeks ago, I saw a blog post here about their new billing policy[1]: if you don't use Kagi during a month, they'll pause your subscription. Personally, because of this one feature of their subscription, I don't feel too
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by wazdra 2y ago
https://archive.ph/2rVhO
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by wazdra 2y ago
Intuitively, it seems to me that those examples of classical "non-determinism" are radically different from the quantum ones, in the sense that quantum physics theorize non-determinism, while those situations are merely "left
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by wazdra 2y ago
Am I the only one a bit disturbed by this whole communication ? I mean, we all know helping disabled is not the end-game objective of neuralink. And right now, from a very cynical point of view, disabled people constitute a large reservoir
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by wazdra 2y ago
https://archive.is/LiIkr
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by wazdra 2y ago
\times denotes the cartesian product (to my knowledge) universally. If 3rd-semester calculus is when you introduce a general definition of continuity (I am not from the US, wouldn't know how the programs usually work there) on either m
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by wazdra 2y ago
I found your comment quite agressive, and a bit out of place. I, for one, do have trouble getting others to read my handwriting (on boards mostly, on paper it's ok). I'm left-handed, and the system of traditional writing education
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by wazdra 2y ago
It is unknown whether quantum computing makes NP-complete problems easier to solve. There is a complexity class for problems that can be solved "efficiently" on using quantum computing, called BQP. How BQP and NP are related is un
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by wazdra 2y ago
I think you have understood "writing" in a very narrow sense. As mentioned in other replies, Stephen Hawking was a very prolific author. He did not write much, but he sure knew how to write. PG is obviously talking about the menta
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by wazdra 2y ago
Idk if that was parent's ref, but clopen is a term used in topology
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by wazdra 2y ago
I'd like to point out that llama 3.1 is not open source[1] (I was recently made aware of that fact by [2], when it was on HN front page) While it's very nice to see a peak of interest for local, "open-weights" LLMs, th
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by wazdra 2y ago
Fun how Microsoft is on both ends of the "exploit"
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Emerald Cockroach Wasp(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by wazdra 2y ago|1 comments
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by wazdra 2y ago
I had the chance to follow Goubault-Larrecq's very nice course on Logic and Computation, that went over this in a very similar way. Unfortunately, the whole material is in french, but might still interest some : http://www.l
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by wazdra 2y ago
I think we can all agree to disagree

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