whiteandnerdy

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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
Good on you for seeing a problem and making something to solve it! That said, I'm a bit confused about the use case. Wouldn't it be simpler and more secure to have all the encryption occur on the client side, and have the server b
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
Forth supports direct memory access; you can request arbitrarily sized chunks of heap memory and retain pointers either on the stack or aliased by dictionary words. https://forth-standard.org/standard/core/ALLOT
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
Here is one - there are finitely many mathematical symbols (or at least, all mathematical symbols can be defined in terms of a finite core of symbols). That means the set of all mathematical definitions is countable (i.e. you could assign a
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
It's more like gren-itch than gren-each (native UK speaker).
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
In "their logos", the word 'their' is possessive but 'logos' isn't, and shouldn't take an apostrophe. OP's correction was right.
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
I think you misunderstood OP- I think he's saying that there was propaganda across the board, including both treatment of people like Gallileo, and also including techniques such as the iron maiden. I take his point to be precisely tha
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
Would it be fair to say they signal boosted her personal details on social media? Irrespective of whether it is literally doxxing (I think you're right that it isn't), it feels irresponsible in terms of the effects that might be a
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
They are not strictly speaking illegal in the UK, and were pretty common in the 2000s and early 2010s. The law requires employers to pay minimum wage to anyone who is a worker (i.e. is doing work for the company) - but "sitting in&quot
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by whiteandnerdy 1y ago
Looks like the app is Taptic: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taptic-d-deaf-support/id647898...
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
Wow! I think I dimly intuited your first paragraph already; I directionally get why your second might be true (although I'd have thought L1 was even more so, since it encourages zeros which is kind of like choosing a subspace). Your th
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
You're correct, and the term you're looking for is "regularisation". There are two common ways of doing this: * L1 or L2 regularisation: penalises models whose weight matrices are complex (in the sense of having lots of
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
I think there's a sense in which moderns feel that the reals (or at least the rationals) are a natural category: that 5 and 0.3 are the same "kind of thing". Mathematicians talk about the distinction between different classes
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
I'm no fan of this act but your characterisation is highly misleading. To pick two examples from the document you linked: Discussion of being a sex worker would not be covered. The only illegal content relating to sex work would be if
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
The capital W is conventional - when talking about a place, a language, or a grouping of people, it's grammatically correct to capitalise the inital letter. "I visited a few of America's major cities, and was especially struc
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
The linked article precisely claims that the have overhyped their results by (inadvertently? ) having their test distribution overlap with their training data, and implies that the result won't generalise to novel proteins.
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
I don't have a specific link, but the general method is called "image streaming". It's pretty googleable so you should be able to find something similar at least.
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by whiteandnerdy 2y ago
I remember hearing that Beam Search doesn't work well for LLMs, because it leads to repetitive, generic output. The majority vote sampling technique in this paper sounds like it'd give similar output to Beam Search, because it&#x2
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by whiteandnerdy 3y ago
I think it does come down to semantics. When you say "weights", people will take you to mean the pre-trained parameters of the network. I agree that in some sense the attention weights are more like meta-weights that are applied t
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by whiteandnerdy 3y ago
If I'm going to ask the player to do something multi stage I will usually flag it so they know that there's a few places where things might go wrong. "OK well sneaking up to it is going to be the first hurdle; after that you&
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by whiteandnerdy 4y ago
I think you're setting an unreasonably high bar. Christianity has a high degree of continuity with Judaism, but rejects important aspects of Jewish theology, such as Kosher and Sabbath-keeping. So while Christianity accepts large amoun
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by whiteandnerdy 4y ago
I have a vague memory that if your device can't get a direct route to your Plex server (e.g. because of NAT) then it gets relayed via Plex's own cloud servers with significant bandwidth throttling. This article seems to have some
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by whiteandnerdy 4y ago
Your colleague is dealing with a problem of disaligned incentives. If growth was the top priority for the engineering team, then (assuming her suggestions are good) they would get actioned. I would guess that either the team are busy with f
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by whiteandnerdy 7y ago
It's not everything in [0, 1] as e.g. 2/3 is missing. (n is conventionally an integer). If you have a set where there's an idea of the distance between two points (a metric space), you can talk about sequences where the point
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by whiteandnerdy 7y ago
I found it an interesting deep dive into something completely esoteric that I have no prior context on. Reading original work by a domain expert scratches the same itch for me as learning about a cool hack. Although you'd think STEM su
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by whiteandnerdy 7y ago
I host a Plex instance on a server on my home network, and struggled with setting up external access because my ISP at the time had a double NAT. What I ended up doing was renting a super cheap VPS from TINYKVM ( https://tinykvm.c
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by whiteandnerdy 8y ago
I think the objection still applies. Suppose the statistical analysis told us that millionaires mostly get where they are by comparatively risky strategies or investments. Does that tell us we should also pursue high-risk high-yield opportu
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by whiteandnerdy 8y ago
Go prefers message passing of copies using channels, but absolutely does permit shared state if you want it. I've written multithreaded code with shared state in Go myself. You just need to pass a pointer to the state across a channel,
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by whiteandnerdy 8y ago
Your hosts file is amazing. I killed two hours trying to get decent ad blocking in midori, gave up, and got essentially perfect blocking with your hosts entries in under 5 minutes. Thanks for the work you do in curating this resource - it&#
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by whiteandnerdy 9y ago
Can you give more details on why the term is ambiguous or ill-defined? I thought I knew what it meant, and a brief web search seems to reinforce my existing understanding (a source-to-source compiler), but I'm probably missing the subt
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by whiteandnerdy 9y ago
I _guess_ he means that siloing email provision to a few large providers means that its harder to run your own email server without being flagged as spam.

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