xdavidliu

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by xdavidliu 3d ago
https://www.imo-official.org/results/contestant/26962/
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by xdavidliu 6d ago
i think this line of argument is outdated
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by xdavidliu 6d ago
you might want to read that chapter of CLRS again
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by xdavidliu 6d ago
i mean that even when folded up, it looks really wide, and perhaps wouldn't fit well into my pocket
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by xdavidliu 6d ago
i used to play poker casually, and the part that I found most interesting and most useful was not the reading other peoples' body language / tells or the probability calculations, but rather the practicing of regulating my own emo
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by xdavidliu 7d ago
same thought. I'm wondering how I'm gonna fit that in my pocket.
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
would edit my comment but it's been a few hours > but it’s pretty standard to have co-authors from different companies that's only true for papers that are not millenium problem solutions
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
because it severely dilutes the PR value.
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
clickbait gonna clickbait. But you cannot blame it because in today's attention economy it really HAS to since everything else is too
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
seems to me the Noam tweet was before the Sholto tweet? 2:47 am (eastern time for me) https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2097215233119211902 2:59 am https://x.com/_sholtodouglas/status/2097
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
not if the dedication ends up making the company look bad
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
pretraining is months but they can totally fine tune in a few days
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by xdavidliu 9d ago
the "snappy quick-witted style" of this along with "think X but with Y" makes me think this is the type of prose that gets rated higher in post-training RL or something and yet annoys the heck out of actual readers
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by xdavidliu 10d ago
i was surprised that it's so transparent when you read it. Is this some kind of flanderization or did the OP just use a really really cheap model
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by xdavidliu 15d ago
the caveat is that we are not learning those small number of samples from scratch, since we're coming in with a large amount of training already, much of it from before we were even born
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by xdavidliu 22d ago
> Model inference is just that same logic but faster. This statement is nonsensical.
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by xdavidliu 23d ago
they probably mean deterministic in the sense of traditional computer programs consisting of if-else decision points and ordinary cpu logic, as opposed to numerical models (which can of course be deterministic too, as you pointed out)
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by xdavidliu 23d ago
> JetBrains, a major player in developer tools, recently completed a study of junior and novice developers The article links to this as the study: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3632620.3671116 . It do
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by xdavidliu 23d ago
> backing up the brinks truck now that's a phrase I have only heard in one other context: as an alleged quote from former Boston Celtics player Isaiah Thomas (who was really about 5'7 despite his official listed 5'9; yes,
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by xdavidliu 26d ago
https://shnatsel.medium.com/do-not-run-any-cargo-commands-on... > any command starting with cargo can run arbitrary code when operating on an untrusted repository, and should be treated the same as cargo run.
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by xdavidliu 27d ago
in that case, I would assume tiny libraries can be created in any language.
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by xdavidliu 27d ago
just to clarify, by "horrible practice" you mean macros?
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by xdavidliu 27d ago
> The genuine arrayref and append-only-vec crates are maintained by droundy, whose account appears to have been compromised. That name looked familiar to me; I believe it's the same David Roundy who was an academic at Reed College w
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by xdavidliu 28d ago
> They are based on the premise that an educated person should be able to argue convincingly for or against any idea, regardless of whether they believe in it. In many situations, people doing this, skillfully even, has had quite pernici
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
There are at least two uses of "declare": one the colloquial english usage that has been around for at least hundreds of years, which roughly means "announce" or "state". The other use of declare is the much mo
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
> You are not writing dead text; you are conversing with a living system. There it is again.
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
you're getting downvoted by others because of tone but I had the same thought
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
one time about 9 years ago I was in the comments of a stackoverflow question, and saying something like "an accessor function need not directly give the underlying structure of the data it's accessing, for example, just because in
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
the typo was the Axios article, not from Google's own announcement
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
> these communities don’t care if your code works at all, but instead care that you know why and how it works. not literally true, and I doubt the author meant to say this. The communities do not only care about if your code works at a

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