yaantc

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by yaantc 3mo ago
Yes, ranking requires reducing to a single dimension where all interesting things are multi-dimensions. This is a lossy process, which often tells more about the one(s) doing the ranking than what's ranked.
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by yaantc 8mo ago
Profession as sibling said, available here: https://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html The wikipedia entry also has link to the text but the above is nicer IMHO, just the raw text. From a previous HN discussion som
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by yaantc 10mo ago
I'm sorry I won't share much details, I don't think much is public on Vsora architecture and don't want to breach any NDA... From their web page Euclyd is a "many small cores" accelerator. Doing good compilatio
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by yaantc 10mo ago
Very simplified, AI workloads need compute and communications and compute dominates inference, while communications dominate training. Most start-ups innovate on the compute side, whereas the techno needed for state of the art communication
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by yaantc 1y ago
From Le Monde live feed, RTE (French electricity network manager) declared the issue unrelated to this fire. "Le gestionnaire français souligne par ailleurs que cette panne n’est pas due à un incendie dans le sud de la France, entre Na
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by yaantc 2y ago
castxml ( https://github.com/CastXML/CastXML ) may be what you want. It uses the Clang front-end to output an XML representation of a C or C++ parse tree. It is then possible to turn this into what you want. I've us
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by yaantc 2y ago
On the L/S unit impact: data movement is expensive, computation is cheap (relatively). In "Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach" there are numbers for the now old TSMC 45nm process: A 32 bits FP multiplication takes
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by yaantc 2y ago
What's new: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-30... Or in antinews format: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/An...
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by yaantc 2y ago
It's a good but hard question... Because cellular is huge. In a professional context, nobody knows it all in details. There are specializations: core network and RAN, and inside RAN protocol stack vs PHY, and in PHY algos vs implementa
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by yaantc 2y ago
LTE total latency is 20-50 ms, and you compare this to the marketing "air link only" 5G latency of 1 ms. It's apple and oranges ;) FYI, the air link latency for LTE was given as 4-5 ms. FDD as it's the best here. The 5G
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by yaantc 2y ago
Emacs is in the process of moving from legacy languages modes using regexps and elisp for syntax analysis to new modes using tree sitter. In this context, what does a name like "c-mode" should mean? Options: 1) it should stick to
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by yaantc 2y ago
Hi, in case you're not already aware of the name clash, there's already a `rr` in the programming world. It's "record and replay": https://rr-project.org/ . Very different, but a very fine tool tool
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by yaantc 2y ago
See just above the map: "This has been age-standardized, assuming a constant age structure of the population for comparisons between countries and over time.". This is what you suggests IIUC?
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by yaantc 2y ago
Take the infinite loop as just an example of an issue with depth-first search and backtracking. To be more general, I'd say that the issue is that the overall performance of a Prolog program can be very dependent on the ordering of its
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by yaantc 2y ago
You may want to try x2go. It uses the older NX protocol version 3, while NoMachine is at version 4. It's good enough for my use case, and support remote applications just fine: this is how I use it.
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by yaantc 2y ago
> I bet it had diesel generators when it was in service with AT&T to boot. 20 to 25 years ago I visited a telecom switch center in Paris, the one under the Tuileries garden next to the Louvre. They had a huge and empty diesel generat
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by yaantc 2y ago
According to https://www.withouthotair.com/ , no.
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by yaantc 2y ago
> I wonder how (if?) this thing runs Linux. See there: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-... Should be good after all this has landed in upstream Linux and all the distros (
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by yaantc 2y ago
> [...] the standard way to get structured output seems to be to retry the query until the stochastic language model produces expected output. No, that would be very inefficient. At each token generation step, the LLM provides a likeliho
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by yaantc 2y ago
For a text based version of the "tree of chats" idea, using Emacs, Org mode and gptel see `gptel-org-branching-context`in: https://github.com/karthink/gptel?tab=readme-ov-file#extra-o...
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The tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel(spectrum.ieee.org)
7 points by yaantc 2y ago|1 comments
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by yaantc 2y ago
Use llamafile [1], it can be as simple as downloading a file (for mixtral, [2]), making it executable and running it. The repo README has all the info, it's simple and downloading the model is what takes the most time. In my case I got
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by yaantc 2y ago
You can try running tests in parallel with the memory sanitizer (MSAN) enabled. MSAN uses a lot of memory, and on a 64 GB machine I have to reduce the amount of parallelism not to trigger Linux OoM killer. MSAN: https://gith
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by yaantc 3y ago
For a given process design kit (PDK), the synthesis tool will have a few different types of transistors. They correspond to different trade-offs between size and power on one hand, and speed on the other. The fastest the transistor, the big
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by yaantc 3y ago
The opposite: eSIM allows IoT devices being moved from one operator to another remotely, with no physical SIM swap. With device using physical SIM this wouldn't be economical, with eSIM remote change it can be. This allows long term us
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by yaantc 3y ago
Yes, using the Shor algorithm and this was achieved in... 2012 ([1], from Wikipedia). Larger cases of quantum factorization since then used non-scalable algorithms. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4147
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by yaantc 3y ago
The page summarizing the considered new names and their pros/cons is interesting: https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names Naming is hard...
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by yaantc 3y ago
There a built-in similar function, `fill-paragraph`, tied to M-q. I use it routinely and it's very nice. It has some language smart, and for example understand code comments, and can format comments nicely. It also has smart to recogni
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by yaantc 3y ago
I stick to 80 columns, as with it I can better use my screen space. Even on modern wide screens. Even if some lines are long, a lot of lines are short. So the end-of-line side of a text editor is less densely used than the start of line sid
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by yaantc 3y ago
That could be, the author may not have expected nor intended the exposition of an HN post. If so, my apologies. I still find the article unfair and biased in its presentation, compared to the email list discussion. It's unfortunate, be

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