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by yfontana 1mo ago
That particular issue is known as RED-S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_energy_deficiency_in_... But over-training can happen even with sufficient nutrition (even if it is less likely, as nutrition is a major p
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by yfontana 1mo ago
This article was written in 2015. Nowadays most elite ultra-runners do have coaches, and follow data-driven training regimes. This is a trend in all professional (and, to a lesser degree, amateur) sports, but it is definitely quite noticeab
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by yfontana 1mo ago
If what China has been doing is considered generous, then so should the tens of billions in foreign aid that the West has sent to the South over the years. I'm not saying that China's investment in the South hasn't had positi
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by yfontana 1mo ago
China has been using that rhetoric of "helping" the global south ever since it emerged as a super power. In most cases, it has a lot less to do with generosity than with securing natural resources and international influence.
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by yfontana 1mo ago
My personal mental model is that this is the AI version of the low-code web app tools that have existed for a while (like Outsystems, Power Apps...). Those tools are a bit of a nightmare for devs to work with and they have all sorts of limi
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by yfontana 1mo ago
That sentence is written as an introduction to an article about embeddings compression. So yeah, it does take a bit of a shortcut from "search" to "vector storage", but that's irrelevant to the rest of the article.
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by yfontana 1mo ago
Something interesting that the original study looked at, but isn't mentioned in the linked article: this effect was not observed for non-Alzheimer's dementia deaths. There seems to be something specific to spatial reasoning and
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by yfontana 1mo ago
> "Become a cabbie" is NOT an intervention that is going to help whatsoever. How about promoting spatial awareness and reasoning exercises (which is the actual suggestion of the article)?
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by yfontana 1mo ago
For me (Firefox on Windows, not in reader mode) the graphics stop showing at the "585 builds" paragraph. Besides, if something doesn't work in reader mode, it's also likely to not work with screen readers. People who use
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by yfontana 1mo ago
It's cool until it breaks halfway through on Firefox, making the page unusable in that browser.
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by yfontana 2mo ago
How come no other big model seems to be able to deliver the same type of extremely low cache cost though, if their techniques are public?
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by yfontana 3mo ago
That act applies just as much to those American and Chinese models within the EU.
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by yfontana 3mo ago
Yeah, medical computer vision is a (fascinating) field with a lot of ongoing research. SOTA models are highly specialized, and are only getting good enough to be used by actual doctors and patients. Using a general purpose LLM to do this is
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by yfontana 3mo ago
Doesn't track with mine. I've been stuck with Sonnet 4.6 with one of the clients I work for. It writes code fine, but it's not nearly as good as the more recent models for everything else. It's fairly common for it to su
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by yfontana 3mo ago
Having to lug 2 phones around has always seemed like more trouble than it's worth to me. I also don't like having multiple devices to do stuff that a single one could do, for environmental reasons, but that's not a very wide-
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by yfontana 3mo ago
I bet the first failure of a large stablecoin will be fun (for external onlookers at least).
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by yfontana 3mo ago
Can't speak for 26, but a year ago I worked on a project that migrated from v5 to 11 because of improved image segmentation capabilities. My understanding is that the newer versions don't necessarily have better precision/rec
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by yfontana 3mo ago
Had a very similar experience. Opus went "look, t-sne shows your features are neatly clustered" (it didn't) and left it at that. Fable didn't fully explore the problem/data, but it did go much further, implementing
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by yfontana 3mo ago
Useful context for this is that token usage keeps rising at an exponential pace. I mean, we don't have numbers for the big labs, but Openrouter's numbers are quite telling (can't post link because corporate decided to block a
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by yfontana 5mo ago
> In Bitcoin you don't generate cash, you earn block rewards for acting as a consensus broker which otherwise would require a central banking settlement layer. This activity, tied directly to the transaction layer, acts to maintain
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by yfontana 5mo ago
> at it's core (pun intented) Dark matter is something to make equations fit without any other thought behind it or whether there might be several things behind it or god forbid that we juddge the equations themselves Another way to
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by yfontana 5mo ago
OpenAI wrote a couple months ago that they do not consider SWE Bench Verified a meaningful benchmark anymore (and they were the ones who published it in the first place): https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evalua
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by yfontana 5mo ago
Not GP, but BMAD has several interview techniques in its brainstorming skill. You can invoke it with /bmad-brainstorming, briefly explain the topic you want to explore, then when it asks you to if you want to select a technique, pick s
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by yfontana 5mo ago
As a data architect I dislike the term NoSQL and often recommend that my coworkers not use it in technical discussions, as it is too vague. Document, key-value and graph DBs are usually considered NoSQL, but they have fairly different use c
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by yfontana 8mo ago
> Certainly can’t compete with using VS Code or TeXstudio locally, collaborating through GitHub, and getting AI assistance from Claude Code or Codex. I have a phd in economics. Most researchers in that field have never even heard of any
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by yfontana 8mo ago
> - It's backed by nothing. Money is never backed by nothing, or it's worthless. It may not be backed by anything physical, but it's always backed by some form of trust. National currencies are backed by trust in the corre
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by yfontana 8mo ago
Reserves matter even if reserve ratios are zero. If Bank A lends too much money, then when its customers spend that money, a lot of it will end up deposited at other banks. These banks will then ask Bank A for reserves (as in, central bank
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by yfontana 8mo ago
This probably won't make you feel any better, but banks don't really loan out money that's not theirs. When they lend money, they literally create it out of thin air. Creating that money has a cost, which is what ultimately l
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by yfontana 9mo ago
If I were to do this (and I might give it a try, this is quite an interesting case), I would try to run a detection model on the image, to find bounding boxes for the planets and their associated text. Even a small model running on CPU shou
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by yfontana 9mo ago
On the professional side, they also often let you interact with their experts and architects directly, as part of your support contract. With most other companies, you either have to go through front-office support exclusively, or pay extr

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