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by zyl1n 2y ago
All the pieces are in place to create a primitive holodeck. I hope meta continues to invest/burn billions in this space.
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by zyl1n 2y ago
As you might have guessed, connection pools don't work well with Lambda. For database connection pool, they came up with another chargeable service, RDS Proxy, to fix the problem created by Lambda :)
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by zyl1n 3y ago
What does natural gas have to do with greenwashing? It is naturally occurring gas; different from other hydrocarbon gas that is man-made.
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Singapore to triple AI talent pool as part of national strategy(channelnewsasia.com)
3 points by zyl1n 3y ago|0 comments
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by zyl1n 3y ago
As a java backend dev, I am envious that Java doesn't have a modern equivalent of Blazor.
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by zyl1n 3y ago
Just yesterday, I found out that Simon Wilson's name is Simon Willison.
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by zyl1n 3y ago
I got prefill: 26.9719 tokens/sec, decoding: 18.8827 tokens/sec on M1 Max 32GB laptop for llama 2 7b chat f32. Not bad.
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Bad Science and Room Temperature Superconductors [video](youtube.com)
1 points by zyl1n 3y ago|0 comments
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by zyl1n 3y ago
I am not familiar with Replicate, but based on their website, they charge per GPU type. I didn't see the GPU type set in the example. Is it baked in as part of the "a16z-infra/llama13b-v2-chat" model?
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LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
148 points by zyl1n 3y ago|35 comments
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by zyl1n 3y ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/72177... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/72177...
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by zyl1n 3y ago
Someone should implement an editor for Apple's Vision Pro that moves the cursor using eye tracking.
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by zyl1n 3y ago
"CEO and COO said that didn't want to get involved and it was for me and CUXO to sort it out ourselves." That's a bad CEO.
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by zyl1n 3y ago
As someone who straddles both Python and Java world, I don't seem hear this kind of malicious packages problem with Maven (central) as I do with PyPI. What could be the difference? Perhaps Java world is full of old farts like me doing
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by zyl1n 3y ago
Cloud is a service that moves CapEx to OpEx. What ever cost savings it may provide is a side effect of this move. If you moved to cloud and do not see any savings, that means you have sized planned your capacity well. But there are a lot of
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by zyl1n 3y ago
Perhaps we should look at how CAD impacted draughtsmen. Their job scope basically got folded into engineers'. There are probably a lot of us who are software draughtsmen.
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by zyl1n 4y ago
OpenAI is in a very good place if potential competitors have to use its name to explain their services.
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by zyl1n 4y ago
Fisheries are closed for certain types of crabs. They are switching to other types.
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by zyl1n 4y ago
This is really cool, but I wonder if it will get into legal trouble because it looks very much like Tableau.
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by zyl1n 4y ago
Julia Evan's How Containers Work! zine: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/04/27/new-zine-how-containers-work... It demystified a lot of docker features for me.
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by zyl1n 4y ago
What's the oldest version of JDK supported for this?
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by zyl1n 5y ago
First sentence of chapter 1: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that branch of computer science dealing with symbolic, nonalgorithmic methods of problem solving. " Interesting how it's almost opposite of what the field i
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by zyl1n 6y ago
OP probably means the title "Narco Submarine Found in Spain" sounds like a password from the comic.
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by zyl1n 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/936/
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by zyl1n 6y ago
If military never answered to her or took orders, control all the courts like you said, what is the point of the coup?
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by zyl1n 6y ago
Reading these comments, it feels a bit strange that I have never gotten a counterfeit product from Amazon, and I bought a dozen items from Amazon within last two months: RAM, electric kettle, wall clock, books, phone case, humidifier, ramen
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Show HN: Foreign Exchange Rate Web App(forexrate.web.app)
2 points by zyl1n 6y ago|1 comments
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by zyl1n 6y ago
About a month ago, there was a post on HN for free foreign exchange rates API ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22979288 ) The API was quite easy to understand and inspired me to do a one-day build challenge of making a
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by zyl1n 6y ago
At work, I am required to use SPSS modeler which has visual programming model, and I mainly dislike it for the reason of not having a way to easily diff and find out what has changed. That aside, I think most of us actually code in visual p
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by zyl1n 6y ago
Not an iOS developer either, but I think apps cannot make new bluetooth connections in background, which is a requirement for this app.

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