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peter_d_sherman
18,478karma·5,710submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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Related: https://x.com/steve_tenuto/status/1857523923509981437
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>"Why we feel overwhelmed We live in an age of information and communication overload, with significant pressure to “do more” or “learn more.” There is a never-ending stream of requests for ou…
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Related: GitHub Gist: "Document Conversion": https://gist.github.com/datacustodian/4483fff487a0ef70c7b760... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
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>"Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort." This idea is not wrong; however, I would rank …
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A must-read for future OS designers/architects: >"The latest NVMe storage devices connected by using a PCIe bus can achieve very high levels of throughput and IOPS (I/O requests per …
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>Knowing what each syscall does isn't really the hard part of strace, it's knowing which ones are important, which ones are part of libc itself and can usually be ignored An excellent poi…
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>"Angular resolution describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an eye, to distinguish small details of an object, ther…
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>"WSPR transmits and receives but does not support normal types of on-the-air conversation. It sends and receives specially coded, beacon-like transmissions which establish whether particular…
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>"In the in-context learning (ICL) paradigm, given a set of examples, the model has to learn the mapping from inputs to outputs. Prior research has demonstrated that LLMs implicitly compress t…
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Perplexity.ai: Me: "Explain 'Gaussian Envelope'" Perplexity: "A Gaussian envelope is a mathematical function used to modulate another function, often a wave or signal, by appl…
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>"Despite the effectiveness of current unlearning methods, little attention has been given to whether existing unlearning methods for LLMs truly achieve forgetting or merely hide the knowle…
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The most amusing (IMHO) part of the old Usenet Oracle: >"Answers from the Oracle traditionally contain a request for payment such as "You owe the Oracle a rubber chicken and a Cadillac.&…
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>LibNSFB: "The overall idea of the library is to provide a generic abstraction to a linear section of memory which corresponds to a visible array of pixel elements on a display [surface, cont…
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Found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/…
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>"Writing a toy differentiator turns out to be shockingly easy. It’s a near verbatim transcription of differentiation rules from any calculus textbook: D[_?NumberQ, x_Symbol] = 0; D[x_, x_Symb…
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Excellent point! (More broadly, a high amount of current through a wire in a vacuum tube, where the diameter of the wire is too small to carry all of the current without overheating in air, when place…