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1,978karma·1,375submissions·March 26, 2023
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Not really. Although it seems like building more will help, the primary reason is that all the extra money created since covid reserve requirements going to 0% has been parked in safe assets real esta…
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> Also, to type word under cursor into command line You can also achieve this with <C-R><C-W> in command mode. It is inbuilt. Not sure if it's a vim or a neovim feature though.
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IIRC GNU Parallel versions by date. Recently in the python ecosystem the `uv` package manager let's you install a package as it was on a certain date. Additionally, you can "freeze" you…
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Can you explain more? Curious and not able to google and understand this thread. Specifically, what is stopping libc redistributables from being possible? And why disk size limitations from back then …
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Forgot to get back to you on these.. thanks for the links!
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Yep. The most recent example that's stuck in my head is actually much worse: they didn't even take the mean! One sample! https://github.com/denoland/pm-benchmark Check …
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Yep. Someone in my family is the type who features quite frequently in the news. I don't mean tabloid-style stuff, or anything related to criminal activity. It was always about fairly serious top…
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> Ms office Everyone gets these preloaded in their laptops, and for people that need it it's a non-negotiable > Games Continuing the same point, people aren't going to be willing to pu…
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Ah, reinforcement learning. Edit: explaining it in text they have run the equivalent of expected_output = torch.tril(torch.matmul(A,B))
ai_output = ai()
In the nested torch expression above …
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And it brought me back to memories of debugging that on my friends laptop. It kept going to 400mhz.. i suspected throttling and we got it cleaned thermal paste replaced and all that. Still throttled. …
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> no satisfactory rust package I'm seeing this delay lots of features in rust projects. For example helix the text editor hasn't gotten file watching (for the purposes of updating after e…
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You're late to the game: https://quantumai.google/
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Just saying that for 24GB you can get all of wikipedia losslessly compressed on your laptop.
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Doesn't look like it supports vim. It seems to be using a bunch of neovim only features
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Yeah that's true. But I'm not sure how the costs for that will work out at scale considering software is a high attrition industry with career advancements done mostly through lateral moveme…
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MS is done mainly to get access to the US job market. Of course some of them do use it to get into more sophisticated work. Also, they're hiring in some divisions, firing in many divisions.
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> plentiful capable I heard from a top executive at one of the FAANGs that they are only able to fill 40-50% of their workforce from local hiring. But, FAANG don't really hire the "visa m…
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To this pedantic point, If the average written intelligence of all humans alive and dead is > the max intelligence of all live humans who are also willing/positioned to do the same task at the…
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Waymo uses reinforcement learning (what it was before LLMs) (TD3+BC according to one of their blogs) Emma is something they tried, but further down the article they explain why they don't use it …
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You're both right because RLHF and fine-tuning are just techniques. It's dependent on the training data and not as much the method. So, if you make the RLHF/finetune data such that it a…
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This. I would also recommend running it on one memory slot only (do this one by one). Recently it happened that even a multi-day memtest run did not catch the defect in one of my ram slots. But when I…
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The whole article is parody.
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> Lay people trust the peer review process way too much anyway. For a typical conference, it's usually just a grad student who goes through the paper in an hour or two and makes some comments.…
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> what kind of default is that? The Microsoft kind
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Nice way to put it, stealing that one.
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Wow. That's... Dramatic. If you internally transliterated it correctly without much effort, why do you care? They might as well be the same word. Correct/incorrect spelling/grammar/…
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First, thanks for Xfce. I'm a (tiny) donor. Two kinds of linux tinkering often get aliased and cause confusion in conversations. The first kind is the enthusiast changing their init system bootlo…
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> sorting and reversing over motion Vim can run shell commands as filters over selections as well. Although vim does provide its own `:sort`, you can also sort the current selection like v{moti…
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Re: glorified autocomplete People that have zero understanding use this and their belittling intentions are clear. People that have a vague understanding think there is something else truly magical. P…