Anunayj

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Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Can someone also comment on how secure the built in password in manager in Firefox is to unsophisticated malware attacks that simply copy your browser extension data and such. Compared to bitwarden which requires a password to unlock it, and as I understand stores everything encrypted on disk.
Comment · 2 years ago
I recently experimented with running llama-3.1-8b-instruct locally on my Consumer hardware, aka my Nvidia RTX 4060 with 8GB VRAM, as I wanted to experiment with prompting pdfs with a large context which is extremely expensive with how LLMs are priced.

I was able to fit the model with decent speeds (30 tokens/seconds) and a 20k token context completely on the GPU.

For summarization, the performance of these models are decent enough. However unfortunately in my use case I felt using Gemini's Free Tier with it's multimodal capabilities and much better quality output made running local LLMs not really worth it as of right now, atleast for consumers.

Comment · 2 years ago
Where was the off by one error? I read the article and didn't find any mention of it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why is low latency livestream so hard, while at the same time Cloud Gaming Tech like Nvidia Gamestream and such can have such a flawless experience?

I've used Moonlight + Nvidia Gamestream with ~40ms RTT and couldn't feel a difference in competitive shooters, so total latency must be pretty low.

Does it have something to do with the bandwidth requirements? (1 stream v/s potentially hundreds)

Comment · 2 years ago
Was this laptop in question from Hewlett Packard (HP)? Because I swear I've seen this exact behaviour on a HP laptop.
Comment · 2 years ago
Well there are a couple of ways one can do this!

1. Recursively lookup DNS, so domains will have to be blocked at the registrar level, since DNS is unencrypted, it can be blocked at ISP level as well.

2. Use a protocol alternative to DNS, a good mature example is GNS. It aims to replace DNS, with a built from group up, modernish protocol. Using a DHT and public-key cryptography.

3. There are "block chain" solutions to the whole domain problem, look at Handshake, ENS etc.

Comment · 2 years ago
I wanted to play around with this! But too bad I have a Samsung Snapdragon :(

And it doesn't expose ADR/carrier phase.

Comment · 2 years ago
Are there any observable effects of such events that I can see on everyday equipment? Something like increased Bit Flips caused by Cosmic Rays or such?
Comment · 2 years ago
I really shouldn't be the one to doubt, considering the size we've seen computers go from and to. But is it even possible to fit all that in that size? Like as I understand optics limits a lot about how far the screen has to be, even with the use of lenses. And it wouldn't be fully passthrough if they use the Google glass like approach as I understand?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
What is a ARPA email address? I've never heard of it. Did they look different from normal SMTP email address used today? Or was it like your email server just supported ARPA and not SMTP.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hey atleast it wasn't a RSA key. Though for this reason I just have my public key publicly accessible (For instance github exposes all of user's public keys) and just curl it in.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Whisper API provides timestamped subtitle files, so that's a non issue, all you have to do is extract the audio, split and upload

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