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Comment · 1 month ago
adjacent possibly related interesting fact , classically the temperature required to crosss the coulumb repulsion and fuse hydrogen in the sun is far higher than at the core of the sun,

what makes fusion viable at the core is there is a chance for nuclei tunneling through the barrier , that and the sheer size of the sun

Comment · 5 months ago
A lot of people dont know this , also the chatbot (chatgpt) itself is a next token predictor (the GPT) that's been given an initial text that says " pretend to be a chatbot .." and asked to complete it , the coherant chatting behaviour is something thats emergent .

later on someone figured if you asked it to output a reasoning before it gave a response its output would have more logical coherence, as though the reasoning output tokens functioned as a scratch space for it to work on.

at the end its all next token prediction

Comment · 5 months ago
hydrogen and deuterium also count as different groups when accounting for optical activity

carbon forms 4 bonds , if the 4 things bound to carbon are different then the molecule can be assembled in two ways ( mirror images like your left and right hand , similar but distinct as no rotation of your left hand can make it a right hand) and the two different arrangements rotate the polarized light in different ways . so if you have say CHDClF (carbon bonded to hydrogen , deuterium , chlorine and flourine) it is optically active

it was interesting to learn this , i thought it was a purely electromagnetic phenomena and the mass of the nucleus would not be relevant

but iodine 127 and iodine 131 do not have enough of a difference to show detectable optical activity

Comment · 5 months ago
oh , is it closed source now ? i couldnt find it on github anymore , github.com/LoopModels returns a 404.
Comment · 5 months ago
hey , what happened to LoopModels ?
Comment · 5 months ago
yup the LSP is bad, there is a new lsp being rewritten based on JET.jl a static code analyzer , this should be faster than the old lsp which kind of runs by loading all the modules into a julia instance and queries it for symbols and docs ( im not 100% sure but i think thats how it works)
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
doesnt it get annoying when you actually have to type two adjacent j ?
Comment · 9 months ago
when it comes to enabling opportunities i dont think it becomes a matter of shame for them anymore. A lot of people (especially in regions where living is tough and competition is fierce) will do anything by hook or crook to get ahead in competition. And if github contributions is a metric for getting hired or getting noticed then you are going to see it become spammed.
Comment · 9 months ago
do you print in pla or abs ? how long do pla parts last ? where i live the moisture gets to pla eventually and i cant use it for anything that cant be failproof especially something bearing with a load on it.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
what is an intrusive data structure?
Comment · 10 months ago
its interesting that the inverse distance formula works for the glow effect, but the photon explnation is incorrect, you dont "see" photons that are intersecting the ray path, you only see the photons reaching your eye , the intensity for a pixel should count photons arrivng the camera from the direction of the ray path
Comment · 11 months ago
Julia gets this right. casting to both double and int, it does both a floating point compare and an integer compare , then AND them and return
Comment · 11 months ago
onivim also seperated the core functionality of the vim editor into a seperate library libvim , this would have been great for other people looking to make their own gui frontend to vim .

neovim does not give a libneovim, but exposes an rpc where you communicate with neovim running as another process, this I would have thought have more latency but apparently is fast enough , this is how the vscode plugin for neovim is able to provide a near complete vim experience. Other neovim guis like neovide use this too

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