magicalhippo

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Comment · 1 day ago
For us a big part is that they have data centers in our country. It makes for improved latency and also makes a lot of our customers sleep better (justifiably so or not).

Amazon doesn't and regardless nobody feels comfortable using Google, who knows when they'll discontinue a product we would rely on.

So not a lot left to choose from.

Comment · 4 days ago
Similar, though I just stopped with caffeine after 8 pm, went to bed when I got tired and limited any bedtime phone use strictly to a Sudoku app (the mental effort made me sleepy).

I had been a night owl since a teen, and yet here I was waking up naturally at around 7 am feeling refreshed. I realized a lot of what had kept me up at night was the freedom and silence. Once I moved on my own, there was nothing to escape so to speak. So I just stopped the caffeine and stopped avoiding bed.

Comment · 5 days ago
> Sometimes it's not about "the numbers" -- it's about sending a message.

Oh absolutely, and I'd say that should be it for most elections. If there's a strong voter turnout in general it's a constant reminder that the people care.

My point comes in addition to that.

Comment · 5 days ago
An attacker with physical access to a device containing RK3588s SoC can easily modify the next-stage loader data on-the-fly using a low-cost SD-card or SPI NOR/NAND or EMMC emulator.

So yeah, not a huge surprise you can pwn a device you can solder stuff to.

Comment · 5 days ago
Well they're quite explicit about that:

In summary, our results suggest that what we fundamentally need for strong sequence modeling is not attention as such, but a principled way for representations to move on the manifolds they inhabit. Grassmann flows provide one concrete instantiation of this idea, and we hope they will encourage further exploration of geometric alternatives to attention in the design of neural architectures.

They also note they kept the proposed model very simple to make it easier to understand (and presumably train):

In this paper we deliberately restricted ourselves to a minimal design—k = 2, no explicit global invariants—to keep the core idea clear. But we view “global invariants + local Grassmann flow” as a promising direction for future work on geometry-aware reasoning.

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Comment · 5 days ago
And because you can't know when a pivotal voter is needed.

Here in Oslo, the local elections some years ago was decided by six votes out of about 300k votes (~500k eligible), between a left-leaning majority and a right-leaning majority.

It's often close but not that close.

Comment · 5 days ago
That's not how I read it.

For each position t and offset Δ∈ such that t+Δ≤L, we form a pair (z_t,z_t+Δ).

For a given t, this produces up to m pairs:

(z_t,z_t+Δ_1),(z_t,z_t+Δ_2),….

We treat these as local neighborhoods at multiple scales. Note that the pairing is causal: we only pair t with positions strictly to its right (future), consistent with left-to-right language modeling.

So z_t is a token in the input, and z_t+Δ is some later token. Guess they could have flipped that around to (z_t-Δ, z_t) with t+Δ>=0.

Comment · 6 days ago
What we've been trying Jev for is interpreting things like short product descriptions provided by customers, and determine which of the natural language categories fits best.

The list of categories are provided by the government and can change several times a year, and the product descriptions are almost random (think the various titles of AliExpress listings of essentially the same product).

What kind of dedicated classifier would be better? Genuinely curious.

Comment · 6 days ago
Did you try once on a bad day?

I experienced a regression some days ago, where Claude Code with Opus 5.5 wouldn't progress as expected, getting stuck on steps. So I had to repeatedly ask it what the status was and to proceed with X, and so on.

But that was just one day, the days before and after it has done lots of fairly autonomous work, including spinning off multiple subagents to run conformance tests which take 30-50 mins and work on other stuff in the meantime, then acting on the results autonomously.

Comment · 7 days ago
You kinda reinforced the point of GP. The Constitution has no direct bearing on Trump being a squatter in the White House or not, it's the people around him that determines that.

The only factor the Constitution plays is that the people around him have more or less decided to try to follow what the Constitution says. If they decide to not to that, well, then what the Constitution says doesn't matter.

Comment · 10 days ago
Just adding that FEM is general, it can be used for other kinds of simulations than just electromagnetic waves. For example it can be used for determining strain and stress in building elements, fluid flows, heat transfer and more.
Comment · 14 days ago
Well yes of course, but he's rich so that's not an issue he needs to worry about.
Comment · 15 days ago
He is doing something about it, he's going to ensure inflation makes the debt really tiny. At least he's been pretty vocal about that.
Comment · 16 days ago
Based on multiple experiences in family, including my dad, I say: if treatment works, ask explicitly where your cancer type is likely to spread to, and be very mindful of changes in those areas.

If so, let the docs know what you had and that it typically spreads to the area you're now experiencing a change in, if they're not already considering it.

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