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Comment · 5 months ago
I couldn't get it working with lmstudio. I have bonsai-8B running with llama-cpp and am attempting to build a harness for it. Looking good so far, I just got it started but Forge made tool calling work pretty quickly!
Comment · 1 year ago
Very impressive. Unsure what is going on with the tool icons, they're a bit strangely named. "Bessel", "pour corner" (twice), "From the cross section".

Looks like some work needs to be done to get this into familiar CAD terms with the English translation.

Difficult to use right now, it just switched into the Chinese translation when trying to make a cube and there doesn't appear to be an easy way to change that.

Comment · 1 year ago
I always see articles about the decreasing cost of solar, but where are these costs collected from? Is it just not available at a consumer level? Maybe I missed the sources in the article somewhat...
Comment · 1 year ago
I think this just illustrates why hidden state is so difficult for the user. It's hard to replicate old calculators because it was poor UI that was making do with what was yet available.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've read this many times over the years, sort of enamored by how such a strange phenomenon popped out of a factory setting.

In the most 2016 update the relative says it's common to see weird effects from the spools. If it's so common it should be reproducible I would think, yet I've never seen it done.

Comment · 2 years ago
I like to preface negativity with a positive note. Maybe I am influenced in my word choice but my intent was to point out that this is a very, very impressive feat and I don't want to undermine it.
Comment · 2 years ago
While it is impressive and I like to follow the advancements in this field, it is incredibly frustrating to listen to. I can't put my finger on why exactly. It's definitely closer to human-sounding, but the uncanny valley is so deep here that I find myself thinking "I just want the point, not the fake personality that is coming with it". I can't make it through a 30s demo.
Comment · 2 years ago
Guardrails seems to be a common argument. It feels heavy handed though to use an entire library/ecosystem to ensure you don't have typos, your tests should catch them anyhow.

And migrations are a separate feature that a number of ORMs have, you can have clean migrations with pure SQL using a tool like gomigrate.

I think the real utility is that the ORM is doing the marshalling for you.

Comment · 2 years ago
It looks like as an ORM gets more expressive it looks more like regular SQL. What is a reasonable argument for using an ORM over writing SQL?

I always feel like I'm missing something because it looks like you have to learn a specific library instead of a general purpose language.

Comment · 2 years ago
Agreed. I think the earlier days of Angular put a bad taste in many people's mouths. Many people who complain about Angular being verbose seem to only have experience working on smaller apps.
Comment · 2 years ago
I thought this was a joke at first. He says he "feels great" but I can't help but be skeptical about that claim. Maybe I'm soft because I think a 40 is reasonable and prudent.
Comment · 2 years ago
To say it another way, you should not expect more code to be merged in the same amount of time as less code. 250 lines is 5x more code, so what is the purpose of a statistic showing 1/5 of the code gets merged faster? That's not a good or a bad thing.

Unless the metric is actually 40% faster per LOC but that's not specified.

Comment · 3 years ago
"Your current suffering is small because somebody else suffered more."

Or, more commonly, "You think you have it hard? I know a guy who went through XYZ."

Sometimes people need perspective when they feel times are tough, other times they just need sympathy.

Comment · 4 years ago
I am curious if there has been any research on temporal attention in humans. I'm not sure how you'd quantify it. But in myself I know that I'm constantly predicting where something will be or what it will look like based on how it did a second ago. It's probably the root of reflexes.
Comment · 4 years ago
This looks like the video equivalent of Dall-E 1. Hard to believe how far we've come so quickly.

The paper talks about "pseudo 3D attention layers" that are used in place of temporal attention layers for each dimension due to memory consumption. It seems like AI research is vastly outpacing GPU development.

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