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Comment · 1 month ago
`-log10(1 - uptime)`
Comment · 1 month ago
I googled "history of the chemical industry" and synthetic dyes were mentioned prominently by each of the first five results returned.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's also stores and releases light, not electricity, a bit like luminous paint, less like a battery or a capacitor.
Comment · 2 months ago
The SIMD stuff is incredible. I have been having lots of fun with it. You can use LLMs as a scalar to SIMD transpiler, it works amazingly well.

Sure a SIMD expert writing assembly can probably do a better job than an LLM using these new intrinsics, but it’s still massively faster.

Comment · 2 months ago
What a brutal bug. I'd never entertain a that bug in SQLite could be causing problems in code I wrote.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
You can absolutely parse HTML with regex, so long as the document is finite in length. Every finite language is regular, hence can be parsed with regex's.
Comment · 6 months ago
Eat the gamma cookie, it's the worst option for any, but with gamma it won't matter much whether it's in your hand, pocket or gut.

Pocket the beta emitter, a little bit of shielding will make a big difference.

Hold the alpha emitter, if you hold it with just a pair of fingers you will be able to reduce you dosage a lot compared to holding it tightly.

Comment · 7 months ago
Wow, what a free society! In the UK if you refuse to unlock your device you can be imprisoned indefinitely! In HK it's just one year!
Comment · 7 months ago
4chan send their packets to their ISP, not the UK.
Comment · 10 months ago
> following a highly publicised mass-murder of children which was (entirely wrongly) being blamed on asylum seekers.

The mass-murder was a consequence of the asylum system. Given what is publicly known, parents of Axel Rudakubana were overwhelmingly likely to have been asylum seekers.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
What's the easiest way to get these local models browsing the web right now?
Comment · 1 year ago
FFS, it's too late for me to edit. You are of course correct.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The 2D map analogy was a nice stepping stone for building intuition but now we need to cast it aside, because embeddings operate in hundreds or thousands of dimensions. It’s impossible for us lowly 3-dimensional creatures to visualize what “distance” looks like in 1000 dimensions. Also, we don’t know what each dimension represents, hence the section heading “Very weird multi-dimensional space”.5 One dimension might represent something close to color. The king - man + woman ≈ queen anecdote suggests that these models contain a dimension with some notion of gender. And so on. Well Dude, we just don’t know.

nit. This suggests that the model contains a direction with some notion of gender, not a dimension. Direction and dimension appear to be inextricably linked by definition, but with some handwavy maths, you find that the number of nearly orthogonal dimensions within n dimensional space is exponential with regards to n. This helps explain why spaces on the order of 1k dimensions can "fit" billions of concepts.

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