wskish

Joined 12 years ago

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Member since
Sep 18
Technical founder (Ruckus Wireless and Cogniac); kicking ideas and playing around towards #3.

See also @wskish on twitter.

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Comment · 10 months ago
Skills are basically (on-demand) man pages for other libraries or cli tools, or SOPs for other more complex processes. A beautiful, minimal abstraction.
Comment · 1 year ago
codebases of high quality open source projects and their major dependencies are probably another good source. also: "transformative fair use", not "stolen"
Comment · 1 year ago
I think about this a lot. Consider the difference between the tidy signage of Tokyo versus the pell-mell streetfronts of Hong Hong. Societies should be able to choose how businesses impinge the public space.
Comment · 1 year ago
Amplified messaging from corporations is not the same as the free speech of individuals. Just as we disallow advertising for cigarettes and hard liquor on TV, a democratic society should be free to select other classes of messages that corporations are not permitted to amplify into public spaces.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Let’s delve into the details"
Comment · 2 years ago
To fully experience the night sky there is no substitute for getting up to altitude. Most of the atmosphere that really interferes with the view is way down low. Try a moonless night at 8000 to 11000 feet elevation in the eastern Sierra or Yosemite high country to really blow your mind. Boss level is a summit bivy during a new moon meteor shower with a close friend or lover.
Comment · 2 years ago
"The Andrew Message System is one of the most ambitious and technically successful systems yet built in the area of electronic communication. In this paper, the authors of the system explain the key decisions in the architecture and reflect on what was done right and what was clearly wrong. Implementation details are mentioned only in passing, in order to maximize the relevance of this paper for the designers of successor systems."
Comment · 2 years ago
I came here to mention MenuMeters as well. It's the closest thing I can find to those beloved X window system load indicators of yore.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm curious about the methodology but couldn't find an associated paper or research report. The original source seem to be university PR.
Comment · 3 years ago
It is amazing much room there is to re-optimize cities around smaller electric vehicle transportation when you think on a slightly longer timescale.
Comment · 3 years ago
It isn't so clear to me. If it conveys a human in any way that humans don't naturally move unassisted then in my mind it qualifies as a conveyance and hence a vehicle, especially in the sense of the the French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”)
Comment · 3 years ago
"Attention with Linear Biases (ALiBi): Inherited from the MPT family, this feature eliminates the context length limits by replacing positional embeddings, allowing for efficient and effective processing of lengthy documents. In future we are planning to finish training on our larger dataset and to increase amount of tokens for context."

This is interesting, but also confusing. What is the current context limit? It mentions eliminating the limit but then mentions increasing it in the future.

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