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Anyone who would like to run an LLM would need to perform their computations on hardware. So picking hardware that is good at matrix multiplication is important for them, even if t…

Yeah, that's a better way of thinking about it. That way you don't have any phantom bookkeeping like the way I was taught. The units are still right there.

The idea that helped make decibels click for me is that they're a way to quickly do both dimensional analysis and gain/attenuation calculations at the same time. "Plain" decibels a…

I'm an electrical engineer and have been in the workforce a few years. The correlation between how talented an engineer is and how well they are able to communicate their work is n…

25 and 50 contribute two 5 factors each. The multiplicity of 2 factors is even greater, as every other even factor contributes at least two, every fourth at least three, etc.

I wrote a CLI application in Go that implements Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm. It allows you to split a secret string or file into n "shares". If you have any k of the shares, …

I found a puzzle last year on Reddit. The entire r/4a5e1 subreddit contains 16 posts, where the titles and bodies of each post contain clues. I was able to successfully decode some…

I absolutely love this. Brilliant!