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amanda99

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About amanda99

Background in applied math, work in ML and software.

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    Comment #44651882

    Being battle tested is the only good thing I can say about LiteLLM.

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    Comment #44651850

    I'm excited to see this. Have been using LiteLLM but it's honestly a huge mess once you peek under the hood, and it's being developed very iteratively and not very carefully. For e…

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    Comment #44511766

    Look, I agree with you and as someone with Home Assistant, I much prefer Zigbee. But if you imagine a typical consumer, not a tech nerd, I think "smartphone and bluetooth" is by fa…

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    Comment #44239799

    You would use a KV cache to cache a significant chunk of the inference work.

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    Comment #44204892

    > If you want youtube (or any other platform) to not suck...pay for it. If we are going for solutions where your individual decision makes no impact on the system in place, then le…

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    Comment #43997773

    I really liked the first chapter: the juxtaposition between ideas on how "AI"/algorithms/etc work and how humans work. I enjoyed how it was flipped around. The second chapter was v…

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    Comment #43997706

    Does this not require one to trust the hardware? I'm not an expert in hardware root of trust, etc, but if Intel (or whatever chip maker) decides to just sign code that doesn't do w…

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    Comment #43972200

    I think the OP's point here was that if it's a PR and it's ignored: you spent a bunch of time writing a PR (which may or may not have been valuable to you, e.g. if you maintain a f…

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    Comment #43127169

    Here is an interesting diff: https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data/compare/57e66bcb0fccc...

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    Comment #43015611

    I agree, and I also share your experience (guess I was a bit earlier with PHP). I think what's left out though is that this is the experience of those who are really interested and…

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    Comment #42991009

    Fun fact: in Gilbertese (the language of Kiribati), an "s" sound is written "ti". So Kiritimati is pronounced Kirismas (close to "Christmas"). On my journey there I met a fellow ca…

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    Comment #42936444

    A lot of folks are saying big ships are outdated. Keep in mind that war is 80% logistics: and if you are going to engage an enemy far away from your landmass (or project power for …

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    Comment #42921089

    I guess I was responding to this: > everyone can sell it to make a living just doing whatever they are doing everyday

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    Comment #42918852

    I'm sure the ad networks do a lot more than use high precision variables for soft-linking. These are professional networks with a ton of capital thrown behind them. They have prett…

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    Comment #42918625

    You will never generate enough money from information about your consumption to fund your consumption. Obviously there's other data, but you get the point.

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    Comment #42918553

    I think the key point is that they would take your Linkedin password and try to use that on your email without asking you , in case you reused passwords.

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    Comment #42852131

    What does "operating a home" mean to you? Boiling water in the evening for tea (most people will fill the kettle up)? 100 Wh = 50 prompts? Which one's more important?

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    Comment #42823378

    They use TechSoup.org (whose site appears to be down rihgt now), but you can look up on that website information on who qualifies in Thailand. TS does the regional verification of …

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    Comment #42822554

    Specifics on this: if you have a US 501(c)3 with less than $1m in revenue, you need to pay TechSoup ~$100 to get $1k in credits.

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    Comment #42821466

    No, it seems to assume changing trains is instantaneous and trains are waiting for you.

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    Comment #42783219

    I'm finding that scanning NFC tags is pretty slow with iPhone. There's this automatic flow that's pretty cumbersome and slows me down. Then when it fails there's some annoying anim…

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    Comment #42713767

    Repo says "discontinued".

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    Comment #42506186

    The finns strike again.

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    Comment #42505391

    > these numbers are just your perception. Of course they are, I hoped it was clear I was just sharing my experience trying to use it for research! I did in general word it as I wou…

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    Comment #42505363

    I think you are imagining a different class of "questions". To clarify, I was doing research on applied math. My field is not analysis, but I needed to prove some bounds on certain…