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breakds

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About breakds

Recursively Iterate.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48752582

    Engineer: but business is not my problem.

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    Comment #48468012

    Almost every day, watching videos, having meetings, hands on (the agent) coding and playing games.

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    Comment #47902997

    +1, ultrawide curved monitor user, used to be on sway but the experience of niri is next level.

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    Comment #47591519

    In this situation, it means "Hey I have been here and observed this!"

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    Comment #46654610

    Exactly what I had via sunshine and moonlight in my Vision Pro ...

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    Comment #46517618

    The sample efficiency of the RL algorithm, even for simple games, is not very good. This usually means that we will need a lot of episodes for the policy to learn to excel. Being a…

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    Comment #46412533

    People born in different eras often develop different worldviews by the time they reach their 50s. Not everyone is lucky enough to be born in the "right time".

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    Comment #45807048

    https://github.com/lopsided98/nix-ros-overlay

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    Comment #45455123

    Sure, write a step-by-step action plan and leave it for a next fresh new 1M tokens context window.

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    Comment #45348385

    Thanks that is very inspiring. I thought there are no blower type consumer GPUs, but apparently they exist!

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    Comment #45343481

    I am curious about the setup of 14 GPUs - what kind of platform (motherboard) do you use to support so many PCIe lanes? And do you even have a chassis? Is it rack-mounted? Thanks!

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    Comment #44161650

    My suggestion 1. Start by learning a simulation tool, e.g. Mujoco (open source) or Isaac Sim. 2. Learn basics of optimal control and reinforcement learning, reproduce papers/ideas …

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    Comment #44152211

    I think having to debug to find problem of your system is frustrating. But with NixOS, I at least won't be afraid of "breaking the system" or doing something "irreversible". This i…

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    Comment #44055039

    Thanks so much for sharing your story – hearing about your DIY Enphase install (and epic PG&E battle!) really gives me confidence. And the information you shared is extremely helpf…

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    Comment #44052052

    Wow, what a fantastic write-up—thanks for sharing this! I’m a San Jose homeowner (and PG&E sufferer) with a homelab that pulls over 1 kW, and I’ve been down the DIY solar rabbit ho…

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    Comment #43998189

    For the second problem, if I understand it correctly, you might want to try `vmap` from jax.

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    Comment #43033419

    Yes, we are in the U.S., but our situation seems quite different from the standard RSU process you described. We did not receive a W-2, and the company has not reported the RSUs as…

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    Comment #43033377

    I am sorry that you had to go through such shenanigans. Consulting a lawyer is also what we are working on right now. Asking just in case: do you have any lawyer to recommend? Than…

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    Comment #43032209

    > It could have been a double trigger vesting arrangement, where the shares "semi-vest" over time, but then they don't fully vest until a liquidity event, at which point poof sudde…

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    Comment #43031724

    Sent the email. Thank you!

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    Comment #43031469

    Thanks for mentioning the safe harbor rule. We are actually aware of that. The issue here is that the company is asking the payment directly to the company's bank account, or the R…

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    Comment #43031455

    The shares are not in our brokerage account yet. According to the company, they need to confirm the tax payment to the company before the shares are transferred to the personal bro…

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    Comment #42323738

    From my experience, 1. There are many services that is already "implemented" in NixOS, with sane default configurations and easy to customize (because the contributors have designe…

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    Comment #42323685

    1. There are many services that is already "implemented" in NixOS, with sane default configurations and easy to customize (because the contributors have designed good abstractions,…

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    Comment #42196293

    I understand `pandas` is widely used in finance and quantitative trading, but it does not seem to be the best fit especially when you want your research code to be quickly ported t…