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David Epstein calls this "desirable difficulty" in the book Range. Interestingly he recently discussed how using LLMs tends to remove this desirable difficulty: https://davidepstei…

Exactly what I thought of reading this, that chapter is genuinely one of the most affecting things I've ever read. The horror of it keeps growing as he continues to describe awful …

I've found good results from summarizing my documents using a large context model then embedding those summaries using a standard embedding model (e.g. e5) This way I can tune what…

I was trying to do this recently for Web page summarization. As said below the token sizes would end up over the context length, so I trimmed the html to fit just to see what would…

A couple of more introductory books that come at it from the point of view of "someone who can code" are: - https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/ (and the similar Think Baye…

The book Lynchpin talks about this and calls it "the resistance", the feeling of avoidance you get when nearing shipping something or even to sitting down and starting an ambitious…

Right I was confused when the article mentions the other parameters other than the moon and sun ones track other astronomical variables, surely they are modeling geological and hyd…

"The Captain Class" is a great book that glorifies the "water carriers" of a bunch of successful sporting dynasties. It certainly gave me a lot of encouragement to try to develop m…

I've recently become interested in small tests we can perform to evaluate if aspects of our lives are performing below the recommended levels for a long and happy existence. What p…

Slack groups have filled in the meetup space in my life, mlops.community and locally optimistic are two of the best for what it sounds like you're looking for

One downside for milvus is that version 1 doesn't do filtering (necessary for most search applications) and version 2 is significantly slower. Google's vector nearest neighbors off…

From an accessibility perspective it's a disaster too. My granny is visually impaired, but loves watching tv. She's been able to get by for decades by memorizing the commands neede…

Interestingly Leitrim and other counties in the north west he mentions have been high on the list of places people have escaped to from Dublin during the pandemic. Many people are …

Sorry to hear that. This was a real jolt to read though. I've been really bullish about WFH or hybrid work for the future, since as an IC I've seen nothing but the benefits as you …

Could you elaborate on why you think low energy deep learning was a misguided promise for SNNs? Just came across them for the first time last week and the low energy promise seemed…

I was in the same boat until I had a baby who was a _terrible_ sleeper during the night. Once I was down to 4-5 hours sleep a night, napping during the day was heaven! Sometimes I'…

They're on a roll for April fool's, this other one is the geekiest one I've seen in a while! https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/fault-in...

Have we any idea when that video will be released (roughly).

I had done that, but my ssh completions weren't working great at all. I've installed ohmyzsh as recommended below and it's great, definitely a step up from bash.

Awesome, that's pretty amazing, thanks a mill!

What was the reason for them doing this do you know? From my experience with it over the last year, zsh is slightly worse at autocomplete than bash, with no advantages. Is there so…

I think of this book as the type of book to give a beginner enough info to know what you don't know, or for a professional to read before a job interview to refresh your memory on …

Any good tutorials or toy projects to help in learning plantUML. I'm in software engineering from a science background and I really feel the lack of being able to think about my co…