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heinrichf

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    Comment #43341574

    I'm comparing Gemma3 12 B ( https://ollama.com/library/gemma3 ; running fully on my 3060 12GB) and Mistral Small 3 24B ( https://ollama.com/library/mistral-small ; 10% offloaded to…

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    Comment #41830810

    Restic has a mount subcommand that exposes all backups through a FUSE filesystem, no?

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    Comment #41579168

    There is also an alternative more lightweight self-hosted server in Rust, compatible with the official clients: https://github.com/cpg314/ltapiserv-rs

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    Comment #30894983

    It's to access the tuple's single element, but the author could have used #[repr(transparent)]

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    Comment #29767592

    (2020). See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870408 , which I found more interesting (and that the author should probably have referenced).

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    Comment #26650673

    Commenting as a mathematician who sometimes uses the Bourbaki books as reference for research: this is probably not a good idea. These books have a very dry style and in particular…

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    Comment #26050227

    This page appears as if it was written by the authors or the PR department of the university...

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    Comment #26045328

    The praise from popular press and the promotion by the authors should be put into context of what mathematicians think of it. Two blog posts by a professor at U. Chicago, qualifyin…

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    Comment #24951728

    Discussion on /r/MachineLearning with caveats here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/jkrzlt/d_a...

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    Comment #23516004

    The last author and his company were/are involved in scandals about faking results on a large scale: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8zm4kl/d_l... http://sadeghi.…

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    Comment #23446308

    https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36853/do-safety...

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    Comment #23445900

    I'm surprised to read they used a Linux (ok patched with PREEMPT_RT) for real-time safety critical software.

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    Comment #22846498

    > The company is based in Switzerland and is French speaking. Any chance "AdVite" means something different in French? No, it doesn't mean something different in French.

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    Comment #22807421

    See this blog post from a radiologist and ML researcher: https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/ct-scannin...

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    Comment #22595452

    By the way, thanks a lot for sharing your story and code back then, I learnt a lot from it.

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    Comment #22585812

    Thank you for your interesting explanation. That reminds me of the deferred acceptance algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Shapley_algorithm

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    Comment #22585762

    See also the story of Staffjoy mentioned in another comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583653 ) YC fellowship, they couldn't find a market, and shut down: https://hn.…

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    Comment #22125613

    As a professional mathematician, I see it the same way a musician views musical notation. Sure, writing the name of each note on the stave would be easier to read at first, but the…

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    Comment #22125434

    I feel that the author saying LaTeX is bad because it is (in particular) not based on a GUI/point-and-click system, and preferring Microsoft Equation Editor/Outline to it, reveals …

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    Comment #22104766

    This is exactly one of the points raised in the text. Non-TT assistant professorships are indeed postdocs, which often come with more teaching load than other fellowship-based post…