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Sounds super interesting! What's your approach?

Fun fact: one of Yann LeCun's first 'deep learning' projects was on OCR for postal codes (MNIST).

In Japan, I learned to drink water upside down to stop hiccups. Works for me, whereas drinking normally doesn't.

Thanks for the correction. You're absolutely right.

It's not a market failure, it's just supply and demand. There are many computer components competing for the same resources (fabs, wafers). Demand for GPUs, RAM etc. has increased …

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted. No one at Meta can read your messages.

> Once you reach this stage, the only escape is to first cover everything with tests and then meticulously fix bugs The exact same approach is recommended in the book "Working effe…

Also checkout Deepmind's "The Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" on kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemma-4-good-hackathon

One trick I use all the time: You're typing a long command, then before running it you remember you have to do some stuff first. Instead of Ctrl-C to cancel it, you push it to hist…

Why 25%, shouldn't it be 12.5%? 8 ECC bits for every 64 bits.

A gentleman's gentleman!

Here's a great talk by John Hughes, one of the authors of QuickCheck, with real-life examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0rHwfiX1Q

I used a similar setup for a while: Obsidian for taking notes in markdown, and vscode for coding. Eventually I moved to using vscode for both. My gigantic notes.md file is always o…

Also see "I Pencil" by Leonard Read (1958).

> we've had that idea since at least Hofstadter and his sentient ant nests. A similar idea is present in Herbert Simon's 'The sciences of the artificial', where he describes a sent…

Sincere question: what's wrong with Python f-strings?

Computer vision. C++ and Python.

That was Blaise Pascal.

"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.

You can split it up into several files, then concatenate the arrays at runtime.

Spot on. You've described Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" paper exactly.

import -window root `date -Is`.png

Greg Egan's "Permutation City" kind of fits those requirements.

"A car is a wheel, and is a wheel, and is a wheel, and is a wheel".