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I mentioned elsewhere that time taken for setting is also a major factor for why Portland cement is preferred. Maintenance is probably less of a factor but it also depends on the u…

Sure but lime plaster can be used in bathrooms on the non shower walls as there's no running water but lots of moisture/humidity which leads to mold growth. As far as using it in t…

It is not lime as in the fruit, it is lime as in the material (CaOH2). Lime the material is the binding agent in lime plasters. It is not likely to get washed away.

I'm not sure as I'm not a builder or plasterer and it does depend on the use case. However I do know that some grout and some paints that say they are anti-mold contain Lime or cal…

You are correct. I'm not sure why I remember cement to be water proof. Its possible I infered from how its been used around me. I have seen cement very often used where water conta…

I forgot another important reason why Portland cement is preferred over lime these days. Lime takes a while to set (a few days?), cement sets faster.

For those not familiar, the secret ingredients are to do with the Lime Cycle [1]: 1) Quicklime/Slakedlime (Calcium Oxide, CaO) 2) Lime (Calcium Hydroxide, CaOH2) 3) Limestone (Calc…

Gotcha and thank you! So the encryption is happening on the OpenAI backend and the agent's clear-text output designated to the sub-agent never reaches local. Which is a real proble…

Could someone explain to me where exactly the encryption is happening? I assumed that the main agent makes calls to sub-agents locally. Does Codex work in such a way where the main…

Out of curiosity, can there not be something like a two party or N party veto? i.e. requiring a minimum of two or N parties to work together to veto? The choice between just a sing…

I just checked again. 16GB DDR5 (291 Euro) to 32GB (519 Euro). Seems right to me and does not match what you reported. Maybe they updated the website by the time I checked.

I checked the prices for 64GB DDR5. There's some variance based on brand/model but the average and trend seems more or less right. Did you happen to notice that it is about prices …

Thank you author Ian Mckay! This is one of those good hygiene conventions that save time by not having to think/worry each time buckets are named. As pointed out in the article, AW…

Potential reasons I can think of for why they don't disallow name reuse: a) AWS will need to maintain a database of all historical bucket names to know what to disallow. This is ha…

I'd ask politely to refrain from such comments :) This is not me criticising you. I totally understand the urge to say it. We're all thinking the thing you're thinking of. It takes…

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I agree, Databricks is one of many in the space. If S3 makes Databricks redundant, then they also make others like Databricks redundant too.

S3 has much bigger fish in its sight than the measely vector db space. If you see the subtle improvements in features of S3 in recent years, it is clear as day, at least to me, tha…

I just did a wget of the site and noticed the following line at the end. > " rel="nofollow">https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?xxxxxxx"> I am going to use this for sure, but …

I'd say that's where we're headed. A big model that's trained from the start to use tools and know when to use certain tools and how to use tools. Like us :) I wouldn't be surprise…

To be fair, I'd put finding literal string diffs in the category of asking LLMs to do rote arithmetic. The attention mechanism does far too much complex thinking for such a dumb ta…

As far as I can tell, the paper covers text documents only. Therefore your example doesn't quite apply. It is well known that LLMs have a ways to go when it comes to processing ima…

> Log-linear attention replaces the fixed-size hidden state with a logarithmically growing set of hidden states Does this mean the models can be smaller too (on top of the primary …

That's fair. I care about the end result. The problem is about taking information in 2D/3D space and solving the problem. Humans solve these things through vision. LLMs or AI can d…

Don't take this the wrong way, your opinion is also vibes. Let's ground that a bit. Have a look at ARC AGI 1 challenge/benchmark. Solve a problem or two yourself. Know that ARC AGI…