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About jey
Berkeley, California
Email: jey#kottalam!net
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Comment #49203622
This might just be realistic about the median American's tolerance for walking. Most Americans live in suburbs that are not walkable. At least, I know my own tolerance for walking …
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Comment #49176705
Obviously the costs will come down over time. And quickly.
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Comment #49072066
The author cites a study (Rozado, 2024, in PLOS ONE) that supposedly shows the base models (before assistant-specific post-training) basically scored at the center (0, 0). https://…
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Comment #48864174
I'm not a mathematician, but I don't think that's true..? It's just that some problems are considered "hard" or known to have been "open" for a long time or that involve some cleve…
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Comment #48766708
> Emojis don't even render the same on every platform This is a feature, not a bug. That it's using your platform-specific emojis makes it easier to scan, since it's the ideograms …
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Comment #48439983
Relevant: The Breakfast Simplex ( https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-... )
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Comment #48419454
I thought other reporting claimed that a ground handling truck crashed into the door, thereby detaching it?
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Comment #48153231
I'm not convinced this is a problem. For example, all the folks who developed convex analysis for its pure geometric and mathematical beauty in the land of pure Platonic forms, wel…
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Comment #47699613
Try the textbook Elements of Information Theory by Cover and Thomas (2006)
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Comment #47622585
It targets x86-64/ELF? I thought it would target `sh` to be portable?
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Comment #47224839
That doesn't really explain anything biologically. Just vaguely says "potentially helps heal and protect"
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Comment #47222835
What does the stem cell treatment help with beyond the existing fetal surgery? Since it's in addition to the usual surgical treatment
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Comment #47177799
And I would further add: In addition to performance, Julia's language and semantics are much more ergonomic and natural for mathematical and algorithmic code. Even linear algebra i…
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Comment #47159661
I wonder if there's a law+econ analysis of comparing the current framework (regulations and upfront permitting) vs having the regulations but then enforcement via combination of ra…
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Comment #47113893
(2014)
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Comment #47107682
This seems to be the English landing page: https://github.com/Leading-AI-IO/palantir-ontology-strategy/...
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Comment #46957117
have you tried vim or neovim?
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Comment #46770574
lmao okay, touché. I did not realize it had servo as a dependency.
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Comment #46770466
I don't think the point was to say "look, AI can just take care of writing a browser now". I think it was to show just how far the tools have come. It's not meant to be production …
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Comment #46507186
Dan Romik has a nice intro on the moving sofa problem: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/
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Comment #46496048
Yeah maybe time to send a sample to the “mass spec everything” guy
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Comment #46471343
Here's a less editorialized article from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-tap-record-li...
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Comment #46350049
That makes sense, but how do you efficiently evaluate the Gaussian kernel based approach (“operator-based data structures (OBDS)”)? Presumably you want to do it in a way that keeps…
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Comment #46299460
> When I ran this program, I expected the `CF_OEMTEXT` string to have the byte 44, but it didn’t. It had the byte 90. We will start unraveling this mystery next time. Whoa there e…
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Comment #46099808
This seems to be incorporated into current LLM generations already -- when code execution is enabled both GPT-5.x and Claude 4.x automatically seem to execute Python code to help w…