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joshlk

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About joshlk

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    Some of the Lean proofs are 50k lines - is that normal?

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    Comment #46310886

    What's a good reference to learn about Wavelet Matrices?

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    Comment #46067504

    Asking a silly question… what piece of kernel code do you find the most awe-inspiring or impressive?

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    Comment #46034851

    The top claim is that it's "Incredibly Fast" but I can't find any performance benchmarks. Can anyone find a link?

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    Comment #45551256

    R-Trees are a good data structure to use in this case, enabling you to query a collection of intervals for overlap with another in O(log(n)) time. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.o…

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    Comment #44549758

    Rust can be used in an embedded environment and also offers asynchronous execution built into the language

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    Comment #44507235

    What your describing is social Darwinism, an argument used by fascist.

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    Comment #44178701

    > [numpy] stores everything in rows This isn't true. Pandas uses Numpy to store columns of data. Theres quite a few technical errors in the article.

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    Comment #44087905

    What do you do in the summer when the homes don’t want the heat?

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    Comment #43370748

    When using low precision formats like float8 you usually have to upscale the activations to BF16 before normalising. So the normalisation layers are proportionally using more compu…

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    Comment #42948721

    It measures the proportion of questions for that language out of all languages. So, if there is a general decline in Stackoverflow questions, it’s already accounted for in the metr…

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    Comment #42948525

    According to Stackoverflow trends, Julia’s popularity is decreasing and very small https://trends.stackoverflow.co/?tags=julia

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    Comment #42910049

    Can you use to launch an Intel VM on Apple Silicone and visa versa? I’m interested in doing this so I can compile C++ applications for different architectures on MacOS. Do you know…

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    Comment #42718211

    Other than bandwidth, is there any other performance differences between Cloudflare and GitHub Pages?

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    Comment #42611295

    Tensors used in deep learning are not the same as the definition used by Physicists - blame the DL community for this :). So DL tensors are just N-dimensional arrays of data, and t…

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    Comment #42248050

    Warp is great - I use it as my daily terminal. The best features are being able to edit commands, chunking the output into blocks and AI generated commands at your fingertips.

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    Comment #41790684

    Would it be possible to move all the language developers to work on packaging? IMO the Python language is feature complete but the packaging system needs heart surgery.

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    Comment #41444292

    I’m not sure this holds as true if it’s the same team creating both implementations.

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    Comment #41398995

    I found the advertisements the most interesting bit

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