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It was so close! I could already see the end of all the predatory publishing and flourishing of open-access. Some even required by law. Knowledge was finally going to be free. But …

My ACM papers are published in full on my website. Not preprints. In fact thats the only reason I have a website, just in case someone actually wants to read them. The copyright ag…

A paperclip always worked, even on the slot loading iMacs.

Impressive debugging skills, and thank you for the benchmarks. Now I'm wondering if mlx-engine / mlx-lm have these bugs too. One minor thing: as you are concerned with honest numbe…

Very carefully - and I mean extremely carefully - word it so that it describes what it does, while implying what it should do without confirming that it actually does that. Also he…

This is one of the reasons I currently use Gemini for daily use and research. Google has lots of experience with search history, and presumably handles this better than new compani…

There was this article recently, which I personally found interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573 Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering …

Same for me, when riding the bus. Really wanted it to work and tried over the course of several weeks, unfortunately it didn't help.

Thank you, that's a good response and I agree with many of your points.

Problem-solving is not the same as engineering or computer science though. Problem-solving can be done by an "analyst" or whatever these types of jobs are usually called.

I've found two things to matter: 1. experience, i.e. knowing why and how a rule matters (in general, but also to auditors) 2. willingness to think If these aren't present, you get …

My work laptop just started doing this 3 weeks ago! It's insane. Rather new machine too. It gets so hot in my bag I actually worry about it starting a fire one day. I now take it o…

Always trust your gut. Especially when it comes to people. Don't overthink, never rationalize it. Accept your feeling, it's valid. If I learned anything from all my past mistakes i…