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memming

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About memming

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/memming; my proof: https://keybase.io/memming/sigs/Ry-gdNKWFJDaPe1z3lW7hHm33wvBGp2ep-r1j8e226M ]

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    Comment #49219843

    Is this a Cursor clone?

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    Comment #47998398

    (for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/ )

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    Comment #47998360

    it's working for me (after the "are you human with consciousness" captcha challenge)

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    Comment #47998347

    well, I am a P-zombie.

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    Comment #47698047

    Link to that good one?

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    Comment #46716978

    51 papers out of 4841 accepted papers is 1%. If these were the only papers, then I would say the review system actually doing pretty well. Considering how noisy the review processe…

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    Comment #46644018

    interesting; it skipped "we had everything before us," in my test. Yeah, not a good sign.

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    Comment #46538780

    It would be terrible to be correponding with someone who implements the Napoleon technique, especially when they are your boss and a major bottleneck.

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    Comment #46409391

    Since I'm on Cursor often these days, I just edit text with Cursor. With vim keys, highlight, then hotkey to call Mr. Agent Smith to do some magic.

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    Comment #46395435

    Aparently 见手青 is mildly toxic yet commonly consumed in Yunan.

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    Comment #46285719

    first subsample a fixed number of random landmark points from data, then...

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    Comment #46122483

    It’s funny how future money drive the world. Fortunately it’s fueling progress this time around.

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    Comment #45412086

    Your dad sounds like an awesome person.

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    Comment #45409019

    Foundation models can be seen as approximate amortized posterior inference machines where the posterior is conditioning on the pre-training data. However, the uncertainty is usuall…

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    Comment #45343251

    Would you be comfortable with giving your emails and calendar to Perplexity if it were very useful?

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    Comment #45012804

    qwen coder with a simple funky prompt?! `strcpy(agent.messages[0].content, "You are an AI assistant with Napoleon Dynamite's personality. Say things like 'Gosh!', 'Sweet!', 'Idiot!…

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    Comment #44981165

    It's crazy that now we have pre-training, continued pre-training, offline-RL post-training, and online-RL post-training.

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    Comment #44981109

    https://typefoundry.directory/methodology/ "Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure that adjusts for differences in prices between countries, so that the effective purchasing po…

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    Comment #44975543

    What is "Purchasing power parity"?

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    Comment #44975495

    Interesting to see contrastive loss instead of a reconstruction loss.

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    Comment #44959784

    Stationary GPs are just stochastic linear dynamical systems. (Not just the Matern covariance kernel)

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    Comment #44601415

    This is what I thought too.

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    Comment #44490970

    Nice concept; surprisingly difficult. The sum digits to find multiples of 3 seems to be the fastest tool for the mind.