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mtsolitary

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    Don’t think that has anything to do with langlands..? Euclidean algorithm is literally just an explicit algorithm for prime factorisation

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    Comment #48793939

    Can’t think of a less sloppy writer than Craig Mod…

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    Comment #48757841

    Link to source for the breakthrough in inference compute? Are you talking about prefill?

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    Comment #47572695

    PlantUML is a better ask for LLMs, you have a lot more control over the output

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    Comment #47306194

    You said the v word!

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    Comment #47300909

    I get 3-2-1 backups with no "big cloud" dependency using - My Mac - My NAS (RAID1) using Syncthing - Incremental borg backups to rsync.net (geo-redundant plan) with a cron job.

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    Comment #47291813

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_number

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    Comment #47291802

    Tried to use it to solve a quintic equation and it didn’t work :(

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    Comment #47200693

    "The exception of Area C" is doing a lot of work in this argument. That's 61% of the territory of the West Bank ("Judea and Samaria") (those scare quotes also doing a lot of work).…

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    Comment #47087615

    My first thought with apps like this is always: couldn’t you do this in org mode?

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    Comment #47022833

    Of course. But if this is the direction we’re going in, we need to try and do something no? Did you read the post I linked?

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    Comment #47022518

    I’ve recently been thinking about this too, here is my idea: https://clintonboys.com/projects/lit/

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    Comment #46840355

    Check out icloudpd. It’s a bit fiddly but it definitely does work once you have it set up.

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    Comment #46840317

    Check you don’t have a circular import on your NAS. I had similar issues because I had my photos at /nas/photos and my Immich metadata folder configured as a subfolder of that. So …

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    Comment #46792541

    How old are you?

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    Comment #44272233

    That's where they left the Stargate!

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    Comment #44149728

    It depends what you include in your definition of "parsing". For example, the chess master looks at the board and "parses" it in a very different way to the amateur player: he incl…

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    Comment #44145223

    I think what you call “parsing” is largely indistinguishable from mastery in a lot of fields, particularly in abstract mathematics

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    Comment #44144608

    This is a great example of one of those things in abstract maths that is hard to follow when you learn it, but once you’ve been through it a few times and learnt the definitions to…

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    Comment #43867037

    Anyone have experience self hosting this?