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pshc

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About pshc

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    I've been experimenting with a Remarkable Paper Pro. Additive inking works pretty well. As long as I am adding black ink to the page, everything is responsive. But if I want to pus…

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    Comment #48879662

    Very glad to see this, I've been dreaming about spatial representations for code for a long time.

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    Comment #48512436

    Same, I was actually having interesting thought experiments with Fable.

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    Comment #47498155

    Even though it's quantized-to-hell Mixture of Experts, honestly, it's crazy this model can run semi-coherently on an phone.

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    Comment #47174202

    Wall mount? I'll pray for an e-Ink model.

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    Comment #47012358

    With batched parallel requests this scales down further. Even a MacBook M3 on battery power can do inference quickly and efficiently. Large scale training is the power hog.

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    Comment #46626592

    I was daydreaming of a special LLM setup wherein each token of the vocabulary appears twice. Half the token IDs are reserved for trusted, indisputable sentences (coloured red in th…

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    Comment #46471516

    Yeah, myself and several friends of mine with EOL Windows 10 PCs are looking to jump ship.

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    Comment #45941099

    MacBooks outclass any other laptop in the market thanks to those chips.

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    Comment #45381622

    We can spend more time on art, music, camaraderie, love, play, and the pursuit of grace.

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    Comment #45280789

    apparently this is the source: https://youtu.be/1L2ef1CP-yw The fan increases air speed at the centre of the rotor, creating a low pressure zone which then sucks in surrounding air…

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    Comment #44438490

    This stuff is a dream of mine, editors in different modes that can collaborate seamlessly. Keep up the good work!

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    Comment #44428307

    I think we need a spatial/physics model handling movement and tactics watched over by a high level strategy model (maybe an LLM).

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    Comment #44214032

    Compared to google translate of yore, it’s gotten way more fluent thanks to transformers. Good translation relies heavily on context of course. Voice recognition and text to speech…

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    Comment #44213578

    What’s wild to me is that we have basically manifested the Babel Fish in the last few years.

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    Comment #44206683

    Meanwhile Switzerland is implementing e-ID which gives citizens private and public keys so they can sign and prove things without leaking their whole identity.

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    Comment #44093492

    Sometimes a problem is a weird combination of hairy/obscure/tedious where I simply don’t have the activation energy to get started. Like, I could do it with a gun to my head. But i…

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    Comment #44056113

    They do discuss optimization of the IDs at the bottom of the article.

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    Comment #44055595

    Use of server reconciliation makes me think client-side reconciliation would be tricky… how do you preserve smooth editor UX while applying server updates as they arrive? For examp…

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    Comment #44016673

    http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...

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    Comment #43376235

    https://archive.is/xa218

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