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sagebird

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About sagebird

Working on Ruffian (GPU-native VM for LLM inference) and MidiGarden (iOS synth).

Dad, runner, Valley Forge PA.

https://williamsharkey.com

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    These variables are not independent so you can't just multiply ratios to get combined ratio. (If height were not correlated with income that would be surprising, for example.)

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    a human would have noticed something different about the requests it was getting, or the frequency of requests, and as soon as it noticed a shift, it would have carried that knowle…

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    should have submitted it to 5 independent fact checkers - would have deflated nonsense before it began by showing that you are going to see trivial and non trivial shifts among the…

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    Comment #48049353

    same, without context it is speculation. even with context, if the person creating the story controls the window, a window can be found which supports the story.

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    Comment #47966435

    Does running the command to remove the anti-goblin ask from local prompt increase performance slightly because there is less "cognitive load" to have to hold its tongue? If you wor…

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    I think that what is missing in this discussion is the latent background that one needs to actually create "ai art" that has merit. It is a strange combination of skills that some …

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    Comment #47692972

    I am not an expert but this seems like model distillation could work to get the behavior you need to run on a cheap end-user processor (Raspberry Pi 4/5 class). I chatted with clau…

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    Comment #47690910

    Can you please design a version for kids to ride on? With a seat and handle similar to "wooden bee ride on" by b. toys? I want a vacuum that kids can actually drive, ride on, do re…

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    >> To misquote Kennedy, “we chose to focus coroutines on generator in C++23, not because it is hard, but because it is easy”. Appreciate this humor -- absurd, tasteful.

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    This is an interesting project, congrats. I have a similar project and goals (free, light, fast portable os-like-dev environment) at http://shiro.computer , http://shiro.computer/a…

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    Show HN: A Unix environment in a single HTML file (420 KB)

    I built a browser-native Unix environment - shell, filesystem, git, npm, node, vi, 200+ commands. Everything is JavaScript running client-side with IndexedDB for persistence. The w…

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    Comment #44674357

    ok do pornhub next

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    Comment #44596488

    it's not agi until we have browser browsers automating atm machine machining machines, imo

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    Comment #43896009

    Wes Anderson is positioning cinematographers on American soil with extremely powerful telephoto lenses, filming actors performing in meticulously designed miniature sets across the…

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    Comment #42842321

    i wouldn’t be surprised if many insults to human health are not relevant in population that exercises vigorously 5 times a week and have good body composition. for the average amer…

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    Comment #42537469

    You are exactly correct - thank you for reading and letting me know, appreciate your curiosity!

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    Sorry - I believe I am off topic as this is not relevant given: "This indirectly enforces the idea that sets cannot have duplicate elements, as set membership is defined purely by …

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    Comment #42533950

    A more compact and beautiful relation exists between integers and finite rooted trees exist, imo. David W. Matula found a correspondence between trees and integers using prime fact…

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    I can intellectualize But I cannot truly physically believe how much there is here in our universe. It’s one thing to see zooming out animated diagrams It’s a whole other thing to …

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    The optimus bots seemed laggy. I thought the non verbal communication really suffered compared to a human using fingers and eye contact. The smoothness of the optimus movement was …