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Sigma-Delta Modulation

Well, at least there are objective performance benchmarks on cars, and some of them are okay proxies of performance in motorsports. https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/carwow-quarter-mil…

The legal guardian is responsible for gatekeeping what their minor sees or does not see.

Last time I tried, a lot of CAD/CAE packages still won't operate under WINE, at least not out of the box.

A key consideration in favor of running your local LLM despite all the trouble: The commercial serving endpoint may not exist tomorrow, or at least not at the same price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors Macromedia Flash taught me this in the early 2000s...

> why does it matter what the percentage is This percentage directly determines the influence on SP500 index funds holders (SPY, VOO, etc.). The outcome could have been: 1. not inc…

I sense a nod to https://papersplease.fandom.com/wiki/The_Republia_Times

+1. Brought up in a low-trust env and this became habitual.

Google TPUs are VLIW machines on a circuit-switched network.

Or, more neutrally, a different tradeoff point between mass transit and personal cars.

Off-roading aspirations and 3rd row legroom (S1) seem to be major differentiators from Rivian. As for autonomy, Waymos have LIDARs which at least provides more redundancy. I see th…

Turnouts exist. Unfortunately, head-of-line-blockers are very commonly already overwhelmed by the task of keeping tab of their own vehicle; would be a far stretch to expect them to…

> that the hertz as defined refers to one radian per second, and that it should have instead been defined as rev/s This is precisely what leads to the "forgot to multiply 2pi or 1/…

Reminds me of https://dunerts.wiki.gg/wiki/Anti-Air_Mine Early 2000s RTS games (Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3, CnC franchise) continue to amaze me in how well their seemingly comical "ga…

New Strix Halo (395+) user here. It is very librating to be able to "just" load the larger open-weight MoEs. At this param count class, bigger is almost always better --- my own vi…

Or, as it has always been, piecewise linear approximate it.

Single-chip specs according to: https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/abou... https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/nki/... Eight NeuronCore-v4 …

This is quite accurate considering Google TPUs are VLIW machines.

Correct --- found a remark on Twitter calling this "Jenson Math". Same logic when NVidia quote the "bidirectional bandwidth" of high speed interconnects to make the numbers look bi…

Anecdote: 9 years ago I was at MSFT. Hands forced by long GC pauses, eventually many teams turned to hand-rolling their flavor of string_view in C#. It was literally xkcd.com/927 b…

The image circle of this is APS-C sized => 1.5x crop factor => 75mm "full frame" equivalent. I'd categorize this as more of a portrait lens (than "normal" as the 50mm moniker impli…

Lidars have been reporting per-point intensity values for quite a while. The dynamic range is definitely not 1 bit. Many Lidar visualization software will happily pseudocolor the i…

Not OP but I think this could be an instance of leaky abstraction at work. Most of the time you hand-write an accelerator kernel hoping to optimize for runtime performance. If the …

> The active class is clearly redundant here. If you want to style based on the .active selector, you could just as easily style with [aria-selected="true"] instead. I vaguely reme…