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0000 in base pi. Oh Jeff.

I mean yes but where does that get us? The great oxygenation event wasn't exactly good for the organisms that were alive at the time.

No way is vocab size zipfian. Word counts from a corpus follow zipf's law, but not vocab sizes themselves. Otherwise the most common vocab size would be equal to one.

Can anyone explain to me why Q and K are both needed? They only ever appear as a pair, so why can’t you just define a matrix A = QK and learn that directly?

> On March 12, 2025, a search warrant was executed at Sohaib’s home in Alexandria. Agents grabbed plenty of tech gear but also turned up seven firearms and 370 rounds of .30 calibe…

I have a feeling taxes are possible to circumvent only because a government tends to have one arm that wants to collect taxes, and another that wants to reduce them to encourage ce…

Us consumers don't want moats. But to understand the investment you need to understand the moat: no sensible investor will throw this much money around without one. If you don't un…

Whenever people bring this up I like to remind them that linear interpolation is a universal function approximator.

The company is named after the evil telepathic orbs from lord of the rings. Wasn't that the first clue that everything might not be hunky dory?

I'm sure some python devs care about cache misses too. I guess my point was that the big results will be picked over again and again to understand _exactly_ which conditions are ne…

In my experience those debates are usually between experts who deeply understand the difference between ABC and XYZ widgets (the example I'm thinking of in my head is whether manif…

IMO it's not far off how most python or javascript devs don't care about registers or cache misses. Someone's thought deeply about those things so you don't have to. Mathematicians…

Anyone have a good explanation for why elliptic curves have a 'natural' group law? I've seen the definition of the group law in R before, where you draw a line through two points, …

The average density of matter in the universe is one proton per five cubic meters or so. We're very much the outlier!

That's more like the false positive rate and false negative rate. If we're being literal, accuracy is (number correct guesses) / (total number of guesses). Maybe the folks at turni…

The word “some” in the quote from Box is doing a lot of heavy lifting. If a model is useful, I’d like to see it being used (outside academia, where there’s minimal penalty for comp…

There's no place for you here you lunatic

I didn't say it wasn't alarming, I said it wasn't civilization- or nation-ending. Unless you're a tiny island nation, in which case I'll happily retract what I'm saying. There are …

Ports get retrofitted, redesigned, and rebuilt. The AMOC collapsing is a serious thing, but I'm not saying climate change isn't real or isn't a threat. My original point is that th…

A metre of sea-level rise is painful for a rural cottage by the sea. But if you're in a city - particularly a wealthy city - it's something that can be engineered around. An expens…

He's comparing AGW, which drives a trend , with weather-based events, which are noise around the trend. He conveniently cuts his analysis off at the year 2100, by which we'll all p…

It confused me a lot - I cancelled the denominators in my head too. But then I realised they're just plotting y/(x^2+y^2) - (x+1)/(x^2+y^2) = c and colouring by c (i.e. a heatmap, …

If it's a win / lose outcome and both win and lose have a probability of 1/100, I'll make 99x my stake by betting on both win and lose at the same time. If both outcomes have a pro…

In one sense, winning bets. If you lose, you lose: your money is gone either way. If you win, the fact that the probabilities sum to about 1.05 means you win less than you would ha…

Have you used PaddleOCR? I'm surprised they're claiming SOTA without comparing against Amazon Textract or Azure doc intelligence (LayoutLM v3 under the hood, as far as I know). I'v…