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tantony
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About tantony
https://www.thomasantony.com
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Comment #46468088
Claude Opus 4.5 has been a big step up for me personally, and I used to think Sonnet 3.5 was good. It is an amazing deal at $20. Just yesterday, it helped me parse out and understa…
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Comment #46015917
My name is on the blue plaque. I (and many others) spent countless hours on these two vehicles. Many of us are now working 12-hour shifts performing initial operations tasks. The m…
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Comment #45729928
I was able to get pretty far using Clojure and this package instead of Scheme: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils I was able to make "CloJupyter" notebooks with the examples fr…
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Show HN: GNC Trainer – A Landing Simulator for Tinkering with Control Systems
I built a small game where you write control algorithms to land a spacecraft in increasingly challenging scenarios. The game starts simple - just control vertical thrust to hover. …
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Comment #40683448
I have personally experienced this. I went to a concert in NY while living in the midwest. I was a pretty broke grad-student at the time and hence opted not to get a hotel for the …
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Comment #38199701
Before buying the Framework, I used a MacBook Pro for ~11 years. I am perfectly comfortable with the command-line and ssh into a Linux VM every day at work (windows laptop). I use …
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Comment #38180280
I bought a Framework 13 when it first came out, with exactly this hope. I gave up after about one month of madness and ordered an M1 Max Macbook Pro. I also installed Windows on th…
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Comment #38132742
There's already plenty of it in space.
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Comment #38016263
Magnetic field drops off by an inverse-cubed law (as opposed to inverse-squared for RF). So it would be a lot more impractical to cover large volumes.
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Comment #37922386
> tech-illiterate The guy wrote two books on Lisp. Lol. What are you talking about? And why do you need HTTPS to access a static HTML blog which doesn't even have a single form? Wh…
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Comment #37514139
> Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman I read the same in Malayalam! That book was one of my earliest introductions to practical physics. He deconstructs pretty much all the…
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Comment #37332904
Wow! I used to fly out of the Ames airport and earned my PPL there. It turns out that it wasn't always at the same spot. I looked it up and apparently my house was on land that use…
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Comment #36870440
Based on the paper, results, video etc., this is either legit, or a massive fraud. I guess we will know soon enough. If it is real though, this is a massive step up for humanity. T…
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Comment #35600385
Someone is probably going to port it to llama.cpp soon.
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Comment #35588123
The speed at which this stuff is developing makes it very hard to keep up and contribute in a meaningful way. Especially when you have a separate full time job.
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Comment #35572307
Would love to see your code for this btw.
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Comment #35456690
Vicune
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Show HN: Python Bindings for llama.cpp with some CLIs
These are my Python bindings for @ggerganov's llama.cpp. My Python bindings build on this work and provide an easy-to-use interface for Python developers to take advantage of Llama…
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Comment #35199956
This is what happens when running inference on a neural network: Input (list of numbers) -> (Bunch of math operations) with (other numbers) -> Output (also a list of numbers) This …
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Comment #35185363
It uses "ggml", a tensor library written in C to do the math. The models weights are converted to a format that can be used by GGML. The higher level structure of the model is crea…
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Comment #35175008
Stable Diffusion runs pretty fast on Apple Silicon. Not sure if that uses the GPU though. I think one reason in this particular case may be the 4-bit quantization.
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Comment #35174153
I am working on https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/77 to "librarify" the code a bit. I eventually did want to Rewrite It In Rust™, but OP just beat me to it.