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Predicting when the sigmoid bends is difficult and predicting how long until it unbends is equally difficult. The simpler assumption is that over enough time, the S functions stack…

The title and intro are badly worded. The conclusion is “you should do MRIs it is equivalently beneficial as all of ___ are bad for you”

I think the Rick and Morty episode mathematically proved the futility in trying such an exercise.

I’ve been using Google AI Edge Gallery on my M1 MacBook with Gemma4B with very good results for random python scripts. Unfortunately still need to copy paste the code into a file+t…

An extremely verbose effects system can resolve these dependency permissions at compile time. However, balancing ergonomics is a the big challenge. I personally would prefer less e…

I’m surprised everyone is worried about heat dissipation. Datacenters in space is ambiguous enough to mean on lunar soil which provides plenty of heat dissipation using geothermal …

Of course it is. C does allow named functions and variables. C doesn’t allow arbitrary jumps. Those are two reasons why C is less tedious than assembly.

It does not. The $1 of electricity can be simplified to just a $1 However, the way the parent worded it ie $1 of compute electricity - requires the compute to exist and temporarily…

Self driving cars have existed for at least a year now. It only took a decade of “1 years away” but it exists now, and will likely require another decade of scaling up the hardware…

Having both worked at Amazon and still in the cloud industry, to me this seems like a strange take. Apple leases these computers from Amazon like it would from any other colo. Why …

Facts! I now get to the gym (or some form of exercise) 6 days a week. That was entirely because I made the decision to go to the gym and watch some YouTube. Then I’d end up staying…

I dunno, seems identical to a student loan. Which are only insane in the USA lol

I think one of the most important lessons in life (even as a healthy person) is realizing “motivation and action are cyclically causal” Of course “action follows motivation” but ev…

I turn a lot of real photos into cartoons. I love the feature! Most recently I took a photo of my grandma and me, asked Gemini to make it a cartoon, asked Gemini to make the new va…

It’s likely designed to encourage taking out the capital as a loan. A lot more people around the world can then afford to send their kids or pay off their gold cards across a 10-15…

FWIW, I think you might be better off with immutable rows and lamport clocks. Everything is a full new row because it is “a message” including read receipts. Some messages like rea…

What you’ve described is the foundation of Lucene and as such the foundation of Elastic Search. FSTs are “expensive” to re-optimize and so it’s typically done “without writes”. So …

Yeah given what your saying is true and continues to be, Seems the embeddings would just be useful for a “nice corpus search” mechanism for some regular RAG.

At least in theory. If the model is the same, the embeddings can be reused by the model rather than recomputing them. I believe this is what they mean. In practice, how fast will t…

Any insights into why game engines prefer triangles rather than guassians for fast rendering? Are triangles cheaper for the rasterizer, antialiasing, or something similar?

https://youtu.be/Be5HUxOYTOM?si=eOBjJW7lxvfG3xSs ?

Fwiw at Amazon it’s expected that the first 33%-50% of the meeting is reading time. The rest is time for feedback, discussion, and ideally a decision or collecting action items.

The reality is that competition at Amazon is intense. Amazon corporate is roughly broken down like this: L4: 45%, L5: 45%, L6: 7%, L7: 2.5%, L8+: 0.5% Only the first promotion has …

The real benefit of doc writing isn’t for decision making it’s for education. It allows everyone at Amazon to evaluate the author’s ability to refine their “chain of thought”. The …

Blood oxygen sensors seem relatively cheap and low power. I wonder if they could use that as the feedback mechanism. Ideally if the sensors are small, low power, and cheap enough C…