Ooh, this is a nice link. Totally going to add some of this stuff to my practice.
Looking at that paper, they appear to be saying that 6.7B is where the problem becomes so intense that no single quantization method can keep up. From what I gather, the paper claims that such outliers start occur down…
It doesn't need to be two huge models. If there is an advantage to doing this, I'd expect that you would see it even in a small test case. I'm sure we'll see something by the end of the week if not earlier if there's…
The important and popular ones are absolutely available, but those are usually important because they have entered the realm of "common knowledge," at least in a particular sub-field. These are going to be at the top of…
10 years isn't really all that much, is it? From my experience that's around how long it takes for developers to get a big head about how much they know, but 5 years less than what it takes to learn to respect how much…
Just looking around, general available figures for public internet (as opposed to tor) suggest that anywhere between 0.1% to 1.0% of users have JS disabled. These numbers have also been consistently going down over…
Was Zen 2017? Last I saw had it dropping in October of 2016. I actually decided to hold off on an upgrade for it.
I took a look at the website you linked at the bottom of your post. The first thing I noticed is that most of the front-page articles are testimonials. Fortunately there was an article written by the author right at the…
> Civil eng is very conservative in terms of the kinds of language and graphics that can be used to express a design. I would argue that programming is far more specific in terms of the kind of language can be used…
> shouldn't it be a commonplace thing that doesn't take so much work to get around to explaining and using? Why? It's a reality of the world that more complex things take more time and more effort to learn. However,…
I feel a major problem with mathematical proofs is that the language of these proofs is so complex that in order to understand what it even says you have to be extremely smart, and willing to put in a huge amount of…
While that is a perfectly reasonable solution to the minimal example I provided, there may be reasons to abstract away the concept. Personally, I like having some sort of structure in memory that allows me to access and…
I think a lot of people use the "self-documenting" excuse without knowing what "self-documenting" really is, and what it brings to the table. Self-documenting code is a good fit for a reasonably small and straight…
This has always been a pet peeve of mine with projects like rails. Usually when I work on a piece of the system I'll be working on a single component, be it user, product, report or whatever. That means I will either…
The speed at which he switches hosts implies he's got quite a sophisticated tool chain set up for this. The level of skill really becomes parent if you read the rest of the log though.
05:21 -!- mode/#linode [+b !ryan@54.228.197.*] by akerl 05:24 -!- ryan| [~violator@37.235.49.168] has joined #linode 05:24 < ryan|> quite rude of you 05:25 -!- ryan| was kicked from #linode by akerl [ryan|]…
Having multiple modes of work is critical in the field. It's an unfortunate reality that the theoretical complexity of programming projects is limitless. Unfortunately that means you simply can not have sufficient…
I'm not suggesting they should have broken up all the teams and made new ones. There are much smarter ways to merge teams that involve gradually easing them together. However, having five teams in the company doing…
From my perspective, AMD really screwed up the AMD/ATI merger in the worst way possible. When AMD bought ATI they were well positioned to beat everyone to market to release their APU chip. However, the problems started…
If your memory usage and gc speed are of critical concern, then you should really know that ruby is just not going to provide the tools you need to handle that. That's like using a hammer when you need a screwdriver.…
I would venture to say the triviality of writing hybrid code is a function of how often you have done something similar, and how well you understand the underlying principles. This is really the case with any software…
Oh finally, now I can just say I'm 10 on the Yudkowsky Ambition scale. You've saved me much explaining.
From Wikipedia: "There are over 67,000 subreddits to peruse, with the default set being (as of October 18, 2011[4])." I could not find a specific number for the admin staff, but given the fact that wiki lists 11 staff…
Casual gamers are driven by trends and early adopters. A lot of these people know what Kinect is because their "nerd friend Alphonso" won't stop talking about how cool it is. Don't knock the early adopter crowd just…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that when most people think of a DS, or any other Nintendo product, the Nintendo properties are the first thing on their minds. If you are getting a DS you…
Ooh, this is a nice link. Totally going to add some of this stuff to my practice.
Looking at that paper, they appear to be saying that 6.7B is where the problem becomes so intense that no single quantization method can keep up. From what I gather, the paper claims that such outliers start occur down…
It doesn't need to be two huge models. If there is an advantage to doing this, I'd expect that you would see it even in a small test case. I'm sure we'll see something by the end of the week if not earlier if there's…
The important and popular ones are absolutely available, but those are usually important because they have entered the realm of "common knowledge," at least in a particular sub-field. These are going to be at the top of…
10 years isn't really all that much, is it? From my experience that's around how long it takes for developers to get a big head about how much they know, but 5 years less than what it takes to learn to respect how much…
Just looking around, general available figures for public internet (as opposed to tor) suggest that anywhere between 0.1% to 1.0% of users have JS disabled. These numbers have also been consistently going down over…
Was Zen 2017? Last I saw had it dropping in October of 2016. I actually decided to hold off on an upgrade for it.
I took a look at the website you linked at the bottom of your post. The first thing I noticed is that most of the front-page articles are testimonials. Fortunately there was an article written by the author right at the…
> Civil eng is very conservative in terms of the kinds of language and graphics that can be used to express a design. I would argue that programming is far more specific in terms of the kind of language can be used…
> shouldn't it be a commonplace thing that doesn't take so much work to get around to explaining and using? Why? It's a reality of the world that more complex things take more time and more effort to learn. However,…
I feel a major problem with mathematical proofs is that the language of these proofs is so complex that in order to understand what it even says you have to be extremely smart, and willing to put in a huge amount of…
While that is a perfectly reasonable solution to the minimal example I provided, there may be reasons to abstract away the concept. Personally, I like having some sort of structure in memory that allows me to access and…
I think a lot of people use the "self-documenting" excuse without knowing what "self-documenting" really is, and what it brings to the table. Self-documenting code is a good fit for a reasonably small and straight…
This has always been a pet peeve of mine with projects like rails. Usually when I work on a piece of the system I'll be working on a single component, be it user, product, report or whatever. That means I will either…
The speed at which he switches hosts implies he's got quite a sophisticated tool chain set up for this. The level of skill really becomes parent if you read the rest of the log though.
05:21 -!- mode/#linode [+b !ryan@54.228.197.*] by akerl 05:24 -!- ryan| [~violator@37.235.49.168] has joined #linode 05:24 < ryan|> quite rude of you 05:25 -!- ryan| was kicked from #linode by akerl [ryan|]…
Having multiple modes of work is critical in the field. It's an unfortunate reality that the theoretical complexity of programming projects is limitless. Unfortunately that means you simply can not have sufficient…
I'm not suggesting they should have broken up all the teams and made new ones. There are much smarter ways to merge teams that involve gradually easing them together. However, having five teams in the company doing…
From my perspective, AMD really screwed up the AMD/ATI merger in the worst way possible. When AMD bought ATI they were well positioned to beat everyone to market to release their APU chip. However, the problems started…
If your memory usage and gc speed are of critical concern, then you should really know that ruby is just not going to provide the tools you need to handle that. That's like using a hammer when you need a screwdriver.…
I would venture to say the triviality of writing hybrid code is a function of how often you have done something similar, and how well you understand the underlying principles. This is really the case with any software…
Oh finally, now I can just say I'm 10 on the Yudkowsky Ambition scale. You've saved me much explaining.
From Wikipedia: "There are over 67,000 subreddits to peruse, with the default set being (as of October 18, 2011[4])." I could not find a specific number for the admin staff, but given the fact that wiki lists 11 staff…
Casual gamers are driven by trends and early adopters. A lot of these people know what Kinect is because their "nerd friend Alphonso" won't stop talking about how cool it is. Don't knock the early adopter crowd just…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that when most people think of a DS, or any other Nintendo product, the Nintendo properties are the first thing on their minds. If you are getting a DS you…