People also underestimate how dangerous these humanoid robots are. If we comply with the OSHA standards, we would need to place these robots in an enclosure with distance monitoring. Mind you, because contemporary…
No, sociologists use the term involution to describe Asian rice farmers. These farmers poured an increasing amount of labor into their tiny patches of land to extract the last bit of productivity, yet despite their hard…
“The Evolution of Human Science” by Ted Chiang, published in Nature in 2000, addressed that exact question: The development of the metahumans' science becomes so advanced that it forces the ordinary scientists to switch…
> Obviously Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize IIRC Photobucket actually made a good amount of money through their advertising business unit ("Give free storage and get paid by ads" was their business…
Can I ask what is your opinion about their core CapEx, i.e. model training? The general trend I observe is that the "shelf lives" of large language models are really short. It costs $1-10 billion to train cutting-edge…
I found more details on how this particular attack worked: https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-... https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3148 So the extension basically rewrites files in…
It seems that the battery lasts 35 hours with heart rate tracking, 1 month with no HR, and 11 months with power saving. Run Time Using activity functions (heart rate): Approx. 35 hours max. Using in watch mode with…
That makes a lot of sense! > The x86 server CPUs, like AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon, have a lower range within which the clock frequency may vary and their policies for changing the clock frequency are less aggressive than…
Reading the article, it seems to boil down to the following two observations: 1. ARM64 is actually less "smart" than x64. While Intel's Core i9 tries to be clever by aggressive boosting and throttling, Snapdragon just…
> How do you use your 45 seconds? There is actually a clear, concise and actionable answer to this question: - Hide under the nearest table or desk (if you are at home or in the office). - Grab the nearest pole or…
There was a similar case in Japan recently: alt.ai This company purported to sell AI transcription service. Raised capital from notable local VCs. Did IPO in Oct 2023. It turned out that more than 90% of its sales were…
Bank of France "transported" their reserve by selling the gold held in New York, and subsequently buying the same amount in European market. They opted to do so because it's just more efficient. It takes a lot of…
PE is a very broad practice. It's kinda hard to make a single-blanket argument for it (it's like asking "Is Software good for society?" Yes, maybe?). So here are some positive things that I think PE funds can…
Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final page really illustrates the color of…
I listened to the podcast linked in the article, and my understanding of the timeline is: - The owner originally had two dogs. Both disappeared from her backyard one day. One dog returned home. The other vanished…
To fill in the details, here is the code used for the measurement: https://github.com/lemire/counters/blob/main/include/counter... It fetches the number of mispredicted instructions from Linux's perf subsystem, which in…
> There is no caching of a "utf-8 representation". No there certainly is. This is documented in the official API documentation: UTF-8 representation is created on demand and cached in the Unicode object.…
Coincidentally, Chi-kawa is a very popular anime character in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiikawa It's a portmanteau of "Chiisai" (small) and "Kawaii" (cute).
The evolution of software engineering is fascinating to me. We started by coding in thin wrappers over machine code and then moved on to higher-level abstractions. Now, we've reached the point where we discuss how we…
Among the interviews, one with the former engineering director was the most eye-opening for me. https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17236880&Fi... It appears that all the engineers -- system designer,…
> No data with a timestamp after May 16th was found on the camera, so it is likely that none of the data recorded on the SD Card were of the accident voyage or dive. Evidently the camera data was recorded to an external…
> What goes into a mount that makes it so expensive? Its essentially just a piece of metal, right? I think this graph sheds some light on your question: https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-in...…
> You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes: You actually don't need any image editing skill. Here is a browser-only solution: 1. Take…
This is pretty cool. His design seems to be able to handle the full iGPU loads too: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/monochrome-2-my-cu... His trick is to use a number of heat pipes (that transfer the heat…
You haven't seen the full depth yet. Suppose that you encountered with this line: print(f"{n:.2g}") What will it print? Here is the official explanation from https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/string.html#formatspec:…
People also underestimate how dangerous these humanoid robots are. If we comply with the OSHA standards, we would need to place these robots in an enclosure with distance monitoring. Mind you, because contemporary…
No, sociologists use the term involution to describe Asian rice farmers. These farmers poured an increasing amount of labor into their tiny patches of land to extract the last bit of productivity, yet despite their hard…
“The Evolution of Human Science” by Ted Chiang, published in Nature in 2000, addressed that exact question: The development of the metahumans' science becomes so advanced that it forces the ordinary scientists to switch…
> Obviously Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize IIRC Photobucket actually made a good amount of money through their advertising business unit ("Give free storage and get paid by ads" was their business…
Can I ask what is your opinion about their core CapEx, i.e. model training? The general trend I observe is that the "shelf lives" of large language models are really short. It costs $1-10 billion to train cutting-edge…
I found more details on how this particular attack worked: https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-... https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3148 So the extension basically rewrites files in…
It seems that the battery lasts 35 hours with heart rate tracking, 1 month with no HR, and 11 months with power saving. Run Time Using activity functions (heart rate): Approx. 35 hours max. Using in watch mode with…
That makes a lot of sense! > The x86 server CPUs, like AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon, have a lower range within which the clock frequency may vary and their policies for changing the clock frequency are less aggressive than…
Reading the article, it seems to boil down to the following two observations: 1. ARM64 is actually less "smart" than x64. While Intel's Core i9 tries to be clever by aggressive boosting and throttling, Snapdragon just…
> How do you use your 45 seconds? There is actually a clear, concise and actionable answer to this question: - Hide under the nearest table or desk (if you are at home or in the office). - Grab the nearest pole or…
There was a similar case in Japan recently: alt.ai This company purported to sell AI transcription service. Raised capital from notable local VCs. Did IPO in Oct 2023. It turned out that more than 90% of its sales were…
Bank of France "transported" their reserve by selling the gold held in New York, and subsequently buying the same amount in European market. They opted to do so because it's just more efficient. It takes a lot of…
PE is a very broad practice. It's kinda hard to make a single-blanket argument for it (it's like asking "Is Software good for society?" Yes, maybe?). So here are some positive things that I think PE funds can…
Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final page really illustrates the color of…
I listened to the podcast linked in the article, and my understanding of the timeline is: - The owner originally had two dogs. Both disappeared from her backyard one day. One dog returned home. The other vanished…
To fill in the details, here is the code used for the measurement: https://github.com/lemire/counters/blob/main/include/counter... It fetches the number of mispredicted instructions from Linux's perf subsystem, which in…
> There is no caching of a "utf-8 representation". No there certainly is. This is documented in the official API documentation: UTF-8 representation is created on demand and cached in the Unicode object.…
Coincidentally, Chi-kawa is a very popular anime character in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiikawa It's a portmanteau of "Chiisai" (small) and "Kawaii" (cute).
The evolution of software engineering is fascinating to me. We started by coding in thin wrappers over machine code and then moved on to higher-level abstractions. Now, we've reached the point where we discuss how we…
Among the interviews, one with the former engineering director was the most eye-opening for me. https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17236880&Fi... It appears that all the engineers -- system designer,…
> No data with a timestamp after May 16th was found on the camera, so it is likely that none of the data recorded on the SD Card were of the accident voyage or dive. Evidently the camera data was recorded to an external…
> What goes into a mount that makes it so expensive? Its essentially just a piece of metal, right? I think this graph sheds some light on your question: https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-in...…
> You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes: You actually don't need any image editing skill. Here is a browser-only solution: 1. Take…
This is pretty cool. His design seems to be able to handle the full iGPU loads too: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/monochrome-2-my-cu... His trick is to use a number of heat pipes (that transfer the heat…
You haven't seen the full depth yet. Suppose that you encountered with this line: print(f"{n:.2g}") What will it print? Here is the official explanation from https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/string.html#formatspec:…