High level languages are analogous to airbrushes or paint rollers, not assistants. They let you paint faster, at the cost of making some things impossible that you would be able to do with a fine paintbrush. Unlike the…
"High compression memory" is immersion-breaking magic. There are hard mathematical limits to how much you can compress things (Kolmogorov complexity), and every lossless compression algorithm necessarily increases the…
Latency is cumulative, so avoidable latency is never acceptable. Maybe the hardware will change. Maybe somebody will run your software in an emulator. That 5ms could be enough to push the total latency into the…
>averaging the last 50 reads and wait till the majority is either off or on. This is a bad way to do it because it adds avoidable latency. A moving average is a low-pass filter. The switch bounce is better handled by…
I have an air purifier with built in particulate sensor. It doesn't provide numbers, but has a multi-color LED indicator to report PM2.5 level as good/mediocre/bad/terrible. Running a vacuum cleaner that supposedly has…
I correctly expected "wireless-free" to mean no support for wireless connections, which to me seems the simple and obvious interpretation. It doesn't necessarily mean it's wired (data transfer could be limited to…
We should just automatically ban every new account with "AI" in the about field. I don't think we'd lose much.
I've heard it used that way in the UK too, but the first meaning is traditional. Wiktionary has some examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot I expect the US meaning will eventually become standard everywhere.
>there's one exception: use of the word 'tabled'. Another exception: "moot", as in "moot point". In the UK it means "subject to debate", while in the US it means "inconsequential and therefore not subject to debate".
One big difference is the former doesn't "know" it's being experimented on. Gregor Mendel was able to grow large numbers of pea plants and identify patterns in their inheritance because the non-determinism followed…
There's a big difference between "deterministic + noise" non-determinism and "intelligent agent" non-determinism. Only the former can be statistically modeled to characterize and work around the noise with any…
>The point of the exercise is to demonstrate the student's understanding of the material, not their WPM. Testing for understanding requires the fastest WPM possible. Regardless of the method used, students don't all…
Thanks for correcting. I haven't actually played an ocarina, so I was relying on reports from people saying they are quiet instruments. It's very difficult to find objective SPL comparisons for musical instruments. But…
I never want to evict pages to swap. If I loaded something, it's because I intend to run it, and I never want to wait. If there's not enough RAM, I'd rather have a userspace OOM killer kill the process early so I know…
>"browser.cache.disk.enable: Set to false. This disables the disk cache, which is unnecessary if you have an SSD (RAM cache is fast enough) and actively harmful on old hard drives (constant small writes degrade…
Ocarinas have the great advantage over recorders that you can safely play them without hearing protection. I have personally measured the loud notes on both a soprano recorder and an alto recorder and the SPL meter…
States have a legitimate right to taxation. Taxes can be used to pay volunteers. While there are still people owning wealth above the poverty level, there is no excuse to force people into military slavery. And even if…
Longwave penetrates buildings better than GPS and is harder to jam.
I see it as something similar to Aviation English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English Scientific papers are often written and read by non-native speakers. A standardized formal style is less likely to embed…
You could duplicate every token and reserve the duplicates exclusively for the chain-of-thought, which could be robustly filtered from user input. Basically adding a "thought" bit to each token.
You can filter out any tokens you like, but the point of the paper is that it's not sufficient, because LLMs often ignore the special label tokens and treat user-injected text as chain-of-thought text merely because it…
>415Hz is often used for baroque music but that's just a modern convention, there was no such standard in baroque times 415Hz is one modern semitone below the standard 440Hz. Many (but not all) baroque instruments were…
>Doesn't most DJing software support constant-pitch speed adjustment? Modern software does, but there's always the risk of introducing artifacts, and I like older music that's usually mixed with pitch shifting.
>Clarinets are keyed in Bb (you play a C, out comes a Bb), horns in F (you play a C, out comes an F), trumpets in Eb (this should be clear), and so on... In reality, you put your fingers in the position for a C on that…
As somebody who enjoys listening to beatmatched DJ mixes, I'm glad I don't have "perfect" pitch. I'd hate to have vast amounts of music sound "wrong" just because the speed and pitch was changed slightly to synchronize…
High level languages are analogous to airbrushes or paint rollers, not assistants. They let you paint faster, at the cost of making some things impossible that you would be able to do with a fine paintbrush. Unlike the…
"High compression memory" is immersion-breaking magic. There are hard mathematical limits to how much you can compress things (Kolmogorov complexity), and every lossless compression algorithm necessarily increases the…
Latency is cumulative, so avoidable latency is never acceptable. Maybe the hardware will change. Maybe somebody will run your software in an emulator. That 5ms could be enough to push the total latency into the…
>averaging the last 50 reads and wait till the majority is either off or on. This is a bad way to do it because it adds avoidable latency. A moving average is a low-pass filter. The switch bounce is better handled by…
I have an air purifier with built in particulate sensor. It doesn't provide numbers, but has a multi-color LED indicator to report PM2.5 level as good/mediocre/bad/terrible. Running a vacuum cleaner that supposedly has…
I correctly expected "wireless-free" to mean no support for wireless connections, which to me seems the simple and obvious interpretation. It doesn't necessarily mean it's wired (data transfer could be limited to…
We should just automatically ban every new account with "AI" in the about field. I don't think we'd lose much.
I've heard it used that way in the UK too, but the first meaning is traditional. Wiktionary has some examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot I expect the US meaning will eventually become standard everywhere.
>there's one exception: use of the word 'tabled'. Another exception: "moot", as in "moot point". In the UK it means "subject to debate", while in the US it means "inconsequential and therefore not subject to debate".
One big difference is the former doesn't "know" it's being experimented on. Gregor Mendel was able to grow large numbers of pea plants and identify patterns in their inheritance because the non-determinism followed…
There's a big difference between "deterministic + noise" non-determinism and "intelligent agent" non-determinism. Only the former can be statistically modeled to characterize and work around the noise with any…
>The point of the exercise is to demonstrate the student's understanding of the material, not their WPM. Testing for understanding requires the fastest WPM possible. Regardless of the method used, students don't all…
Thanks for correcting. I haven't actually played an ocarina, so I was relying on reports from people saying they are quiet instruments. It's very difficult to find objective SPL comparisons for musical instruments. But…
I never want to evict pages to swap. If I loaded something, it's because I intend to run it, and I never want to wait. If there's not enough RAM, I'd rather have a userspace OOM killer kill the process early so I know…
>"browser.cache.disk.enable: Set to false. This disables the disk cache, which is unnecessary if you have an SSD (RAM cache is fast enough) and actively harmful on old hard drives (constant small writes degrade…
Ocarinas have the great advantage over recorders that you can safely play them without hearing protection. I have personally measured the loud notes on both a soprano recorder and an alto recorder and the SPL meter…
States have a legitimate right to taxation. Taxes can be used to pay volunteers. While there are still people owning wealth above the poverty level, there is no excuse to force people into military slavery. And even if…
Longwave penetrates buildings better than GPS and is harder to jam.
I see it as something similar to Aviation English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English Scientific papers are often written and read by non-native speakers. A standardized formal style is less likely to embed…
You could duplicate every token and reserve the duplicates exclusively for the chain-of-thought, which could be robustly filtered from user input. Basically adding a "thought" bit to each token.
You can filter out any tokens you like, but the point of the paper is that it's not sufficient, because LLMs often ignore the special label tokens and treat user-injected text as chain-of-thought text merely because it…
>415Hz is often used for baroque music but that's just a modern convention, there was no such standard in baroque times 415Hz is one modern semitone below the standard 440Hz. Many (but not all) baroque instruments were…
>Doesn't most DJing software support constant-pitch speed adjustment? Modern software does, but there's always the risk of introducing artifacts, and I like older music that's usually mixed with pitch shifting.
>Clarinets are keyed in Bb (you play a C, out comes a Bb), horns in F (you play a C, out comes an F), trumpets in Eb (this should be clear), and so on... In reality, you put your fingers in the position for a C on that…
As somebody who enjoys listening to beatmatched DJ mixes, I'm glad I don't have "perfect" pitch. I'd hate to have vast amounts of music sound "wrong" just because the speed and pitch was changed slightly to synchronize…