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FPGAhacker··on Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX
Dude, choplifter! Haven't thought about that game for a long time.
FPGAhacker··on Apple's A17 Pro Within 10% of i9-13900K, 7950X in Single-Core Performance
Clock speed correlates pretty closely to power consumption within a given family.

It correlates less directly between families, smaller process nodes tend to allow for high frequencies at the same power consumption.

FPGAhacker··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
No kidding. Like a circular puck style.
FPGAhacker··on Classical music is for everyone
Maybe so, I have no idea who they are and afaik I haven’t been to the site before.

But that certainly was not a political article.

FPGAhacker··on Classical music is for everyone
After reading your post I was expecting the author to rant against other types of music. It’s nothing of the sort.

He does mention at one point that there is such a thing as music that purports to be political.

I struggle to understand how you came away from the article with a response like that.

FPGAhacker··on Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git
What did you do with all the comments at the end of the review?
FPGAhacker··on A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
I haven’t really worked in closure for a while, but luminus was my go to web framework in the past.

https://luminusweb.com/

FPGAhacker··on FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls
Who gets the money from fines like these?
FPGAhacker··on It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
Can you give me some links? I don’t program clojure much these days but I’ve never found anything comparable in python.
FPGAhacker··on It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
Can you connect to a running server or other running application, inspect live in memory data, change live in memory data, redefine functions and classes and have those changes take immediate effect without restarting the server or app?

I think that is that is the big difference.

It’s a triple edged sword bonded to a double barreled shotgun though, and the very antithesis of the idea of functional programming vs mutable state.

FPGAhacker··on Insurance company drops customer saying a 'drone' took photos of clutter in yard
Fixed-wing aircraft and drones are not mutually exclusive categories.
FPGAhacker··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
Any videos or online courses that you would recommend?
FPGAhacker··on fMRI-to-image with contrastive learning and diffusion priors
Not yet.

> Models were trained separately for every participant and are not generalizable across people.

FPGAhacker··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
In one or more of William Gibson’s early books, maybe neuromancer, there was a think called simstim where you could vicariously live a celebrity’s life as they live streamed their daily existence while wearing a headset.

Combine that and pornography and I think you’ve nailed it. Pun possibly intended.

FPGAhacker··on Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy
Maybe you are having this issue. https://forum.airgradient.com/t/co2-reading-of-3-constantly/...
FPGAhacker··on “Just a statistical text predictor”
> We do not expect just knowing the differential equations governing biological neurons to give us much insight into human intelligence.

No, I expect not.

But I think it’s a mistake in thinking and loose use of language to say that differential equations, or any mathematical representation, governs anything. They are models of whatever may actually be happening, and are necessarily modeling a simplification of the behavior observed.

Don’t mistake the model for reality.

FPGAhacker··on HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
Semi-bricking is like saying someone is semi-pregnant.
FPGAhacker··on Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
Still have mine. For a while on my phone I used an emulator. Eventually I found PCalc and it was customizable enough to recreate the parts of the hp48g that I cared about on a day-to-day basis.
FPGAhacker··on Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
Maybe it comes down to semantics but when I read things like [1] I come away with the idea that the weights are altered. But it could also just be my misunderstanding.

1: https://towardsdatascience.com/an-intuitive-explanation-of-s...

FPGAhacker··on Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
I have very limited understanding of chatGPTs architecture, and neural nets in general.

From what I've read over the last few days, the "attention" mechanism used in chatGPT and similar LLMs does indeed dynamically change weights of a portion of the model.

FPGAhacker··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
Analogies are imperfect, but I think a little more detail would make it the analogy fair.

Let me restate your example of running over someone:

Let's say you and I both run over someone. I did it last year, and you did it 6 years ago. You say nothing for 6 years, I say nothing for 1 year. I get caught, and provide no cooperation whatsoever. You watch me get caught and excoriated in the press and decide you need to fess up and cooperate. 6 years after the fact.

FPGAhacker··on Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
That’s pretty interesting. Snow crash is the only Stephenson book I liked. The others I disliked because of all the digressions and aimlessness.

So now I wonder if snow crash was really any different or if it was me and the mood I was in.

FPGAhacker··on Let ChatGPT run free on random webpages and do what it likes
What are the ethical concerns you have?
FPGAhacker··on Let ChatGPT run free on random webpages and do what it likes
> what can be probed will be probed.

Probably not something I’d say out loud, but yeah. Sounds like a variant of Murphy’s law.

FPGAhacker··on When can two TCP sockets share a local address?
What are arguments against user-space TCP?
FPGAhacker··on Shoshikantetsu
I know I’m being pedantic, but that would be a low ratio.

But I understand the point being made and my pedantry just a peculiarity of English meaning having a strong word order dependence than many other languages.

FPGAhacker··on Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA
Do meteors ever hit the atmosphere at low speed?
FPGAhacker··on Investor Mark Suster says a “handful” of bad actors in VC destroyed SVB
There is nothing safe about mortgage backed securities.
FPGAhacker··on When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?
> I’m not blaming a single person at all, but the bank in general should have been aware of this.

What does this even mean? What else is there to blame other than individual people making decisions?

FPGAhacker··on SymPy makes math fun again
Is that maybe because you are familiar with Mathematica?
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