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andrewchambers··on Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models
What if working well means making them efficient enough to run more 'neurons' on our current hardware?
andrewchambers··on (Re)Using rustc components in gccrs
incorrect, this is a re-implementation of rust by designed to be included in gcc, not the original rust compiler.
andrewchambers··on (Re)Using rustc components in gccrs
You didn't read the part about compiling with the borrow checker turned off?
andrewchambers··on (Re)Using rustc components in gccrs
I guess this doesn't solve the bootstrapping issue.
andrewchambers··on Multiversion Python Thoughts
If you are breaking the api it isn't that hard to add a new one instead of butchering the old one.

If it really can't be done then you aren't really shipping a library that is meant to be depended on.

andrewchambers··on Multiversion Python Thoughts
I like the way python handled this situation - python3 for when you care, python for when you don't.
andrewchambers··on Multiversion Python Thoughts
I feel like most of these problems just disappear if people would follow the same naming scheme sqlite3 uses. Just put the major version in the name and most tools just work out of the box with multiple versions.
andrewchambers··on AGI is far from inevitable
I feel like your point would be better if there weren't already self driving cars around like waymo.
andrewchambers··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
Whats interesting is that with more time it can create more accurate answers which means it can be used to generate its own training data.
andrewchambers··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
I don't think programming is any less safe than any other office job tbh. Focus on problem solving and using these tools to your advantage and choose a field you enjoy.
andrewchambers··on Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation
It seems like a binary cache can already get root on your system - it is serving you binaries to run, often as root. Don't authorize a binary cache you don't trust.
andrewchambers··on Rust in Linux Revisited
Pretty sure you could just choose an LTS abi and use that.
andrewchambers··on Rust in Linux Revisited
I am well aware, the point is that ladybird is a new project following some standards and they are free to use a memory safe language now.
andrewchambers··on Rust in Linux Revisited
If its compatible with linux then the linux drivers would work right?
andrewchambers··on Rust in Linux Revisited
It's more or less working for ladybird browser, could work for a kernel.
andrewchambers··on Claude 3.5 Sonnet
I wonder if openai they have a response ready or if they just are tackling other business problems like ios integration now and the seemingly postponed low latency chat launch. Either way I am looking forward to claude 3.5 opus.

It did seem slightly odd to me that openai made their supposedly best model free.

andrewchambers··on Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing
Very cheap 24 hour place to shower and use the bathroom.
andrewchambers··on Chasing a Bug in a SAT Solver
I wrote a single file python3 implementation with no other dependencies here:

https://github.com/andrewchambers/ddmin-python

It can be used as a cli program or a python library.

andrewchambers··on Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips
It really just depends if people have full disk encryption or not and whether of not the machine was fully powered off afaik.
andrewchambers··on Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California
You are right that one problem is possibly humans don't drive with their heads fixed in place, they move their neck and constantly adjust viewing angles.

w.r.t. the super computer point, AI systems have been able to out perform humans for specialized tasks for a while.

andrewchambers··on Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California
Don't humans drive with vision only?
andrewchambers··on Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std
Another downside is you lose access to all your database specific functionality, or at best makes it more complicated to use as you need to unwrap the abstraction layer.
andrewchambers··on Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std
While in general I agree, database libs are probably the worst example of this - in practice you can't just swap sqlite for postgres or mysql. I usually avoid the generic driver wherever possible and use one specific to my database.
andrewchambers··on Patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks (2019)
Its getting down voted because if people want that sort of thing they can generate it themselves.
andrewchambers··on Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
Are you talking about future AI? or just AI as it stands today. It is a moving target.
andrewchambers··on Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V
You could start your search looking for 'unikernel' tools, a few already exist.
andrewchambers··on BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
Yes it does - via ssh force commands. In the hosted version you just tick a checkbox in the web ui for each ssh key.
andrewchambers··on BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
It can provide diffs against ctime so you can see if files have been modified and then restored.
andrewchambers··on BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
Yes and it can restore mtime and atime - but not ctime.
andrewchambers··on BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
The default is to exclude them, but commands like get/restore/put take options to enable xattr support. The reason for ignoring them by default is simply pragmatic - fewer syscalls while walking the filesystem.
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