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mattsan··on Ask HN: What are some resources to help me deal with seeing gory content?
I actually did. I'm surprised this has hit me as hard as it did. No thanks for your comment.
mattsan··on Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch
In Lua we have indexes off by one and in SIMD we have keyboard letters off by one
mattsan··on The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS
Yeah I found the example without the italic text much harder to read when it was aligned. When it was italic the quote was in view though
mattsan··on Google Bard AI Now Has the Ability to Understand YouTube Videos
You could test this by asking about an uncaptioned video where the generated captions for any language would be trash (e.g. jiberrish) and using powerpoint slides to convey stuff.
mattsan··on [dead]
Nice meme
mattsan··on SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
9 engines times 3 cores. Unlike Superheavy which is 33 x 1
mattsan··on SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
The second big success was all 33 engines working reliably all the way up! There were so many nay-sayers saying if the soviets could build those amazing engines but couldn't solve their flameout problem on their N-1 rocket that Superheavy was never going to work
mattsan··on Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD
While I do agree with you and recommend everyone uses them, I still don't believe this is acceptable for websites and that we are basically forced to use adblockers if we don't want migraines
mattsan··on Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023
I can hear the people in charge on the onion service that were fired laughing
mattsan··on QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision
Hmmm is there anything preventing dedicated AI chips to have this LUT built in and to vectorise it too?
mattsan··on JWT finds an 'extreme' glow coming from 90% of the universe's earliest galaxies
First time seeing JWT instead of JWST
mattsan··on GPU advancements in M3 and A17 Pro [video]
Holy crap thank you for finding it so fast, I've been searching for it for a while
mattsan··on GPU advancements in M3 and A17 Pro [video]
FFT plus some game stuff requires complex numbers to do partial rendering (e.g. do some now and then do more next frame - I've lost the link to the talk but IIRC EA did a talk on how they made a shader that emulates lights in the background that are out of focus (not Guassian but the actual cool effect as if it was a real camera))
mattsan··on Bing Chat is so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle
Climate change: rockets pollute less than planes with less harmful impurities (rocket propellant is heavily refined) while also allowing us to launch satellites that can help us study climate change, also helping farmers be more aware of their land through satellite monitoring. Also, some rockets use Hydrogen and Oxygen - waste is H2O. Modern rockets are starting to use Methane and Oxygen - while still polluting, it is still much less than the impure kerosene used by planes.

Species decimation: Satellite imagery has been used to expose illegal farming, mining, etc. operations that would have been otherwise undetected for a long time. Yay biodiversity!

Destruction of communities: Idk man I feel like Starlink is helping communities a lot by providing cheap and fast shared internet to communities that wouldn't otherwise have the technology.

It's not just my comforts that I'm thinking about. Rockets while individually may be seen as useless, just like AI, are a platform where a lot of overwhelmingly positive projects could stem from.

The critiques you mentioned could be applied to mobile phones. I doubt you would actually agree phones have no place in society - it's not just comforts that are a positive.

mattsan··on Bing Chat is so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle
This is like saying developing modern rocket and satellite tech is bad because it can be used in missiles. Is GPS bad because it was made for questionable purposes before it was made available to the public? Without rockets we wouldn't even have WD-40 that was made to solve a certain rocket rusting. Pushing boundaries in tech has always had a positive effect to the general public, because even with an insane goal such as AGI we get a lot of tech that can be applied in different ways along the way that we can't even imagine.
mattsan··on QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision
Yep I didn't know other models cast during processing
mattsan··on QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision
Huh, I thought this is what was usually meant by quantising
mattsan··on GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users
1106 surely refers to 11/06, which is the date of the DevConf
mattsan··on Mars has a layer of molten rock inside
What about generating methane and oxygen from Mars' atmosphere? I'm aware it would take a long time and a vast area of solar panels but say we set up a base there, would it be feasible?

edit: this is assuming we're not allowed to set up nuclear reactors there

mattsan··on Cosine: AI Co-Developer
> To provide the best product we can for our users we utilise your prompt inputs and questions to retrain and improve our LLMs.

> You retain full control over wheather or not you concent to Cosine using your inputs in this way. You can change this setting in the VS Code extension under the settings pannel on the top right.

Reminder to change the default setting!

Also: typos lol. And I had to inspect element to manage to copy that text as selecting closed the box.

mattsan··on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
Ok so say hypothetically they have the balls to record conversations in your car. Wouldn't they already be recording from your pocket?

(I know it's sarcasm and you're spot on about the charities lmao)

mattsan··on Why we don’t generate elliptic curves every day
I would argue that suppression of public individuals would be much more difficult than say the NSA just scooping up the best mathematicians in that field
mattsan··on Ask HN: How is your startup doing?
You could have at least used a real person's voice
mattsan··on Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos
Honestly Pornhub's stack is genuinely impressive. More start-ups should just use PHP and get shit done
mattsan··on 4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
The speed of development in this space is incredible
mattsan··on Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics
lemma
mattsan··on KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working
I forgot KSP2 was made by an indie studio /s
mattsan··on KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working
This is the first time I'm hearing it uses the old code base - do you have a source? I thought in the initial marketing they were big on saying it's a full rewrite.
mattsan··on Currying in Kotlin
Type safe builders/factories work and should be used where appropriate (e.g. to catch invalid state at compile time) but I don't see how this has anything to do with the currying shown in the post. The compiler checks the param types whether the function has a single param or not.
mattsan··on Currying in Kotlin
Yeah I would think that downstream users would just expect a function that only takes in the params that they specify - leave it up to the API user to just make a closure on the spot.
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