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nmwnmw··on Year old App Engine bug: No way to delete an application
In particular, https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35874988#comment258 > This issue was made when I was born. Amazing how this isn't and will not be fixed. Guess I'll just move cloud providers then.
nmwnmw··on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models
- Llama 3.2 introduces small vision LLMs (11B and 90B parameters) and lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) for edge/mobile devices, with the smaller models supporting 128K token context.

- The 11B and 90B vision models are competitive with leading closed models like Claude 3 Haiku on image understanding tasks, while being open and customizable.

- Llama 3.2 comes with official Llama Stack distributions to simplify deployment across environments (cloud, on-prem, edge), including support for RAG and safety features.

- The lightweight 1B and 3B models are optimized for on-device use cases like summarization and instruction following.

nmwnmw··on SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew attempts first private spacewalk [video]
Walk starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABQBEdOzrV0&t=6360s
nmwnmw··on Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico
Three astronauts died in 1967: Gus Grissom, Edward White II, Roger Chaffee.
nmwnmw··on Shane Legg: Machine Super Intelligence (2008) [pdf]
Author is Shane Legg, cofounder of DeepMind.
nmwnmw··on What John von Neumann did at Los Alamos (2020)
Highly recommend The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Talks about this time plus many of his other contributions to e.g. game theory.
nmwnmw··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Also check out https://www.halfbakery.com/.
nmwnmw··on Luiz André Barroso has died
https://archive.ph/lLKWY
nmwnmw··on LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
Isn't it sufficient to have another lab confirm that the existing sample is a super conductor? Then we can all sprint to replication.
nmwnmw··on The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
Did this in north Alabama back in the mid 90s for a school fundraiser. They hired a surveyor to plot the squares on the football field. We discovered that the field was narrower on one end by about 7 feet! The cow plopped on a square boundary with an unsold square so the winner only got half. As I recall it was a whole lot of standing around and waiting. Funny for the first 20 minutes, then very, very boring.
nmwnmw··on US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation
This is the same Virgil of:

- Ethereum Proof of Stake [1]

- King of the Nerds TV Show

- Wikiscanner [2]

Source [3]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09437 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Griffith

nmwnmw··on Why Young Developers Don’t Get Knowledge Graphs
Wikidata[0] is a freely available knowledge graph. You can even query it online [1]

[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

[1] https://query.wikidata.org/

nmwnmw··on B-tree Path Hints
My personal favorite of these is the Splay Tree[1]. I've never used it in production, but it's really simple to implement and reason about. Though my main experience was trying (and failing) to prove amortized bounds on the operations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree