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tomtom1337··on The M2 is more advanced than it seemed
Oh, I should have clarified - could one start with a bfloat16 on software-side, convert to float16 (so that e.g a 3.4E38 float16 becomes a 65504 float16), then do any "heavy math" in fast hardware float16 instructions, and then convert back at the end?
tomtom1337··on The M2 is more advanced than it seemed
Oh, I should have clarified - could one start with a bfloat16 on software-side, convert to float16 (so that e.g a 3.4E38 float16 becomes a 65504 float16), then do any "heavy math" in fast hardware float16 instructions, and then convert back at the end?
tomtom1337··on The M2 is more advanced than it seemed
Is it possible to "pretend" that one's float16 datatype is in fact bfloat16? Since they occupy the same about of memory?
tomtom1337··on Generalized K-Means Clustering
Do you have a link to any implementations for this?
tomtom1337··on Talk-Llama
Ah, forget the other message, I watched the videos in the wrong order! And I can’t delete or edit using the Hack app!
tomtom1337··on Talk-Llama
Is it just me, or is the gpu version actually slower to respond?
tomtom1337··on Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft
I would love to hear some anecdotes!
tomtom1337··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
What per 1000? Cars?
tomtom1337··on Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
Agreed. Death Stranding was released for Windows over three years ago. A better example might be Larian Studios releasing Baldur’s Gate 3 natively from the beginning of early access.
tomtom1337··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
Some context - I’m assuming that OP is Norwegian:

2000 Norwegian kr (NOK) = 198 USD

2000 Swedish kr (SEK) = 191 USD

2000 Danish kr (DKK) = 296 USD

2000 Icelandic kr (ISK) = 15 USD

tomtom1337··on Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
This is true, but from personal experience, academics are terrible at including high quality images. My colleague would screenshot an image from some visualisation software and paste it in to her paper in MS Word. Then that image would get copied or screenshotted into a different word document, and so on, and the quality would deteriorate.
tomtom1337··on Python: Overlooked core functionalities
Oh! Thats a really nice one!
tomtom1337··on It Takes Long to Become Gaussian
Your first paragraph is how I had understood the CLT as well. I’m wondering now if the author of the post knows more than me and is correct about what he’s talking about, or if he’s wrong.
tomtom1337··on FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes
Have you actually got it working as an LSP server? I tried about a month ago without success.

Edit: Scratch that, had a go now with no trouble, passing `pylyzer --server` from my editor (helix).

tomtom1337··on How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)
That is what tree-sitter is, I think? https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
tomtom1337··on Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
Very interesting! I'll try that when mine turns two!
tomtom1337··on Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
How did you do it? How old was he?
tomtom1337··on SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
We use it to select any value from an aggregated list of values which we know are identical. It requires fewer operations than e.g. max.
tomtom1337··on Human augmentation with robotic body parts is at hand, say scientists
Probably costs an arm and a leg at the moment though.
tomtom1337··on Show HN: Minimalist Blogging Platform
That was a lovely message you left.
tomtom1337··on Pyright: Static Type Checker for Python
Could you comment on why you use both pyright and pure?
tomtom1337··on Extremely Linear Git History
This (plush toy and projector) has “feel good” all over it :)
tomtom1337··on Rats bop their heads to music just like humans
I’m quite disappointed to not find any videos of rats bopping their heads in the article.
tomtom1337··on PyTorch 1.13
Huh! That’s curious! I wonder what causes the different behaviour!
tomtom1337··on PyTorch 1.13
I think you mean “conda install torch”, no? Miniforge would only impact the conda installer?
tomtom1337··on Asdf – language tool version manager
> It is NOT great for having a live-reloading dev webservice running.

Oh my god this.

I was running a fastapi server on my m1 Mac in an arm Linux docker container. Everything else works great in this, but the live-reloading server was running at 200% cpu and ate 50% of my battery life!

tomtom1337··on Plastic-Eating Mushrooms (2021)
Hah! Amazing!
tomtom1337··on Plastic-Eating Mushrooms (2021)
Hyphens are important.
tomtom1337··on How did I convert the 33 GB Dataset into a 3 GB file Using Pandas?
You lose precision.

This stackoverflow answer gives a straightforward example:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/64069641/1018861

tomtom1337··on Ask HN: What was the best onboarding experience you had as a new employee?
Data scientist here.

I really enjoyed having a roughly 50-50 split between scheduled presentations/workshops/content and free-time where I was left to my own devices to spend time on my onboarding project, coffee chat with colleagues, ask questions and just tinker round.

Then I helped out with onboarding the next lot of newcomers, which cemented a lot of learning for me.

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