celoyd

Introduction

I was writing a note to a friend that mentioned my tedious opinions on “AI” discourse. It veered off into my usual argument that big “AI” companies are shaping the industry ecosystem to their own ends by setting up a situation where expensive-to-run models are overvalued. I think they’re doing this because they have a competitive advantage in that tier of the market, having bought (time on) a lot of GPUs. It’s like how a company that owns diamond mines will probably promote the idea that large, mined diamonds are important and valuable, and that there’s something off about running a sub-industrial mine or lab-growing diamonds. You can do this without lying at all, but I still dislike it. Large mined diamonds here are $O(n^2)$ models.

To support this argument, I started making my case against the necessity of the standard transformer model. I admit that the case is scattershot and circumstantial. It’s not that SDPA (the normal transformer architecture) is a fraud, or that there is something m

celoyd

getify

"use strict";

[foo,bar] = TNG(foo,bar);
// NOTE: intentionally not TNG(..) wrapping useBaz(), so that it's
// basically like a "custom hook" that can be called only from other
// TNG-wrapped functions

function foo(origX,origY) {
   var [x,setX] = useState(origX);
   var [y,setY] = useState(origY);

felipeochoa

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tmcw

Startup	English
This team is growing	We're hiring lots of people
"Hunger"	Enthusiasm
"Fire"	Enthusiasm
"Spark"	Enthusiasm
Commander's intent	Goals
Onboarding	Training
The best	Pretty good
Burn	Money-losing

landonf

#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
#include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h>
#include <dispatch/dispatch.h>

// 5 minutes
#define TIMEOUT (5*60)

bool reset_watchdog (int timeout) {
    io_service_t service = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOWatchDogTimer"));
    if (service == IO_OBJECT_NULL) {

natevw

All price estimates are for one-way. Car and train and bus return doubles price, air has significant discount for round trip.

TODO: For longer trips it can be a little cheaper to ride Amtrak by signing up for rewards, buying miles, then booking tickets; haven't calculated cost for Portland yet.

PSC ↔ PDX

Car $26

Downtown Portland is about 215 miles from the Tri-Cities and takes about 3h30m. Cost calculated with gas at $3.69/gal and fuel economy averaging 30mpg (i.e. 12.3¢/mile).

johnjohndoe

javascript: (function($) {
    var bookmarklet = document.getElementById(
        'DELI_save_link_slidedown');
    if (bookmarklet) {
        $('#DELI_mist').show();
        $('#DELI_save_link_slidedown').slideDown('normal');
        return
    };
    if (!window.jQuery) {
        node = document.createElement('SCRIPT');

max-mapper

note: I converted this script into the much easier to install joinopenwifi module on NPM

see https://github.com/maxogden/joinopenwifi#joinopenwifi for installation instructions

rodw

#!/bin/bash
# Uses a PID file to add daemon-like behavior to an arbitrary program.
################################################################################

usage() {
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` PROGRAM {start|stop|restart|force-stop|force-restart|status} [PIDFILE|PID]" >&2
  echo "Where: PROGRAM is an executable file." >&2
  echo "       PIDFILE is the file that contains (or will contain) the PID." >&2
  echo "       PID is a process id to use in place of a PIDFILE." >&2
}