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LourensT

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LourensT··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
Yes, because Instacart is ordering for delivery :)
LourensT··on Build your own database
Great post and beautiful website. I got a bit confused by the flush operation that happens when the memtable is full. A quick note that a new on-disk segment is created would help. In the recap at the end, segmentation is also not mentioned.
LourensT··on A Technical Update on Submarine Cables [pdf]
Cool slides. Note that MAREA is owned by Microsoft and Meta (not Google as slides state) [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAREA

LourensT··on LLM Daydreaming
Regardless of accusations of anthropomorphizing, continual thinking seems to be a precursor to any sense of agency, simply because agency requires something to be running.

Eventually LLM output degrades when most of the context is its own output. So should there also be an input stream of experience? The proverbial "staring out the window", fed into the model to keep it grounded and give hooks to go off?

LourensT··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
He might be referring to his sleeping heart rate. Mine's around 40bpm too, and although I'm in shape, I am definitely not an athlete. There is a correlation with height (taller -> slower bpm). If you are young and fit, I don't think you have much to worry about a slow resting heart rate, in the absence of other symptoms.
LourensT··on Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion
or icloud sync / google drive for desktop / onedrive, if you dont want to think about it

macbook iphone - icloud windows android - google drive for desktop + Autosync app (3rd party)

LourensT··on Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model
These days, papers come with an advertisement video
LourensT··on Can LLMs do randomness?
could you use structured output to make a more efficient estimator for the logits based?
LourensT··on Live Map of the London Underground
Developer donation link (map tile gets expensive!): https://ko-fi.com/benbyfax
LourensT··on TextSQL: Using LLMs to democratize access to data analysis
I think the simple explanation is just that "democratize" in this context just means you can ask your questions in natural language instead of having to learn SQL, access to large datasets to the broader demos.