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Nydhal··on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
The OP is about Chicago.
Nydhal··on CUDA Ontology
This is a classic lesson. You can write almost the same article for Java: language vs bytecode vs JVM vs JDK vs libs ...
Nydhal··on Language models are injective and hence invertible
if you generate a lot of output text you can approximate the hidden state.
Nydhal··on STORM: Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic
You have to input the title of the article you want, not instructions like "write me ..."
Nydhal··on Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland
Which is even more interesting since that could pointing to older unknown works.
Nydhal··on DBeaver – open-source database client
It's September.
Nydhal··on Claude 3 model family
How large is the model in terms of parameter numbers? There seems to be zero information on the size of the model.
Nydhal··on How to get rich in the 21st century
It's not about the raw number of people, it's more about how old and aging they are. Age distribution is the key factor. 1 billion 60 year olds is not the same as 1 billion 20 year olds.
Nydhal··on Do language models have an internal world model?
ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207
Nydhal··on LLM Python/CLI tool adds support for embeddings
You seem to be looking for a topic model. BERTopic might help: https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/index.html#quick-start
Nydhal··on The Deep Sea (2019)
The deepest shipwreck was found last year: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/7/worlds-deep...
Nydhal··on Chemists introduce a two-step process for making phosphorus compounds
Wow, I wonder how this will affect phosphate and fertilizer prices.
Nydhal··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
They are occupying the space left behind by human activity. Chemicals will only create more resistant strains just like it did with Amaranth. The reason these plants are successful is the horrendous landscaping traditions especially in new developments. The use of chemicals only reinforces these plants. Basically what's happening is these strains are put under so much pressure in the urban environment that they becomes "super-weeds" and then invade the rest of the landscape. It might be too late to do anything about it now.
Nydhal··on Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
climate change.
Nydhal··on Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch
Good stuff. It would've been nice if there ever was an actual "Next Step" tensor that once multiplied (or some other operation) by any tensor representing current state, would give you the next state. That was my initial thinking when I read "Using Linear Algebra".
Nydhal··on Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?
Worth its own post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32427110
Nydhal··on Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste
My understanding is that incinerators don't just release the output. The exhaust is pumped back into the system and dealt with somehow. The extent to which the release is "dealt with" is the tricky part.
Nydhal··on Fractals: An Eclectic Survey, Part-1 [pdf]
Another eclectic fractal is this impossible 3D triangular one which seems somehow connected to sheaf cohomology.

[Tweet.](https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/110949197053418700...)

[Wikipedia German.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penrose_meets_sierpi...)

Nydhal··on Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform
My first reaction to "Design and Prototyping" was asking "Of what?".
Nydhal··on A stochastic method to generate the Sierpinski triangle
You can make it using Cellular Automata too.

Python Code:https://nbviewer.org/github/Nydhal/Python-Notebooks/blob/mas...

Nydhal··on A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
Basically, math need a major refactoring and code rewrite. I've been saying this for years. It's getting to a ridiculous point in some areas. Also imagine naming functions in code after people ... That's what mathematicians do with some major often used concepts, making them hard to grasp and remember (i.e. Why is it called "Laplace distribution" and not "mirrored-exponential"?)
Nydhal··on Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
Thank you.
Nydhal··on Ask HN: What Technologies Are Used for Google Doodle Champion Island Games?
Javascript. That's all I can say.
Nydhal··on Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
Give the user the driving wheel of the recommendation or open up the algorithms. It's not that complicated.
Nydhal··on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
There's a few "Plants and trees won't do" comments here, which really misses the entire point of regenerative methods. Earth is an entire complex living system. Thinking of it as a simple chemical matter of CO2 is a very reductionist take. The point is to sequester carbon but ALSO trigger other cooling dynamics and reducing certain industrial practices that themselves release CO2. Too many engineers need to study complex systems and holistic approaches. The amount of patronizing makes me think of the fatal engineering flaw of "It can't be this simple".
Nydhal··on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39QHprz-x8
Nydhal··on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
It's not going to be "anyway". Once you add incentive for wood you will also create incentive for building. Complex systems 101.
Nydhal··on Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
Mobile, Full Stack and Data Engineering also have similar issues. Not as bad as anything related to javascript though.
Nydhal··on People Staring at Computers
No. What is the point of this analogy?
Nydhal··on People Staring at Computers
"someone" else's computer ... It's Apple, not a personal computer. Are corporations people?
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