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I reverse engineered The Palace, created Phalanx for BHLabs.
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firebot··on Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
> where we’re the only major Android browser to support an open extension ecosystem

Uhm, Kiwi browser is Chrome-based and supports Chrome-extensions on Android and has for years. It's pretty great.

firebot··on Mistral AI Valued at $2B
Who comes up with these valuations? The Donald?
firebot··on Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
Right now I'm in Jacksonville, Florida.
firebot··on How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox
I loved rockbox on my sansa e200 series. That tetris clone was great.
firebot··on Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
I've been homeless since around 2014. I've just kind of accepted I'm going to die homeless and alone.
firebot··on Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models
Fair enough.
firebot··on Reddit Sans
It's a sinking shit show.
firebot··on Reddit Sans
Those are such beautiful glyphs.
firebot··on How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants
Maybe learn to code?
firebot··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
I guess we just disagree. I find the distribution of posits very logical, and I can see your points, but I digress.
firebot··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
That's fun. I understand all of that and exactly where the error lies. But you don't. And I'm not gonna tell you. :)
firebot··on Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models
That's a fair point. Most programmers are terrible. As a lead programmer I've dealt with countless "programmers" that can not do their job without me spoon-feeding them code.
firebot··on Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models
It should. Most medicine is just extracting plant chemicals, modifying them, concentrating them, and thereby they can patent what nature has provided.
firebot··on Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models
What's to be terrified about? Humans also hallucinate. Doctors are terrible at their jobs.
firebot··on Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models
I like this is a pun of Metatron.
firebot··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
Not really. I don't think you've read his papers. The implementations in hardware lack range, but soft posits can expand to ridiculous ranges, and comparing the math, posits are superior(imo, granted, they're more or less similar) to BLC, depending on how they're implemented, of course.
firebot··on When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
That's an interesting non-sequitur. Rather a whataboutism. I hope you get the healthcare and transit you need.
firebot··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
All you gotta do is look at the graphs to see posits are more accurate and precise for pretty much any given scenario, assuming the bits are distributed 'wisely'. Unfortunately, it's not easy to do in hardware and the hardware implementations suffer from rigidness.

I don't really want to get into the nitty gritty, as John will answer emails regarding this stuff. I've personally done so, and he's very polite and informative. I was using them for fractals, but using them in software, which was unfortunately very slow, but the results were amazing. I've read through his papers on them and it took me a while to really 'get it', but I did and oh man, even basic unums put floats to shame. While perhaps not a tremendous upgrade, I much prefer the distribution and accuracy and how there's far less overlap, NaNs, infinities, etc.

firebot··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
Posits formerly unums, these are amazing. The best solution I've seen. Look up John Gustafson. This article doesn't mention him or posits. They can expand with inaccuracy but retain precision. Or sacrifice precision for accuracy. Making the best use of the bits depending on the application.
firebot··on The largest number representable in 64 bits
You just need posits! John Gustafson will teach you how. Amazing concept. It would be amazing to see it in more hardware. It's especially good for AI and numerous other applications. Puts floats to shame. Of course this guy starts with integers, which are great, but for floats posits are amazing especially if you can control the bits dedicated to each 'fraction'.
firebot··on When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?
Nuclear isn't profitable. Renewables have plummeted in cost making nuclear cost prohibitive, and let's face it, if they're ever built it'll probably be too little too late.
firebot··on A homeless man built a life underground Hampstead Heath (2020)
That's very cute. The homeless are just a beacon so you can know what is in store for you if you don't bend the knee.
firebot··on Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?
None of that is true. But thinking makes it so.
firebot··on Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?
LEDs can satisfy the color temperature of incandescents. They're actually fuller spectrum. They are designed for such. You can purchase a wide range of them. They're also extremely more efficient.
firebot··on The Great Sphinx of Giza may have have started out as a natural formation
Thanks. I'm more stupid for having read that pile of shit.
firebot··on The Great Sphinx of Giza may have have started out as a natural formation
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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