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I recently landed (again) at this website while reading about Kenton Varda‘s work on Cloudflare workers. It was a nice “aha” moment!

Table fan was the way to go in our first LAN party during the summer of the year 2000 in the south of Spain. These computer case side panels were all piled against the wall.

what’s in the list?

5 dollars for having that story to tell, not bad

This article is very well structured and provides just the right amount of details for non-practitioners to enjoy it.

Mechanistic interpretability is a fun topic to "play with" (good title there). I recommend watching videos featuring Neel Nanda or Chris Olah

AI is definitely related to dashes!!

why am I only getting 26 matches? where's the threshold then? :D

just found it! but it's private, I can send it to you if interested but not to publish it

Hi! It's not public, it's part of the https://www.urv.cat/en/studies/master/courses/computer-secur... and I've not found it online

off-topic, anybody knows what's going on with EurekaLabs? It's been a while since the announcement

same here, even more if I'm doing it over few days and different angles

I took a course in my Master's (URV.cat) where we had to do exactly this, implementing backpropagation (fwd and backward passes) from a paper explaining it, using just basic math operations in a language of our choice.

I told everyone this was the best single exercise of the whole year for me. It aligns with the kind of activity that I benefit immensely but won't do by myself, so this push was just perfect.

If you are teaching, please consider this kind of assignments.

P.S. Just checked now and it's still in the syllabus :)

when someone behaves in a very predictable way I use to say "I could code you in C!". Well, turns out is Python!

No wonder why Google says:

“Generate, transform and edit images with simple text prompts, or combine multiple images to create something new. All in Gemini.“

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026719

The culprit seems to be: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hesamation/primer-llm-embeddin...

So someone, at some point, thought this was a feature

lol, while checking which OCR is using (PaddleOCR) I found a line with the text: "TODO(Devin)" and was pretty excited thinking they were already using Devin AI...

"Devin Robison" is the author of the package!! Funny, guess it will be similar with the name Alexa

this is really cool! I have a ruler from metermorphosen.de and some posters and cardboards from museums. I will share it :)

The first rule of programming is you do not talk about programming

balancing compute-bound (prefill) and memory-bound (decode) is a fine art. Luckily there are lots of improvements (incentives) if you can adjust it to your use case (this time is Coding assistants), but it is generally a lonely journey. Good to see you paired with Colfax International.

what about trying with Shapley values?

Exactly this. I've felt it while checking some C++ OSS projects, thinking "wow I am more Java than this, and I don't do Java". This prevented me directly jumping into C++ which would be the natural step coming from C (because in reality it's not the natural step)

In some way I am stuck because I don't want to dismiss any of these (kind of Buridan's donkey) but planning this in a sequential way seems smart and would end the inner monologue

I've been a long time considering that I should learn Rust. I am using Python as main language (for Machine Learning tasks) so I am at the edge:

Go with:

C++, because I used to code in C (for embedded, 8-bit microcontrollers) when I was younger and also for its possible advantage for learning some CUDA (this last thing is mostly for fun)

or

Rust, because I have some trauma for kernel panics with bad memory management back in the days with C, and because I want to build some tooling in a nice, efficient way

wow discovering Hamming’s lecture was enough for me! so good

Love the humour here:

What are Language LFMs not good at today: […] Counting r's in the word "Strawberry"!

Correction (May 13th, 2024): A previous version of this article stated that two Spanish cities made the top ten. In fact, it was four. Sorry.

lol, I see what you did there

so it’s the classical “it’s on the internet so it’s true” but on steroids. I remember a US student in the early 2000s citing a geocities website as source for the FACT that aliens created the pyramids of Egypt

Even if this scale is massive and second-to-none, it’s funny how some issues are the same for all of us. In particular “Bad hosts are very bad” aka “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link” can happen with as little as a few (4) machines, and then ruin your day.

it makes sense that the leaders are building around similar ideas in parallel, for me it's a healthy sign

there is also the joy of experimenting a “new and revolutionary” technology. Although yes, with big tech and big salaries there is an economic incentive