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nalzok

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nalzok; my proof: https://keybase.io/nalzok/sigs/C-uZAs3m4gpLn0zA01ifxIdfq3RQfb3IuefNl9-iaCs ]
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nalzok··on NYU.edu Defaced

  $ dig www.nyu.edu +noall +answer -t A

  ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> www.nyu.edu +noall +answer -t A
  ;; global options: +cmd
  www.nyu.edu.            1       IN      CNAME   dsvdfvx64.github.io.
  dsvdfvx64.github.io.    2995    IN      A       185.199.109.153
  dsvdfvx64.github.io.    2995    IN      A       185.199.110.153
  dsvdfvx64.github.io.    2995    IN      A       185.199.111.153
  dsvdfvx64.github.io.    2995    IN      A       185.199.108.153
Looks like someone added a CNAME record pointing https://www.nyu.edu to https://dsvdfvx64.github.io, but https://github.com/dsvdfvx64 is 404. I wonder how one can use GitHub Pages while the corresponding username doesn't exist.
nalzok··on Binary vector embeddings are so cool
I wonder what would happen if we quantized each dimension to 0.5 (or even fewer) bits instead of 1, i.e., taking 2 (or more) scalar components at a time and mapping them to 0 or 1 based on some carefully designed rules.
nalzok··on The future of software is Nix
I agree that Nix is the right idea, but I'm hesitant to adopt it right now because (i) rough edges like poor documentation and inconsistent interfaces make it feel immature, (ii) things are moving very fast with experimental stuff like flakes, which means it will take a while before Nix starts to stabilize, and (iii) recent community forks like Lix might create a fragmented ecosystem in the long run.

What are your thoughts on there concerns?

nalzok··on Moom 4: Next-generation window manager
You may want to check out [rcmd](https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd/).
nalzok··on Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing
> by kqr, published 2024-11-19

It's from the future! ;)

nalzok··on Apple open-sources its Homomorphic Encryption library
I wonder if this has anything to do with Apple Intelligence. Maybe they can have an LLM that operates on encrypted input text without decrypting it, so that users can send sensitive information to an Apple-controlled central server without worrying about privacy issues?
nalzok··on How to mail an SD card with gummy glue
> I began my research by looking for some kind of hard plastic case. While these are common for standard SD cards, they are quite rare for microSD.

What about putting the microSD into an adapter [1] first? I imagine you can find a much better deal when ordering in bulk.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSD-Memory-Adapter-MICROS...

nalzok··on A railroad simulation using discrete event simulation
How do you like Simutrans? https://www.simutrans.com
nalzok··on Gemma: New Open Models
Congratulations on the release! How can we download the model and run inference locally?
nalzok··on Mathematica 14
You can install a free (as in beer) Wolfram engine on any computer, e.g. a beefy virtual machine: https://www.wolfram.com/engine/
nalzok··on Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
> Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)

I'm surprised they didn't put `Machine Learning (cs.LG)` and `Machine Learning (stat.ML)`.

nalzok··on Efficient parallelization of an ubiquitous sequential computation
Is this equivalent to treating the linear recurrence as a convolution and computing it with a Fourier transform? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJMn8T7Z34&t=840s
nalzok··on Model training diary/journal for LLMs?
Nevermind, I figured it out: https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec...
nalzok··on Popcount walks: next, previous, toward and nearest
> How does that work? I don't really know, I pulled this out of the void with a SAT solver. Basically magic.

That's pretty cool. How do you ask an SAT solver for "the nearest integer with the same population count", and how do you describe the available bitwise operations to it?

nalzok··on Lichee Console 4A: Mini Laptop with a RISC-V Processor and 7 inch display
At the same time, the wallpaper says "Sipeed" instead of something mirrored like "beeqiS". Weird...
nalzok··on Parallelizing non-linear sequential models over the sequence length
Can you share a link to your code repository? I want to play with your algorithm and observe the speedup on my own. Also I'm a big fan of JAX!
nalzok··on Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
Wait, NUCs are that cheap? I would appreciate a link so that I can get my hands on one. I don't use eBay often and filtering feels terrible on their site.
nalzok··on The tiny corp raised $5.1M
> The main advantage is in the tinygrad IR. It has 12 operations, all of which are ADD/MUL only. `x[3]` is supported, `x[y]` is not.

Can someone educate me why that is the case? Does `x[y]` require a Turing-complete kernel to compute?

nalzok··on Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Seriously? I guess it's common sense among people living in the U.S, but as an international student I honestly didn't know it's legal to emulate a proprietary system.
nalzok··on Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Maybe make a pull request to the repo with what you said in the comment so that people like me don't have to ask this question in the first place? I assume this is a very frequently asked question.
nalzok··on Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
I wonder why Nintendo hasn't attempted to take it down. It seems that the only use of such a "Nintendo Switch Emulator" is to play pirated games?
nalzok··on SparseGPT: Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
Could you explain what you mean by "Chinchilla under-trained" or "Chinchilla over-trained"? I assume it refers to some measure of trained-ness, but Googling yielded nothing relevant.
nalzok··on The compute cost to train Stable Diffusion was $600k
> at market price $600k

I don’t think they are really spending $600k. Chances are that they own a GPU cluster so they don’t need to pay the cloud premium.

nalzok··on Reverse Engineering Google Colab
Do you have a plan to expose some high-level API endpoints? I have been dreaming about something like `run.colab.research.google.com/<notebook_url>?runtime=gpu` which executes a Colab notebook without human interference. This can be extremely helpful in CI/CD environments when you have a lot of notebooks to test, e.g. for https://github.com/probml/pyprobml.
nalzok··on Ask HN: Asynchronous FPGAs and flowchart programming
You should check out GreenArrays. Their G144A12 is an amazing little asynchronous chip. It's not an FPGA though.
nalzok··on Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?
What functions of Mathematica can do the job? I'm interested in checking it out.
nalzok··on Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016)
I was waiting for him to share thoughts on the failure (?) of Lisp, which I believe is a decent "shopping mall", but unfortunately he did not :(