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disappointed that it isn't faster I mean I didn't really design it for having that many tokens but still this is over like 100k tokens and it's designed for more like 1k this is doing tokenization using bloom filter rabin-karp it's doing hash lookup by […] [Original post on feed.hella.cheap]

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https://fstar-lang.org/ is really cool and more people should know about it

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[uspol] congress might finally be starting to do their job https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/37/text

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get more bits per bit with this one weird hashing trick

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

hopefully farmers have enough common sense not to take at advice from an LLM. I guess we'll see at harvest time..... > > A DeepSeek moment is playing out in China’s vast countryside, as rural residents discover that chatbots are useful for providing advice on topics ranging from pig farming to […]

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

if social security hypothetically got wrecked, how many retirees would have to sell their houses at the same time?

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

do floorplanners / place and route tools still use simulated annealing and things like that or have they started using tracks from spectral graph theory? like, do spectral graph clustering to break the op graph into functional blocks and then assign physical placement to whole blocks by […]

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

a similar thing happened at my alma mater in 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoxing_Xi https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/114246136476059749

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I agree with everything in this video and I'm so glad I don't live in berkeley anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMzmOYcEUE

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Lacanian analysis of the greater fool as a form of the Other

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since error correcting codes let you trade bandwidth for resilience against noise, and since someone else transmission is your noise (especially if it's encrypted), if the system of slicing up the radio frequency spectrum and allocating slices to people didn't already exist there would be no […]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

is there an existing license that's MIT unless you're a employee, contractor, subsidiary, etc of one of a list of entities

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

well, i've done it, posted political content on my little food and parenting blog so, no turning back now thestore.substack.com/p/ya-basta

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

[uspol] trump putting tariffs on drugs is extremely on-brand. everything he's doing seems designed specifically to screw his base

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what would it take for fediverse clients to use omemo for dm's? is there some metadata you can stick on your account that can indicate that you support omemo without needing support from the server?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

if you do hashing trick style ML for long enough every value in the computer looks like a vector of Bernoulli random variables

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ouch, this sent a chill down my spine. [Tl;dr: GitHub locked a repo apparently because one of its contributors was in a US-sanctioned region]: 1. https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370 2. https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114233788700982882

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basically a track written for string quartet but arranged for tracker and with a drum machine and an arp running under it https://soundcloud.com/dopefist/sea-salt-mix-2c #np

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

you can do "make this image anime" type style transfer without using neural networks by doing Efros and Freeman image quilting plus a little blending/blur. I did this several years ago with impressionist paintings and it works

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microsoft is pumping the brakes on datacenter buildout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

if you live in a gold mining area when there's hyperinflation how long does it take for people to switch to using specie

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

crpytocurrency does have a usecase and it's evading fx controls. americans didn't pay attention to that because fx controls mostly aren't an issue in the US (except for ofac), but if we continue turing into brazil they will be

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