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99catmaster commented on New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs   predictors.fail/... · Posted by u/cylo
umvi · 7 months ago
Is it bad that I disable spectre mitigations on all my PCs to get a free double-digit-% performance boost?
99catmaster · 7 months ago
Where and how do you disable these mitigations?
99catmaster commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source)   picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
99catmaster · 8 months ago
There seems to be a common medical definition for the word Pica

From: https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/pica.html#:~:text=What%20I....

>What Is Pica? Pica is an eating disorder in which a person eats things not usually considered food. Young kids often put non-food items (like grass or toys) in their mouths because they're curious about the world around them. But kids with pica (PIE-kuh) go beyond that.

FYI

99catmaster commented on Has LLM killed traditional NLP?   medium.com/altitudehq/is-... · Posted by u/vietthangif
oliwary · 8 months ago
This article seems to be paywalled unfortunately. While LLMs are very useful when the tasks are complex and/or there is not a lot of training data, I still think traditional NLP pipelines have a very important role to play, including when:

- Depending on the complexity of the task and the required results, SVMs or BERT can be enough in many cases and take much lower resources, especially if there is a lot of training data available. Training these models with LLM outputs could also be an interesting approach to achieve this.

- When resources are constrained or latency is important.

- In some cases, there may be labeled data in certain classes that have no semantic connection between them, e.g. explaining the class to LLMs could be tricky.

99catmaster commented on Merry Christmas Everyone    · Posted by u/joshagilend
tasty_freeze · 8 months ago
or in your case, Mary Christmas.
99catmaster · 8 months ago
Lmao
99catmaster commented on Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth    · Posted by u/rejuvyesh
kristopolous · a year ago
This really, really looks like a nullschool clone (https://earth.nullschool.net/). Is it not?
99catmaster · a year ago
Wow, that’s uncanny.
99catmaster commented on Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers   thesun.my/local-news/mcmc... · Posted by u/uzyn
99catmaster · a year ago
For all the Malaysians on HN, how are y’all planning to handle this?
99catmaster commented on Show HN: BuddyAI – Your Nighttime Walking Companion   buddyai.org... · Posted by u/BuddyAI
99catmaster · a year ago
Great concept. Although I wonder how much someone being on the phone actually deters rapists/ muggers.
99catmaster commented on Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise   mullvad.net/en/why-privac... · Posted by u/janandonly
99catmaster · a year ago
Genuine question: why should I care about my data being encrypted and private?
99catmaster commented on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet   daylightcomputer.com/prod... · Posted by u/asadm
alemanek · a year ago
Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing.

Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year minimum gathering all the necessary approvals and likely would still get denied by someone. But, a dumb monitor with no real OS I can expense that without approval. just a heads up to my boss really to say I am buying this and here is why.

I know you are a small company so have to pick your battles. But, maybe something to consider down the road.

EDIt: forgot to say, congrats on the launch. Looks like a great product.

99catmaster · a year ago
+1
99catmaster commented on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/spxneo
bufferout · a year ago
I used to think the same until contemplating how many destroyed families the drug trafficking penalties of Singapore have prevented.
99catmaster · a year ago
I hope you also contemplate how many innocent people (usually undocumented migrant workers) have been scapegoated in drug trials and executed…

u/99catmaster

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