Great post and beautiful website. I got a bit confused by the flush operation that happens when the memtable is full. A quick note that a new on-disk segment is created would help. In the recap at the end, segmentation is also not mentioned.
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Cool slides. Note that MAREA is owned by Microsoft and Meta (not Google as slides state) [1]
Regardless of accusations of anthropomorphizing, continual thinking seems to be a precursor to any sense of agency, simply because agency requires something to be running.
Eventually LLM output degrades when most of the context is its own output. So should there also be an input stream of experience? The proverbial "staring out the window", fed into the model to keep it grounded and give hooks to go off?
LourensT commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri
> I’m roughly around 40bpm at the moment, down from ~60bpm 10 years ago
To put that into perspective for other readers: I've been running for about 10 years also, but typically 2x a week (10k mid-week, 15~20k weekend), I have no real data on my heart rate from when I started, but at rest I'm now typically at 60bpm.
I measure almost daily due to medication and having a minor heart defect, and I have noticed that if I skip a week of running, it'll slowly go up, averaging at ~62bpm, but when I train for a (half) marathon I typically increase my distance a bit and try to train every other day (~3x/week) then my heart rate a rest goes down a bit to be consistently below 60bpm (58bpm avg).
40bpm is very low, for non-athletes this would be considered dangerously low, but I guess daily running at OPs distance would classify OP as an athlete. Also keep in mind that heart rate differs per person, some people just naturally have a low heartbeat.
He might be referring to his sleeping heart rate. Mine's around 40bpm too, and although I'm in shape, I am definitely not an athlete. There is a correlation with height (taller -> slower bpm). If you are young and fit, I don't think you have much to worry about a slow resting heart rate, in the absence of other symptoms.
LourensT commented on Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion · Posted by u/WolfOliver
LourensT commented on Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model bagel-ai.org/... · Posted by u/tosh
These days, papers come with an advertisement video
Fun post! Back during the holidays we wrote one where we abused temperature AND structured output to approximate a random selection: https://bits.logic.inc/p/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-rando...
could you use structured output to make a more efficient estimator for the logits based?
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Developer donation link (map tile gets expensive!): https://ko-fi.com/benbyfax