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corey_moncure commented on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k   gamesindustry.biz/japanes... · Posted by u/zdw
kouteiheika · 3 months ago
> I guess designing a font for a language with 2100 different characters is probably a hassle.

The ~2000 is the official count taught in schools, but the actually "commonly" used number in literature is around ~3000. And you actually want more than that, because people's names can use weird kanji which are used nowhere else.

On the other hand, the vast majority of kanji are actually composed of a limited set of "subcharacters". For example, picking a completely random one:

    徧  ⿰彳扁
The '徧' is composed of '彳' and '扁' arranged in a horizontal pattern. Unicode even has special characters (⿰,⿱,⿶, etc.) to describe these relationships.

So this actually makes creating a CJK font somewhat easier, because you can do it semi-algorithmically. You don't have to manually draw however many thousand characters there are, but you draw those "subcharacters" and then compose them together.

corey_moncure · 3 months ago
For 楷書 type fonts this may be true, but you ought to know there’s more to it, don’t you?
corey_moncure commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
rossant · 6 months ago
> Probably died instantly, given the neurological "fencing" response (suggests spinal cord was hit—never mind the artery, he was already dead).

Could you expand on this? What does neurological "fencing" response mean, and what in the video indicates this is it?

corey_moncure · 6 months ago
Decorticate posturing of the hands
corey_moncure commented on New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?   jsdate.wtf... · Posted by u/OuterVale
mcv · 8 months ago
I'm not sure if I should be pleased or embarrassed about my 17/28. Why do I even know this?

My son was pretty happy with his 11/28 without any experience with js Date. Just deduced it from previous answers. And I explained type coercion to him.

I now realize I may have put him off a career in IT.

corey_moncure · 8 months ago
Javascript put me off a career in IT for 20 years, and even today I still avoid it like radioactive waste.

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corey_moncure commented on Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally   seangoedecke.com/inferenc... · Posted by u/ingve
corey_moncure · 9 months ago
If I understand it correctly, the effect of experts is a weighted sum of the individual calculation of each token meeting each expert, where experts to be met by a token are selected on an individual basis. Since a sum is commutative, though, it should be possible to send a large batch of tokens copied to multiple GPUs, where experts are streamed into VRAM, partitioned across GPUs. Then the bottleneck is your PCI-E bandwidth. With 2 GPUs at Gen 4 x16, you should have 60 GB/s of TX bandwidth, allowing you to upload a half precision quant of DeepSeek (about 360 GB) in about 6 seconds.

  1 GPU  -  30 GB/s TX - 12 seconds
  2 GPUs -  60 GB/s TX - 6 seconds
  4 GPUs - 120 GB/s TX - 3 seconds
Then you just optimize your batch size to match the compute time to the upload time of each GPU. The expert calculation results can be retrieved from the GPUs and summed up.

corey_moncure commented on Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=okOzx... · Posted by u/onzeinternets
corey_moncure · 10 months ago
Its venting gas and yawing again. None of that deploy and re-entry stuff is gonna happen.
corey_moncure commented on The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)   ethanhein.com/wp/2021/the... · Posted by u/xeonmc
vixen99 · 10 months ago
The Art of Fugue itself was unfinished but if as the story goes, he died as he was penning the last bar of fugue 15, then he kind of signed himself out in the sense that the notes corresponding to the letters (in German) BACH are spelled as a motif as B flat, A, C and B natural in the 8th to the 5th bar before the final bar which is unfinished. I have no idea if this true. We do know that this unfinished fugue was the last piece he wrote.
corey_moncure · 10 months ago
This is a tall tale told by one of his sons to pump up the mystique (=> market value) of the unpublished work at the time of his father's death. Common sense and technical analysis tell a different story.

By all means,there's no way anyone, even the great Master himself, could have undertaken a project of 14 fugues with various subjects, with the final one (14, not 15) being a quadruple fugue that combines four of them together, without being certain of what the subjects were and that ultimately they could indeed be combined.

Bach scholars have analyzed the paper and the device used to draw staff lines to show that a completed version likely existed, now lost.

corey_moncure commented on Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code   hynek.me/talks/design-pre... · Posted by u/NeutralForest
NilMostChill · 10 months ago
That's....certainly a take.

it hurts that it's not exactly wrong.

but i don't think it's 100% right either, there are some things that you just can't do reliably, in current db engines at least.

As soon as you start baking this kind of support in to the db all you have if a db engine that has all the other bits stuffed in it.

They'll still have most of the issues you describe, it'll just be all in the "db layer" of the engine.

corey_moncure · 10 months ago
Yes inside the DB where it cannot be debugged or optimized
corey_moncure commented on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals   variance.co/post/alignmen... · Posted by u/karinemellata
alganet · 10 months ago
You're all over the place.

Your first paragraph describes a simple prompt. The second implies a "jailbreak" prompt.

The bible paragraph is just you being snarky (and failing).

Your examples don't help your case.

I stand on the side that wants to restrict AI from generating triggering content of any kind.

It's a safety feature, in the same sense as safety belts on cars are not a censorship of the driver movement.

corey_moncure · 10 months ago
We definitely don’t need any such “feature”. If you want to live in a safety bubble you are free to do so. Kindly respect the freedom of the rest of us as well. Have a nice day!
corey_moncure commented on Crew-9 Returns to Earth   spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/saikatsg
pavlov · a year ago
Berger is an excellent journalist. He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past.

When he says it’s a “throne of lies”, a line has been crossed.

corey_moncure · a year ago
Ars has been like this ever since Conde Nast bought them. It was a great publication a long time ago.

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