I salute this artistry
Readit Newsfloodfx commented on Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text? pagewatch.ai/blog/post/ll... · Posted by u/lpellis
Why are completion tokens more with image prompts yet the text output was about the same?
floodfx commented on Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box donraab.medium.com/go-pri... · Posted by u/ingve
The difference between the top 0.0000001% of humanity and second place is very, very small. Fractions of a watt. Adding just 10W would be game changing, and modern lipos and brushless motors add far, far more power than their weight penalty subtracts.
10W for a sustained time perhaps but these are looong climbs. Col de la Loze is 26.4km with an average gradient of 6.5%.
I replied directly to OP, but applies here as well. Cycling is far more specialized than other sports so the pay off for doping is greater.
Why is pay off greater in cycling than other sports? Salary of the top riders? Compared to say NBA players, pro cyclist make relatively little. Tadej Pogacar (best and top paid cyclist) makes about $8M (euros) in salary per year. Steph Curry (highest paid) NBA player makes $55M (dollars) in salary per year.
Bikers and their teams are known for removing as much weight as possible from their bikes. Would love to see the math for weight/power/time ratio for a motor like this. Would it be worth it considering you'd have to expend additional watts lugging it around all stage? My guess is probably not. Especially on a mountain stage which is where the tour is really won or lost.
floodfx commented on What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/... · Posted by u/smnrg
I think a better thing to do would be to outlaw algorithmic feeds where monetization is via advertising. If subscription based that is fine. The incentive for sub based monetization is to keep you long enough to continue subscribing. For ads it is to keep you on as long as possible which trends towards divisive / fear / anger inducing content.
Love this! Played Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) for a while and this would have been helpful.
Great application of spaced repetition beyond cards.
floodfx commented on The housing theory of everything (2021) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood
I think YIMBYs really like to cast NIMBYs as their evil adversaries, but the problem is systemic. Any policy change, be it "what can be built on this lot", or "what social services do we fund", or, in particular for my muni, "how do we deal with leaf collection in Autumn" will generate three cohorts of people:
(i) People who don't like the change
(ii) People who don't care about the change (most people)
(iii) People who do like the change
People who don't like the change (i), regardless of the amplitude of their dislike, will turn out and give public comment and put up yard signs.
People who like the change (iii) will turn out and give public comment only if they are weirdos like me, with off-the-charts amplitude for their feelings.
The net result is that the only public opinion that is legible to staff and electeds is opposite. Again: regardless of what the change is.
Insightful!
Makes me think a bit about how negative content engages more people. Is this the same with people who don't like change? Not liking change activates people more than people who do like change?
Interestingly, I had a similar finding where, on the 3 open-source repos I ran evals on, the models (5.1-codex-mini, 5.3-codex, 5.4) all had relatively similar test scores, but when looking at other metrics, such as code quality, or equivalence to the original PR the task was based on, they had massive differences. posted results here if anyone is curious https://www.stet.sh/leaderboard