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gammalost commented on Guid Smash   guidsmash.com... · Posted by u/nugzbunny
ahmedfromtunis · 7 days ago
The proximity measure seems to be flawed.

If you want to see how close to a non-ordinal 123456 a random generator can get, you also need to look for stuff like 923456 or 123956, etc.

Also, would 223456 be considered a closer match compared to 323456? (It shouldn't in my opinion because, again, these are non-ordinal strings).

gammalost · 7 days ago
If its a random ID then I'd argue that all of them are equally close to each other. With that said, I do not know how GUIDs are generated
gammalost commented on How I keep up with AI progress   blog.nilenso.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/itzlambda
Melonololoti · a month ago
You still need to learn the names of models, understand their use cases, concepts like MoE, then you have different architectures like diffusion vs transformers, agents etc.

And then you have GenAI like flux and all the open source projects.

I think it's beneficial to get all of that and then keeping an eye on it to catch the moment when it becomes relevant for you and not being surprised and too late.

gammalost · a month ago
> You still need to learn the names of models, understand their use cases, concepts like MoE, then you have different architectures like diffusion vs transformers, agents etc

Why? When you think you might need something just search for it. There are too many models with incremental improvements

gammalost commented on A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)   endtimes.dev/why-your-web... · Posted by u/truxs
gammalost · a month ago
If you care about reducing the amount of back and forth then just use QUIC.
gammalost commented on Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops   businessinsider.com/xai-p... · Posted by u/c420
gammalost · a month ago
Why would they not use a company laptop in the first place?

"They ran out" is no excuse

gammalost commented on Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations   retractionwatch.com/2025/... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
veltas · a month ago
Unfortunately not surprising, the quality of a lot of textbooks has been bad for a long time. Students aren't discerning and lecturers often don't try the book out themselves.
gammalost · a month ago
I agree. I feel that Springer is not doing enough to uphold their reputation. One example of this being a book on RL that I found[1]. It is clear that no one seriously reviewed the content of this book. They are, despite its clear flaws charging 50+ euro.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37345-9

gammalost commented on For the Love of God, Make Your Own Website   aftermath.site/website-mu... · Posted by u/handfuloflight
gammalost · 8 months ago
I think it is just a question of community. Sure, you can make your own website, but people will (most likely) not read it. So what is the point? Some do it for the love of writing, but that is a niche at best.

On social media, you just comment on someone's post and (if spicy enough take) the comments will come.

gammalost commented on Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking   quantamagazine.org/mathem... · Posted by u/sonabinu
magicalhippo · 9 months ago
It sounds like trivial insight, but at least in my experience many adults and even teachers have this "it's hard so it's ok to not want to do it" attitude towards math. And I think that is very detrimental.
gammalost · 9 months ago
Well, isn't that a summary of most things? Most things worth learning are hard, but many things not worth learning are also hard. So we have to prioritize what hard things are worth learning. Math is low on the list for many people for (I think) understandable reasons.

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gammalost commented on Reflections on Distrusting xz   joeyh.name/blog/entry/ref... · Posted by u/edward
rwmj · a year ago
Containerizing is entirely the worst response here. Containers, as deployed in the real world, are basically massive binary blobs of completely uncertain origin, usually hard to reproduce, that easily permit the addition of unaudited invisible changes.

(Yes yes, I know there are some systems which try to mitigate this, but I say as deployed in the real world.)

gammalost · a year ago
Your application is already most likely a big binary blob of uncertain origin that's hard to reproduce. Containers allow these big binary blobs of uncertainty to at least be protected from each other.
gammalost commented on Reflections on Distrusting xz   joeyh.name/blog/entry/ref... · Posted by u/edward
funcDropShadow · a year ago
Docker containers are not really a security measure.
gammalost · a year ago
It is a security measure. Sure it doesn't secure anything in the container itself. But it secures the container from other containers. Code can (as proven) not be trusted, but the area of effect can be reduced.

u/gammalost

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