I still don’t get how the world cares so much about conflicts in other parts of the world but ignores the colonization and takeover of Tibet by the CCP
Most of the world depends on China for goods, thus trade.
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ksd482 commented on Reinforcement Learning: An Overview arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265... · Posted by u/t55
I read this to get up to speed on RL for LLMs. If you have limited time, I’d recommend reading the entire first chapter covering the basics and some terminology and then section 5.4 on RL for LLMs.
I struggled a lot with the first chapter, and had to look up a lot of terms that weren’t defined. But ultimately it was one of the most worthwhile things I read, and has helped me follow along with other important papers.
Thank you for the recommendation.
Did you mean section 5.6? That's LLMs and RL. Section 5.4 is Imitation Learning.
ksd482 commented on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024) corporate.vanguard.com/co... · Posted by u/mooreds
While I’m not a fan of crypto, I don’t really understand how bitcoin is different from other commodities.
Would you say gold’s value is determined mostly by its practical use? Because it seems demand is largely driven by speculation as an alternative currency.
Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It is not backed by anything real.
Gold has its uses. It’s a pretty metal and has practical uses in engineering and medicine.
It has been a choice for jewelry for thousands of years.
I'm unconvinced. Lots of people are increasingly fine with just phones. My dad I sort of see but I had a co-worker who told me their kid didn't even want a laptop for schoolwork which blew my mind a bit but so it goes.
Any hybrid would be a compromise for me. I do have multiple systems--almost certainly more than I need.
orev is not talking about people. He's talking about market forces. That is, device manufacturing companies.
Too late, and it has a bad rep. This effort from Intel to sell discrete GPUs is just inertia from old aspirations, won't really help noticeably to save it, as there is not much money in it. Most probably the whole Intel ARC effort will be mothballed, and probably many more will.
What's the alternative?
I think it's the right call since there isn't much competition in GPU industry anyway. Sure, Intel is far behind. But they need to start somewhere in order to break ground.
Strictly speaking strategically, my intuition is that they will learn from this, course correct and then would start making progress.
ksd482 commented on Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP ezzeriesa.notion.site/1-w... · Posted by u/kurinikku
Reading this brings back fond memories of taking CS61a with prof Brian Harvey at UC Berkeley some 25 years ago. Same book, same level of mind=blown, and very similar instruction style. we spent a semester instead of a week and if memory serves tuition was about the same, but they threw in some English and history courses as well :-)
Same. For me it was 15 years ago, but was with Prof. Brian Harvey in Pimentel hall with the rotating stage.
Nice memories.
I fell in love with scheme eventually as it was such a simple syntax. Getting used to parentheses did take some time though.
ksd482 commented on We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix pushtoprod.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/zdw
This was a nice short read. A simple (temporary) solution, yet a clever one.
How was he managing the instances? Was he using kubernetes, or did he write some script to manage the auto terminating of the instances?
It would also be nice to know why:
1. Killing was quicker than restarting. Perhaps because of the business logic built into the java application?
2. Killing was safe. How was the system architectured so that the requests weren't dropped altogether.
EDIT: formatting
How long before a textbook with C23 update is published?
I am asking because I am in the market for purchasing a book on the C programming language.
I am an experienced software engineer, but with experience in Java, Python, JS and other few languages. I would like to learn C and C++ deeply.
For C++, I ended up buying Stroustrup's "A tour of C++".
I am looking for something similar in C.
From what I can tell you're right, it's essentially a web front end made to compete with ChatGPT's desktop app.
The only real benefit is the hotkey (ctrl + alt + space) for starting a new prompt when the window is closed, but still running in the background.
chatgpt has that shortcut too.
option + space for mac, and alt + space for windows.
Unsubscribe links are a fantastic regulation, but there is a workaround. I must have received at least a dozen emails from Brown after graduating despite unsubscribing to every email they sent.
The trouble is they're endlessly creative about the lists they put you on. I'd get one email from "Alumni Connections" and then another from "Faculty Spotlight" and then another from "Global Outreach" and then another from "Event Invitations, 2023 series". I'm making those names up because I forget exactly what they were called, but you get the idea. I hope this was in violation of the regulation: surely you can't invent a new mailing list that didn't used to exist, add me to it, and require me to unsubscribe from it individually.
They finally stopped after I sent them an angry email.
What I have noticed companies do is resume emails after a year or so. They probably think people would forget about unsubscribing them after a year, and for the most part they are right.
If I catch any of these email lists not respecting my unsubscribing, I immediately mark them as "spam".
Gmail then doesn't send them to my inbox anymore. I don't think just one person marking them as spam hurts them, but at least I feel gratified and my ego is satisfied.