natsucks (u/natsucks)

natsucks commented on School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study york.ac.uk/news-and-event... · Posted by u/jonatron

bdangubic · 8 months ago

you can accomplish a whole lot of the same keeping the phone and deleting all social media apps and accounts (what I did). I still use my phone as a map and camera and many other things … my screentime went from 7+ hours to hardly ever over 40 minutes daily

natsucks · 8 months ago

Turning GrayScale mode on also helps.

natsucks commented on Data Version Control dvc.org/... · Posted by u/shcheklein

causal · 10 months ago

This useful for large binaries?

natsucks · 10 months ago

Would appreciate a good answer to this question. I deal with large medical imaging data (DICOM) and i cannot tell whether it's worth it and/or feasible.

natsucks commented on How I use Obsidian jasonheppler.org/2024/07/... · Posted by u/speckx

LandR · a year ago

Yeah, I always go into note taking or a new machine thinking this time, THIS time it will be different. It will be organised, neat.

Then it goes to hell within a month.

natsucks · a year ago

yep. a part of me wants to take advantage of all that org-mode in emacs has to offer. but it's just not critical enough for me to keep it up. maybe if i was a manager...

natsucks commented on What makes a good tree? We used AI to ask birds theconversation.com/what-... · Posted by u/iancoleman

alexholland · a year ago

Citizen science approaches are a great way to collect data but the data can also be 'lumpy' (ie. focused on charismatic species, or easy-to-measure things). But the main idea of this approach was to produce quantitative descriptions of trees that could then be fed into a design system. This system can then output many different designs using those as constraints but also other constraints (ie. being lightweight, fitting around existing objects, etc).

This is just an initial test - the next step is to deploying prototypes in the field and observing bird responses (ie through some citizen science initiative). The idea is that a bird can 'read' a design (by using one structure over another), and that data can be fed into the system to then produce an updated generation of structures. Lots of work before we get to that stage!

natsucks · a year ago

Really neat work. I have a friend who designs green spaces in urban environments and it makes me wonder what he could do with these kinds of tools/approaches.

natsucks commented on Claude 3.5 Sonnet anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/squadrick

coreylane · a year ago

I recently released Slackrock [https://github.com/coreylane/slackrock] that you may find helpful, it's a Slack chat app that can access several FMs (including Claude 3.5) via AWS Bedrock. Responses can be easily shared with others by inviting them to your channels, and Slack has an Android app. It doesn't support attachments (yet) but I'm working on it!

natsucks · a year ago

cool!

natsucks commented on Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says propublica.org/article/mi... · Posted by u/tyleroconnell

pgraf · a year ago

Imagine a major bridge that was built by a contractor. A internal safety inspector repeatedly warned his supervisors of structural deficiencies that could lead to the collapse of the bridge. Furthermore, in the pass of time two external sources publicly warned about the issue, but the company downplayed the importance. Finally, the bridge collapses. It becomes evident that the company did nothing about the issue because it didn‘t want to loose contracts selling more flawed bridges. The public would justifiably go nuts, and there would be legal consequences for everyone involved.

What is different in our industry that companies (and managers) get away with such malice?

natsucks · a year ago

I don't understand how this doesn't destroy a company. They willfully ingored a serious risk and it had major national security implications.

natsucks commented on Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c github.com/karpathy/llm.c... · Posted by u/tosh

mode80 · a year ago

I did this and wrote about my experience:

https://mode80.github.io/7-langs-in-12-months.html

I don't regret it. But if ML is your main goal, Python is where you will end up because it's where the libraries are.

natsucks · a year ago

interesting! did you consider Go?

natsucks commented on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico twitter.com/SpaceX/status... · Posted by u/thepasswordis

natsucks · a year ago

Dear SpaceX: you guys are awesome.

natsucks commented on Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c github.com/karpathy/llm.c... · Posted by u/tosh

natsucks · a year ago

In your opinion is it important for ML engineers to know C?