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zaphod4prez commented on S-LoRA: Serving Concurrent LoRA Adapters github.com/S-LoRA/S-LoRA... · Posted by u/Labo333

AceJohnny2 · 2 years ago

Tricked by acronym confusion, I thought this was about LoRa (Long Range) radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa

Instead it's about LoRA, note the capitalized last A, or Low-Rank Adaptation, a method for tuning LLMs.

zaphod4prez · 2 years ago

Also came here thinking this was about LoRa radio

zaphod4prez commented on It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian krebsonsecurity.com/2023/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

robertlagrant · 2 years ago

I don't really understand this. If you pay me to store your car in my garage, and it's stolen, who is a victim of car theft?

zaphod4prez · 2 years ago

I think you're imagining the ID thief going to the bank and withdrawing your money from your bank account (which probably happens too). I also think your analogy of a "friend" isn't right... you are the bank's PAYING customer... you pay them to secure your money and only give it to you! If they fail to provide the service they're offering to you... seems like they ought to be responsible for their failure.

But another, more common scenario here is that I convince the bank that I'm you and get a credit card or loan from the bank. Now the bank is knocking on YOUR door asking you to pay them back for the cash they handed to some random person... but they're the ones who messed up by giving cash to a random person and not verifying that they are who they say they are!

You aren't really involved... the bank messed up by going "Oh you say you're Bob? Okay here you go!" Why is it your fault that they failed to accurately verify the identity of the person they gave THEIR money to? You didn't play any role in them deciding who to give their money, nor in their ID verification procedures.

zaphod4prez commented on The Villains in the Gentrification Story Are Wealthy NIMBYs theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jseliger

matt321 · 4 years ago

If I move away from those areas, its white flight. If I move to those areas, its gentrification. How do I win this argument?

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

To just straightforwardly answer your question: Move or stay wherever you want, and wherever you are, be a good community member by supporting initiatives that will help the area remain affordable to everyone.

I've been a "gentrifier" in several places and never had any issues; its as simple as being thoughtful about your role in the community and respecting your new neighbors

zaphod4prez commented on The Villains in the Gentrification Story Are Wealthy NIMBYs theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jseliger

matt321 · 4 years ago

If I move away from those areas, its white flight. If I move to those areas, its gentrification. How do I win this argument?

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

if you clicked on the article and read even the sub-title you'd realize that your comment is ridiculous. The full title is "The Real Villain in the Gentrification Story: It’s not young, upwardly mobile college grads."

The article is about how we need to build more housing immediately, which would make everyone's CoL lower, everyone's lives better, and would also go a longgg way to resolving the exact tensions you describe.

The point about NIMBYs is that the key factor preventing us from building more housing is local opposition from people who are primarily concerned about protecting the value of their house so they can resell it later.

zaphod4prez commented on Show HN: Never forget what you've learned saveall.ai/landing/hacker... · Posted by u/p-christ

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

So Anki but 1 ) it's shinier and newer, and 2) you use ML to turn cloze deletion cards into multiple choice cards?

Seems interesting, although Anki is still free and incredible.

Would be helpful if you had some discussion of the spacing algorithm you use.

I'm also curious whether the multiple-choice-ifying actually improves recall or not?

zaphod4prez commented on Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner hogbaysoftware.com/bike/... · Posted by u/jessegrosjean

kall · 4 years ago

This is an impressively well stripped down app. It's all I ever wanted from OmniOutliner (remember when it shipped with OS X?).

Unfortunately, I've been drawn in by the linking functionality in Roam/Logseq and cannot go back to a simple outliner, though this makes me want to.

I don't think I'm a fan of the animated cursor while typing. It somehow makes the typing feel slower, like it takes some physical effort for the cursor to push forward.

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

Another plug for linking... I loved Taskpaper and would be very interested in adopting Bike, but I need those sweet links/backlinks

zaphod4prez commented on Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring” · Posted by u/bckr

DrBoring · 4 years ago

This quote reminds me of a book I just finished: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/

It's about rejecting the default career path which our society considers normal and desirable. The default path is the one where you go to school, enter a career, work the career until you retire ... etc.

I have been a lot of trouble lately figuring out why I'm so unhappy with my career. I knew I was on the wrong path, but I couldn't see the next step on my trail in life. This book made me see that there are plenty of people living happily off the default path. The books made me more determined to seek the pathless path.

I suggest reading it for anyone who is feeling listless in their career and needs a fresh new perspective.

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

paul millerd is great!! im on his email list and really enjoy it, but havent gotten his book yet

zaphod4prez commented on Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance projectionlab.com... · Posted by u/scubakid

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

This is awesome! It seems like you've paid close attention to security and privacy, but I would love a clearer, stronger guarantee. "We truly cannot access your data, will never access your data, and will never, ever sell your data." That would go far here.

zaphod4prez commented on Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate lukechampine.com/goldiloc... · Posted by u/nemo1618

Nzen · 4 years ago

tl;dr This is a USA map to visualize average or min-max temperatures for areas roughly the diameter of Chicago. It colors the tiles based on the proportion of the selected interval (annual or a specific month). The data is from a US agency [0]. This way, you can see that Los Angeles, CA is 40-80° F 75% of the year and Salt Lake City, UT is in that range only 10%.

[0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-cli...

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

Typo in the link. Corrected link: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-cli...

(Great link btw, thanks for sharing!)

zaphod4prez commented on Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet escholarship.org/uc/item/... · Posted by u/eleitl

Retric · 4 years ago

This is filled with a lot of hand waving bad math, which distracts from some reasonable points.

rule of 70tells us that the time it will take a system or collection to double in size is 70 divided by thepercentage growth rate. The time units depend on how the time over which percentage growthis expressed—like 2%per dayor 2%per year, for instance. The rule works most accurately forsmaller growth rates, under 10%.

Actually showing 1.10^7 = 1.949 vs 1.01^70 = 2.007, so you can approximate by dividing percentage by 70 between 1% and 10% is fine. Stating it as true in the text then adding a note well no not actually latter on is problematic.

zaphod4prez · 4 years ago

Sorry if I’m missing something, but… what’s the problem with that quote? That’s a widely-used heuristic that helps to estimate doubling times without using a calculator (see [the Wikipedia entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72).

He does walk the reader through a lot of “back of the napkin” math, in order to help the reader get an intuitive sense of the models he’s using. But my impression overall is that he backs those hand-wavey calculations up with more serious calculations throughout the book.