ixplanatl
geometry, vision, graphics practitioner.
engineering aphorisms. doctor on board the Auswuchtung des Rades.
- looking at this again, I am surprised to find nothing special about the 30 year mark
- gooning relates to goons, as cooking relates to being cooked
- TIL about a great cpp pattern: define a constexpr bool in #ifdef, and use "if constexpr" for the rest of the file, instead of ungodly ifdefs
- How was gdb usable before chatGPT?
- There is something about entering the bathroom still chewing, that is deeply unsettling
- Always recreate the baseline. Archived data is 100% out of date
- The third monitor belongs to Fred again..'s boiler room set
- I had been so DL-washed that I completely forgot about the power of the classic optimizers. Levenberg Marquardt is a monster!
- If it's used for the computation, it should be part of the visualization
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- My kid shall be named Marquardt. Levenberg Marquardt.
- man concerned with beauty gets angry at the slop machine
- A great evening for some A Pattern Language reading
- « La fille qui se tenait debout » est peut-être le sommet des Archives de Roshar jusqu'ici. Quel moment ! En général, les chapitres avec Malice sont exceptionnels !
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- The best debugger is a piece of paper (and maybe a cup of masala tea)
- All of the disfunction we see around us could be solved by having more buffers. In timetables especially.
- We are at peak "first principles". Soon nobody will say it anymore without cringing
- Reposted by ixplanatlMe when I cite myself:
- With (code) copyright effectively dead through LLMs, I am afraid we'll see even more trivial patents than we already do. LLMs basically act like a Coin Mixer just for code, anything you put on the internet becomes public domain. The only way out for IP people: secrecy or patents
- Within a single repo: avoid duplication. Across repos/projects: copy paste often better than dependency.
- Sitting in front of mlflow like a maniac, whispering "yees, yeees!"
- If you're going to type "", might as well type f"" from the start
- If your IT person starts each bash session with "sudo su -", you better start wearing a helmet to work 👷
- If softmax temperature scaling, in the limit, becomes argmax, attention layers become dictionary lookups. If they become dictionary lookups, attention becomes some sort of shuffle or resampling. What then, is the essence of attention?
- The more queues the faster
- make -j 8 pancake
- If LLMs can come up with novel cooking recipes, they can do research
- Depth Anything 3 really produces super clean point clouds! 🤯
- the nice thing about paper diagrams is, you don't get tempted to keep them (as opposed to digital ones)
- the most important engineer's skill might just be being able to construct minimal toy models
- Your intuition guides you into the rabbit burrow, ablations help you find your way back out
- Pen and paper don't require a subscription
- that guy who pronounces SQL as sequel and zsh as seashell
- What does a (deep learning) bias look like in your minds eye? For me, it's a 1D gaussian that is being shifted left and right
- Reposted by ixplanatlIn short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
- vim keybindings itch the same scratch as eating with chop sticks
- It's probably a good idea to pair your relative threshold with an absolute one
