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efm | 5 months ago | on: Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix

The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.

efm | 9 months ago | on: The Universal Tech Tree

Thanks for doing this research!

The information is organized clearly by date, technology and predecessor/descendant.

But,technology continues to improve, and this site has no database or github for continuing to update with new tech or to fill in the gaps.

This website format also makes it difficult to do other forms of analysis.

I wonder if the authors would make the data available in a knowledge graph form.

efm | 1 year ago | on: SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch

Karpathy's nanoGPT has a full training pipeline using Shakespeare. [1]

The use case for this is learning in simple example.

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

efm | 1 year ago | on: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

No one has mentioned 2FA. I suspect the passwords are not all that is needed.

efm | 1 year ago | on: Scythe Works Without Borders

The Future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. William Gibson

What is the skill tree of development, and how do we speed run it?

efm | 1 year ago | on: Death Cafe

If you are looking for this sort of community, you may find Jane Miller a good guide.

https://janemiller.xyz/death-care/#moon

She offers regular group meetings on how to navigate the cycles of life and death.

efm | 2 years ago | on: The Annotated S4

DSS: Diagonal State Spaces are as Effective as Structured State Spaces (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14343)

S4D: On the Parameterization and Initialization of Diagonal State Space Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11893)

efm | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What materials to consume to gain knowledge about cutting edge ML?

I read a new paper a day with a study group, and when I do not understand something, look at the prior work references. A well written paper is an introduction to the area, and few will help catch you up. Read them closely, there are clues in the details. Then attempt to implement the algorithm, on a tiny example. It's slow going in the beginning but you will catch up. A study group helps.

efm | 2 years ago | on: How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video]

Brendan Greg, illustrating the effectiveness of dtrace, by shouting in a datacenter[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

efm | 2 years ago | on: Consistently Achieving Goals

You got the spelling of the url incorrect.

efm | 2 years ago | on: Bletchley Park codebreaker Margaret Betts has died

Mar Hicks' book Programmed Inequality [1] is some of the story of how post-war Britain lost the lead in computing.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality...

efm | 2 years ago | on: Kris Nóva has died

I also only spoke with Nova once. She was kind and helpful beyond what I could have hoped for.

Her energy and enthusiasm for life shone like a bright star.

She will be missed.

efm | 2 years ago | on: Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF)

Following these practices should help software producers reduce the number of vulnerabilities in released software, mitigate the potential impact of the exploitation of undetected or unaddressed vulnerabilities, and address the root causes of vulnerabilities to prevent future recurrences.

efm | 3 years ago | on: Lo-Fi ATC

It reminds me more of SomaFM's Mission Control[1], which plays music overlaid with NASA mission audio.

[1] https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

efm | 3 years ago | on: Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science

FreeCodeCamp is good. Practical tutorials to build real things all the way up to deep theory.

efm | 3 years ago | on: Data-first and data-last: a comparison

There is a convention in functional languages that consists on passing the "data" or "object" that will be processed by the function as the last parameter to a function. This is commonly known as "data-last".

efm | 3 years ago | on: Human-Centered Documentation for Web Developers

Ubuntu has a built in screen reader, Orca [1].

"Welcome to Orca Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via speech and refreshable braille. Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI), which is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for Linux and Solaris. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME Gtk+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, LibreOffice, Gecko, and WebKitGtk. AT-SPI support for the KDE Qt toolkit is being pursued." [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/a11y-screen-reade...

efm | 4 years ago | on: Poker Chip Flipping Puzzle

Poker chip flipping puzzle

efm | 4 years ago | on: Journey to the Edge of Reason: The life of Kurt Gödel

Correction: "Logical Dilemmas" by John Dawson

efm | 4 years ago | on: ML Beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and Do-Calculus (2018)

I recommend the book (free online): https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-... and the associated Coursera course. It's both simple and subtle to be able to get causality out of observational data.