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spencerf | 1 year ago | on: DeepSeek's multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks

I feel like we’re living in strange times where your comment appears to be AI generated as well. You complain about the surprise at the end and then offer up a similar structural surprise in your reply.

spencerf | 2 years ago | on: Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies

There is a sister site “no-tech” magazine which is what I think many people on this site think of when they think of low tech.

https://www.notechmagazine.com/

spencerf | 2 years ago | on: Getting things done in small increments (2022)

I am a parent of three young kids and I turned my ‘office’ into a toy room a long long time ago. Now, I remote into a 8GB raspberry pi from my phone to do side projects. The raspberry pi is slow but I am not sitting around waiting for it to work. It can run LLMs and even stable diffusion.

I remote in, do something, write notes, then get back to life. I’ll check back once I have time. I even have wireguard set up so I can remote in from anywhere!

spencerf | 3 years ago | on: AI and the Future of Pixel Art

With the image generators coming out I’ve been scrambling to understanding their place, I’ve been looking to the chess world as a model of the future.

In chess, people would still rather see people play chess than a robot. The top chess players in the world started as a brute force obsession about the game. Those would go on to teach the next generation. They advent of computers allowed for historically statically advantaged moves. ML came along and disrupted even further.

Now many of the top chess players consult the ML chess oracle.

I see the same thing happening in a lot of areas: grammar, image generation, text replies.

I see a world where humans are celebrated for their humanness while machines assist.

spencerf | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I develop focus?

I recommend transcendental meditation. It’s very basic. Pick any nonsensical phrase. I chose “oohm chah kahh.” You close your eyes for twenty mins and repeat that phase in your head. You can repeat parts of it and change up the rhythm by elongating the vowels or whatever. Focus on the phrase as much as you can. Your mind will wander but always come back to it. You do that once or twice a day.

There is a bit of controversy of the science and spiritual side but I find that the way to improve focus is to limit stimuli and practice focusing.

Outside of that, sleep is probably more critical.

spencerf | 4 years ago | on: My own phone number is now spam texting me

This is only valid if it’s a US company and many of these are originating outside of the US. Many shady companies outside of the us simply ignore the fines.

spencerf | 4 years ago | on: Getting to Know the Armed, the Most Unknowable Band in Hardcore

I’ve been to a number of converge shows and followed Andrew WK as I liked his childish optimism and fun persona when contrasted with the more morbid and aggressive stuff. They both put on amazing show experiences.

This project, being based out of Detroit/Michigan makes it seem like it could be an Andrew wk project. He’s well versed in absurdity and image creation. It always surprised me how Andrew wk was in target commercials. The fact that the armed is mentioned in a ford ad makes sense.

I’ve never heard of this band before this post and about to go down a rabbit hole.

spencerf | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

Currently I run a freedbsd zfs nas as well. I had planned to do something similar but I wanted to allow the places I store backups, some access to the storage. In your example, it would be your parents. I figured it would be a nice way of saying thanks. I was thinking syncthing or something. How do you do NATing?