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The crisis in physics is real: science is failing

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2 points·by sonium·2 years ago·3 comments

Why Cursor needs to be a VSCode fork instead of a plugin

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sonium
·11 months ago·discuss
TLDR: There are two versions of the Parquet file format, but adoption of Version 2 is slow due to limited compatibility in major engines and tools. While Version 2 offers improvements (smaller file sizes, faster write/read times), these gains are modest, and ecosystem support remains fragmented. If full control over the data pipeline is possible, using Version 2 can be worthwhile; otherwise, compatibility concerns with third-party integrations may outweigh the benefits. Parquet remains dominant, and its utility far surpasses these challenges
sonium
·last year·discuss
Or you simply use the pytorch.powerplant_no_blow_up operator [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsT6lBf0X4
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
But I still need pip to install uv, right? Or download it using a one-liner alternatively.
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
Yes, but the criticism is that using mathematics is a really bad guide, as this approach keeps failing
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
I’d like the option to automatically choose the LEAST privacy conserving option, because

1. I don’t care

2. It should work better since it aligns with the goal of the site
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
The fact that OpenAI is releasing a fancy UI instead of an improved model says something. I'm afraid GPT-5 won't be there any time soon.
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
Literally every color grading example shows log footage as the "before". Of course this lacks contrast and vibrancy because it's not meant to be watched "as is". Please show me regular footage as a baseline so it's a fair comparison.
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
I just watched the demo with the Apollo 11 transcript. (sidenote: maybe Gemini is named after the space program?).

Wouldn't the transcript or at least a timeline of Apollo 11 be part of the training corpus? So even without the 400 pages in the context window just given the drawing I would assume a prompt like "In the context of Apoll 11, what moment does the drawing refer to?" would yield the same result.
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
You probably should not use UUIDs to start with in your database at least not as an ID. UUIDv7 aims solve some of the issues of UUIDv4 that are even less suitable in for databases. 99% of times using BigInt for an ID is better.
sonium
·2 years ago·discuss
Aren't there already tons of apps answering that specific question? I think the strength of this approach is answering the non-obvious questions.
sonium
·3 years ago·discuss
I did something similar (but not for documents) but I’m struggling with selecting the optimal number of clusters.
sonium
·3 years ago·discuss
yes, you are right I meant to say "and a Nobel laureate to explain it"
sonium
·3 years ago·discuss
I have a PhD in material science and worked with superconductors, here are two things that is often misunderstood:

1) it takes a undergrad to make and measure a superconductor but a Nobel laureate to explain it.

2) in theory if you understand the mechanism of something you can improve it. In material science however almost always all you need is a trial and error approach to end up with a good result.

Conclusion: the effect is probably true, the explanation not

edit: typo
sonium
·3 years ago·discuss
There is also a JSON analog which if found quite handy sometimes to extract some values deeply nested in an API response. Its also natively supported by some databases that have JSON datatypes like mysql.