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Changes to Gemini model access and limits

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www.hydrogen18.com 4mo ago

Parsing PDFs from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

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Building a vehicle sandbox based on Magnum and Bullet with Google Gemini

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www.hydrogen18.com 5mo ago

Creating a vehicle sandbox with Google Gemini

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www.hydrogen18.com 8mo ago

Creating a real-time ray traced physics sandbox with Microsoft Copilot

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www.hydrogen18.com 10mo ago

Meshtastic Python CLI checks for an upgrade each time it is run

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www.hydrogen18.com 12mo ago

Trying out the OrangePi RV2 and fixing a kernel bug

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www.hydrogen18.com 1y ago

Compiling for the Miyoo A30 Using SDL2

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www.hydrogen18.com 2y ago

Restoring audio from the B-58 "Hustler" Voice Warning System

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www.hydrogen18.com 3y ago

Hacking Zyxel IP cameras to gain a root shell

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www.technologyreview.com 5y ago

The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty

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www.hydrogen18.com 5y ago

I Ordered Rockchip RK3328 SBCs and Got Recon Sentinels

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www.hydrogen18.com 6y ago

Redshift AZ64 encoding is not 70% faster than ZSTD

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www.hydrogen18.com 6y ago

Bitten by the SMR Bug

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www.hydrogen18.com 6y ago

Python asyncio and await'ing multiple functions

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www.hydrogen18.com 6y ago

Software approachability outweighs everything else

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www.hydrogen18.com 6y ago

The Reddit Android app. leaks user images

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www.hydrogen18.com 6y ago

Writing Parquet from Java

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I think I've seen the opposite end of this as well: I get the most value from any LLM when I ask it one very targeted question with a followup. I don't fall outside of any sort of context window sizing when I am doing that. That isn't to say that I don't have a few long engineering discussions that are helpful, but most are very to the point. It helps that I have decades of experience at this point and effectively know what to ask to narrow the scope quickly.

This is one of the things I ran into early on. LLM needs to compute the determinant of a matrix? Sure, just spit out some huge hyper optimized implementation of it. Good luck maintaining that. Slapping "use industry standard open source libraries for common functions" has improved the quality of LLM output for me by such a large margin.

I've seen studies like this before. They'll suggest that as little as 15 minutes of exercise significantly improves health in some group they studied. My initial assumption was they added 15 minutes of additional exercise. No, they studied people who did literally nothing. Then had them exercise 15 minutes a day.

As you might guess, their outcomes improved greatly.

I think you're missing the slippery slope that this goes down. The criminal charges were way too low, given the alleged actions. The state admitted it had absolutely no forensic evidence. The judge was perfectly fine with this and selecting a jury that was OK convicting in this circumstance. This pretty quickly pretty us down a path of "you're guilty of at least one crime since you've been indicted, maybe a more serious one if we have some evidence".

one of the more fun things I learned during criminal court in Texas is that the absence of forensic evidence cannot exonerate an individual. The prosecutor and the judge covered that despite not having any forensic evidence, the jury would still be expected to be able to convict the defendant. If you weren't OK with that you weren't eligible to serve on a jury.

I find the whole thing a little odd. The 747 seems to be a great aircraft. It's also a quad jet and the change in regulations for ETOPS makes twinjets a no brainer for reducing cost. There's no reason to hurry and up and get rid of them, many will continue in cargo service for many years. But there isn't any reason to build big quad jets any longer

This seems like an odd version of the story. My understanding is Boeing designed lots of military aircraft, not all reached production. The 747 is the result of some of that design work.