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New comment by occamrazor in "Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers"

occamrazor — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:20:14 +0000

I’m curious, what was the rationale for forbidding it?

De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together

occamrazor — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881641

Points: 5

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New comment by occamrazor in "US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job"

occamrazor — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:22:18 +0000

Apple group of companies, rather than a specific legal entity. A common distinction in financial journalism.

New comment by occamrazor in "US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back"

occamrazor — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:42:16 +0000

FYI: Lex, not Rex.

But a Rex Talionis is an interesting concept too.

New comment by occamrazor in "Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]"

occamrazor — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:08:15 +0000

On prompts only, with answers presumably from the teacher model (Gemini).

It was not trained or RLHFd on Arena replies or user preferences.

New comment by occamrazor in "Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR"

occamrazor — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:51:33 +0000

How so? Maybe in the past, but nothing announced today is open.

New comment by occamrazor in "Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs"

occamrazor — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:31:31 +0000

For Tao, spending 10x time on aproof still means spending 5x less time than an average postdoc. He is incredibly fast and productive.

New comment by occamrazor in "Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught"

occamrazor — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:53:14 +0000

On all flights I have taken the flight attendants count the passengers on board before taxiing and check the lavatories. This method wouldn't have worked even with available free seats.

New comment by occamrazor in "Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library"

occamrazor — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:21:25 +0000

Zopf means “braid” and it also denotes a medium-size bread type, made with some milk and glazed with yolk, shaped like a braid, traditionally eaten on Sunday.

New comment by occamrazor in "DBRX: A new open LLM"

occamrazor — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:45:48 +0000

I like:

- “open weights” for no training data and no restrictions on use,

- “weights available” for no training data and restrictions on use, like in this case.

New comment by occamrazor in "DBRX: A new open LLM"

occamrazor — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:38:13 +0000

It‘s more likely to be incompetence than malice: even their 73.7% is closer to 72% than to 74%.

New comment by occamrazor in "Google Scholar PDF Reader"

occamrazor — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:07:43 +0000

Scholar is heavily used internally, it’s unlikely to be discontinued even if it has never brought any money to Google.

New comment by occamrazor in "IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible"

occamrazor — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:17:44 +0000

Note that the model is based on RoBERTa and has only 125m parameter. It is not competing against any of the new popular models, not even small ones like Phi or GeMMa.

New comment by occamrazor in "Don't Invent XML Languages (2006)"

occamrazor — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:37:00 +0000

Pedantic remark: HTML 4.0 is an SGML profile, but HTML 5 isn’t anymore.

New comment by occamrazor in "Biggest airport to open by 2030 with 6 runways and 120M passenger a year"

occamrazor — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 12:26:31 +0000

They have fixed the image now.

New comment by occamrazor in "Antarctic English"

occamrazor — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:55:46 +0000

For German there is an international body. Regional language differences are officially acknowledged. For example, Swiss High German has no Esszet and in Austria January is spelled "Jenner" instead of "Januar".

New comment by occamrazor in "Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits"

occamrazor — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:15:57 +0000

It doesn't work. There is no encoding for "OO".

New comment by occamrazor in "Haskell is Useless (2011) [video]"

occamrazor — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:04:06 +0000

> Microsoft keeps paying the bills

For those who may not know it: SPJ was employed at Microsoft Research for a long time. He recently moved to Epic Games, where he co-developed the Verse language.

New comment by occamrazor in "Memory leak proof every C program"

occamrazor — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:07:07 +0000

Probably because some people find it funny.

New comment by occamrazor in "Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing"

occamrazor — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:10:14 +0000

Because there is no _intent_ to slander.