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New comment by safarimonkey in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

safarimonkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:29:54 +0000

I made my account on a server that a personal friend span up. Said friend deleted it on a whim after a few months after not using it much, not really aware of the implications. Personal connection was not the issue here, ownership of my digital identity was.

Besides, people sometimes have fallings-out.

New comment by safarimonkey in "The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place"

safarimonkey — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:50:29 +0000

Some of the techniques improve over linear scaling of the baseline models. For example, from the article:

> Conditional computation avoids applying all model parameters to all tokens from the input sequence. [CoLT5] applies heavy computations only to the most important tokens and processes the rest of the tokens with a lighter version of layers. It will speed up both training and inference.

[CoLT5]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.094752

New comment by safarimonkey in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

safarimonkey — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:06:53 +0000

Magic Leap 2 has a segmented dimmer that works fairly well. It's a small probably-LCD panel that sits in front of your eye. It lets the headset black out part of your view, leaving a kinda blurry shadow around objects.

New comment by safarimonkey in "Rust const generics MVP hits beta"

safarimonkey — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:05:45 +0000

Indeed not, so it's not a full replacement. I'm not entirely sure that I like the idea of an "if let" variant creating bindings that escape the visual block, but I'd probably get over it.

New comment by safarimonkey in "Rust const generics MVP hits beta"

safarimonkey — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:06:11 +0000

I ran into this the other day, and it took me a moment to realise that I could just use `matches!`:

    // want to do this
    if not let Some("pattern") = val {
        doSomething();
    }

    // can instead do
    if !matches!(val, Some("pattern")) {
        doSomething();
    }

New comment by safarimonkey in "Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)"

safarimonkey — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:46:58 +0000

I ran into this the other day, and it took me a moment to realise that I could just use `matches!`:

    // want to do this
    if not let Some("pattern") = val {
        doSomething();
    }

    // can instead do
    if !matches!(val, Some("pattern")) {
        doSomething();
    }

edit: formatting

New comment by safarimonkey in "Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)"

safarimonkey — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:38:36 +0000

Here is one (recently created) that operates on the whole program rather than a single function: https://crates.io/crates/no-panics-whatsoever