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chazeon
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Postdoc at Princeton. Computational high-pressure physics, using Python mainly. https://chazeon.com/

  1. Well that’s a very misleading thing. If the US immigration policy wasn’t this hostile to populous countries, more Chinese will want to stay.
  2. Nvidia's private driver seems to deliver 4k@120Hz just fine.
  3. Well the seemingly cheap comes with significantly degraded performance, particular for agentic use. Have you tried replacing Claude Code with some locally deployed model, say, on 4090 or 5090? I have. It is not usable.
  4. Seem images on GitHub web also not showing
  5. The one thing I wish it has is 3.5mm audio jack. Both Xbox and SONY's dualsense controller have this. But SONY don't support audio via Bluetooth. The Xbox one need a USB adapter but its build is not as good as SONY's. SONY don't have a USB adapter. Given Steam controller is already using an USB puck, it should be able to support it.
  6. Gemini is the only model that can provide consistent solution to theoretical physics problems and output it into LaTeX document.
  7. you can just buy a nanokvm
  8. Aliexpress has them
  9. Infuse is good, but it does not feel so well-polished for the desktop, for example, some windows for pop-up could have been a real window, but were a pop-up that blocks the main player.
  10. I want to note that: long prompts are good only if the model is optimized for it. I have tried to swap the underlying model for Claude Code. Most local models, even those claimed to work with long context and tool use, don't work well when instruction becomes too long. This has become an issue for tool use, where tool use works well in small ChatBot-type conversation demos, but when Claude's code-level prompt length increases, it just fails, either forgetting what tools are there, forgetting to use them, or returning in the wrong formats. Only the model by OpenAI, Google's Gemini, kind of works, but not as well as Anthropic's own models. Besides they feel much slower.
  11. I do japanese transcription + gemini translations. It’s worse than fansub, but its much much better than nothing. First thing that could struggle is actually the vad, then is special names and places, prompting can help but not always. Finally it’s uniformity (or style). I still feel that I can’t control the punctuation well.
  12. Recently, I visited the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum and was fascinated to learn that when steel railcars were first introduced—despite being far safer than their wooden predecessors, which could easily be crushed—many people feared they might attract lightning. It's such a good analogue to our movement into AI reality.
  13. Boards are low tech and low profit, does American company and workers even want to do it?
  14. Actually recent email innovation I enjoyed is Mimestream, the macOS native client for Gmail. Apple’s smart inbox is half baked but better than nothing. Cloudflare now also has a pretty good email forwarding service.
  15. The thing is, the publisher are not obligated to show all recent post, some may show 1 some may show 5, but they might publish more than what they show in your refresh interval (e.g. 1 week) In this case, using a stateless reader, you will start to miss article.
  16. Yeah and of course it will be depend on your personality and risk model. Compared to other things I don’t want to risk my data, whether leaked or damaged. And I make mistakes, a lot. If you are very meticulous and can ensure that you can put up all the security measures yourself and won’t expose something you don’t want to. I am just not that kind of person.
  17. I don’t think this is the right analogue. Having someone come to your door breaking things would take much larger effort, and easy to be caught. But DDoS or attack your service has minimal cost.

    Visiting sites and sending the IP address is not the problem, the router has firewall and basically blocking unwanted attention. But when you expose something without protection and allow someone to burn your CPU, or, in a worse case, figure out your password for a not properly secured service, is a totally another issue.

    I saw people setting up honey pot SSH and there are so many unauthorized access and I got scared. I think exposing entire machine to network is like you drive car without insurance. Sure you might be OK, but when trouble comes, it will be a lot of trouble.

  18. Why would you want to expose your IP to the internet? I still feel that's dangerous, susceptible to DDoS attack, and I avoid that as much as possible. I put everything behind a Tailscale for internal use and behind Cloudflare for external use.
  19. If it is just chores, gamifying it with a receipt printer would be just fine. But these are just such minor stuff compared to the real challenges of life.
  20. I think Amazon, Meta have been trying on inference hardware, they throw their hands up on training; but TPUs can actually be used in training, based on what I saw in Google’s colab.
  21. I remember crowdstrike outage offers starbucks coupons? that’s way to go.
  22. I think a social network is not necessarily a timeline-based product, but an LLM-native/enabled group chat can probably be a very interesting product. Remember, ChatGPT itself is already a chat.
  23. Yeah, it has been painful previously, but now we get conda / uv, it is in a much better condition right now.
  24. As a PhD new graduate, industry is a far better place than academia under this current government. Academia is suffering heavily from the funding cuts.
  25. There is a tool called entr, it kill and restart command when any file changes are detected, you could check it out.

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