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bye sf! ill be back soon. our friendship has just started
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@lookoutitsbbear the noise is _lost_
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I have an update for those trying out Neuralink's compression challenge. I put some effort into calculating the legit theoretical max compression possible and.... tada it's 3.439
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@lookoutitsbbear that's not for u to decide!
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@lookoutitsbbear This converts back losslessly?
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@lookoutitsbbear again, just let comment on your solution. go ahead
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@lookoutitsbbear I beg you to try and actually make a submission. download and run it on your submission. please
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@EzeKoren_ @lookoutitsbbear There’s no way this guy isn’t trolling lol
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@lookoutitsbbear this is not a 0 or 1 goal. you can make progress towards 200x even if 200x is impossible. giving up isn't the strat here.
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@lookoutitsbbear I don't think you're listening to what I'm saying lol
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@lookoutitsbbear *mathematics, and no im not breaking anything. so what if i'm trying to compress noise? the deltas are ~normally distributed so there actually is potential for compression.
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To clarify, this is the max result possible on according to my calculations
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@Jonappgar @phys_ballsocket @lookoutitsbbear How familiar are you with the challenge? And also with what lossless means?
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@royvanrijn I would love to be proved wrong! there's definitely some files that are way more compressible than avg. this number is the entropy bound on the score reported by
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@Jonappgar @phys_ballsocket @lookoutitsbbear Yes which is why in practice they use lossy. But if you’re trying to do the challenge it needs to be lossless
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“GPT-5, we intend to be very awesome” - @sama 50 seconds ago
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@itsandrewgao 16b to 10b, then get diffs, then entropy based on diffs, and finally theoretical compressed byte size based on entropy. I have a list of the theoretical max compressed sizes for each file. feel free to query
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@emile_amajar shannon entropy my good friend
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@nat_snacks Computers are very dumb, so you have to tell them exactly what to do in a special language that both you and the computer understand.
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@pseudoearly ~1x I hope
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3 years
I made the back-end for It hasn't been 3 hours since launch and we've already raised 16,500+ doge = $5000 So fun, thank you for involving me @tjstebbing ! Also thanks to @hackclub , without which none of this would have happened.
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2 years
I'm 17 now!
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@DanyPell they use lossy in practice
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why does uwaterloo have such impeccable vibes and why were these vibes not obvious to me when i was applying to college?? i didn't know about it somehow???!!!!! super active hacker / maker culture??? socratica??? heck yeah
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one person’s noise is another’s data
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@usrbinishan
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paper cuts? I just got a silicon cut…
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@lookoutitsbbear you may find it interesting to note that in practice neuralink actually does incredibly lossy compression: each electrode only reports back whether a spike happened or not in a 15ms window. 1b data!
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@AashViswanathan apparently, the sea creature
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@LongFormMath my roommate goes into a trance whee he closes his eyes and somewhat suddenly collapses to rest his head on the table facing down. 3 minutes later he'll get up, collapse onto the bed, and then emerge with a solution
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@royvanrijn ah no compressing the entire directory at once doesn't count. the challenge is about compressing the files individually. how does that do? Im also thinking of BWT which may interest you: . I'm actually really amazed by it.
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Thank goodness I’m officially technical now
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@usrbinishan
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2 years
If this tweet gets 200 likes I will buy 200 Zoogle stickers for 133 dollars from my @hackclub internship. (I'm realizing I actually have my own money to do things now)
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@RespectfulMemes Makes sense since the ratio it converges to is 1.618… when the actual conversion is 1.609
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well that was short lived...
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don’t wanna leave
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@lookoutitsbbear @phys_ballsocket have you read their eval script. the file after going through your compressor and decompressor should be identical to the starting one.
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@hud_zah @freemanjiangg Shaker bottle ball is crazy too
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woke up to being #1 on HN rn???? wild..
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@usrbinishan
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@arithmoquine henry… how is “stack trace of reasoning” different from “steps of reasoning” your tweets often add a reference to technical things where that reference doesn’t actually capture more aspects of what you’re trying to describe than just a normal description
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4 years
@khanacademy I'm around 15 and I love Khan Academy. Can I donate in Bitcoin?
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@usrbinishan
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i've never seen anyone use ai the way this guy uses ai. he'll enter in a mcmastercarr part id into claude and expect it to know what the part is ... and somehow that actually works???!!!
@hud_zah
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in a couple weeks, i built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects a glimpse into the process below
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@usrbinishan
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Front page of hackernews! Really does crash servers lol ~~I'm above Go 1.18 😎~~
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:D thanks for coming over everyone
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Shaped some pasta and friendships tonight Love the bay
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just sent this to the former lead of a team that I now run
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First day at @hackclub HQ! It was really fun, and then I got lost in the "forest" (still fun tbh) ishan @hackclub .com exists now
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@usrbinishan
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I’m seeing the Milky Way for the first time in my life. I’m shaking. Photo doesn’t show it, I wish you were here with me
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Went on a walk (Colorado) Oxygen 64% of normal
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yooo my 80 beautiful samsung microcontroller (S3C7515) silicon dies have finally shipped from france! planning to give some out datasheet if ur curious: (and yes I strategically blocked the middle of my fingerprint just in case)
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“One stdev of IQ every 18 months” continuous consistent improvement
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definitely not decompiling a test binary to figure out what's wrong with my hw and finding the reference solution within it
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@usrbinishan
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3 years
@SavvasStephnds Hindi, French, English, Go, Java, a tiny bit of C/C++, HTML, CSS, JS, AppleScript, a bit of Python, Scratch (lol), prolly a couple others
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@BarakShoshany Wtf was the result
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@usrbinishan
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I am looking for work this summer. My first choice said no after 5 stages :(
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@usrbinishan
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3 years
I'm 10 away from 10²!
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@usrbinishan
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I now have a bank account! 💸💸💸
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@usrbinishan
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3 years
I'm so excited to be on Zephyr, huge thanks to @mojombo and @hackclub , this'll be so fun. (Zephyr is a hackathon aboard a train that'll go from the west coast to the east coast, I'm gonna meet some friends from Hack Club and some other important people)
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@arithmoquine cis too? now those are rare
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@usrbinishan
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. @_pranavnt did the first ever exchange of Duckcoin for fiat: he gave me $20 for 0.00000001 Duckcoin, setting the current exchange rate to... *drum roll* 2 billion dollars per Duckcoin🤣 So yeah I'm a multi-billionaire now, and some people are trillionaires
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@_vkaku in practice they use lossy. they’re skilled and know what to do
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3 months
Flight lands in SF 2 pm today! Doing hw design at w @huntercoledavis and @LauraDeming this summer! Bringing a block of nice cheese from Seattle so DM me if you want to eat some pasta, drink alishan oolong and meet new people in the next couple days!!! :D
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@usrbinishan
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3 years
Today is Devzat's birthday so I hosted its oldest prototype on port 2222. Try it out by running `ssh -p 2222 `. It's been great fun making this and seeing it on the front pages of Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt and a few subreddits Then vs Now
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@usrbinishan
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3 years
Today I demo-ed a new dog encoding to the dogecoin devs, so that dogs can read the dogecoin docs too.
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here's the assumption being made: that the diffs between samples after the 16b-10b conversion are i.i.d. this is not actually true but it is close to true since at a small scale the diffs between samples is essentially noise
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I have an update for those trying out Neuralink's compression challenge. I put some effort into calculating the legit theoretical max compression possible and.... tada it's 3.439
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hn hug of death is real, had to force reboot a 207 day uptime machine
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WOOHOO IM 16 NOW lol
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Implemented sha256 in hardware! Gave myself this task yesterday. Turns out fixing bugs in hashing algos is tough because the slightest mistake completely changes the result. (for context, when cpus offer specialized instructions this is how they're actually implemented)
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@wireless_anon @emile_amajar that's because pi wouldn't satisfy the assumptions I made in order to use shannon entropy
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3 years
wait what
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@usrbinishan
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2 years
I gave this bunny a piece of tomato
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Imagine crypto addresses, but emoji. I just implemented emoji addresses in Duckcoin: My address: 🦆🐖🍅💕🤧👔🦚🚥😐📬🎽💰🌹➰👒🩴😑🆓🚔👧 Imagine saying "please send money to tomato hearts sneeze shirt peacock..."
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@usrbinishan
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i've been given this challenge where I have to program a risc-v cpu onto an fpga, get it to run linux, then have it interface with a custom led peripheral using axi-lite and i've never done any fpga work so my head is exploding but I think I will learn much
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@usrbinishan
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i'm making a program that can take derivatives symbolically. it can do implicit, product, quotient, chain, log, exp, polyn, and any combination of those with +-*/^ rn
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@arithmoquine btw beware of signaling too much: it can signal the need to signal
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@Xlh1553 you could! it would never be able to guarantee a collision free decode but yeah
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@usrbinishan
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2 years
just applied to one college. first time!
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@usrbinishan
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3 years
Shoutout to that legend @sam_poder who made the front-end for Dogecoin's Team Seas page!!! ❤️ ITS SO BEAUTIFULLLLL
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@usrbinishan
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I made the back-end for It hasn't been 3 hours since launch and we've already raised 16,500+ doge = $5000 So fun, thank you for involving me @tjstebbing ! Also thanks to @hackclub , without which none of this would have happened.
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if you're a teen who codes, you _need_ to join @hackclub . you _have_ to
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@usrbinishan
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On my way to Vermont! Currently in Chicago.
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@miru_why @lookoutitsbbear @tszzl source? This is raw digital sensor data
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@nenosipapuce @itsandrewgao again, that wouldn't satisfy the assumptions made here which are reasonable in this case. check the quoted tweet
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@lookoutitsbbear @phys_ballsocket how about you report back what says about your solution
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@usrbinishan
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2 years
It was very fun helping organize this. Hackers Assemble!
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@hackclub
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This weekend, hundreds of teenagers from 12 countries and 20+ states gathered for Assemble—the first in-person high school hackathon since the start of the pandemic—at @figma HQ in San Francisco.
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@edzitron @ashleevance @hud_zah bro its just plasma in a vacuum chamber dw no radiation
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I cannot believe it. I am still the number 3 product worldwide on @ProductHunt , and I just crossed 100 stars on @github for the first time in my 16-year-old life. I thought the server would go down by now LOL.
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Omg wow Devzat is trending on GitHub
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@usrbinishan
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I'm really scared to see the situation in Ukraine progress. War has always been a foreign idea to me - since the last time something like this happened was so long before I existed - and I would like it to stay that way 🕊️
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Thank you @hackclub ! I wouldn't have gotten to do this without HC!
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New video by @hackclub about the #TeamSeas collab! Hack Club teens Ishan & Sam helped us raise over 100k Doge with @MrBeast & @MarkRober ! Future of #Dogecoin is bright with such amaze young engineers #DoOnlyGoodEveryday #HackClub YouTube
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How many of you know what this is?
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Got my first hour in the log book as a birthday present and went out with some friends to a field to play board games, eat pizza and fly RC planes (I forgot to bring my controller though lol) It was really windy today
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@usrbinishan
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Happy birthday @hackclub , my beloved!
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I made a brainf cpu on an fpga
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@usrbinishan
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@bwwgpro1 this is the theoretical max. my actual score is 3.42
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Yay! 300 Twitter people!
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LET'S GOOO 400 STARS!
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@SlackHQ Wait, what's wrong with it?
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@AgiDoomerAnon @CaseyJF91 @littmath @skip_strike I think the reasoning is more:” big numbers have more factors so higher chance of collision”
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