Its a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_waiting

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" - Bjarne Stroustrup

I feel like its difficult to quantify for jobs where you're being paid to think. Even when I'm goofing off, the problem I need to solve for the day is still lingering in the back of my head somewhere. Actively squinting at it doesn't seem to make things go any faster and when I do return to work it's usually to mash out reems of code after letting it stew, but yes, the actual amount of time I'm fulfilling my job description is... less than my working hours.

Not an answer to the question, but in case performance is the goal, Torchaudio has it here

Maybe use a flexible struct? You can have an indeterminate array at the end (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/flexible-array-members-structure-c/) I'd rather just use the variable in the struct though. The packing isn't guaranteed to be right next to each other

I was a curious child, and things spiralled out of control from there...

Found it in a cross post: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06668-3

Its a transformer, someone fire the journalist. Still, interesting stuff

Anybody have a link to the paper? The article strikes me as a used car salemans trying to sell me a journal. Mostly what I'm getting is new reinforcement learning technique catered to language? But what model architecture? Is it new? I'd like to know

Hmm, wonder if there was some reason they didnt just extract the original certificates from the VPS if it was actually the hosting provider, I mean even with mitigation it should be sitting in a temp folder somewhere, surely they could? Issuing new ones seems like a surefire way to alert the operators, unless they already used Let's Encrypt of course.

?? Literally the entire purpose of the transformer architecture is to manipulate text, how is it bad at that? Am I misunderstanding this? Summarization, thematic transformation, language translation etc are all things AI is fantastic at...