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Re:Genie 3: A new frontier for world models on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:05PM (#44805613)
Another case of moving the goalposts until you score a goal.
I'm not an expert on MCMC for BNNs by any means, but even with small networks I think it's a little tricky to get right. If my memory serves me right, this paper[1] focuses on small networks and goes over the issues and how to get around them.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01484

MCMC is AFAIU overly prohibitive for neural networks. If you are interested in incorporating uncertainty awareness and improving calibration of your neural net classifiers in a somewhat scalable manner, I think linearized Laplace is a good place to look. I'd suggest you look at `laplace-torch` [1], it's an easy way of doing that.

[1]: https://aleximmer.github.io/Laplace/

I've been using mksquashfs to make full-system backups lately, but had to resort to using unsquashfs for recovering files. This combined with squashfuse might come in handy.
Re:I Implemented Nyströmformer on Monday August 22, 2022 @04:47PM (#32556988)
I assume the name is referring to the Nyström low-rank matrix approximation.
Re:Expose server behind NAT with Tor on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:24PM (#29939085)
Is there a way of doing NAT hole-punching with Wireguard?

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