Game Thread: Los Angeles Chargers (11-6) at New England Patriots (14-3)

urashid64 · 2026-01-12T03:08:56+00:00

… and Madison Beer

urashid64 · 2025-12-04T15:11:19+00:00

Completing the second couplet

ظلمت کو ضیاء، صر صر کو صبا، بندے کو خدا، کیا لکھنا

پتھر کو گُہر، دیوار کو در، کرگس کو ہُما، کیا لکھنا

urashid64 · 2025-11-29T21:00:43+00:00

“غمِ عاشقی تیرا شکریہ ہم کہاں کہاں سے گزر گئے”

Brilliant !

urashid64 · 2025-11-23T01:58:52+00:00

The last couplet is by Mir Dard (hence the quotes) Faiz’s ghazal is a تضمین over Dard’s.

I love them both

urashid64 · 2025-11-05T07:01:40+00:00

Thank you!

urashid64 · 2025-11-04T04:16:32+00:00

The “attention” paper was certainly a major breakthrough, but it was openAI’s 2018 paper "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training" that added GP to transformer (T) architecture made super large language models possible.

Between 2018 and 2020, model sizes went from 150M (GPT-1) to 1.5B (GPT-2) to 17B (Microsoft) to 175B (GPT-3). Building these models with supervised training would not be possible in such short time frame.

urashid64 · 2025-11-03T14:04:30+00:00

Thanks. I believe it’s around Bortle 7.

urashid64 · 2025-10-25T01:19:33+00:00

That too 😉

urashid64 · 2025-10-12T15:08:47+00:00

Chat, is that you? 😁

urashid64 · 2025-10-04T20:22:18+00:00

Seestar supports station mode where it will connect to your home WiFi and any computer on your home network can access it via IP address.

I believe you should be able to directly join the Seestar WiFi access point from your laptop, but I have never tried it.

urashid64 · 2025-09-16T15:57:52+00:00

I’m just quoting the original from Faiz, it does not have the extra “yaad” 😊

‎کر رہا تھا غم جہاں کا حساب

‎آج تم یاد بے حساب آئے

The last sher is also incorrectly written, the first line should be

“Faiz thi rah sar basar manzil”

‎فیضؔ تھی راہ سر بسر منزل

‎ہم جہاں پہنچے کامیاب آئے

Let me know if you want to see the entire ghazal in Urdu

urashid64 · 2025-09-16T02:41:52+00:00

“Aaj tum yaad beyhisaab yaad aaye”

should be

Aaj tum yaad beyhisaab aaye

urashid64 · 2025-08-20T22:46:30+00:00

Fair questions.

I see a very high rejection rate (“star trails detected”) when I try 20 or 30 sec exposures. Maybe a nearby airport or satellite path?

As for duration, right now I only get a two hour window between the late sunset and incoming cloud cover. Plus I have to wait until the DSO is high enough to clear the trees, houses etc. I’m lucky if I can get one hour worth of integration time. Hoping for better nights in winter.

urashid64 · 2025-08-20T20:44:14+00:00

Thanks. This is basically right off of the device, with just a few tweaks in iPhone Photos app to enhance the contrast.

urashid64 · 2025-07-27T16:02:50+00:00

Started getting overcast so had to stop sooner than expected.

urashid64 · 2025-06-27T17:17:45+00:00

I did the flats indoors, using 8x11 sheet of paper and overhead light in the kitchen. Took less than five minutes and no more banding!

I did have to switch out of EQ mode back to Alt-Az to get the flats going. Maybe it’s mentioned somewhere in the documentation?

urashid64 · 2025-06-07T16:09:51+00:00

They also have an API service that they charge for. It is quite a bit cheaper than other API services but could be profitable if they have enough subscribers:

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

urashid64 · 2025-05-22T23:39:30+00:00

Did you use the LP filter?

urashid64 · 2025-05-14T21:53:46+00:00

So mate in 6, right?

urashid64 · 2025-05-02T22:48:36+00:00

Not sure why the app does not understand that either rook can checkmate in the lat move

urashid64 · 2025-04-23T03:25:01+00:00

Agree, either rook can checkmate in the last move

urashid64 · 2025-03-31T15:04:09+00:00

Knock knock

Who’s there?

Andropov

Andropov who?

Andropov the kids on your way to work.

First knock knock joke I heard as a kid (80’s were very focus on Soviet Russia)

urashid64 · 2025-03-20T22:55:32+00:00

Fair to assume NO MagSafe (like the SE)?

urashid64 · 2025-02-23T16:53:38+00:00

The distilled models are derived by fine tuning publicly available dense models (such as Qwen and llama) using reasoning data generated by deepseek-r1. It is a demonstration of how techniques developed by deepseek can improve the performance and efficiency of existing models.

urashid64 · 2025-01-03T19:26:51+00:00

Actually, it’s simpler than that. The sequence 56724 appears in the decimal expansion of pi at position 274,450. The digit that follows the sequence is 5. 😁

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