Jack000

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by Jack000 5y ago
Makes sense I guess, integrating robot hardware requires an entirely different set of skills to ML research and has a much slower dev cycle. I think OpenAI has progressively narrowed down its core competency - for a company like 3M it would
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by Jack000 5y ago
looking forward to the clip-guided images that comes from this, once the model is released.
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by Jack000 5y ago
It shouldn't be controversial to say that on average, men are taller than women. However it is a problem to say that "since you are a woman, I infer that you must be short". The difference is (not really) subtle but the first
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by Jack000 5y ago
> "Indian variant" is descriptive of where the variant came from, nothing more. There are two possible interpretations of a phrase like "Indian virus" 1. a virus that originates from India (the country) 2. a virus car
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by Jack000 5y ago
It's great that Google is doing this. Quantum computing is the kind of capital-intensive research that perfectly suits a corporate research lab.
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by Jack000 5y ago
My first point is that this type of cruelty is just a basic part of life and survival for the people who practice it. You would condemn it as cruel just as some would condemn you for killing an animal with a gun. I'm just saying it&#x2
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by Jack000 5y ago
I grew up in an area with "traditional" slaughter techniques. Basically a hog is tied down and its throat is slit, while alive, the animal's heart pumps the blood out into a bucket. This ensures the blood doesn't remain
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by Jack000 5y ago
imo cryptocurrency is still not a "big thing" in that normal people aren't buying stuff with them as originally envisioned. It's certainly made a lot of people wealthy though. in terms of low-hanging fruit with outsized
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by Jack000 5y ago
- the more people that use adblock/sponsor block, the less effective ads are in general (lower advertiser ROI for each ad) - if ROI for ads drop, ad sellers (eg. youtubers) have to reduce the price charged to advertisers - given that a
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by Jack000 5y ago
Auth0's pricing has always seemed really strange - 7000 active users for free but only 1000 on the lowest paid tier ($23/month). This means if you don't care about the extra features, once you exceed 7k you need to jump up to
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by Jack000 6y ago
Minimalism is the most difficult design style. - It's easy to end up with something that looks unfinished, unintentional or lazy - If you over-simplify, the design loses character, like the uniform sans style critiqued in the article B
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by Jack000 6y ago
School is an "ideal" learning environment - in that to do well all you need to do is digest the information as presented. This requires some baseline cognitive ability and the conciensiousness to actually absorb all the informatio
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by Jack000 6y ago
Devs should spend a lot more time on research to select the problem they want to solve. This is "top of the funnel" in the sense that it will affect everything else, from product to marketing, and has the highest impact on the ult
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by Jack000 6y ago
It works surprisingly well for synthetic data. Is it a pre-trained transformer in the backend? I have a competing side-project in the same space, but using bitext and a vanilla transformer.
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by Jack000 6y ago
Works great actually. Did you source bitext for each language, or is it all synthetic?
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by Jack000 6y ago
ah yes that's what I meant
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by Jack000 6y ago
I take it as a given that some kind of computation in the brain is responsible for human intelligence, so the only question is how difficult is it to replicate that computation? There are hints that it might not be as difficult as it first
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by Jack000 6y ago
Surprised this was written by Ted Chiang (my all-time favorite science-fiction author). The IQ and compiler arguments seem like pretty weak strawmen, and the last section assumes that AI will have some kind of normal distribution of IQ just
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by Jack000 6y ago
I find it kind of funny that milk tea is tied to Asian identity. afaik for traditional Chinese adding milk to tea is a faux pas kind of like adding Coke to wine. I think the modern practice of adding milk to tea started with the British, wh
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by Jack000 6y ago
wish these still existed. I'd take a 3 day ship ride over 8 hours in a cramped airline seat.
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by Jack000 6y ago
Does nvlink actually help? It's mostly useful for transferring data between gpus so I assume you're using pipeline parallelism or similar?
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by Jack000 6y ago
Hope there will be a distilled or approximate attention version so it can be run on consumer gpus.
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by Jack000 6y ago
This is really cool. A possible application I see is GAN generation of new fonts.
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by Jack000 6y ago
The Canadian startup bureaucracy is real. I find it kind of funny that the main requirement for IRAP funding is that you don't actually need the money. It's extremely frustrating when you see a punt like Element AI get 20 million
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by Jack000 6y ago
I base my language choice on $/line, which means I use a lot of php
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by Jack000 6y ago
It doesn't sound like you gave it much of a chance tbh. If you only play the main quests it might be possible to do 2 playthroughs since launch. I'm at 43h in and haven't finished the first playthrough yet, on normal difficul
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by Jack000 6y ago
looks good! I take it you're the developer of konva as well?
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by Jack000 6y ago
Most mammals have a similar brain architecture. Humans share the limbic system with animals like dogs, cows and pigs. This means these animals have extremely similar subjective experiences of pain, fear, joy and other emotions. For a consis
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by Jack000 6y ago
it's a matter of degree - Trudeaus scandals aren't in the same league as Trump. The fact that these violations were investigated (and has had a real, damaging effect on the PM's approval ratings when they came to light) shows
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by Jack000 6y ago
My understanding is that the exclusivity is with regard to the code, the API will still be offered to the public.

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