NavinF

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by NavinF 3y ago
Conda has been around for a decade and it used to be the primary package manager for everything related to numpy/scipy. Most ML and data science people have heard of it even if they haven't used it.
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by NavinF 3y ago
CPU-only is impractical for most use cases and this will only become more true over time as models become larger. The mediocre perf/$ and perf/watt makes it not worth the effort
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by NavinF 3y ago
Neither of those benchmarks is relevant to ML which is what GP is talking about
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by NavinF 3y ago
Their instructions for human raters is public info. Overview: https://blog.google/products/search/overview-our-rater-guide... Full PDF: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.ra
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Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to avoid Red Sea after surge in missile and drone attacks(tradewindsnews.com)
100 points by NavinF 3y ago|103 comments
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by NavinF 3y ago
Incompressible files that don't use a standard compression format (like a video codec) are usually encrypted
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by NavinF 3y ago
Eh not really that weird. Consider how Microsoft repeatedly reverse engineered AOL for compatibility reasons and AOL actively blocked their efforts with every update: https://youtu.be/w-7PjunSxLU Stuff like this happens all
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by NavinF 3y ago
Aren't most protocols proprietary? Every app builds their own on top of standard protocols like HTTP, TLS, and IP. Not all services are hostile to third party clients though
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by NavinF 3y ago
Yeah anything that's not E2E encrypted is pretty useless for privacy/security these days. Might as well just use DMs on reddit, twitter, etc if you don't care about E2E
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by NavinF 3y ago
https://diskprices.com/ Of course you need Reed Solomon across drives (Eg raidz) regardless of media
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by NavinF 3y ago
Why? What's your preferred alternative and why is it more secure?
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by NavinF 3y ago
AFAIK the fixed cost of keeping a gas line active is ~$4/mo in most places and many homes still need gas for stoves and dryers so I expect ~0% of Americans to cancel gas in the next decade Of course the maintenance costs and the amorti
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by NavinF 3y ago
I suspect this is because inference is very expensive (much like GPT-4) and their expected ARPU (average revenue per user) in Europe is just not high enough to be worth the cost. See disposable income per capita (in PPP dollars): https:&#x
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by NavinF 3y ago
You misunderstood. For comparison, a typical cheap AC has an efficiency (coefficient of performance) of 300%. For every 1W consumed, the AC moves 3W.
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by NavinF 3y ago
There are many YouTube videos of people installing heat pumps by themselves in a few hours. Your quotes are likely inflated by permit requirements and price discrimination. Keep in mind that heating with natgas is way cheaper for most Ameri
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by NavinF 3y ago
Wtf. Is this documented or benchmarked anywhere?
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by NavinF 3y ago
No your laptop did not come with a pure optane SSD; it came with a 32GB optane cache. The former's retail price was thousands of dollars while the latter was a joke
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by NavinF 3y ago
50ns is typical with overclocked desktop RAM
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Income gaps are growing inexorably, aren't they?(economist.com)
3 points by NavinF 3y ago|2 comments
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by NavinF 3y ago
> How many people pay for Microsoft Office instead of just using LibreOffice? How many people pay for Microsoft Office instead of just using Google Docs/Sheets/...? LibreOffice doesn't replace Office for the same reason wh
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by NavinF 3y ago
>Even if you wanted to use logarithmic scaling, half of 4.4 * 10^26 would 4.4 * 10^13 That's the geometric mean of 4.4 * 10^26 and 1. He took the geometric mean of the radius of the observable universe and the Planck length. That&#x
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by NavinF 3y ago
Are you serious? Lemme try: I expect that as more and more people come to learn that their iphone's auto mode is better than their DSLR's auto mode, we will see more people reaching for cell phones instead of cameras for the impor
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by NavinF 3y ago
Why not use a HDCP stripper (often marketed as a port splitter) and an optical cable? That'll solve both of your problems
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by NavinF 3y ago
The really cheap ones that don't support VRR (variable refresh rate) only buffer a few lines of pixels and rely on the sample-and-hold LCD panel to act as a framebuffer between frames
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by NavinF 3y ago
You're limited by the cost per PHY. Instead of adding a 40G port to your monitor, it would cost almost the same to add it to your PC and avoid the bandwidth contention. Most monitors only support 10G which is dirt cheap. Also USB4&#x2F
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by NavinF 3y ago
Besides the dynamic bandwidth allocation, you pretty much described how USB 4 and all versions of Thunderbolt works. Personally I'd hate to see my display bandwidth drop when I copy files to a flash drive so I'm glad no monitors s
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by NavinF 3y ago
US dollar inflation was 32.1% over the last decade. Netflix increased their prices from $10/mo to $16/mo in 2011 and faced massive backlash with tech journalists praising Blockbuster and saying "Up until today, we loved Netfl
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by NavinF 3y ago
Doubt it. Most streaming sites are still ad free and their prices only increased with inflation. Both YouTube and creators already get way more revenue from premium subscribers than ad watchers so I doubt that'll change this decade
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by NavinF 3y ago
If it was $10+$5 for YouTube+music, this thread would be full of people complaining that Google is nickel and diming them because there's already music on YouTube.com
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by NavinF 3y ago
I gave several reasons why someone would want garage delivery. Services like walmart InHome are fairly common in the US. Consumers are willing to pay extra for the service and retailers like not having to refund stolen packages in sketchy n

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