PeterisP

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by PeterisP 3y ago
Your arguments are technically valid, and explain why AMD is doing this, but the eventual outcome is that for the (many!) non-corporate users of would-be-ML-hwardware you get better service by avoiding AMD/ROCm and buying nVidia hardwa
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Since both Sam and Greg are gone, that implies a 4-2 decision, which is as far from unanimous decision as a 6-person board could possibly make.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The article doesn't make any argument why the current situation is unsustainable - it does point out some problems, but as far as we can see, there's no reason why current situation, with all its drawbacks and limitations, couldn&
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by PeterisP 3y ago
A nice example was on 2018 when Kanye unlocked his phone while being filmed on live TV.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If the 'losing' side simply refused to give that one thing asked, how could the 'winner' get them to comply?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No, that's not an alternative avenue for reporting serious issues, because that only applies to "material breaches" (i.e. the vulnerability was not only exploitable but actually exploited, and the attack did damage, and the d
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by PeterisP 3y ago
For your thought experiment, I'd assert that the key missing part is experimentation in the real world, as that is what acquires new information, not the complexity of human brains working together. If you took millions of genius-lev
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I believe that historically the direction is the other way around - that elective cosmetic facial surgery was enabled by the experience of the many surgeons performing the many reconstructive surgeries for facial injuries which were needed
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I don't think that the position of Gebru et al (or even more specifically the stochastic parrot paper) can be dismissed as solely relying on "human exceptionalism". While some of that sentiment arguably is there, the paper do
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's important to understand that the answer to that prompt should not be interpreted as providing the truth. It has access to its prompt, but it can lie about its contents, and it generally has no inside information at all about &quot
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If that's the only problem, then that would be fixed simply by taking "computers required to interface with the car's computers" i.e. a <$200 OBD-II device with you in the car, not choosing a car with 20+ years of wea
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Part of the transaction costs for your trading business is properly accounting for these transactions; if that is a huge amount of work and makes the transactions unprofitable, well, don't do them. If you do complex transactions thousa
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by PeterisP 3y ago
There are two rather popular mechanisms. One is simply using crypto as cash equivalent - a mechanism to receive (and spend) undeclared income without paying the relevant taxes, so that drives adopting pretty much the same regulations as for
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by PeterisP 3y ago
How is that different? The transaction data export from most crypto-exchanges takes up the same amount of clicks no matter if you have 5 or 5000 transactions, as do the adding of whatever formulas you might need in excel to manage your busi
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> Maybe we should employ the methods we use to ascertain that fellow human beings are conscious entities with subjective experience? What methods? Are there any? Is there suddenly some consensus among philosophers about the p-zombie thou
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Money is like oxygen, it doesn't warrant much attention unless you're not getting enough, and then it matters a whole lot.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
You have a point with "would be to never hire someone to do work you've not done yourself", but I can't agree with your specific suggestion on how to handle that - instead, my recommendation would be to rely on someone y
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by PeterisP 3y ago
For starters, the supreme court would not do anything until (unless!) someone challenges the treasury ruling, and there would inevitably be some nontrivial time gap between the two sentences in your scenario of "Imagine they decide to
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IMHO there was a good solution - launching python 3.0 only when you had a working solution to make a library that is usable in both python2 and python3 code, as was possible later on, and what IMHO was a key factor in making the migration a
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The sad thing was that the transition could have been incremental - the "polyglot option" arrived somewhere in the middle of the transition, and a lot of debate was still raging as if there was no way to use python2 libraries in
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by PeterisP 3y ago
This is not an isolated one-off decision. In your opinion, what should people do after refusing the python3 transition plan? Refuse changing the string treatment forever, or block the transition until some better plan is proposed?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Because they are getting the payment. If the customer would be paying the landlord directly, AirBnB wouldn't have the responsibilty, but since the customer is paying AirBnB, the buck stops there, they are fully responsible for that; th
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Surrendering rights in any contract of adhesion. I'd consider it to be reasonable for a negotiated contract between two companies to include a binding arbitration clause; however, any "take-it-or-leave-it" consumer nonnegotia
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Since we currently aren't covering the existing demand for electricity with reneweables, the "marginal kwh" of electrifying some car comes from fossil fuels, not solar. Those are two separate things - electrifying some transp
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The key point is that the difference between "wholesale electricity" and "retail electricity" is based on total costs which don't change if you buy 1kWh less from the grid - while it's currently priced "pe
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No, it is not very true - even if you look at the worst case "do nothing" scenarios in the IPCC report, they are very bad, but very, very far from "we all die". Using such hyperbole is counterproductive and makes people
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by PeterisP 3y ago
That's an inherent limitation of heat engines - if you burn the same thing in a power plant, then you could get 45% instead of 35%, but you can't possibly convert, say, 80% of burned fossil fuel into productive work.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
This is a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison. If you consider the energetic content of the gas burned in a car, then you need to measure the same thing for the EV - large power plants are a bit more efficient than car engines, but unavo
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by PeterisP 3y ago
FHE does still add a huge overhead (measured in orders of magnitude, not percentages), so it would not be applicable for large models that are comparable with state of art models. You can apply FHE to neural networks in general (e.g. https
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Okay, then let's have libraries train LLMs on the whole collection of the books that they have legitimately obtained. I'd assume that for this particular collection of Chinese printed works, the National Library of China would als

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