Scea91

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by Scea91 3y ago
What stumbles me is information like the following [1] > Indeed, making the much bigger model, the GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters, emitted over 550 tons of CO2e while consuming 1,287 MW hours of electricity, per computer scientist Kat
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by Scea91 3y ago
What percentage of global emmissions is spent on computing infrastructure? Last time I saw the numbers it was practically negligible if we exclude cryptocurrencies.
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by Scea91 3y ago
In Prague, price conscious people are using public transport. Then I think most people have multiple apps Uber/Bolt/Liftago and before making a trip they check each for the best deal.
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by Scea91 3y ago
We are also in a transition period when most people and media have not realized this yet. Yesterday, I read an article about Tour de France stage and it linked to about 4 tweets with videos which are not playable without an account. I just
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by Scea91 3y ago
What do you mean? Statistics and ML is used in astrophotography regularly. For example, the famous black hole “photo” [1]. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-i...
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by Scea91 3y ago
Seems more than a nitpick to me. I find the essay interesting but this line raised some distrust in me. How can someone have these deep insights into Google's ML strategy and the evolution of the field and simultaneously think LSTMs we
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by Scea91 3y ago
Markup is not profit. Markup can increase while profit can decrease… I am not sure why we should care much about markup in this context.
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by Scea91 4y ago
Definitely true, my hope is that we will be achieving new things previously beyond our reach. Judging from things like Star Trek we have a long way to go. The question is whether we remain in the driving seat and as OP said, how the gains
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by Scea91 4y ago
I am a bit rusty on this theory but isn't the N in your case related to the output size while you would need it to be related to input size instead?
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by Scea91 4y ago
And for raising more its usually also the middle class. Generally, middle class is a convenient target.
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by Scea91 4y ago
I would remain calm, this is just a patent. I would not be surprised if it surfaced from some internal patent-storming event with no intention from the company to actually pursue it. Such patents are among few other things useful for the co
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by Scea91 4y ago
Given the stakes, these types of decisions, without judging whether they are good or bad, should be made by governments, or perhaps organizations like UN and not private companies.
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by Scea91 4y ago
I think the main problem is not in universal law enforcement but in constant surveillance which is a bit orthogonal. Why should people be under constant surveillance even at times when they are not breaking any laws? Why should someone else
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by Scea91 4y ago
> The higher the tier you reached, the more money you got, independent of how other students fared (probably subject to budget constraints, though). It worked the same way at my University with the same outcome as yours. 7 years after gr
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by Scea91 4y ago
> That means nearly all brown applicants for got hired. Nope, the denominator is different. If you select the same percentage from each category the proportions stay the same. If there are 100 fruits where 10 are apples and 90 are pears
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by Scea91 4y ago
Would you extend this to all names and not just product? I attempt to push domain driven design and one of the principles is that a single concept should be called by a single name. It all works well until product management decides to unil
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by Scea91 4y ago
Seems like author got frustrated by some specific demand of his professor and wrote this rant to let steam out. There is a suggestion in the end to always follow Pareto principle and do 80-20 work. I think it is not that simple. I tend to
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by Scea91 4y ago
I don’t see much wrong with your schedule if it suits you. Keep in mind that many people are passionate about multiple things and it is ok that they are not coding related. Please, just don’t assume I am not passionate about my job if I spe
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by Scea91 4y ago
As long as its transparent and included in the per-night price calculation so I can easily compare multiple properties I do not have an issue with any fee regardless of its name. People are annoyed because these fees are often sneaky or not
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by Scea91 4y ago
So how would you follow up in this situation when its you asking for help? Would you just say no and ask someone else, or try to figure the thing out by yourself?
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by Scea91 4y ago
> If you care about things like income and career progression, do not let yourself become one of these people. They aren't valued, and it doesn't take a lot of staring at job postings or talking to hiring managers to figure out
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by Scea91 4y ago
Out of curiosity, are you perhaps driving on streets that are likely to be heavily represented in the training data? I would be interested in seeing how performance differs between cities and countries.
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by Scea91 4y ago
Germany export to France is an uninteresting information without context. Due to the energy mix the energy is exported in production peaks when it is cheap (sometimes prices are negative) and imported back when there is shortage for higher
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by Scea91 4y ago
When I first registered on Twitter I didn't understand how anyone finds it useful and left my account idle for ± 3 years. It only became useful when I copied a highly curated follower list from a coworker. Since then I have onboarded s
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by Scea91 4y ago
You said one difference yourself already: sweating. Also in sauna you breathe the hot air in.
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by Scea91 4y ago
Annexation of Sudetenland is not just any event. It's an event to which Russia-Ukraine situation has been compared over and over again.
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by Scea91 4y ago
I have 4 year vesting period. After the first vest the following vests start to be denominated in stock units. I think the advantage for company is somewhat better predictability?
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by Scea91 4y ago
Not Amazon, but when I receive RSUs it is denominated in the dollar amount. In a year when the first part vests the dollars are converted to stock units based on the price at that moment. Thus I do not know how many units of stock I am rece
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by Scea91 4y ago
How is the value of unimproved land determined in places where there is no nearby unimproved land to compare with. For example, how would I determine this value in lower Manhattan?
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by Scea91 4y ago
This reminds me of football analogy where goals scored at away matches count for two in competitions like Champions League. I am not good at chess but would it help if win as black was rewarded more than win as white?

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