Voloskaya

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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> If licensing still apply when copilot generates the code. The answer is yes. Please provide a source for this.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
It's not as easy. Number of cases in that second period are ~10x the number of cases in that first period. Which means you have more propagation, potentially affecting more at-risk chunk of the population. E.g. the very few cases happe
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> "[...] support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks became a partisan issue purely because they exposed corruption in your favorite political party" Wikileaks released all of Clinton's/DNC/Podesta email at a timing
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
It's not a "Copilot for Emacs" though? It's a layer on top of language models APIs made for Emacs. So, if you use GPT-3, it will not be finetuned further on code like Copilot, only pretrained on data that did contain so
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> You would imagine the software and hardware should be several levels above what we would expect to get from even premium brands such as Apple M1 etc You would actually expect it to be several levels below, but extremely well tested, ju
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> There's no way to say it was actually covid, but it certainly was not the Flu due to the exam, and it matches all the covid symptoms Many things match those symptoms though, such as other strains of coronaviruses e.g. HKU1 or NL6
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
There is a much better way to have more geniuses: Increased access to education worldwide. 10% of adults worldwide still can't read (probably around 500M people), and 60% did not go further than secondary education. This has the big ad
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
That your brain continually learns and evolves is not surprising at all. What is surprising is that the location of the subset of neurons that reacts to a specific thing (say the smell of wine) changes over time. So neurons that were used t
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
The culture pass used to be 500 euros, for about 2K people per year (anyone turning 18 yo, only in Nievre). It's now 300 euros for anyone turning 18 yo in all of France, about 800K people. Trying to paint that as regression is stretchi
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> minimum wage at Wendy's is also a supply and demand issue, but that job isn't sold as "do it for the love of the fast food industry" That's a fallacy, no one goes to work at Wendy for the love of it. Some peop
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> "do it for the love of the craft not money" is bullshit propaganda that only serves to keep labor costs low It's not, it's simply reality. When deciding where to work, people don't just myopically look at the $
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
I agree with you that it's a way more interesting journey, but it is by no mean "easier". Especially since OP was talking about getting acquired at the end. Just keeping your business alive is hard enough, let alone being acq
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> that it might actually be easier to do a bootstrapped start-up for a year and get bought by Facebook than it is to grind leetcode and interview-prep for a year and roll the dice on the interview circuit. I wish I were joking. If you ar
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
I don't understand why this is controversial. Tesla wants to diversify it's holding and decides to have x% of it's holdings in form of BTC. BTC subsequently goes up sigfinicantly. Now, Tesla has y% of it's holding in BTC
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
Or you wouldn't because every kid using Google Doc would be using Smart Compose autocomplete feature and corrector making everyone's prose very homogeneous.
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
What did the EU "not do"? The EU did pretty much exactly the same thing, securing access to 2.3B doses from 6 different providers and investing 2.7B$ for vaccine development (on top of the price tag of the vaccines themselves). I
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
To be fair I'm pretty sure discussion about pricing never were the bottleneck, they happened in parallel to the safety/efficacy approval, so Europe saved 1.2B Euros doing this, at no other cost.
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
> As I understand it, because they were ready to pay whatever it costs. That particular cost wasn't financial though. It was a promise to fast track rollout where other countries wanted to go through lengthy approval and review proc
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
It's assuming you will be fine with 30K/year over the next 40 years that is not reasonable. So many things can change or go wrong and you end up needing more than that (exactly what happened here). If this happens relatively earl
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
Accuracy and numbers of parameters don't scale linearly together. It varies widely depending on exactly what you are measuring accuracy on as well etc. But a very approximate rule of thumb would be to say that accuracy scales with the
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
> movie props, collect stamps, let authors sign their books All those things have intrisinc values. If tomorrow the market for movie props, stamps and signed book went straight to 0, the owners would keep those objects for themselves, t
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
Larger models aren't really more complicated than smaller ones though. GPT-2 is already supported, I believe only difference with GPT-3 is sparse attention.
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
It's trained using the same architecture, and with a very similar dataset, so it should be very close.
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. So they need to scale by 64x. They already have a comparable amount of data than what was used by OpenAI, so it's about scaling the numbers of GPUs.
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
~4M$ per full training give or take.
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
> Looking at their 2020 sales numbers and assuming they will be the same in 2021 is a very bad idea.... Look at that number how you want, they are selling more now than ever, and even if we assume that 2021 will be equal to their worst y
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
"The GPU maker seemed confident that its restrictions couldn’t be defeated, even claiming it wasn’t just a driver holding back performance. “It’s not just a driver thing,” said Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia’s head of communications, last mon
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
> How many people do you think are gonna go out and buy it [...] because it loads faster Probably not a lot, although this game is still selling at a staggering 20M copies a year, so there is probably something to be said here. > How
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
How is this different from the meme about designer not getting paid but instead being rewarded "with exposure"? What he did can, maybe, potentially, eventually, net him a lot of money if he does this and that. Sure, but maybe he d
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by Voloskaya 6y ago
I don't get the distinction you are trying to make. Trained snails learned to withdraw into their shells for long period of times after a shock to avoid receiving any more shocks. That learning was passed along to other snails through

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