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by acapybara 4y ago
A good photo has a lot more to do with lens, lighting, exposure, etc. "Upgrading" a device can very easily be a regression...
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by acapybara 4y ago
Not really. When there's a constant energy source like a flare, it must be used in realtime. Too much energy is even a problem for the grid (see negative electricity prices that have occurred in, e.g. China). The only alternative is ba
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by acapybara 4y ago
Bitcoin has died 463 times so far: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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by acapybara 4y ago
No need to put up with this! Smart people are everywhere. We can build together remotely. We can make our own companies. If we need to, we can make our own money systems.
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by acapybara 4y ago
The HGX A100 solves this problem: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-hgx-a100-most-... Basically we need to move away from slots!
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by acapybara 4y ago
This reminds me of the criticisms of Copilot (GPT-3 application to generate computer code). Many engineers will say it doesn't code. It just regurgitates and remixes the data it was trained on. It just makes "meta-heuristic guesse
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by acapybara 4y ago
Seems like you could start this up pretty quickly. Make a Twitch channel, get a few contestants and set a date for the first event!
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by acapybara 4y ago
This is called a "suicide cord."
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by acapybara 4y ago
Basically stuff a 32 bit value into an 8 bit value (and lose precision). Apparently it doesn't affect the results significantly. More info: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/17901
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by acapybara 4y ago
Full GPT-6B can run if you have 22gb ram (CPU or GPU depending on where you run it). Also can run an 8 bit quantized version pretty easily. This takes ~6gb RAM. The results seem far off from GPT-3 but apparently it can get good results when
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by acapybara 4y ago
How much electricity is generated from gasoline? Or petroleum?
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by acapybara 5y ago
+1 on dedicated server. It's so much simpler & cost effective than the cloud. 10 big dedicated servers can probably handle the same load as 100s to 1000s of cloud nodes for a fraction of the cost. Configuration and general complexi
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by acapybara 5y ago
Re: "use something cheaper." For cost-effective startup/small scale infra, I love this method: - get a dedicated or colocated server (can be cheaper than you think... e.g. mini PC colo with endoffice, joe's datacenter, e
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by acapybara 5y ago
"US Army Psyop" is a subset of a subset of US government agencies. https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/members-of-the-ic
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by acapybara 5y ago
"Productivity trough" god that sounds like absolute hell.
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by acapybara 5y ago
"The messages are simply a series of letters, relayed in NATO phonetics, and encrypted with a one-time cypher. The receiver would need a code book (by varying reports refreshed daily, weekly, or monthly and inches thick) to identify th
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by acapybara 5y ago
Most (all?) of the commenters here seemed to miss the entire point of this feature: "Create custom prompts We provide a few preset prompts to get you started: three that explain what a particular block of code does, and another that ge
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by acapybara 5y ago
Just put your prompt into the OpenAI playground. Seems to have nailed it. Here's the result: --- Bob went to the store to get apples for his restaurant. He needed to cook food for an important dish. Bob came back home, and cut the appl
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by acapybara 5y ago
Had the same thought! The OpenAI API has davinci-codex, which could probably be trained for refactoring, but it's private beta... I think this is potentially a great use case, especially "code cleanup" tasks. Train it on seve
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by acapybara 5y ago
When Windows 10 came out, the telemetry, MS account features, forced auto updates/reboots made my computer feel like it was no longer my own. Having used Microsoft OSes since DOS, this was the straw that finally broke the camel's
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by acapybara 6y ago
> If you're not sure that your employer will screw you over then get something in writing. This might be a good indicator that you should leave your employer. If you don't trust that they won't screw you over... Granted, I
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by acapybara 6y ago
100%. For the startup we're starting/working on now, we're running microk8s on bare metal (dedicated servers). What you describe is a big reason for it. Once you have k8s set up, services can be very easily deployed with auto
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by acapybara 6y ago
At one point, web designers were making an effort to use semantic markup and create a "semantic web." That sure would have been nice for the screen readers.
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by acapybara 6y ago
I like this realist, skeptical, Machiavellian perspective. Is it a money game, or is there something more to it? https://bitcointreasuries.org/ is a site I use to try to determine if this is a legitimate trend or not. At $1
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by acapybara 6y ago
No, Ethereum does not specifically depend on Bitcoin. However, the use cases are very different. Bitcoin is about money (as a distinct concept from currency). Think of it as a new type of central bank --that's Bitcoin's target mar
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by acapybara 6y ago
See also: liquidity trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap It's when, despite low/negative rates, borrowers prefer to hold cash than to take out loans.
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by acapybara 6y ago
A nominal zero or negative rate can still be a positive real rate. It depends on future inflation/deflation. While it's easy to point at M1, M2 money stock figures (or the UK equivalent) as indicative of inflation, sometimes defla
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by acapybara 6y ago
There's a fundamental difference between storing value and investment. You're right that it's good to invest in productive assets. That said, there is still a need to store and represent value, and to be able to transfer it,
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by acapybara 6y ago
Er.. the term "sound currency"/"sound money" is used to describe currencies with tangible value, e.g. backed by gold. Gold itself is considered "sound money." What you're saying about sound money and&
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by acapybara 6y ago
Seems like a thing where if a FAANG wanted the early startup employee enough, they would gladly compensate for the one-time cost with a signing bonus.

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