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by acc_297 1y ago
https://archive.ph/Nxiaw
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by acc_297 1y ago
Funny anecdote from the full article "Equipment provided by Raytheon as part of a multi-million dollar contract broke the winter after it was installed. One U.S. official said most of the detectors had been designed by Raytheon for the
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by acc_297 1y ago
The weather underground started as a passion project (both weather undergrounds did actually) and it's become one of the most trusted internet sources for weather. Good luck!
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by acc_297 1y ago
It really depends, many workers actually hold better cards than their employers. Outside of fortune 500 economy-driving institutions like Amazon or JP Morgan there are smaller companies with "lynchpin" employees or teams with the
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by acc_297 1y ago
One of the last courses I took during my CS degree we had one on one 10 minute zoom calls with TAs who would ask a series of random detailed questions about any line of code in any file of our term project. It was easy to complete if you wr
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by acc_297 1y ago
My undergrad networks course discussed a little BGP stuff but only on the blackboard. To experiment with BGP you could use a network simulator like what the author of this blog did. In my class we used something called gini[1] which I think
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by acc_297 1y ago
I don't completely agree - I think it's not about GPT-3 failing to generalize word puzzle solutions it's about the type of minimized solution that gradient descent algorithms find which will produce overwhelmingly correct out
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by acc_297 1y ago
> how this will affect my everyday uses of LLMs for coding It won't - that's not what this paper is about.
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by acc_297 1y ago
This is an interesting paper. It's nice to see AI research addressing some of the implied assumptions that compute-scale focused initiatives are relying on. A lot of the headline advancements in AI place lots of emphasis on model size
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by acc_297 1y ago
Today this front page post has a companion front page post probably worth reading in tandem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44037941
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by acc_297 1y ago
The last graph is the most telling evidence that our current "general" models are pretty bad at any specific task all models tested are 15% more likely to pick the candidate presented first in the prompt all else being equal. This
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by acc_297 1y ago
There's also the fantastic "tidytable" library. I wouldn't want to implement multi-headed self attention in either of those libraries though. I've done only very simple ML stuff using R and it never feels like exact
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by acc_297 1y ago
For sure I mean he certainly wanted to access the subscriber base he built up. And he has made some commitments to do a few series on 20th century revolutions once he's done with this project so check back in a few months there should
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by acc_297 1y ago
Related comment - Mike Duncan who made a name for himself doing long form multi episode history podcasts recently produced a fiction project of the false history of a class revolution on mars ~200 years in the future that is told through th
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by acc_297 1y ago
You require inertia in the grid to maintain frequency and other stability stuff. Solar PV is great but is mostly grid-following so cannot operate on it's own. As I understand it you need a minimum fraction of power generation to be lar
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by acc_297 2y ago
The greenery in question appears to be a tidal estuary (but I'm not 100% sure) and it also appears to be close to the downtown center of a city of 4 million people who all need some amount of electricity to live their daily lives. The
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by acc_297 2y ago
I believe that the installation in that picture and a number of other installations in the Taizhou region are built over a river system or some kind of tidal water reservoir I was unable to find the exact area but [1] is a nearby installati
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by acc_297 2y ago
I imagine anything that actually is used in a factory environment to not look as humanoid as the press photos (especially the head there's no point in having that top appendage which does nothing but remind the reader of star wars) and
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by acc_297 2y ago
If so then what a colossal waste of our planetary carbon budget. I don't know what the backend on this app is (maybe it was done properly i really hope so) but surely there is a solution which maintains or surpasses the accuracy of an
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by acc_297 2y ago
Others are pointing this out but for anyone curious Tesla has received a tonne of indirect subsidy via electric vehicle sales incentives on the consumer side of the equation which absolutely translates into increased corporate profits. Acro
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by acc_297 2y ago
Pretty funny to find this at the top of the article. "The company's pullback on data center projects has raised concerns about demand for AI services and has weighed on global tech stocks, particularly chipmakers like Nvidia. Summ
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by acc_297 2y ago
Paul Krugman had some commentary on this https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-k...
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by acc_297 2y ago
There is a certain Bitcoin evangelist who will preach the gospel of a self governing currency that via a system of rules will automatically validate transactions between trust-less parties in a decentralized manner over a globe-spanning int
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by acc_297 2y ago
"Canadian tariffs" doesn't mean anything please specify on which goods you are referring to. (e.g. lumber, dairy etc...) The American government is proposing across the board on every import (>=$800 or something) tariffs w
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by acc_297 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, I honestly wish this company the best electric planes are a hard problem to solve and it's good to see anyone making an honest effort. However to poke just a little fun this line stands out as a hilarious marketing
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by acc_297 2y ago
From the wiki I take it they have yet to build and fly a full-sized prototype "A 1/4 scale model was successfully demonstrated in 2022 in Narragansett Bay"[1] Also I assume radar-proof is just because it's a ground effec
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by acc_297 2y ago
Some are saying it’s about the center of mass being closer to the point of contact I’m not an expert but I think it has more to too with reducing vibrations along the bat and increasing the efficiency of energy transfer Again not an expert
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by acc_297 2y ago
I'm only just learning about this outfit "Sentinel" and I'm not exactly sure how seriously to take them but this line is pretty funny "On the other hand, we are also mindful of the low baserate for a US administrati
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by acc_297 2y ago
Working in clinical trial data processing I receive data in 1 of 3 formats: csv, sas datasets, image scans of pdf pages showing spreadsheets Of these 3 options sas datasets are my preference but I'll immediately convert to csv or exce
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by acc_297 2y ago
Great article as an outsider just to understand a bit what the open questions are in studies of the brain and how these open questions get discussed by researchers. Very easy to read and fascinating.

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