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by aratauto 3y ago
Some recent discoveries indicate that LLMs might remember information after seeing it only once. See e.g.: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-09-04-learning-jumps/
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by aratauto 7y ago
On a bit unrelated note, if you want to handle very large Bloom filters (billions of entries with low false positive rates) there is an open source Java library that can help you to do that: https://github.com/nixer-io/
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by aratauto 7y ago
It is possible to run everything on CPU, even if we fastai 1.0. Only training can be 100 times slower than on GPU. Even for a toy exercises involving image processing and actual deep networks (30-150 layers) it means hours or days of traini
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by aratauto 7y ago
The second part of the course ( https://course.fast.ai/part2 ) - builds stuff bottom-up, starting from matrix multiplication all the way up to ResNets. This is a great resource even if you want only use Pytorch.
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by aratauto 7y ago
According my unscientific tests, it is about over 100 times faster. On my laptop I can throw one million exceptions in 15ms millisecond, when reusing the same exception objects, compared to 2 seconds when creating a new exception object eve
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by aratauto 7y ago
Technically in Java it is possible to create an exception object once, and throw it multiple times, making throws much cheaper as the stack trace is filled during the object's construction only.
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by aratauto 7y ago
That is not correct. 15 is total maximum number of repeats including the first one. Even the diagram on https://ihateregex.io/expr/username correctly says that loop can be taken between 2 and 14 times.
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by aratauto 7y ago
Apparently Amazon initially paid authors by e-book downloaded by users, but some authors abused this model. E.g. by splitting a 300-pages book to 6 50-pages books. It also enabled plain fraud, where fraudsters created accounts to download l
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by aratauto 7y ago
It will be very exciting to learn how life on Mars is different or similar to life on Earth. It would teach us what are might be fundamental blocks of life, and what is optional or can be "implemented" differently. It might bring
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by aratauto 7y ago
This competition allowed submissions to include extra data files that can be used by the model. The cheaters added a file with data from another website that seemed innocent, but secretly encoded extra information (perfect answers) in IDs.
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by aratauto 7y ago
With 900MHz and 32MB RAM it is more powerful than PCs when Doom launched (around 50MHz and 8MB RAM), so I guess it should be capable running Doom.
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by aratauto 7y ago
Warning: there is a US show "The Killing" that is an adaptation of the original show (originally called "Forbrydelsen"). While the US version initially starts as a shot-by-shot remake, after a few episodes the story dive
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by aratauto 7y ago
"Fossil" means "remains of plants or animals", but in the context of environmental aspect of fuels the key aspect is emission of CO2. Nuclear is neither of that. On the other hand it is non-renewable like fossil fuels. I