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by arcanus 4y ago
It's far too early to appraise the long term impact of alphafold. The Nobel committee is conservative and waits for years to view the impact.
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by arcanus 4y ago
The problem is this could be a 'Lehman Brothers Moment": the financial system is deeply interconnected. Credit Suisse failing could cause a domino effect that will spread to other banks, creating a systemic risk to the entire econ
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There’s Still One Big Trick for Getting into an Elite College(nytimes.com)
4 points by arcanus 4y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
> Anecdotally, I feel that experience; consequently, business tasks have become much harder. Interesting. My experience was the opposite. After the initial sleep deprivation, once our child was sleep trained, I achieved a new level of pr
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by arcanus 4y ago
Thankfully for US (and global) science AMD and HPE were able to deliver an Exascale computer at Oak Ridge National Lab earlier this year: https://www.ornl.gov/news/frontier-supercomputer-debuts-worl...
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by arcanus 4y ago
> There are no neutral historical records to prove he specifically existed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus "Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure&qu
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by arcanus 4y ago
"We are looking at some impressive gains gen-to-gen, especially when single-threaded performance is considered. This will be especially important for workloads such as gaming."
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by arcanus 4y ago
> No way, that's not even remotely true Oh. Who’s being naïve, Kay? Keep reading, because the article says, "The idea that American anti-Italian bigotry is the root cause of the mafia is obviously stupid." And, "Of co
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by arcanus 4y ago
“The richest 10% of people are responsible for 52% of cumulative global emissions — and the 1% for a full 15%.” "Of course, many Americans are wealthy in global terms. Oxfam has defined the world’s 1% as the 60 million people earning o
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by arcanus 4y ago
Anyone with experience using an apple watch on ultras or other long sustained athletic tracking? Overall, I expect the article headline is accurate. I used my Garmin 955 extensively for the Longs Peak Summit (keyhole, 12 hrs) and it had the
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by arcanus 4y ago
Netflix famously would match the salary of any external offer. I expect this will be the end of this practice.
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U.S. vs. China: The Race to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputers(wsj.com)
2 points by arcanus 4y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
I agree, this is only obliquely referenced, "making data published in peer-reviewed research articles immediately available upon publication and other research data available within a reasonable timeframe." Appears the paper'
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by arcanus 4y ago
This new policy will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to the American public. A huge portion of scientific research is federally funded, and this will likely drive all research to open access. O
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by arcanus 4y ago
> What you say is true... but that's also why American academics is widely viewed as corrupt and unproductive, ridden with fraudulent con artists, and falling into the same kind of failure mode seen in, for example, Soviet science u
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by arcanus 4y ago
Yes. As the executive in charge of this business unit (since 2016!) he owns execution.
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by arcanus 4y ago
Agree. It's inaccurate to miss AMD's superior architecture and execution.
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by arcanus 4y ago
> Everything I've heard is Gelsinger is the person they need, but I think it's likely way too late, he'll be forced into financial engineering or quitting soon. Agree. I also thought Pat was a good choice, given his knowle
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by arcanus 4y ago
Or a level increase. Easy to boomerang and come back at a level higher. Can be more certain than going through an internal promotion process!
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by arcanus 4y ago
What is the pension expected payment? You could estimate the pension as a risk free asset, paying approximately 4% a year. That would give you a comparison between what you need to save in industry vs. the government. For example of the pen
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by arcanus 4y ago
https://archive.ph/YaFHc
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The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed(wsj.com)
48 points by arcanus 4y ago|78 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
"We expected to find that these people are really active and to have high activity metabolic rates matched by high food intakes," says corresponding author John Speakman, a professor at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technolo
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by arcanus 4y ago
I also feel it's less disruptively innovative. The hacker mentality is gone. It feels like the difference between a start-up and a mature company. There are some positives. When I grew up, I was bullied and made fun of for being a &#x2
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by arcanus 4y ago
This is a cyberpunk future. I'm overall a fan of Musk, but this is too far. There simply must be rule of law for the United States to remain a dynamic society.
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by arcanus 4y ago
We are scientists and can use names. 'him' is Jürgen Schmidhuber. He's a luminary of ML, but he has entered into several attribution controversies. He famously accused Ian Goodfellow of appropriating his work to create genera
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Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok(theregister.com)
10 points by arcanus 4y ago|3 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
Some good stuff here! I'm surprised they didn't show many analytical results in neural networks. For example, I like making candidates for research in deep learning derive back propagation. You can show a wide variety of interesti
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Almost everyone works from home – if they can(axios.com)
3 points by arcanus 4y ago|0 comments
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An Invisible Cage: How China Is Policing the Future(nytimes.com)
11 points by arcanus 4y ago|1 comments

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