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by atty 5y ago
Possibly, but at some point it has to stop, right? Take the extreme example of working 4 hours, one day a week. If you are even marginally interested in what you’re doing, I can’t imagine anyone feeling burned out by that. I just don’t know
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by atty 5y ago
Because MasterCard and Visa are essentially a global duopoly - they most certainly should not be allowed to discriminate against any legal industry, even if it is extremely high risk. Because that leads to very serious harm for people who l
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by atty 5y ago
I actually quite like that analogy - I may use that the next time I have a chance to teach.
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by atty 5y ago
As a physicist, I think how we normally describe what you’re talking about is that there must be a robust and explanatory theory that goes along with experimental measurements. The most fruitful areas of research are the ones where theory a
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by atty 5y ago
ONNX is a representation and interchange format that training/inference frameworks can use to represent models. However, ONNX does not have a tensor engine of its own. So you would still define and train your model in tensorflow, pytor
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by atty 5y ago
Yeah I think a lot of the familiarity is a good thing. I don’t think my dad would ever buy a Tesla, he would be put off by the minimalism and all the controls on the screen (and he wouldn’t even consider a car with a yoke instead of a steer
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by atty 5y ago
I think it is relevant to point out that Intel’s compiler team would almost certainly never have chosen LLVM in the first place, if it forced them to release whatever secret sauce is giving them the performance increases we see in those per
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by atty 5y ago
The iPhone and the Mac are different platforms, developed at different times, for different purposes and different markets with different design philosophies. I don’t see a logical connection between the iPhone being bootlocked and the Mac
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by atty 5y ago
I don’t think anyone is incentivized to have a kid because they get a few weeks or months off. The only incentive i see is the opposite; if there is no parental leave, they may decide not to have children they were otherwise considering. An
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by atty 5y ago
I’m pretty sure AMD offers perf/watt that is in the ballpark of ARM chips, and I’m guessing Intel, if they ever get on a similar process node again, will be able to get close. None of that changes the need for accelerators though. Nvid
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by atty 5y ago
I’d second Doom emacs, I consider it the best way to use Vim :D However, I am using it less and less, and I find myself using VSCode more and more. I now very rarely find myself using Doom emacs or vim. I’d say for small changes I still use
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by atty 5y ago
Unfortunately it’s pretty clear from the article that Cory does not have much familiarity with the research going on in the field of machine learning, and is creating a straw man. Quite a lot of work is being done on causal inference, out-o
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by atty 5y ago
My argument isn’t that it’s not a corner case, it most certainly is. I wouldn’t need it more than a few times a year max. My point is that the “extra hassle” of a tap to pay system is so amazingly minuscule it’s more than worth it to includ
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by atty 5y ago
How do I pay to charge someone’s car I’m borrowing for a day or two then without it going to their account? Seems too restrictive. Much better to have an NFC scanner that works with Apple/Google pay services. Taking 3 seconds on a tap
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by atty 5y ago
You seem to be under the impression that rich people tip more. From what I have seen, and from many friends in the service industry, this is simply false. You’re far more likely to get no tip from someone driving a Mercedes than someone dri
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by atty 5y ago
I worked in one of the largest grocery store chains in the US for about 8 years before going full time into a PhD program. Almost very problem we had to deal with was caused by one of three things: not enough work hours scheduled, supply ch
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by atty 5y ago
You’d need to ask a cardiologist of course, but I think for all intents and purposes, the science is in fact settled. The heart pumps blood. In any field you see people using weak evidence to question strongly evidenced positions like in th
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by atty 5y ago
Saying X is Y without any evidence to support it is neither helpful nor convincing, unless it is self evident. Suggesting science is equivalent to religion is most certainly not evident. In fact, I’d argue the only evident thing about that
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by atty 5y ago
Classics and Religious texts suggest that stoning is an appropriate punishment for premarital sex, that bloodletting is a good cure for just about anything, that the earth is the center of the universe… I will take my chances with imperfect
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by atty 5y ago
I would argue that the failing is not in the education system, but instead that the tax structure of a country should not be built in such a way that those with the time and resources to spend can effectively game the system to pay signific
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by atty 5y ago
That’s exciting news, but I can’t help but feel that at least in my field (machine learning), Nvidia is far more sticky than just their compute dominance. As long as CUDA is Nvidia proprietary, I just don’t think our team can afford to move
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by atty 5y ago
That’s interesting. At my job I’m low enough on the totem pole that I don’t get time with executives more than like once a quarter. But from what I can tell, both the executive team and my direct supervisors, are very supportive, and in man
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by atty 5y ago
That’s not the same thing as remote. I’m fully aware of their proposed hybrid work setup. But the main reasons people want remote is to 1. Freedom to choose where to live 2. Reduce/eliminate commute time 3. Avoid in person interactions
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by atty 5y ago
I completely agree and respect the fact that there are many people who strongly prefer to be in an office 5 days a week. And I don’t think Apple should close their offices - far from it. Offering remote positions does not preclude in-person
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by atty 5y ago
I’d argue that any data collected during the last year (including the data I presented about my current employer, of course) is not actually a very valid measurement. I fully suspect all companies (including my employer) that try to support
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by atty 5y ago
It’s a good question - and my guess would be that the executives (rightly) think Apple has been extremely successful at executing their product roadmaps over the last 15 years or so, based on a company culture where one of the core tenants
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by atty 5y ago
It’s a bad look when a technology company isn’t confident enough in their own technology, tools and processes to allow and encourage their employees to have more flexibility in their lives, and restrict the majority of them to live in one o
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by atty 5y ago
I had the exact same issue in my undergrad. I was suffering from pretty severe anxiety/depression during highs school, to the point where I dropped out in my junior year. I started “thriving” in my undergrad, if by thriving you mean bu
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by atty 5y ago
As someone who works on a decently complex project (essentially a graph execution engine for multi-node, data-parallel+model-parallel deep learning models), writing it in python is not really ideal. Python is great for the end user, but I’d
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by atty 5y ago
I think the assertion is one of the tyranny of the default. If they are not blocked by default, then for the majority of users, the option effectively does not exist, since they will not proactively look for such a setting.

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