banjo_milkman

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An attempt to reconstruct Ilya Sutskever's 2020 AI reading list(tensorlabbet.com)
3 points by banjo_milkman 2y ago|0 comments
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Why US Nightlife Sucks(darrellowens.substack.com)
21 points by banjo_milkman 2y ago|18 comments
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Which books are in the Silicon Valley canon? (Patrick Collison's list)(twitter.com)
3 points by banjo_milkman 2y ago|0 comments
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Which books, papers, and blogs are in the Bayesian canon?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5 points by banjo_milkman 2y ago|0 comments
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The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism(arxiv.org)
157 points by banjo_milkman 2y ago|38 comments
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Thoughts about AI and the current state of the industry(ludic.mataroa.blog)
7 points by banjo_milkman 2y ago|1 comments
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by banjo_milkman 3y ago
This is an interesting conjecture. It could be a cunning Microsoft competitive strategy. They convince cost-sensitive IT infrastructure groups in other businesses to use Teams by offering it for free, reducing company productivity massively
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by banjo_milkman 3y ago
Yes, I use an Onyx Note Air 2 for this purpose. It works nicely, much easier on the eyes than a laptop/Ipad. The Note Air 2 is fairly big - 10.3" - works well for books.
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by banjo_milkman 3y ago
Illumina
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by banjo_milkman 3y ago
They are talking about one 'reference genome'. The variation from human-to-human is relatively small (a few million bases out of 3 billion). The reference genome has historically been some kind of average/mosaic of several in
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You can't trust the AI hype(palladiummag.com)
20 points by banjo_milkman 3y ago|8 comments
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The quest for the European microchip from the 1980s to the present(phenomenalworld.org)
4 points by banjo_milkman 4y ago|0 comments
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by banjo_milkman 4y ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee's books 'The Gene', 'Emperor of all Maladies', 'The Song of the Cell' all mix biology and history with lots of detail and are easy to read.
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Returned astronauts struggle to recover bone density(theguardian.com)
3 points by banjo_milkman 4y ago|0 comments
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by banjo_milkman 5y ago
The UK has had an industrial intervention policy for ages. Its undeclared but it basically involves supporting finance, real estate, business services and insurance in London above all other stakeholders in the country.
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by banjo_milkman 5y ago
The BBC has some good history ones: In our Time, You're dead to me
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by banjo_milkman 5y ago
The Ted Chiang books are great. Short stories. 'Arrival' the movie is based on one of them.
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by banjo_milkman 5y ago
Liquid biopsy for early cancer detection.
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DeepMind – Solving Mixed Integer Programs Using Neural Networks(arxiv.org)
2 points by banjo_milkman 5y ago|0 comments
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Graphcore Looks Like a Complete Failure in Machine Learning Training Performance(semianalysis.com)
1 points by banjo_milkman 5y ago|1 comments
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The Golden Age of Compilers, in an Era of Hardware/Software Co-Design(docs.google.com)
5 points by banjo_milkman 5y ago|0 comments
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by banjo_milkman 5y ago
It's not a documentary but the BBC drama 'Micro Men' is very good and AFAIK mostly historically accurate. It's about the battle between Clive Sinclair (of Sinclair Spectrum fame) and Chris Curry (founder of Acorn Compute
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by banjo_milkman 6y ago
Turbo codes and low density parity check codes are two classes of iteratively-decoded capacity approaching codes, amongst others. Ironically, LDPC was actually developed in the 60s by Robert Gallagher, but were reinvented in the 90s when th
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by banjo_milkman 6y ago
Fiction: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Very moving. Piranesi by Susanna Clark. Like her earlier books, it had a strong story + original style + was very inventive. Non-fiction: The Great Leveller - Walter Scheidel Sid Meier's biogra
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by banjo_milkman 6y ago
Raw FLOPs is completely misleading, which is why Nvidia focus on it as a metric. The GPU can't keep those ops active - particularly during inference when most of the data is fresh so caches don't help. It's the roofline mode
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by banjo_milkman 6y ago
10GBASE-T was actually standardised in 2006. PHY chips were available that year but reaching 100m was very difficult on unshielded cables - the chips were large, high power, expensive to make, 100m was only guaranteed if users upgraded the
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California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse(propublica.org)
5 points by banjo_milkman 6y ago|0 comments
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by banjo_milkman 6y ago
I think this is driven by partly embedded applications and more directly by the datacenter. Nvidia already own the parallel compute/ML part of the datacenter and the Mellanox acquisition had brought the ability to compete in the networ
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by banjo_milkman 6y ago
There are multiple examples of revolutionary technology from the UK: 1) ARM - dominates embedded systems, >90% of cellphones and IoT, sold to SoftBank, now on the way to NVidia 2) DeepMind - arguably global leader in AI, now part of Goog
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New Architectures, Much Faster Chips(semiengineering.com)
8 points by banjo_milkman 6y ago|0 comments

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