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by barbarr 2y ago
Probably something like this guy running out of a ditch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cfXTElHLT_I
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by barbarr 2y ago
Energy requirement is constant, reward is halved. So smaller players get out and bigger players benefiting from ASICs and economy of scale will stay. Usually after these events the energy usage of the network decreases temporarily for ~60 d
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by barbarr 2y ago
Good analogy! There's good reason to believe that web archives "uncontaminated" by LLM output will have some unique value in the future (if not now).
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by barbarr 2y ago
I guess this is a good thing for increasing coverage of neglected areas. But given how cleverly LLMs can hide hallucinations, I feel like at least a few different auditor bots should also sign off on edits to ensure everything is correct.
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by barbarr 2y ago
Don't give Jeff Bezos new ideas!
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by barbarr 2y ago
I use Google like this unfortunately, I just search random things that come to mind if I want to know more. Example: I see a squirrel nibbling at a pinecone or something. My brain literally thinks to search "squirrel diet pinecone&quot
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by barbarr 2y ago
The map is especially hilarious! You can infer the path of the eclipse from it. [0] [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...
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by barbarr 3y ago
Agreed. And honestly, even if PETA got out of the shelter business, anti-PETA folks will just find some other marginal edge cases dismiss them entirely. [0] I'm glad they are sticking to their principles and doing the right thing. List
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by barbarr 3y ago
Similar experience here. My PhD research was in a niche (but unhyped) field where it was easy to pump out low-impact papers. My peers who went into more hyped fields had much more citations and much better job outcomes, whether in academia
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by barbarr 3y ago
Oh, I had no clue. The Tony Stark-esque spinning earth graphics are hilarious. Guess the hype train catches everyone then.
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by barbarr 3y ago
Nvidia is really embracing the hype train I see... I'm assuming this model is in the same vein as ECMWF, GFS, ICON, CMC, and NAVGEM. Imagine if the NOAA or an academic lab released such a model called it "Earth 2.0" or "
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by barbarr 3y ago
These success of these avian flus are a direct result of mega factory farms ("concentrated animal feeding operations", or CAFOs) [0]. These massive operations are actually a relatively new thing since the 1990's [1]. We need
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by barbarr 3y ago
I imagine that you can draw pictures with this, where dark colors are represented by a lot of small bubbles. Not sure what the algorithm for that would look like though.
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by barbarr 3y ago
I used to write my emails with ChatGPT's help for a while, but looking back it's quite cringe because they're so obviously ChatGPT-written, even when I thought they weren't. Now I've given up on using AI assistant
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by barbarr 3y ago
I love these types of improvements - I figure they don't really have a practical application (except for shaving a few milliseconds off ultra large matrices), but they're a testament to human ingenuity and the desire to strive f
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by barbarr 3y ago
Hope this gains some traction in Congress. Shitflation is a thing that's been happening as well. [0] [0] https://jonatron.github.io/shitflation/
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by barbarr 3y ago
As someone who didn't know what JPEG XL was before reading this, it sounded to me like some specialized file format for huge images. Ironically, this would lead me to the right choice of file type if I had a large image. I do admit, th
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by barbarr 3y ago
Ah sweet, man made horrors beyond our comprehension.
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by barbarr 3y ago
The activations are still 8-bit, so a lot of complexity and nonlinearity is still expressible. Only the weights are 1.58-bit.
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by barbarr 3y ago
Yes, there are many research groups working on this at the moment. We can (roughly) screen through chemical reactions performed in vaccuum. Even this is difficult since you either need to simulate atoms bouncing around until you observe a r
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by barbarr 3y ago
I don't think it's obvious per se, but people who have studied numerical methods at the graduate level have likely seen fractal boundaries like this before - even Newton's method produces them [0]. The phenomenon says more ab
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by barbarr 3y ago
Explicit video clips? 4chan is gonna have a field day with this.
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by barbarr 3y ago
Seconding this. I was phone free for an entire year, only to get re-addicted a few months later.
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by barbarr 3y ago
+1 for this feature
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by barbarr 3y ago
Uh oh.
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by barbarr 3y ago
A CEO's/company's job is to maximize instantaneous shareholder value. Anything else is a waste of time, since investors are assumed to take long-term vs short-term risk preference into their own hands. The company is essentia
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by barbarr 3y ago
It's a parameter for tracking link shares. In this case, sfti1 means sharing a fact as text on iOS. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Provenance
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by barbarr 3y ago
It's the degree of compression that can be achieved, from 7 words to 2.
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Doing laundry on campus without a phone(naveenarun.wordpress.com)
340 points by barbarr 3y ago|490 comments
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by barbarr 3y ago
This is one of the few good replies here, thanks for writing it out.

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