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by blagie 4y ago
For people who have played this and who know Chinese history: How historically-accurate is this game? Will a child learn Chinese history? There's a scale of realism, and I'm not quite sure where this falls.
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by blagie 4y ago
I've worked AI into my day-to-day workflow to an extent where I'm simply not worried about NVidia. It's like the early days of the internet, or of computing. I can do things my friends can only dream about. The key risk to NV
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by blagie 4y ago
Virtually all the free alternatives to Photoshop are similar to 1995-2000 era Photoshop. In that era, gimp and Photoshop were neck-and-neck, with gimp missing color models and deep color. Photoshop from that era was pretty simple and easy-t
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by blagie 4y ago
Yes, speaking as an insider, cheating at universities like Harvard, Stanford, and MIT is ubiquitous. I'm not talking about undergrads copying exams, so much as research fraud, bizarre financial schemes to funnel endowment funds into fa
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by blagie 4y ago
That's true. "Harvard quality" means either: - Very smart - Connections to wealth and power A bit over 2/5s of the white undergrads are admitted for the later. That came up in the Asian law suit. Similar mechanisms apply
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by blagie 4y ago
I'd suggest the Mythical Man-Month. I feel like many big techs would be way more productive with fewer employees. 5-person-teams seem most efficient.
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by blagie 4y ago
Yes. The same is true of many products from many companies. I feel bad about GPT-3 and DALL-E being released under the terms they were, but I don't feel bad about this. I'm not going to condemn OpenAI for the good things they did,
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by blagie 4y ago
If you're willing to handle forex risks.... If I borrow $1M in USD to buy a 11M SEK property in Sweden, and the dollar goes up, I'm drowning underwater. If the dollar goes down, I'm sitting pretty.
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by blagie 4y ago
People also forget that the negative interest rates are with central banks. They're not FDIC-insured because if they go under, that means the FDIC (together with the rest of the country) is gone.
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by blagie 4y ago
I do much more inference than training, but a bit of both. Speed is generally not a serious issue: - I'm not trying to scale to millions of users on inference; it's a dev machine - Training is a bit of fine-tuning; I'm not bu
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by blagie 4y ago
Any clue about how well ML frameworks do with multiple cards? I'm completely bottlenecked on RAM, but for what I do, even a 3060 would be adequate performance.
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by blagie 4y ago
That specs make it seem like these wouldn't be quite worth it at launch. Ampere specs: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/compare/ This looks like a smaller bump than Ampere. 3090 s
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by blagie 4y ago
This is correct. If you have $100B, what are your options? 1) Risky return-yielding instruments, like stocks and bonds 2) Non-liquid assets, like land 3) A Scrooge McDuck giant vault full of cash 4) ... and so on. In many cases, a negative
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by blagie 4y ago
No, there doesn't need to be a premium on borrowing money. Why would there need to be a premium? If I can invest in businesses with 0% return and make a profit, that's generally good for short-term economic growth, and bad for lon
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by blagie 4y ago
What's frustrating is that nothing Samsung is doing follows data breach laws in my jurisdiction. Samsung neither had the right to collect the data it apparently did, and when data is compromised, I have a right to know a lot more than
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by blagie 4y ago
I think it's less of an upsell and more of a data collection and a market positioning. Google would like to, for example: 1. Be central in the machine learning ecosystem. This has broad ripple effects, such as recruiting. 2. Doing thin
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by blagie 4y ago
I use the second-to-latest LTS Ubuntu, and did the same when I upgraded. That said, the overhead to getting non-annoying Ubuntu increases with each version. It feels like someone there is creating make-work; like people need a job and just
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by blagie 4y ago
Samsung's disclosure doesn't meet statutory requirements of either jurisdiction I reside in, and Samsung's collection of my information doesn't meet statutory requirements in one of them. I did not set up a Samsung accou
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by blagie 4y ago
Wow. That goes a level deeper than I had thought through myself. The place where I've always wanted to see this is on my phone. I would like to be able to deny apps network access, location access, contact lists, etc. This should not b
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by blagie 4y ago
Snap is the one reason I most don't want to update Ubuntu, but sandboxing the browser in particular (and email client) is the one place where Snap makes a lot of sense to me (as do subsystems like SELinux). My key problems is that I ca
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by blagie 4y ago
I think Nokia had a third choice: Explore new market segments. Personally, I want a smartphone along the lines of traditional Nokia phones: Big and tough. I'm glad to have something double the thickness of a normal phone, but: - The sc
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by blagie 4y ago
I feel like we're about 3 generations from "shut up and take my money." A no-brainer version would: - Allow AR, or at least not block my full field-of-view, so I can use them in contexts. - Have competitive resolution with my
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by blagie 4y ago
One of the differences is resources. FAANG can effort recruiting departments which treat candidates as customers whom they're trying to sell a job to. Many fine employers are more disorganized in hiring, but that doesn't translate
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by blagie 4y ago
I mean, I'm most impressed with the gradual rise of 3d printers capable of printing entire houses. That doesn't help with plumbing, electrical, kitchen cabinets and all the other stuff that goes into a house -- which is a majority
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by blagie 4y ago
Are you following progress in robotics?
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by blagie 4y ago
How large an image will this handle (versus how much RAM you have)? It seems the GPU memory requirements beyond 512x512 are obscene.
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by blagie 4y ago
I don't think so. I think Google, Twitter, and friends don't like Trump, so they go out of their way to ban him. I don't think they're wrong to dislike Trump, but I think the treatment has the opposite of the desired eff
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by blagie 4y ago
Exactly. The article said: > Here’s a question: would you have preferred to live through a total travel ban and total lockdowns, like Australia’s, to save yourself 10-to-15 days of life? > Is stopping that worth it to you? > My per
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by blagie 4y ago
I fundamentally disagree with the methodology and conclusion of this article. The problem with a new disease is that we don't know the long-term impact. Polio led to post-polio syndrome. Tick diseases have impacts decades out. Rabies d
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by blagie 4y ago
From the article: "99.99% of us are honest but the dishonest 0.01% can cause serious, repeated damage." My experience is that this is much more like a 50/50 split at elite schools, at least when you look at people who succeed

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