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by bogtog 3y ago
General question about semiconductors: Why is there so much emphasis on the density of transistors rather than purely on the costs of production (compute/$)? CPUs aren't particularly large. My computer's CPU may be just a few
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by bogtog 3y ago
No, both parties get value. Suppose a user would receive 1 utility for donating $1 to some cause in a traditional fashion (e.g., giving the charity money directly). Using this platform and with an OmniMatch of 25%, the user will effectively
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by bogtog 3y ago
At least they can claim SOTA with this, even if their product remains unavailable. Let's Google still appear competitive even if GPT-5 beats it and is publicly available before Gemini
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by bogtog 3y ago
The crab was the most amazing part of the demo for me.
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by bogtog 3y ago
I recently discovered that Dan Carlin has a series on this topic, "Hardcore History 60 - The Celtic Holocaust". I just listened through, and it's pretty solid. Based on the number of deaths and attitude, I think "genocid
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by bogtog 3y ago
To get people to take you even more seriously, hammer some number of theses on an organization's door.
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by bogtog 3y ago
The Roman Republic was steadily dying up to Caesar's reign. He really was just the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of its death, which was surely inevitable in the coming decades. However, without Caeser, the conquest o
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by bogtog 3y ago
Adding onto this, from their perspective, what're their priors on (1) some crypto website is awful to navigate vs. (2) somebody is playing an incredible ruse on me? The first would obviously seem drastically more likely.
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by bogtog 3y ago
Yeah, if nothing else, pun names are memorable, which is a good thing
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by bogtog 3y ago
An Indian employee's salary being 1/5th of an American's, doesn't mean their cost to the company is only 1/5th. There is a general organizational/overhead cost to taking on more people. This cost, for one addit
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by bogtog 3y ago
The NBA has a cap on how much each player can make (around $50M this year). Lebron could be, say, worth $100M/yr, yet they can't be paid this. I'm guessing that there are around a dozen players in the league worth more than t
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by bogtog 3y ago
> Failing that, there is the option of getting a motorbike – permits for which are a relative snip at $7,930 I don't understand why this is so much lower. Motorbikes can park in smaller spaces but on the road, require similar area&#
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by bogtog 3y ago
If you like this, you may want to also take a look at Retrosheet [1]. They've taken amazing effort to get pitch-by-pitch data for baseball games since professional baseball became a thing in the 19th century. I don't know a ton ab
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by bogtog 3y ago
Really like how this is implemented with decorators. Everything just feels really smooth
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by bogtog 3y ago
> Nature Water Nature has a journal about all things water. From their website: > Nature Water covers all aspects of research that are connected to this evolving relationship between society and water resources. We publish in the natu
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by bogtog 3y ago
Reminds me of how mapmakers will include fake locations so that they can catch others who simply copy their map (not sure if this is still a thing or just happened back in the day)
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by bogtog 3y ago
> I'd still trust the mostly-expert over the non-expert any day. The true-expert is often very hard to find tbh. Right, you can always find somebody more expert than someone else. The level of specificity that some people expect for
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by bogtog 3y ago
Yes, although it is decently interesting that a model can be fine tuned by just tweaking a small number of weights and training for just a few minutes
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by bogtog 3y ago
This was my reaction too, I feel like there is something I'm not getting. I get that the bet is virtually guaranteed to go negative if the number of rounds is high enough (100+ rounds), but the opportunity for huge payouts still pulls
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by bogtog 3y ago
Much faster than in the past, but still annoyingly slow by all means
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by bogtog 3y ago
They dropped over 17,000 wallets. Why do you think these results wouldn't reproduce?
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by bogtog 3y ago
Romania is very different from Russia
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by bogtog 3y ago
In what fields is 3 papers expected? In my field, Psychology, 3 first-author papers sounds like a reasonable lower bound, but that seems like it would be a lot to expect out of Biologists or hard scientists.
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by bogtog 3y ago
> Whenever I get the "ask my advisor for a break?" say yes. I thought that was a trap, and I was surprised my initial strategy of "say no but then slack off" didn't work
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by bogtog 3y ago
On a somewhat different note, does anybody have suggestions on books/videos to help learn thoroughly grammar? My PhD advisor sometimes uses words like "past participle", and I just nod along as though I understand what he is
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by bogtog 3y ago
> The eye tracking technology involves shining infrared light at your eyes at all times - not an expert but I can't help but wonder if that is going to have long term effects. For what it's worth, infrared beams and cameras is
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by bogtog 3y ago
Sadly didn't pass my test, looking up sports info like "UFC Schedule" and getting a custom built interface. For example, Google's: https://www.google.com/search?q=ufc+schedule&rlz=1C1GCEU_en&...