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by chabons 3y ago
Interesting point. That said, the AI model space is rapidly evolving, while bitcoin's hashing problem is static. This makes it significantly more risky to make a large capital investment in dedicated HW when it's unclear if it wil
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by chabons 3y ago
AI models on FPGAs has been tried before, for instance: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-cat... . They haven't been able to compete with GPU's on perf/watt. In general yo
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by chabons 3y ago
Right, but the argument that the original comment was making is that the government's policy is incorrect. My comment argues that independent of government policy, relocating an existing employee from one country to another does not co
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by chabons 3y ago
> Obviously you displaced a US citizen [...] I'm not sure this is obvious. 1) Apple is a multi-national company, and hires an employee in the UK. 2) This employee relocates to the US At what point do they displace the US citizen? Al
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by chabons 3y ago
I think the parent comment is suggesting that "engineering talent on par with the USA" == "elite engineering talent". In my anecdotal evidence, I'd estimate that ~1/3 of my Canadian engineering graduating class
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by chabons 3y ago
> [...] actively discourage or outlaw normal car designs in favor of cars like the one in the link. I read their comment as encouraging city-specific measures. They specifically reference "urban living", "human-scale livin
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by chabons 3y ago
> You buy vehicles for the life and city you have [...] Agreed, there's a place for all forms of transit. I think the argument that the parent commenter was making was that we already have the density in many places for vehicles of
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by chabons 3y ago
> Not sure OpenAI faces the existential risk as MS need them to compete with Google in this space. I think OP is arguing that in that partnership Microsoft holds the power, as they have the existing platforms. The linked article argues
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by chabons 4y ago
I'm wondering if they controlled for cat ownership (as a likely source of infection), or if any of the variation can be attributed to the types of people who own cats.
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by chabons 4y ago
You raise a good point, that both moonlighting and non-compete clauses provides employers the ability to fire employees to mitigate risks associated with simultaneous work for a competitor (theft of trade secrets, corporate espionage, etc..
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by chabons 4y ago
> Expecting the attention of someone 40 hours a week seems reasonable Why should the company be able to restrict your ability to do other work beyond the ability to fire you for cause if it's interfering with your ability to do your
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by chabons 4y ago
We're thinking along the same lines, I guess I just expected the upsides and downsides of the approach to be quantified somewhere in the research as context for why it's meaningful.
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by chabons 4y ago
Interesting research. Assuming that the benefit of fixed-wing aircraft is efficiency in relatively straight flight, I'm wondering how this aircraft compares in efficiency vs agility against a quadcopter of similar weight.
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by chabons 4y ago
> Montlake had a small grocery store that was torn down precisely because of the 520 construction. Right, I forgot about the Montlake Market. That closed before my search, but I did hear about it. > 520 is a highway after all, and hig
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by chabons 4y ago
Interesting how the visualization highlights the Eastlake and Montlake neighborhoods (along the south bank of the canal northeast of downtown) as walkability outliers. When I was newer to the Seattle area and looking for housing I did a sim
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by chabons 4y ago
This is a fair point. This press release was not aimed at software engineers, and "rules that prohibit those kind of changes" is vague. It could mean anything from a sign on the wall that says "please don't!" to a r
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by chabons 4y ago
I'm sure they've determined that communicating that sets the user's expectations. A funnier take is that it's advanced watermarking. Good luck getting that out of the pre-trained model!
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by chabons 4y ago
I think the severity of the event is also important. A Onewheel requires power for stability (it's an inverse pendulum), and as a result does not fail-safe. An occasional motor failure on an e-bike would be a non-event, as it fails to
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by chabons 4y ago
This video is directly produced by Onewheel's marketing department. It does certainly highlight one way user error can lead to injury on a Onewheel, but I don't think this is a credible refutation of the idea that there may be a f
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by chabons 4y ago
I suspect it's not just the occurrence rate which influences this feature being male-focussed. It's probably also the expected reception, which is itself a function of the occurrence rate. If I opened an app one day and received a
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by chabons 4y ago
Maybe I'm mis-reading the paper, but my interpretation was that the algorithm discovered using a reward which scales with HW performance matches the theoretical complexity of Strassen, but is more performant on the HW. They also iden
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by chabons 4y ago
Honest question from someone with little context: How does this argument not also apply to Citizen's United, or corporate personhood more generally? Is the argument that compelling a corporation to do something compels the individuals
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by chabons 4y ago
That percentage will depend heavily on the show. The Big Bang Theory is fairly innocuous. Imagine trying to censor dramas like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, or House of Cards to remove all of the depictions of sex, drugs, or political comm
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by chabons 4y ago
I don't have a ton of familiarity with the project or the region, but the section of rail in the linked article certainly looks like it makes sense to me. A high-speed connection including the airport and downtowns of the two major met
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by chabons 4y ago
Taking a random stab: one argument could be that competition drives down profit margins. By reducing competition, China makes their tech artificially profitable locally, allowing them to compete in international markets on an uneven playing
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by chabons 4y ago
OP is also raising the point that because only the police have the ability to retrieve Nest footage that pertains to them but is not owned by them, access to that data is gated by the police, who may not use that access evenly.
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by chabons 4y ago
> As set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose any information that could reveal a whistleblower’s identity. This would seem to preclude any way of independently verifyi
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by chabons 4y ago
That's a good point, I hadn't thought of having independent send a receive delays on the server, simulating a delayed connection from the client's perspective without having it participate. I now wonder too what those technic
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by chabons 4y ago
Right, but my point was that I think you're reading into the diagram beyond it's intended purpose. I'm not sure how you can tell that they're logging only the server-side delay, and not the client-side delay, from a syst
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by chabons 4y ago
I think the symmetric delay here makes sense, since you're trying to simulate the latency of a (likely) symmetric connection between another client and the server. If you only add latency on the transmission, then 2 actions taken at th

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