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by codelord 4y ago
As a machine learning researcher for over a decade I clicked to understand what "brain-based AI" is. I learned it's a made-up term by the author to maximize click-through rate. Pass.
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by codelord 5y ago
I understand what you are saying, and I'm saying it's a pointless argument which doesn't add any value to the discussion.
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by codelord 5y ago
Why is that an important difference? To capture wind and solar you have to build turbines and solar panels which aren't free. You also have to have batteries to store them because of seasonal nature of these sources. You also need to t
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by codelord 5y ago
The proof is in the pudding. Re: negotiating. You negotiate your comp once, it takes 1 hour maybe. Compare that to the effort it takes to maintain a fragile career based on lies.
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by codelord 5y ago
Encouraging people to take two full-time jobs by lying and cheating their way around is such a terrible advice even if you only look at it purely based on self-interests with no moral considerations. Negotiate well when starting a new job (
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by codelord 5y ago
You can see from comments here on hackernews that at least a few people interpreted this as a change to their ranking algorithm. Writing ambiguously to support a narrative is also misreporting. I know anti-FB sentiment is strong on hackerne
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by codelord 5y ago
A screenshot from the actual experiment: https://twitter.com/joeosborne/status/1440456340673949700 Looks like the article is overblown.
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by codelord 5y ago
How much experience do you have with Unreal engine and game dev? If you think art-style is dependent on game engine you probably don't know what you are talking about. Modern game engines are pretty much like an operating system, there
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by codelord 5y ago
This is cool, but I find it hard to find any use case for it. I did plenty of work as an indie game dev in the past, shipped and made money out of games based on my own C++/OpenGL game engine and also shipped a few indie games with som
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by codelord 5y ago
This is great. Thanks for sharing.
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by codelord 5y ago
> The surrounding blue box is the parent element. (R: 93, G: 200, B: 195) That's more green than blue. When you consider that humans have stronger green color preceptors it's definitely green.
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by codelord 5y ago
To understand if Copilot is infringing the licenses of codes used in its training data we have to get into the details of what it does and how it works. We can't make a general statement for any code generation software that was traine
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by codelord 5y ago
It's not really comparable to a pen. Because a pen by itself doesn't copy someone else's code/written words. It's more like copying code from Github or if you wrote a script that did that automatically. You have to
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by codelord 5y ago
Similar taste can be achieved with non-Persian tea. I think brewing method maybe more important. For the brand I buy loose leaf english breakfast and use a transparent teapot to see when the tea is ready. Usually takes ~5 minutes for the pe
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by codelord 5y ago
Yes. We call it "Zereshk Polo". I didn't know it's also popular in eastern Europe. Interesting!
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by codelord 5y ago
Actually color can affect the perceived taste. Red/vibrant colors make the drink taste more sweet.
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by codelord 5y ago
Saucer is optional. I drink directly from the cup. Make sure the cup is made of clear glass though to see the color of the tea.
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by codelord 5y ago
I feel like people in the west need to become more familiar with Persian cooking. Every year I learn that one more ingredient that we commonly use in Persian cooking is good for your health. So based on this definitive evidence I'm gon
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by codelord 5y ago
I would just read the linked post: https://bugs.python.org/issue38980?fbclid=IwAR0cyfahpBywNzbq... As it contains almost the same info without the rant and with better explanation.
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by codelord 5y ago
Oops. You are right.
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by codelord 5y ago
I haven't used TF32 personally, but I think the sales pitch is not too far off. Most of the time I use mixed-precision training which should be similar to FP16/TF32 in terms of performance. It does tremendously speed up training.
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by codelord 5y ago
It's not really fair to compare a discrete GPU to a mobile GPU, I only provided this as a comparison for someone who maybe has one of these at home. And btw, you are talking about TF32 performance not FP32. TF32 actually uses 16 bits.
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by codelord 5y ago
Seems like AMD has been using Vega 20 to refer to two different things. I was talking about the mobile GPU on MacBook Pros which is based on a 14nm chip. The full name is Radeon Pro Vega 20: https://www.amd.com/en/graph
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by codelord 5y ago
On the one hand it seems Google is unstoppable. Google can do everything. But I think iPhone showed an alternative path. Now most people are actually using apps (not Google) on mobile for different functionalities. I guess this is the argum
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by codelord 5y ago
M1 and AMD GPU support. I'm personally more interested in the latter as I haven't yet upgraded my MacBook Pro and I expect that my Vega 20 to be faster than M1 at ML training. The raw compute power of M1's GPU seems to be 2.6
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by codelord 5y ago
I don't believe mining Bitcoin quite falls into the category of "most productive things we can use energy for". Drug discovery, carbon capture, agriculture, construction, etc. etc. come to mind as slightly more useful. Financ
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by codelord 5y ago
On your website that you linked says "We conduct our business in a way that protects ... our planet's climate against warming." Can you elaborate how providing infra to mine Bitcoin is helping the planet against global warmin
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by codelord 5y ago
Fixed mostly to relatively. That wasn't my main point really. I thought the data points were interesting.
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by codelord 5y ago
This is from earlier: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countr... Interestingly Sweden that got famous for defying lockdowns saw an uptick of 1.5% excess mortality per 100K people compared to 12.9%
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by codelord 5y ago
Not sure why would you go and make a statement about me without any evidence (And btw yes to all your questions). Your point would be stronger if you don't target a person and maybe talk about the average consumer. My point exactly tha

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