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by cromwellian 3y ago
https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/1208618
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by cromwellian 3y ago
Ex-Googler, laid off, so no allegiance. It's not a proprietary development. The intention to use private keys for authentication goes all the way back to the KEYGEN tag in HTML. WebAuthn started from FIDO, not Google, and FIDO Allianc
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by cromwellian 3y ago
I bet most people are downvoting because they don't believe in keeping research secret, and that it is even counter-productive.
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by cromwellian 3y ago
"Most of the newly discovered underwater mountains are on the small side — between roughly 700 and 2,500 meters tall". 2500 meters is small? Even 700 meters is almost as tall as the Burj Dubai. I'd call 2500 meters a decent s
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by cromwellian 3y ago
Even if they could get all of the approvals, which they won't, there is no way they are rebuilding that in 2 months. And even if government permits were forthcoming, which -- at this point they're likely grounded for a long time -
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by cromwellian 3y ago
Bill O’Reilly never recovered. The question is, is there some sex scandal or other dirty secret behind this?
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The murder rate in SF is below what it was in the 1990s. There are far more dangerous cities than SF, which isn’t even in the top 20 in terms of crime. SF does have problems but there’s been a kind of relentless right wing attack on SF and
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by cromwellian 4y ago
I used to believe that, but searching for a job now, I see many non-FAANG companies with compensation in-line, or better, with the exception of those who aren't public. OpenAI for example, has base salaries in the $400k range for ML jo
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Wow, I'm shocked to hear that. Was this at a US office? I know some overseas offices have different culture. I guess it's not unprecedented. My wife (eng manager) resigned from Google around 2015 I think, in part because Google Cl
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Laid off, and from the one division I thought would be less subject to layoffs: AI. (I thought Ads would be well insulated too, but I know a lot of Ads folks who were let go). But I'm not that broken up about it, because I feel like t
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by cromwellian 4y ago
If you remember, there was the great "de-frag" at one point, where they wanted to reduce # of satellite offices, and tried to move everyone into a few big HQ, this resulted in overcrowding, and one aspect of that was "no remo
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Yup. I was at Google for over a decade, I should have left years ago for a startup, I had offers, but I loved what I did, I loved my fellow coworkers, and I was well compensated. There was little reason to leave, and a lot of reasons to sta
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by cromwellian 4y ago
As someone who worked at Google for 15 yrs, who also worked at Oracle and IBM, I can confidently say that Google was the least toxic, least overworked place I've ever been. That's not to say there aren't management problems,
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The issue is, much of the performance of Pytorch, JAX, et al comes from running a JIT that is tuned to the underlying HW, and come with support for high level intrinsic operations that were either hand-tuned or have extra hardware support,
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by cromwellian 4y ago
I’m wonder how hard it would be to port to OpenXLA which was recently released, that would let you target many CPUs, GPUs, and even TPUs.
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Very skeptical. Ever since the ball lightning-is-fusion craze of the 90s, lots of people were claiming to have done small scale p-B11 fusion. Being able to produce a few helium nuclei isn't the same thing as achieving a Q>2 or Q>
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The primary reason why people leave CA is housing prices not "fed up with CA govt", that's a story that the right wing likes to tell, but it basically comes down to the fact that housing is unaffordable. CA ranks #11 in taxes
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Consumption does not scale like that. If I consume 30% of my salary under the median income, there’s no way wealthy people making say, $10 million a year are spending 30% of that on consumption. Sure, some might, but many recent 1st generat
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The whole problem is rapid size increase. The whole "grow big fast" mentality led to many tech companies hiring like mad to grab all territory they could, diluting their mission, they basically entered every vertical they could an
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Where are you getting a CPU + RAM + RTX 3090 for $1k? To even install a million of these machines, you'd have to build a new datacenter, the capital costs are going to be beyond just the wholesale price of GPU boards, and you'll h
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Google currently handles 100,000 queries per second. The costs to run GLM-130B or GPT-3 at this rate would be astonishingly high.
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Copepods are pretty much everywhere, do you need some copium to cope with that? Sorry I couldn't resist.
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by cromwellian 4y ago
100% to the above and I would look specifically for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which specializes in treating distorted thinking. It rescued me from my early thirties and I haven’t been depressed since. Our brains are wired to generate sto
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The US built infrastructure efficiently too back when it was a developing country. From 1940-1980 the US built an incredible amount of infrastructure. It’s must more efficient to build where there was nothing before than build where there i
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by cromwellian 4y ago
As far as I can tell from Google Searches, Google already offers end-to-end encrypted backups for Android, from 2018. https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h... Google Workspace also apparentl
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by cromwellian 4y ago
DeepMind published a system that does sort this with a backend theorem prover a year ago. My point is, I don’t think transformer based text prediction systems are the right model here. I could be wrong, but it think about how formal systems
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by cromwellian 4y ago
If you ask it about things which require deduction like Math, even simple Math questions like multiply binomials or solve a quadratic it gets it totally wrong, confidently, and even if you correct it, it often still gets it wrong. It’s not
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by cromwellian 4y ago
It was partially rescued by fastloaders and later JiffyDOS. Fastloaders tended to max out at 10-13x if the disk format was unchanged but if you could reformat or recode the files you could go anywhere from 25x speed to over 40x (transwarp)
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The 1541 was slow because the c64’s serial bus was slow. Data was clocked over the bus 1 bit at a time. Various fastloaders sped up the data rate by reusing the clock line itself as a data line (2 bits at a time), later HW adapters adder pa
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by cromwellian 4y ago
More than that, Twitter not has an extra $12 billion in debt, and $1b in interest payments due, which almost exceeds their quarterly revenue.

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