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by currymj 2y ago
i'm sort of pleased to see that with DeepSeek and the o-series, the hype/energy is shifting back towards coding and mathematical tasks, and away from generating images and videos. Programmers seem to be mostly happy with LLMs, unl
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to the extent that executing transactions on a fully decentralized, trustless database or distributed computer is something people demand, and transaction fees must be paid in Bitcoin or Ethereum or Solana or whatever, cryptocurrencies do h
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there are many many problems with the EA movement, but they do generally support unconditional cash transfers. cash transfers are seen as the "default" baseline. the bar for charity is that it must be better than cash transfers. t
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i like to think about how the influences flow in all directions. for example at one time there were a bunch of weirdos arguing over some abstruse philosophical question about the fundamental nature of true logical statements, and one of the
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generally you are somewhat right, but it's complicated by country. for example it would be less surprising that a UK-style 3 year PhD might want a couple more years training after.
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it's an interesting question. the unhelpful answer is Vulkan didn't exist when Tensorflow, PyTorch (and Torch, its Lua-based predecessor) were taking off and building GPU support. Apparently PyTorch did at one point prototype a Vu
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users mainly use PyTorch and Jax and these days rarely write CUDA code. however separately, installing drivers and the correct CUDA/CuDNN libraries is the responsibility of the user. this is sometimes slightly finicky. with ROCm, the p
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adaptation to hurricane winds has largely been done in many parts of Florida; adaptation to storm surge is possible and some cities are beginning to. the issue for Florida is that the state is made of permeable limestone, so it’s not possib
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you cannot win this argument with the average person who lives in a chilly European country. it just does not compute. there are whole important cultural lifeways related to opening and closing windows at proper times for efficient cooling
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A lot has to do with infrastructure. In most of South Florida basically anything left standing is pretty well built to withstand hurricanes. A category 1 storm hitting NYC or North Carolina is an unbelievable disaster. A category 1 storm hi
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obviously bad policy for many reasons, but as a geriatric millennial I'm selfishly happy. As long as the ban continues, I will never have to sit on the bus and listen to those horrible robot voices blasting nonsense out of someone&#x27
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I generally think for many jobs, in-person is actually better. SWE in a place with good process, remote is probably fine. Generally similar for jobs with clear deliverables on that kind of time scale. if it's more research oriented, th
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because they have to pay for queries to other APIs for each search, COGS is relatively high I think, which is counterintuitive for a web product like this. my sense is their fixed costs are relatively low.
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for each Kagi search they hit APIs of other search providers etc., so they need to cover that cost.
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many people are dismissing this paper because it has errors in spelling and grammar. this is a terrible heuristic for evaluating AI papers. If you use it, you will miss a lot of good work by very strong researchers with below-average Englis
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this is true overall, but for the last decade there have been many research-oriented positions at large tech companies for which the PhD degree is a formal job requirement. others don’t make it a formal requirement, but demand research expe
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i think PhD programs and advisors did make some implicit or explicit promises to recruit students to work for them, very hard, for years, at very low salaries. the PhD is not like a master's program, it's an apprenticeship relatio
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the physical conference itself is now an excuse for companies to throw lavish parties, but NeurIPS as a publication venue is still mainly for academics. for research that translates directly to an industry setting, look someplace like KDD.
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i guess it's technically true that you can go to the movie theater, buy a ticket, and then get back in line to refund the ticket and leave, but this seems like an odd thing to do. whereas buying a ticket in advance online, and then lat
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when you buy a ticket online, you are actually buying an option on the ticket, because you can go in and refund it at any time before the movie starts. the “convenience fee” is the option premium. it would be fairer if this were opt-in. Som
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a real world version of this experiment: from time to time there is a hacking case where a criminal group steals earnings reports from companies before they are made public. some of these conspiracies have been quite profitable, but i belie
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i think those convenient properties are the sign of some deeper law. you do want to work with the exponential and logarithm, same as in so many other places. you don’t necessarily want some other generalized “entropy”.
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specifically avoid resources written by and for physicists. the model of quantum mechanics, if you can afford to ignore any real-world physical system and just deal with abstract |0>, |1> qubits, is relatively easy. (this is really fu
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realistically there should just be some kind of homestead exemption for one primary residence. several states already have such a system, where you get reduced or frozen property taxes, and protection during bankruptcy.
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i think the younger generation who came up post deep learning, has a very very low bar for “understanding” because they never knew a world where SotA models worked in a way that made sense.
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website marketing materials for Quviviq make a big deal that it should be used daily for best results.
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they separate out oil activities in their national accounts. “Mainland Norway” GDP is also not bad compared to neighboring countries. although it doesn’t measure indirect effects of oil wealth on other sectors. but still, “petrostate” isn’t
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your sentence is correct but we have no idea what a comprehensive model of the world looks like, whether or not these systems have one or not, what harm even means, and even if we resolved these theoretical issues, it’s not clear how to rel
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actually ETHZ and EPFL are very good and highly ranked, and have cheap tuition and open enrollment. i don’t know how they do it. I guess things just work better in Switzerland.
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the ideal is that college should be very expensive for rich people and cheap, free, or at least more affordable, for less wealthy people. american universities get closer to this ideal than you might expect. the days of outrageous student d

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