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by dachworker 2y ago
> Well, let's just put the tiger on the table and yell at it Gladly. I feel like my basic human rights as a citizen of a first world county are being impinged by Israel and their far-right regime. And this is just one other example
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by dachworker 2y ago
I think Israel does.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Feels like both in the US and Europe, these "moderate" "liberal" "democrats" have lost all respect for our supposed freedoms. Makes me wonder whether all that posturing about the supposed moral superiority of t
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Ask HN: How would you go about meeting a bunch of new people IRL?
32 points by dachworker 3y ago|59 comments
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by dachworker 3y ago
Talk about good timing. The guy was not even doing anything related to LLMs before 2020 and his first relevant publication is in 2021.
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by dachworker 3y ago
Here's an interesting question: why are there lots of startups claiming they can create better bespoke DL hardware accelerators than Nvidia's offerings? I understand how a bespoke architecture could in theory accommodate larger mo
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by dachworker 3y ago
Maybe a controversial opinion, but I'm pretty happy with this trend. I see no value in extra-marital sex. I was always put off by the cultural expectation that one is supposed to "experiment" sexually, before one decides to s
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by dachworker 3y ago
What I notice a lot happening is established researchers with reputable pasts wasting funds on research directions that are basically designed to fool the funding agencies and their bosses and their naive PhD students, but which to anyone i
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by dachworker 3y ago
I don't have much again Thiel's program but US college is only four years. People talk as if that's an eternity. At 22 you're still basically a kid. If you are a genius of geniuses, you can even speed run college and fin
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by dachworker 3y ago
Thanks for the insight. I used to be a mathematician and looked a bit into working as a numerical mathematician on numerical or optimization software. What I noticed is that salaries do tend to be significantly lower than FAANG. Maybe that
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by dachworker 3y ago
Wait, isn't software their product? Or are you distinguishing between their infrastructural and their math/science libraries?
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by dachworker 3y ago
Here's a question. Why isn't Wolfram Research considered a sexy employer? They have cool research and technical problems and cool software. I looked a bit into it but I could only see them hiring in 3rd world countries, and only c
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by dachworker 3y ago
More people getting an education is a good thing. The value of a degree has not deteriorated just because dumber people are also graduating. If you cannot distinguish yourself from those you deem dumber than you, then you won't be able
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by dachworker 3y ago
Pretty much. I need my phone for my banking apps if not for anything else. It used to be that banks would have separate dongles for 2-step authentication, but pretty much everyone seems to have switched to a smartphone app now.
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by dachworker 3y ago
I don't change my phone every two years. But it feels every time I get a new phone, I stop getting any regular updates after two years and no security upgrades after four years or less. And right now, my phone is not usable even if the
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Ask HN: Why are Android phones such a scam?
12 points by dachworker 3y ago|30 comments
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by dachworker 3y ago
I remember the brown paper bag being an iconic part of American movies, when I was growing up. What happened to that?
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by dachworker 3y ago
Limiting porn exposure for children and early teenagers is probably a good thing, but this is the wrong way to do it, and a weak justification to create a blackmail registry.
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by dachworker 3y ago
What sets Tesla apart from other automakers is not the product, but their attitude as a company. Say tomorrow flying cars become feasible. I can believe that Toyota or BMW or Ford might get around to building a flying car. I KNOW that Tesla
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by dachworker 3y ago
Many such thinking architectures are probably possible. The hard part is learning a good representation of the world and all its constituents, without which none of these thinking architectures are possible. What's exciting about LLMs
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by dachworker 3y ago
Is anyone using any of this math? My guess is no. At best it provides "moral support" for deep learning researchers who want to feel reassured that what they are attempting to do is not impossible. Glad to be proven wrong, though.
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by dachworker 3y ago
There are some people who claim there could be no democracy without growth, because without new economic opportunities, the only way to get ahead in life, is by taking from others, which leads to violence and tyranny. I find it a compelling
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Ask HN: Going solo as an HPC/DL specialist?
4 points by dachworker 3y ago|0 comments