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by ddalex 4y ago
I think you missed the TPU, which is a Google chip that gets you the 10x in inference, and there are millions of them ALREADY in the datacenters, designed, fabricated and installed. You can use one, for free, with Colab
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by ddalex 4y ago
For what it's worth, I asked Google's Bard the same q, with this output: User Is cancer a metabolic disease ? Apprentice Bard Cancer is a metabolic disease because it is characterized by abnormal cell growth, division, and dea
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by ddalex 4y ago
But their phone HW is SOOOO nice, I think it beats even apple on how beautiful, light and sparkly it is.
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by ddalex 4y ago
It is a reactionary move, but Bard existed for months on the intranet, but not as a public offering. So they have the technology but not the product.
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by ddalex 4y ago
I mean there is no denial that SOMETHING was out there. The debunking refers to the performance of the target which is being shown to be safely within the capabilities of contemporary human technology and not requiring "aliens" or
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by ddalex 4y ago
Because we (or perhaps I) apply different standards to different situations - a bad car driver that causes accidents are accepted as facts of life, whereas a computer driven car is expected to be far safer and have no fatalities. Personally
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by ddalex 4y ago
The "upset" part is a defensive attack, they expect to avoid rebuffs of violating airspace by being very upset in the first place.
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by ddalex 4y ago
I can tell you why I dislike ChatGPT, it's because it's not trustworthy. Somebody that is not well versed in the subject cannot distinguish the hallucinations of the machine, and for somebody that is well versed, they are better s
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by ddalex 4y ago
And now we start relying on machine hallucinations for people's health. I don't see any way this could go wrong.
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by ddalex 4y ago
Link to the app? Can't find it anywhere ?
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by ddalex 4y ago
Going on a metaphysical tangent, it is a bit weird that A LOT of physical processes can be modelled with linear algebra, and don't require something way more advanced ...
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by ddalex 4y ago
> a certain amount of trust in the system Switzerland operates on trust. You go to the car service, you get the work done, you leave, you'll receive a bill in the mail later. There is trust that they do the right work and not overch
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by ddalex 4y ago
I allocate 30% of the working time to support, 60% to development time, and 10% slack as in reserved for unexpected contingencies.
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by ddalex 4y ago
Also Marcus Aurelius.
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by ddalex 4y ago
It can be either (whole product/teams get cancelled) either horizontal (lowest rated 5%). Usually both, with the critical teams get extra headcount
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by ddalex 4y ago
At faangs not even directors get a head up before the night before on plans. The only ones that can set strategy are VPs and above.
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by ddalex 4y ago
just call a manager to help you, watch the code they tap in - they don't give a shit about secrecy and security - and enjoy raised privileges next week
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by ddalex 4y ago
Any Googlers in the team ?
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by ddalex 4y ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to dig a well, fill it with tubing, and pouring concrete all over? The concrete being the constant-ish temperature heat reservoir ?
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by ddalex 4y ago
> make it harder to open the door You mean like in the BMW i8 ? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T-upswNkRqE
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by ddalex 4y ago
Sounds like the airports need to increase the pricing to the point where it's gonna reduce a bit the traffic.
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by ddalex 4y ago
Google says that Quora user thinks: Can’t answer the second question, but as for the first one, there are 6,302,865 intersections for the 497 urbanized areas in the United States. ChatGPT says: I'm sorry, I don't have an exact num
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by ddalex 4y ago
Do you have web font blocking setup in the browser?
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by ddalex 4y ago
It is, but you cannot use it to fire a particular person. I mean, you get to choose who to fire, but if you need to hire somebody again for that position (because business is picking back up), you have to give the fired person the first opt
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by ddalex 4y ago
A theoretical difference without practical impact; nobody uses these - sure you can implement a C++ interpreter in hardware if one so wishes, but if the industry doesn't use it, what's the good of it ?
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by ddalex 4y ago
They are very different types of movies. T1 is an art horror that gambled a lot on Arnold who was just some pretty muscle at that time. T2 is made to be a blockbuster action flock no expenses spared. I think both are among the best movies o
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by ddalex 4y ago
Loved Sicario, and the parallela are there : the story, the gradual reveal, the tension, the character building.
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by ddalex 4y ago
That's because it's an art movie.
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by ddalex 4y ago
What I don't get is how are the Gear CDC constants (the lookup table for gears) generated. Any insight ?
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by ddalex 4y ago
What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? The first astronomers and calendarians were women....

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