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by doetoe 3y ago
Could you explain how this works?
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Why developing the world’s first malaria vaccine has taken so long(economist.com)
2 points by doetoe 3y ago|1 comments
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by doetoe 3y ago
From what I understand this is not about forcing individuals to use one platform it another, but rather about what the official instances themselves use. And I very definitely think the people can and should force the EU to switch away from
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Survey finds 1/3 of Chinese scientists in the US feel unwelcome in the country(physicsworld.com)
2 points by doetoe 3y ago|1 comments
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by doetoe 3y ago
There's a typo in the article: it should be "all our bug are belong to us" (rather than "all our bugs")
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by doetoe 3y ago
I'm not sure if this was exaggerated on our side of the straight, but here we read quite a lot about Brexit politicians (including Boris Johnson) complaining about made up EU regulations they'd have to follow (a famous example was
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by doetoe 3y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by doetoe 3y ago
I have often seen people on HN with mind boggling (to me) incomes to whom houses that seem relatively very inexpensive are inaccessible. Why is that? Naively I would think you could rent for 30k/y and save enough in just a few years to
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by doetoe 3y ago
I'm not an expert in any of these, but in the past few years, in addition to the success of LLM's for natural language processing, I have repeatedly read about the impressive advances in SAT solvers and in proof assistants. Given
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by doetoe 3y ago
I'm not a native English speaker. I didn't get what is wrong with the sentence > “States were further required to limit soot from power plants, cars and other sources to 2.5 microns, or 28 times smaller than [who can be sure wh
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by doetoe 3y ago
Nice that you posted Ulichney's author page. I am a co-author of the second paper in the list, which describes a parallelizable error diffusion algorithm with amazing image quality, developed by the first author (not me), as part of h
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by doetoe 3y ago
I don't think that's quite right. I work at HP (I hardly dare to say it in this thread hahaha), and I am quite sure that the full formulation of the inks is developed in house (at least for large format). I do think it's true
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by doetoe 3y ago
Not saying it's bad as a qualitative answer, but it doesn't say anything quantitative about the effect of the temperature in the ChatGPT API. Temperature is a well known and wel documented concept, but if you don't know what
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by doetoe 3y ago
I think you're still misreading my comment (and dragonwriter's and Knuth's): we all know or can look up what temperature is in randomized algorithms. However, what temperature 0.7 means is a mystery to me. I know that at temp
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by doetoe 3y ago
I don't know what prompt you used, but this is what it tells me (just to be clear, I don't think it explains anything beyond higher temperature = higher randomness, range of API values 0 to 2): > In the OpenAI GPT API, the temp
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by doetoe 3y ago
Maybe you misread my comment ;) I'm sure Knuth knows qualitatively what is meant by temperature, it's been used as a measure for randomness for half a century in simulated annealing and other algorithms
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by doetoe 3y ago
He didn't say "temperature, whatever that means", he said "temperature 0.7, whatever that means". Do you know what it means? In the API reference it only says the value you can specify for temperature is between 0 a
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by doetoe 3y ago
I agree with you. I posted it because I thought it was interesting to contrast the two approaches, not because I want the USA to win, or indeed that it is a race at all. That said, it could be seen as a race by some, in that the winner coul
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by doetoe 3y ago
I got it! Cannot say I had a clear strategy. Better not post hints by the way, I see now that it is a public contest and at the end you mail your solution
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by doetoe 3y ago
I don't want to take sides, I just found it very interesting to see why the author thinks China has an edge that will only get bigger unless US changes its approach. In a way it proposes a whole different (though not new) approach to l
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Why the US needs a ‘quantum Oppenheimer’ to beat China in the quantum race(physicsworld.com)
6 points by doetoe 3y ago|5 comments
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by doetoe 3y ago
I would be very interested, I'm afraid you won't be able to put it very deep in this thread though!
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Chat with and Compare Open Large Language Models(chat.lmsys.org)
1 points by doetoe 3y ago|0 comments
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by doetoe 3y ago
This was a very controversial and shady decision. While legally the conditions were met, according to the Supreme Court, I understood it was only possible because there was no elected government in Kashmir at that moment, and it has been p
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by doetoe 3y ago
I cannot really add anything useful, but my progression was so similar in all senses that I thought I should comment: it started after an intestinal infection I got in India, many different hypotheses until they settled on Reiter's syn
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Only recorded interview of Lemaître, father of the big bang theory, resurfaced(physics.aps.org)
2 points by doetoe 3y ago|0 comments
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by doetoe 3y ago
In a way it makes more sense to have the units come first, i.e. how the numbers are written in Arabic. Namely, when you do arithmetic you start with the units, so that in English (etc) when you compute 1234 + 5678 you cannot just start writ
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by doetoe 3y ago
Isn't it populist to call this a tax on poor people?
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by doetoe 3y ago
The report itself: https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/swop23/SWOP2023-EN...
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India's population to overtake China by mid-2023, UN estimates(reuters.com)
2 points by doetoe 3y ago|2 comments

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