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by dwd 3y ago
Apple was running a model double the size of the available memory. Not sure if that was a sweet spot they found or if you could sacrifice response time to run even bigger models. The paper is worth a read in full as what they are doing is p
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by dwd 3y ago
While not mentioned in the article, Spacelink (a spinoff from EOS) has a contract with the GSFC for tracking space objects for high bandwidth communication. Interesting thing is EOS originally started in this field and later found there is
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by dwd 3y ago
Tim: There! King Arthur: What, behind the rabbit? Tim: It is the rabbit! King Arthur: You silly sod!
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by dwd 3y ago
Has he spoken to Bari Weiss or Niall Ferguson about this? I'm sure the University of Austin would welcome more funding.
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by dwd 3y ago
Blue control deck? Frustrating to play against if the loop is working, but often weak on killing power if it takes a lot of sacrificing to pay the upkeep. I remember one game decades ago where I was slowly ground down by the tapping of a so
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by dwd 3y ago
One of my favourite dialogs in the book was where the second mate admonished the cook about how to properly do a whale steak. "I’ll tell you what to do so as not to spoil it by overdoing. Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coa
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by dwd 3y ago
Especially as the British did it first over 150 years ago. One of Brunel's lesser known innovations and highly successful as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renkioi_Hospital
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by dwd 3y ago
Lip-syncing taken to the extreme. As long as they don't call it a "live" performance. Concerts are expensive undertakings - maybe there is a place for events like this in dedicated arenas like the Sphere where you can minimis
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by dwd 3y ago
Do we even have an idea of how the vote went? Greg was not invited (losing Sam one vote), and Sam may have been asked to sit out the vote, so the 3 had a majority. Ilya who is at least on "Team Sam" now; may have voted no. Or simp
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by dwd 3y ago
Nicely put. The original vision is pretty clear, and a compelling reason to not screw around and get sidetracked, even if that has massive commercialisation upside. Thankfully M$ didn't have control of the board.
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by dwd 3y ago
Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI. https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/
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by dwd 3y ago
Very tough, and they hang on tight to the ground when you go to rescue one that's in a dangerous place. But possibly the only Australian native animal that you don't have to worry about being bitten, kicked, clawed or envenomed.
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by dwd 3y ago
In Australia we had the Gould league, named in honour of John and Elizabeth Gould. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould_League They produced these fantastic art posters for bird identification.
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by dwd 3y ago
Don't take out any loans or sign up for subscription plans. Pay for everything up-front and you don't need them. But for the average person who want to buy a phone, put it on a plan, and walk out - that is not possible without Equ
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by dwd 3y ago
Literature: Brothers Karamozov Constantly recommended on Twitter and I really wonder how many of those recommending it have actually read it. Heart of Darkness is a short easy read in comparison. Moby Dick was another hard read and a real s
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by dwd 3y ago
Varoufakis is pretty clear in using the feudalism, in that the technological elite are carving up their own monopolistic fiefdoms. How far you want to take the analogy for modern tech corporates is debatable, as we're still a long way
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by dwd 3y ago
Stick figure cave paintings are paleolithic graffiti. If you think artists find it hard to scratch a living these days, you're not going to find much support for following your passion when there is hunting, gathering and defending aga
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by dwd 3y ago
I maybe wasn't expecting Bernini level of realism, but "Augustus of Prima Porta" is around 2000 years old which greatly predates Renaissance tooling.
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by dwd 3y ago
I don't understand how Malays regularly eat nasi lemak for breakfast (rice topped with prawn sambal and pickled cucumber wrapped in a banana leaf) without getting sick frequently. Vendors would have them pre-prepared and stacked in a p
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by dwd 3y ago
Unfortunately for Varoufakis who is a self-proclaimed Trekkie and Liberal Marxist, the technology isn't there yet to backup his dream of a more equable, StarTrek-like world, and while we may grow enough food to feed to world; energy an
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by dwd 3y ago
Excellent video! Learnt a few new tricks that I'll use in future. I find just by trying something I discover a new use. A good example the other day was I needed to convert a spreadsheet of addresses into GeoJSON to use as a map layer.
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by dwd 3y ago
No, it's quite surprising once you train yourself to notice any passing reference.
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by dwd 3y ago
Does skipping breakfast correlate with a lower daily intake of dietary fiber?
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by dwd 3y ago
Stinger suits, basically like a full body wetsuit with a hoodie (and even gloves). You can comfortably wear one all day, with the added bonus of full sun protection.
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by dwd 3y ago
Or the emus. We've gone to war against them and lost.
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by dwd 3y ago
> FYI if you're not Australian ..... box jellyfish is one of the most deadly creatures on earth. ..And sounding even worse now. You can swim fairly safely outside of Summer/Autumn though advisable to still wear a stinger suit
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by dwd 3y ago
There are consulting groups who specialise in infrastructure work and can provide the engineering oversight, cost analysis and most importantly have lawyers who can effectively negotiate the contract. It's often the lack of experienced
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by dwd 3y ago
TeamLab Borderless is a must see in Tokyo. Don't forget there's also a Ghibli Museum and you have to book in advance.
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by dwd 3y ago
Could you imagine how well bailing out Equifax to pay its legal bills would go down?
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by dwd 3y ago
Been a few years since I read it, but worth a look due to the detail it goes into. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/do...

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