emef

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by emef 3y ago
The model weights (the thing being updated by the training process) stay loaded in gpu memory during training (the slow part). This could be useful to serialize the model weights to disk when checkpointing or completed, but it's a drop
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by emef 4y ago
it was an IoT product (internet-connected LED sign)
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by emef 4y ago
how are compilers not performance-critical applications?
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by emef 4y ago
I did a proof of concept in luigi pretty early on and really liked it. Our main concerns were that we would have needed to bolt on a lot of extra functionality to make it easy to re-run workflows or specific steps in the workflows when nece
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by emef 4y ago
It's a good question. I believe airflow was probably the right choice at the time we started. We were a small team, and deploying airflow was a major shortcut that more or less handled orchestration so we could focus on other problems.
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by emef 4y ago
We've also been running airflow for the past 2-3 years at a similar scale (~5000 dags, 100k+ task executions daily) for our data platform. We weren't aware of a great alternative when we started. Our DAGs are all config-driven whi
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by emef 4y ago
parquet is great but it's not particularly easy to read or write. the libraries that do exist to work with it are few and far between, and those that do either have a hundred dependencies or depend on native code (e.g. libarrow). certa
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by emef 5y ago
core to tesla's strategy is to do massive data collection from consumer-owned cars using beta software (and hardware, that the consumer pays for). that model is not compatible with expensive lidars, which contrary to some other comment
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by emef 5y ago
> Here's a fair warning: this article is reductio ad absurdum, literally the first sentence...
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by emef 5y ago
SEVerity level of the incident
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by emef 5y ago
this is less true these days w/ slim docker images that don't include any editors by default
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by emef 5y ago
# on_update="nothing": does nothing when an update is tried frozen_shared_state = freeze(shared_state, on_update="nothing") frozen_shared_state.count = 4 # Does nothing, as this update did not exist yikes.
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by emef 6y ago
I wrote our internal lightweight version of neuropod at another SDC startup where we did use TensorRT. Our ML researchers worked in pytorch and more often than not, the pytorch -> onnx -> tensorrt conversion did not work. We ended up
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by emef 7y ago
I track account balances once a month into a spreadsheet to keep a high-level overview. It's a manual process that takes ~15 minutes and has a large payoff to have a birds-eye view of all the finances and allocations. Investments are a
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by emef 7y ago
Had to wait forever to get a time slot. They do 10-15 minute demos in a temporary room they put up on the expo floor.
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by emef 7y ago
I tried their demo at CVPR a few months ago. It was super immersive and crisp. You interact with an AI "guide" who shows you how to look around, pick things up, stick them on the wall, etc. It was surprisingly unnerving to look th
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by emef 7y ago
Transaction cost and speed are enormous problems for bitcoin, not sure why that would only be mildly appealing to solve. Not vouching for Libra, but my understanding of bitcoin was that it caps out at something ridiculously low like 11 tran
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by emef 7y ago
I'm not sure what kind of deployment you are envisioning where this makes sense. If you are running a java application, you likely want a bare bones OS + jvm of appropriate version (like the ones being discussed).
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by emef 7y ago
This is why we use a redundant geometric approach (with LiDAR) as a fallback to NNs in our perception stack. NNs can have false negatives which is unacceptable, but dealing with false positives is more manageable and safer.
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by emef 7y ago
Tesla has take a firm stance against using LiDAR and is doubling down on CV. I'm not sure if they have radars for parking assistance, but they are using cameras as primary sensor for perception and localization.
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by emef 7y ago
Rewriting existing software in a new language is one of the best ways to learn a language. > especially since people who don't need to learn are doing it Don't need to learn?? There's always something to learn.
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by emef 8y ago
GPU programming - rewrote some LiDAR processing using cuda to speed up our object detection pipeline. Also learned the python C api so we could integrate some ML models written in pytorch into our c++ applications.
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by emef 8y ago
They noted that the first successful test was at 50% and effectively a power glide. Further in the video you can see they do achieve a sustained flight that reaches the end of the gym and is more than just a glide.
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by emef 9y ago
If you put data that's considered personal into a public blockchain, or any decentralized system, who becomes the owner of that data? Was it the company/service that originally published it on the blockchain? or is every node requ
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Former Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Is Officially Uber's New CEO(theverge.com)
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by emef 9y ago
This used to be the case, but I'd argue not as much anymore. I had the 3gs for ~4 years and by the end it was nearly unusable due to updates (noticeably worse every time). I'm now nearly at the 5 year mark on my 5s and on the late
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by emef 9y ago
If using fb for all these use cases is _working_ for people, why would they switch? It's free and ubiquitous, there would be no reason to use something else unless fb fell out of favor en masse. You haven't been very specific abou
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by emef 9y ago
The crickets in that audience must have been deafening. What was the correct course of action for the conference organizers? Does registering require you to submit your gender/ethnicity? How do you know when you need to course correct
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by emef 9y ago
My COBOL is actionscript (flash plugins). I got started programming with ActionScript 2, writing games and doing some freelance projects building things like image carousels and navigation. Not nearly as lucrative as $350/hr quoted her
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by emef 9y ago
Regulations are important to keep people safe (it's pretty easy to build quadcopters that go 80-100mph), but I don't see what registration accomplishes. More accountability?

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