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by fock 6y ago
well, did adtech change the available income or why is it that it's so much bigger than the old way of doing advertisement? I think the only point, why you are seeing this "growth" is that you have an oligopolic structure whi
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by fock 6y ago
well, this is not predicting "quantum mechanics energies", it's just parametrizing the molecular bond interaction potential with a neural network instead of an analytic function (such as e.g. a Lennard-Jones potential). It&#x
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by fock 6y ago
and most important of all: it created a new group of rent-seekers from scratch. well done!
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by fock 6y ago
not really into industry, but a) the pharma-companies using it are probably reluctant to give you their data and b) uni researchers are not overly fond of high-fee services and labor is cheap there.
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by fock 6y ago
yes, for myself, I've taken that step for some time. It's just the case that most corporate cafeterias have not really jumped on the bandwagon already (offering 80% meat-dishes, e.g. all but one – take it or leave it then...) and
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by fock 6y ago
good to see that! I (physics grad) was eyed very skeptically by a crowd of CS and architecture (like in houses) people, when I started buying fuses and caring about fire-safety (all the people were much like: oh light, wow (whilst I was: po
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by fock 6y ago
which is "building WITH LED strips". I once "built" a LED-matrix display from strips, because it was a demo project and money for HW was scarce (and time to short to look into fabrication for a non-EE-person; also brig
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by fock 6y ago
unfortunately the no-meat dishes of our grandparents are not especially tasty in their "peasant"-version (northern europe) and making tasty vegetarian meals is an art not really known anymore (was it ever?) in my family, nor in an
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by fock 6y ago
and actually all the soya for actual human consumption could easily be farmed locally.
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by fock 6y ago
actually, we are currently in drought conditions some years in a row in Germany. Forests are dying and the groundwater is exhausted. But hey, it's all the media making up a story.
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by fock 6y ago
well, otherwise it would get expensive pretty fast with rainforest soil. I mean, you learn this in highschool around here (rainforest soil=most often bad for agriculture, so one must take means to mitigate that → one must move the crop...),
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by fock 6y ago
upselling it to everyone not satisfied with shitty wifi from their shittiest telco-modem/router/AP-abomination. And squeezing the lemon in the process.
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by fock 6y ago
but your wifi is unreliable and slow. Instead of buying a good AP, buy this 5G modem for only $5 and get your nice, capped 20MBit/s for $200 a month. Isn't this just what you need, when every site is slowly just getting a fibre-co
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by fock 6y ago
so for everyone outside China/the US: what's the problem if you have to stop the consumption of surveillance tools?
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by fock 6y ago
lately, more and more articles appear, which outline what's the real and actual economic cost of 5G: local area, decentral, unlicensed Wifi-networks should get replaced with a centrally managed and tunable (for $$$ or power) alternativ
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by fock 6y ago
still, even really productive people (such as the ones sewing your shirt) can't yet have all of the above basic goods (let alone something extra), while yet other people (heirs, investors, ...) are consuming insane amounts of labor in
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by fock 6y ago
well, if you're paying for the cloud, you can pay for the free-as in freedom-software as well I guess ;)
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by fock 6y ago
so basically iceweasel vs. firefox again. I'm fine with that (and still miss the icon)
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by fock 6y ago
like all of the legacy quantum chemical and FEM codes or anything else you run in HPC (which are a lot of codes, which are not ported from one day to the other by an army of self-declared ML-pros). Part of them can be GPU-accelerated, but t
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by fock 6y ago
speaking of poorly organized: did they fix their embedded dependencies yet for glibc 2.30 in actual tagged releases of tensorflow?
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by fock 6y ago
One of them will be dead by exhaustion a short time after he piled up his bounty only to have it rot because he doesn't know a freezer...
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by fock 6y ago
also not really sure, how a protocol wants to be simpler than http (send bytes to port 80, get bytes, print bytes...) if it has baked in content limitations...
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On the Moral Economy of Tech(idlewords.com)
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by fock 6y ago
and it's not like you would easily get 256 x86 cores in 4 units for the same amount of cash
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by fock 6y ago
that's, why I ultimately decided to not delete it (as well as Instagram) - they'll keep their shadow profile anyway. Good idea about unfollowing most people though (some other post herr) - makes visiting it stupid unless to check
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by fock 6y ago
and with the VDI-crowd you still can sell that as a feature, as they don't like random containers in their auth-workflow. Seems like being conservative is rewarded sometimes.
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by fock 6y ago
and at some point the energy input is larger than producing the fifth grader and a generation of teachers. Which ... - seems inefficient, especially given that you can't teach this machine any new rules in a closed-model fashion; say,
568.
by fock 6y ago
well, the same way, a neural network follows rules humans implemented. With a little bit of mathematical optimization to actually describe a problem!
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by fock 6y ago
how would you propose to train it on multiple kinds of inputs/targets?
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by fock 6y ago
and plagiarizing/wrongly paraphrasing texts is something every 3rd grader should be able to do. And yeah, generally a 3rd grader should be able to stay on topic as well ... And additionally he can draw, do image recognition, run circle

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