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by gcr 4y ago
ML researchers I've spoken to strongly dislike the way people suggest similarities between biologically-inspired systems and neural networks. The earliest papers did use our understanding of the neuron as inspiration for some of the id
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by gcr 4y ago
Tesla isn't exactly a fast-moving competitor. Musk has been saying full self-driving is coming "any day now" for at least six years and counting¹, but Tesla's own lawyers say it's still largely vaporware². Meanwhile
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by gcr 4y ago
As soon as I realized what this was, I instantly dropped $2 to get it. Excellent work!
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by gcr 4y ago
My friends work on the SCaNN team! ScaNN doesn't use a second ML model, it's just an efficient way to store a bag of vectors. But if the software is too heavyweight for you, you don't necessarily need all of the vector quanti
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by gcr 4y ago
Yo this is excellent! I have many photos with bad time stamps and this might really help me out
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by gcr 4y ago
the point of the above comment is that it's often beneficial to take a solo trip, rather than to take the trip with someone who wants to "guide" or "control" the subject through a certain kind of crafted experience
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by gcr 4y ago
I mean, anything’s removable if you pull hard enough
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by gcr 4y ago
This guy! Imagine thinking “diversity programs” are a significant cost center, as if their spend were comparable to real estate or employee compensation
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by gcr 4y ago
I understood like maybe half of the words in this poem… Here’s a summary, if anyone else needs one! https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/canto-45/summary
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by gcr 4y ago
It feels a little crass to me to judge the wording and character of layoff emails, as if some of them are satisfying artistically and others are unsatisfying to consume somehow. At the end of the day, a layoff email is a layoff email. Sugar
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by gcr 4y ago
This is a common scenario for trans people who want to keep their previous identities secret for safety reasons. Git does not handle committer name changes by design, but I certainly wish there was some way of handling this scenario somehow
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by gcr 4y ago
Makes sense... We're also seeing energy efficiency and model size and latency becoming significant constraints these days, and the more unique constraints an application has, perhaps the more beneficial it is to have many different imp
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by gcr 4y ago
I think you're right and you're wrong, it's a bit more complicated. ML is one of the few applications that benefit from platform-specific optimizations, so if you need every ounce of performance, you have your choice of which
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by gcr 4y ago
It's amazing to me that there are four separate pieces of hardware in M1 devices that can do matrix multiplies. In addition to running on the CPU, M1 Max devices have three separate kinds of hardware-accelerated `gemm`: the GPU, the AN
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by gcr 4y ago
i can't read without zooming text, and i generally appreciate larger text on some sites. Cmd+- to opt out, as usual :)
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by gcr 4y ago
Remember Elon joking about pronouns earlier? It's hard for me to read that as anything other than spiting his transgender daughter. Between that and his "can't win em all " statement, I don't think Elon cares all th
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by gcr 4y ago
I hope it also depends on a reasonable expectation of oversight and access controls when you're working in high-risk fields. Finance engineers should probably be expected to be familiar with laws concerning what they do.
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by gcr 4y ago
Remember what happened with the 2016 Ethereum DAO? Even expert programmers aren't able to check smart contracts for all possible issues.
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by gcr 4y ago
Your very post says it -- "reputable." In this field, no matter the technology, reputation and trust are everything amidst fears of rug pulls and scams, and smart contracts don't replace the need for social trust. It's h
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by gcr 4y ago
gosh that sounds like fun, what school was this for? where was it?
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by gcr 4y ago
Floating point clocks do lose precision after long enough time though; see https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that... Storing floating point coordinates for example is what causes the &qu
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by gcr 4y ago
as someone who used to have exactly this sort of internalized shame, i think you've hit the nail on the head 100%. let's look at the statement: "biologically speaking, naked bodies arouse a sexual reaction". i'm war
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by gcr 4y ago
do you see the difference between "user stumbles across sexual content" (the previous conversation topic) and "showing porn to people against their consent"?
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by gcr 4y ago
oh huh! thanks for the correction!
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by gcr 4y ago
Well, one hidden implication behind your comment could be that women who work sensitive jobs shouldn't reveal their face or their profession online, or else they deserve to be unmasked. When framed that way, maybe you can see why I dis
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by gcr 4y ago
In my book, "I feel like shit because my body produces the wrong hormones" is a genuine medical reason.
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by gcr 4y ago
Testosterone is a scheduled drug in the US. I wish it (and other forms of hormone therapy) were more easily and widely available for folks who need them. Us trans people understand deeply what not having enough of the “right” hormones does
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by gcr 4y ago
Online women have to deal with this sort of crap routinely. I know a sex worker who was very careful about her online identity. She posted several years ago some completely innocuous thing, like “looks like I’m going to need a new pair of b
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by gcr 4y ago
On iPhone, keys are evicted from memory when the device is locked. Apps running behind the Lock Screen can only write files to special file inboxes (this is why the camera lets you take pictures while locked but doesn’t display earlier pic
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by gcr 4y ago
lovely! aaah i have such a soft spot in my heart for ideas like this. reminds me of "hoodwink'd," a similar project by _why the lucky stiff from 2005 that let readers leave comments on webpages tagged by URL. (see http:&#x2F

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