general_ai

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by general_ai 10y ago
Kalanick and Musk are basically the only two remaining adults in SV. Musk basically said on twitter, "I'll go and talk to the guy". Everyone else is more concerned with political correctness and virtue signaling. Hundred thou
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by general_ai 10y ago
Maybe it's not about funding at all?
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by general_ai 10y ago
Nonetheless, people in Flint didn't have drinkable water for years. If the agency is so toothless with a highly politicized case like this, you can only imagine how toothless it is when it comes to the less publicized cases. So don&#x2
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by general_ai 10y ago
FYI, the EPA is comprised of 15000 employees, and its annual budet is $8.14B. That's $543K per head. A lot of money for sitting on their hands and making excuses that they're "hamstrung".
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by general_ai 10y ago
Just goes to show that "regulations" isn't all that needs to happen. We've known for years there are problems in various areas, some of the most drastic of which have been widely publicized due to Flint. What's also
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by general_ai 10y ago
Your comment would hold a lot more weight if EPA or some other massive government agency found it possible to help people in Flint, MI, which did not have drinkable water for years now, and still don't have it.
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by general_ai 10y ago
You're confusing your grade with academic success. Those two things are related, but not the same. If this is something you want to pursue, go after it. Grades matter, but they're not the only thing that matters.
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by general_ai 10y ago
As an immigrant, I _came here_ for capitalism, and you will have a hard time persuading me that Venezuela should be our role model. :-)
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by general_ai 10y ago
They can also be unceremoniously preempted in the middle of your week long training run.
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by general_ai 10y ago
My student years were in Moscow in early 90's amid chaos and hyperinflation. Even there, I would be able to scrape together a few hundred bucks for something that's critical to my academic success. Get a roommate, maybe? Find a be
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by general_ai 10y ago
It always cracks me up when I read H1B suggestions from people who weren't themselves H1Bs. They always focus on the intake, or on "gaming", or wage thresholds, or whatever the hell else their particular side of the aisle tol
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by general_ai 10y ago
I didn't snipe. This is life advice. Get a part time job. If you're in North America (Canada or US) and you can't squeeze out $400-600 from your budget over the period of a year, you're making excuses, pure and simple. C
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by general_ai 10y ago
Cloud GPUs are not economical if you use them 24x7x365 (which for any serious deep learning researcher or engineer is usually the case). The only scenario I can think of in which they'd be more economical than something under your desk
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by general_ai 10y ago
Spending 10 months instead of 1 or 2 and not getting anywhere is also not free.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Doing anything large on a machine without CUDA is a fool's errand these days. Get a GTX1080 or if you're not budget constrained, get a Pascal-based Titan. I work in this field, and I would not be able to do my job without GPUs --
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by general_ai 10y ago
Saying that Carter wasn't "exceptional" is quite an understatement. He kinda sucked at his job in general, and at getting the Congress to support his agenda in particular.
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by general_ai 10y ago
I wonder how it compares to a recent ARM-based Arduino in terms of computational power.
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by general_ai 10y ago
People with decent STEM backgrounds can be MUCH more gainfully employed elsewhere. Higher echelons of US government are badly underpaid, which is why they attract the kind of "talent" they do. A Google search shows that it takes $
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by general_ai 10y ago
It's not $1M. It's $1M over 4 years. I doubt they'll last that long.
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by general_ai 10y ago
+1. Can't wait for them to start "protesting" against the exact same kinds of drone strikes and bombing raids Obama ordered for years when Trump starts ordering them.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Seek help from _where_?
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by general_ai 10y ago
+1, would be great to have something like that as an integrated toolkit on the Python (more specifically, Python 3) side. I currently use tqdm for progress bar, but it'd be great to also have a spinner and the rest of the goodies.
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by general_ai 10y ago
I didn't say it'd necessarily be less expensive (although it might end up being that once you factor in the costs of crime needed to obtain expensive drugs in the first place). I said it'd be better for the addicts, which to
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by general_ai 10y ago
It says that their constituents don't really give a shit about the finer points of things. It also doesn't help that the longer the congress critter stays in congress, the more power they seem to amass, Frank Underwood style. So a
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by general_ai 10y ago
Sure would help if they went through rehab to kick the addiction, and not get AIDS then.
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by general_ai 10y ago
As an adult, you have to make tradeoffs. Given that the supply of money is finite (unless you're Bernie Sanders who believes that money grows on trees), you have to decide whether to spend the money on this, or on, perhaps, kindergarte
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by general_ai 10y ago
You just don't hate those two particular geezers enough. One ran the Democratic Party into the ground (and got rewarded for it with another term as the leader of House Democrats), and another makes Emperor Palpatine look like Mother Th
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by general_ai 10y ago
Ok, got it, you want Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell running things forever. It's a bold strategy, let's see how it works out for you.
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by general_ai 10y ago
For better or worse, he's not like the previous presidents in nearly every way.
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by general_ai 10y ago
From the same article: Clinton ended up revoking the order (so his order basically did nothing), and Obama gave waivers even to the previous, watered down 2-year version. This new order has considerably more teeth than anything that came be

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