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601.
by gok 7y ago
We should give US doctors lots of PPE for no cost. Then a few months later, mail the hospitals bills for every person involved in making those masks. Also separate bills for the "specialists" who packed them into cardboard boxes.
602.
by gok 7y ago
Bingo!
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by gok 7y ago
Cars have way more capacity than they typically need, and very predictable usage patterns. If your car has 400 km of range and your daily commute is 80 km total, you can pretty safely charge to only 200 km and not get range anxiety. In the
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by gok 7y ago
Note that essentially all modern battery systems essentially do this under the hood. The "100%" shown to the user isn't the most you could charge the cells, just as high as you want to charge it to meet lifetime degradation t
605.
by gok 7y ago
Hm? The whole iPhone 11 class was released, the sale of the 6/7/8 line was substantially cut down, and there's another year of older form factor devices wearing out.
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by gok 7y ago
That is almost a year old though...
607.
by gok 7y ago
Satellite internet, self driving cars, and yes advanced biotech are also in the Vision Fund.
608.
by gok 7y ago
Satellite internet? Autonomous vehicles? Nvidia and Arm? What's "interesting" to you?
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Photos of Jupiter from Juno space probe (2018)(physics-astronomyblog.blogspot.com)
93 points by gok 7y ago|8 comments
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by gok 7y ago
In the server space that's true, Arm cores are proliferating. But Samsung shut their core group down and Qualcomm is moving that direction.
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JLang: An LLVM back end for the Polyglot compiler(polyglot-compiler.github.io)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
ISAs are consolidating sure, but the interesting parts of the chips are also consolidating. A few years ago several companies were designing new Arm cores; now it's pretty much just Arm and Apple.
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by gok 7y ago
All their assets? How about their homes?
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Affordable housing can cost $1M per apartment in California(latimes.com)
2 points by gok 7y ago|1 comments
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by gok 7y ago
48MB per day just isn't that much these days.
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Rocket Lab catches piece of falling rocket in mid-air with helicopter(flightglobal.com)
2 points by gok 7y ago|1 comments
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by gok 7y ago
That's US$12.12/hr to save anyone interested the time looking it up
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by gok 7y ago
Particularly https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/blob/master/r... It uses a publicly available huge training set
619.
by gok 7y ago
The FDA would take years to approve a new ventilator that was an old one with a new paint color. A new design like this would probably be approved for use in US hospitals around 2025 if they're lucky. Might be useful sooner in a countr
620.
by gok 7y ago
Facebook released a pretty impressive SOTA system with public data sources a few weeks ago
621.
by gok 7y ago
Monitor in what sense?
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Chinese Government takes control of Imagination Technologies(semiaccurate.com)
5 points by gok 7y ago|1 comments
623.
by gok 7y ago
http://www.oecd.org/els/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travelling_...
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by gok 7y ago
To be precise, about 8% of households earn $200k or more.
625.
by gok 7y ago
> Americans spend more time commuting to work than almost anyone on Earth. American commute times are actually the third lowest in the OECD.
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by gok 7y ago
Is it clear to anyone if the BFloat16 support in these chips means they have extra-low precision multipliers internally, or are the dot products still implemented with the single precision guts? Does it actually increase compute over FP32 o
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by gok 7y ago
> It's a native application designed to run on macOS. It's a Qt app that happens to compile and run on macOS. If you want a few really obvious example of how the UI works wrong, try scrolling any of the lists with a trackpad. I
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UBSan ␇ Runtime(reviews.llvm.org)
22 points by gok 7y ago|10 comments
629.
by gok 7y ago
I suppose you don't include the flight manuals as a critical system, since those have been touch screens for almost a decade?
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by gok 7y ago
> Where the current taxi regulations fail, and thus should not be replicated, is that it artificially lowers supply via the so-called medallion system Many cities regulate restaurants like this too, by rationing liquor licenses.

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