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by hintymad 2y ago
Ha, the similar technology that Eridians used to launch Rocky's blip-A.
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A key question is why the free market does not work in this case. Many business are "profit obsessed", yet it does not mean they won't provide quality products or services at increasingly lower prices. What's different i
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If we study the mentality of the leadership, we can understand why. The utmost motive of the bureaucrats is self-preservation, so their default mentality is fear: fear to make mistakes, fear to become the scapegoat, fear to lose their jobs,
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I don't have references at hand, but I can recall some of the discussions I used to read. The "Europeanization", or 欧化，came in many different flavors (even though most of the influence came from English), for better or for wo
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I also find it hard in Spanish, even though it's a kid show.
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How do you pass the initial language barriers? I'm trying to learn Spanish with Netflix shows and the Language Reactor, but I find it extremely hard to understand spoke Spanish. The characters speak so fast that I couldn't discern
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I'm guessing for someone learning a new language is relaxing and therefore helps recharging the person after hours of intense PhD work - things like enjoying daily progress, discovery of foreign culture, the euphoria of being able to r
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That's the simplified part. Otherwise, the basic structure of the two languages is subject + verb + object. A lot of semantics are constructed with the help of adverbs and particles without verb conjugations. For example, in English we
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Yes. That's how I learned my native language and that's how I learned other languages. Super effective, and super fun. No rote memory whatsoever. BTW, Chinese didn't have a tradition of producing comic books, but they were bi
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A side topic, for those who have acquired Mandarin, do you think Chinese is a really easy-to-learn language in the long run? Yes, learning all the characters has a steep learning curve, but once one passes that stage, it's all about co
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> I don't think I can do SRS No need. :-) Comprehensible Input and immersive language usage can be your superpower.
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> shitty office I'm not sure this applies to Google. Their offices and food are pretty nice. And their gyms are top-notch. If you stick with the salad bar, I'd venture to guess the freshness and nutrition variety will be better
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by hintymad 2y ago
Good point. I updated the assumption accordingly. I assume the cost of using Azure cloud after discount but before the credit will be on par with Azure's big customers. And given the scale of OAI, I suspect that the only way to be prof
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I assumed that Microsoft gave them discount and credits as investment, but the cost by itself is like any other big customer can get.
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Most of the loss comes from hefty cost of inference, right? OAI runs on Azure, so everything is expensive at their scale: the data, the compute, and GPU instances, and storage, and etc. I'd venture to guess that they will start buildin
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> The problem with non-holistic assessment is that each college is a very different thing I was actually comparing holistic admission with entrance exams. Individual colleges can certainly have their own entrance exams, just as colleges
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> you have a diverse amount of colleges with different entry exams, Yeah, that's what I meant by saying individual colleges ministering their exams. This is also what Japanese/Korean/Indian colleges do. My key point is tha
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> College admissions is really messed up I actually think that a national entrance exam (ministered by individual colleges or by a region is okay) is a better way for admission. My fundamental assumption is that the simpler a rule is, th
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That's great news. Now do the east coast[1] [1] My understanding is that legacy admission is more pervasive and takes higher percentage of admissions in the east-coast private colleges.
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My hunch is that OAI's models do not not really offer visible advantages over other open models for Apple's use cases. Even if OAI's models are more advanced, Apple can resort to cheaper post-processing to fill the gap. In Ap
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by hintymad 2y ago
Is there any paper/handouts/video that explains Paxos in depth, especially its implementations and intuitions? Paxos Made Simple gave intuitive explanations, but I feel it still misses a lot of intricate details if I were to build
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> That would be the US vs the globe's industrial superpower with an arguably larger real economy Wouldn't it be sad if this were true? Since when US was no longer a "industrial superpower"? Just 25 years ago, Chinese
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> You were correct up to here. However the US has a lot of manufacturing and so is not setting things up from scratch This is music to my ears. I read somewhere that the average age of the technicians in the US shipyards are well over 55
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Ah, I was actually thinking about how iron dome vs Hamas rockets. Iron dome was super effective, yet a million a pop to shoot down a rocket that costs a few thousand dollars at most may quickly bankrupt a country. That said, maybe it's
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I believe initially yes, wage is a big factor. It's just that now the wage gives way to the economy of scale (maybe regulation plays a big role too). It's pretty sad too. The capital wants returns and growth, at the cost of weaken
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In China, it's about showing that the emperors got the throne by god's will, not for any personal desire.
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So did emperors in other countries. They didn’t want to be the new emperors after a successful usurpation. Instead, their followers needed to plead or even force them to accept the throne
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> We have prioritized high wages for workers in the US I'm not sure if this is the dominating factor. Russia fired around 10,000 shells a day, and each costs about $1000. So for a year, Russia would have fired 3.65M shells that cost
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> We use mostly guided munitions dropped from planes and rockets fired from the ground, whereas Russian doctrine has always focused on artillery. Thanks for the specifics. I don't know about guided munitions, but I'd imagine a
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> Because maintaining a military at adequate readiness doesn't seem to be at the top of the list. I think Yamamoto Isoroku gave the answer to this challenge: just keep a booming manufacturing industry. When he was trying to convince

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