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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Lance Armstrong can sustain about 450 watts. Rec cyclists maybe 1/4 that. E-bike motors are 250-500w. So not a small percentage but also not enough to be sustainable unless you are a world class athlete.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Plastics and fuel have very different climate consequences.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
> What I perceive as younger people are horrified at the idea of fifty year old tools My students are shocked (horrified?) to learn that they're basically running 50-yr old Fortran code when they use scipy.minimize to train their fa
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
uv is so over-the-top fast compared to what we're used to that I would argue it's actually bad for the language. Suddenly it dawns on you that by far the most capable and performant package manager (and linter) (and code formatter
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
What’s the best homebrew weather station out there? Currently I’ve got my eye on https://3dpaws.comet.ucar.edu/ but interested to hear about others.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
You omitted the _most_ on-brand part of this story, which is the part where (per his last wishes) Johnny Depp spent $3m on a party that involved firing Thompson's ashes out of a 150-foot tower in western Colorado. https://ww
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3D-Printed Automatic Weather Station(3dpaws.comet.ucar.edu)
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Thanks, but experimental support based off a Github comment is not what I'm looking for when I distribute software.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
In my niche corner of scientific computing it feels like Cython has largely been replaced by Numba and CFFI, or just Julia. Last I checked it still needed setup.py which is a bit of a deal breaker in 2025.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
See comments elsewhere in this thread. To cite one well known recent example, Oracle stock went crazy recently (and Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest person) after they disclosed in their earnings report that they are expecti
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
A lot of the trends identified in this article are ubiquitous across academia, and in fact much worse in humanities -- having 99 TT positions open in a year would make my friends in the English department swoon! It's just that economic
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
> Effectively every single H100 in existence now will be e-waste in 5 years or less. This is definitely not true, the A100 came out just over 5 years ago and still goes for low five figures used on eBay.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Can’t tell which of these two comments is the joke …
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
attempted to unionize -- they are known for nipping that one in the bud. Happened to one of the locations in my town.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Right, this thing is priced from an earlier (pre-BeeLink) era. There’s just so much more you can get for $200 nowadays, right off Amazon.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
I have had this happen. Mac and cheese into the preheated oven, boom. Glass shards all over the dishes on the lower rack. Almost ruined Thanksgiving.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Photocopiers are legal. And every piece of art that has ever been produced is derivative.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Not clear that being able to sample from a distribution == stealing.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
> I'd rather pay for contact lenses forever, put them in, and take them out every day than risk anything to my vision Same same same. Soft contacts are pretty freaking great in the grand scheme of things -- go read contemporary acco
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
It sounds like a typical neurips paper to me. And no, they did know what a big deal it would be, else google never would have given the idea away.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
`make -j288` baby
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
The fact that the human brain, heck all brains, are so much more efficient than “state of the art” nnets, in terms of architecture, power consumption, training cost, what have you … while also being way more versatile and robust … is what c
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Let me clarify. I paid $325 for a used MK3S+ and that seems to be the going rate. The printers at the Makerspace are A1 and A1 minis. The former cost $399 or less on sale, and the latter definitely under $300 always. So yes, the comparison
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Because I, unlike many people here apparently, possess a finite quantity of money.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
> For many things Prusa printers produce higher quality prints. I have yet to have this happen, despite a lot of trying. The Bambu just works and the results are better. The Prusa requires constant recalibration and tuning, and still pro
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
It's the exact same thing that happened with Japanese cars. Believe it or not, Japanese autos used to be considered cheap junk in the 70s and early 80s.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
I want so much to like Prusa ... but the Bambu printer at my local makerspace costs half as much and is better in every way than the MK3S+ sitting in my basement. I'm fully aware that this is the result of shrewdness on the part of the
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
They just took their estimated spend per training run, doubled it, and divided by the number of models they release a year. Roughly.
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
> Sparse models for example show a lot of promise and more closely track real biological systems. I think sparsity is a consequence of some other fundamental properties of brain function that we've yet to understand. Just sparsifyin
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by hyperbovine 1y ago
Your setup sounds rather different than mine, though I am under the impression mine is typical. There are no “curriculum meetings” or any other sort of teaching or service work during the summer, for the simple reason that the university li

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