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by jey 3y ago
I wonder whether they pulled their article because they changed their mind. Maybe over time they got to understand the difference in use-cases and tradeoffs. Though it's definitely true that plain MapReduce can be shockingly inefficien
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by jey 3y ago
What’s the significance of 365? Each Earth year has just a smidge under 365.25 days.
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by jey 3y ago
These are impressive, I wonder how he computes them: https://allrgb.com/al-zimmermann
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by jey 3y ago
> asked what my shares I was leaving behind were worth I always decline to answer these questions by saying "it's not relevant; I'd like to be compensated according to my background/experience and the role". If t
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by jey 3y ago
I'd suggest using a cloud VM with a GPU attached. For normal stuff like LLM inference, I just rent an instance with a small (cheap) GPU. But when I need to do something more exotic like train an image model from scratch, I can temporar
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27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process(inc.com)
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by jey 3y ago
Wake me up after the replication in humans.
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by jey 3y ago
Probably not "STOP" since that's a reserved message in SMS that tells bots to stop messaging you entirely.
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How I Built Computer Engineering for Babies(computerengineeringforbabies.com)
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Why I haven't run an Indiegogo campaign(computerengineeringforbabies.com)
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by jey 3y ago
Isn’t curcumin one of those compounds that just has a lot of false positives in these kinds of lab assays? https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/separating-turmeric-... https://qz.com/india/88382
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by jey 3y ago
This fear of bare feet is uniquely American. In many other cultures it is considered much more disrespectful and disgusting to wear outdoor shoes inside a home.
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by jey 3y ago
OK that's strange but makes sense, so it's the publicly-routable IP after "network address translation" (NAT) that keeps changing.
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by jey 3y ago
Why would LEO satellite internet cause frequent change of IP addresses? Shouldn't all that moving-satellite stuff be handled on a lower level of the OSI Model (probably Layer 2: Data Link), and the IP stuff at Layer 3 isn't affect
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by jey 3y ago
It's intended as a reference material for some kinds of lab measurements. Sorta related: NileBlue's total laboratory synthesis of chocolate chip cookie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjxpZHv7Hk
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by jey 3y ago
Direct link to patch: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8ae372dc88d1
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by jey 3y ago
This is a well established route for new tech: first start by selling to the early adopters who have extra motivation and extra money, then use those funds to lower the costs by increasing scale then reach a bigger market.
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by jey 3y ago
> A medicine the FDA as of today admits can be a treatment for COVID This is not accurate. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fda-admit-ivermectin/
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by jey 3y ago
Even if the internet was unbiased, this is not true because they then train the model further to reflect the intended values and boundaries. This is usually done with a method called RLHF.
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by jey 3y ago
Anyone know what the persistent design flaw is? (Or are dehumidifiers intrinsically a fire risk for some reason?)
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by jey 3y ago
This is old news from Feb 6 2023, well before the collapse of SVB. While it could potentially reflect on the company culture and be relevant to SVB's recent troubles, it's not at all clear why KRON4 decided to present this as brea
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by jey 3y ago
You’re just creating FUD. Can you instead be more specific?
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by jey 3y ago
Isn't the mechanism for the talc -> {ovarian cancer, mesothelioma} connection much clearer and stronger though? That talc co-occurs with asbestos, which is known to be highly carcinogenic and to cause the types of cancers being enco
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by jey 3y ago
I see a U+2800 BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK as your second "space". It looks like 6 unfilled Braille dots. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0
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by jey 3y ago
It implements the welfare-maximizing outcome, defined as the outcome that maximizes the sum of the valuations of all of the bidders for the chosen outcome.
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by jey 3y ago
It also seems to be a sly reference to the “midwit” meme.
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by jey 3y ago
Tom Minka's "Old and New Matrix Algebra Useful for Statistics" is also really handy: https://tminka.github.io/papers/matrix/minka-matrix.pdf I used to always stare at these two PDFs while deriving m
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by jey 3y ago
Ok, but let's also acknowledge that the mental model and levels of abstraction increased significantly, which presents a barrier to people without any prior software engineering experience, who are just getting into Python for "da
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by jey 3y ago
Sounds and looks like it was fun to implement, but is there a motivating use case? Or is it more for technical/hacking interest?
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by jey 4y ago
I use Julia for this. Its ccall facility is very handy for C FFI calls, and Julia itself is very fast and performant with just a bit of type annotation. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/calling-c-and-fo

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