joseph_grobbles

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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
A lot of people here are too young to remember the overwhelming influence Microsoft had on the industry. As such they can't grok the intention of the essay. If Microsoft introduces a new product today, a new browser, a new toolset, a n
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Then it's good that the A13/A14/M1 have a neural inference engine, the latter featuring 11 trillion operations per second, using shared memory with the CPU.
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Maybe you lumped Canada in with the US, but Apple Maps is superb here, and I always default to it with few complaints [1]. It already was brilliant for navigation, but their recent detail update makes it much more usable for map porn. The f
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Scale, and only scale. As with most extensions, there's negative value if you're doing a small number of calcs, but it pays off in larger needs like ML training. We've been calculating matrixes for time eternal, but AMX has j
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Apple added special AMX instructions specifically for matrix operations. They added them back with the A13, and then improved them for the M1. These are primarily focused on machine learning training where you do backpropagation through h
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Reducing the harm of a purposeful, voluntary action -- maybe just to make it personally palatable to your own morality or mission -- doesn't seem to meet the threshold for a "good deed". Less of a bad deed, sure. But given th
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
The same difficulty of anonymity arises with the RV itself, a very ostentatious vehicle that not only can be traced with ease, it can be tracked retroactively on virtually every street, every highway, etc. Regardless, for all we know the pe
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Many of the current neural net voice synthesis engines are fantastic and sound extremely real. Amazon Polly for instance. I'd punch in the phrase and do some comparisons, but given the attention those logs will certainly get maybe I wo
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
It's a good deed that they broadcast this message? Why a rational human would broadcast this message- a) The penalties if there were deaths would be much, much more severe. The manpower involved in the hunt would be exponentially large
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Same here. Wonderful playlists. Constant exposure to new music. This discussion seemed to get people in the mood for the airing of grievances, so here we are. Just a couple of months ago Spotify temporarily blocked playlist exporting and th
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
I used the racism quote above because that is the foundation of how completely broken the political system in the US is. Where every progressive policy can be short circuited -- reviled by the very people it would benefit the most -- throug
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Lyndon B. Johnson - “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
The real, real reason you can't buy good webcams is because the market isn't a meritocracy. Make the best webcam in existence and there just isn't a robust, or honest, review community to let it shine. Instead there are a b
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Tesla didn't invent batteries. They didn't invent electric motors. They didn't invent pretty much anything novel. They execute superbly, had a brilliant strategy of starting as a luxury vehicle to be the beachhead for getti
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
Pay $1500 for a laptop and it will often have crapware installed. Buy a $1000 Samsung TV and it will track your viewing, sell the data, and show you ads. Buy a high end dishwasher and seemingly 50% of the logic on the device is to encourage
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
The first claim is a strawman and deserves no further refuting. The second is...true. Everything we do is something we can learn life lessons from. And chess is a lesson in concentration and focused mental activity, which remarkably few thi