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I'd suggest reading the recently leaked Google memo for some context about why open source LLMs are important (and are disruptive from the perspective of a large company). It gives a good insight into why closed source models like GPT-
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There are efforts to provide an open source replica of the training dataset and independently trained models. So far the dataset has been recreated following the original paper (allowing for some vagueness that Meta researchers didn't
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by joshvm 3y ago
I wintered for IceCube. Happy to answer any questions about careers. My background isn't in polar research and while I have a PhD in (unrelated) physics, it's not a requirement by any means. Lots of jobs down there just require sp
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by joshvm 3y ago
I worked as a winterover, so I was paid to go. The cost of visiting the Pole is very high if you're there as a tourist (tens of thousands for a night). I believe some of the revenue does go towards science though, because the summer ca
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Stupidly useful when I broke my phone in Antarctica and had to wait months for a replacement to arrive (it did, mere days before station close). Also a shout out to gnirehtet which is I think by the same devs? Reverse tether your phone for
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by joshvm 4y ago
Lots of posts on HackerNews are adverts. That's what the "Show" tag is (partly) for. People aren't sharing their startups on here out of altruism, they want signups and conversions to paying customers. This isn't a
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This was taken by Robert Schwarz who's one of the more prolific winterovers and also spent a lot of his time down there perfecting his photography. A common project for folks down there is building camera boxes. Quite often we use th
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It is prolonged, if it appears. In most places where you can view it (typically sunset over oceans?) it lasts seconds. The flash still relies on the air conditions being amenable above where the sunset is. It's not uncommon for the hor
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I'd stress that this is at the colder locations on the continent, not the South Pole. The bigger challenge is actually the altitude. Physiological altitude can (occasionally) hit 14k ft at the Pole and those days are rough. Temperature
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Most of the main station (exterior) doors are walk-in style. The same goes for most of the scientific outbuildings. A lot of the smaller outbuildings, like the climbing gym, have relatively "normal" doors. There is a lot of wood c
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One of my winter experiments that never got off the ground was to make a lunargraph. I don't think there are many places you could "easily" do that. I did also try making a solargraph as a test, with a 3D printed enclosure, b
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McMurdo has them, but the general store accepts cards. I don't think the bars accept cards and tipping for volunteer services (e.g. barristas) is quite common. Pole does not (it's cash only). And then there's Palmer which is
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You can download the model yourself on GitHub and run it locally. The biggest one is about 2.5GB and certainly took some time on my M1 CPU. I couldn't get mps to run as the tensor dtypes are incompatible (could be a quick fix). The sma
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When people mention logits, they're usually referring to the raw output of the model before it gets transformed/normalised into a probability distribution (i.e. sums to 1, range [0,1]). Logits can take any value. The naming might
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You can do some simple multi-colour work if you knot symmetrically and you have appropriate length threads (one super long base colour, usually). For seldom used colours in the bracelet, it's a bit like multi colour 3D printing with pu
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In basically all cases course material is developed by professors and TAs, though the current lecturer might have adapted from several years of previous work. Who owns the IP exactly is tricky (likely the university has at least an equal
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http://cs231n.stanford.edu/ cs231n is still a really solid course, despite the more recent lecture videos not being publicly available.
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I have an iPhone and while I understand that Face ID probably has fewer false positives than fingerprint recognition, I really miss the physical rear sensor on my Pixel 2. I don't know what the collision rate is, or how easy it would b
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Then there's a vicious circle. You need to have technical expertise to evaluate whether the code from these models is fit for purpose. Until these models get sufficiently reliable that you can use them without worrying if the results a
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Back in the day Virgin Atlantic (and others?) hosted a version of the SNES. I played Link to the Past on a flight from London to Cape Town and, as the first long haul flight I'd been on, I thought it was normal. By far the best in-flig
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LAN parties grew into eSports and once the internet took off, local network gaming became a bit redundant (outside couch play on consoles). Still a thing at nerdy conventions, too - with all the sweat. ETH Zürich still has the PolyLAN socie
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You can look at Google's recent PaLM-E model for a possible approach. They use a vision transformer to tokenise the image (or to generate embeddings and then tokenise those?) and they also tokenise detected objects so the model can rea
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I would suggest "birds-eye" or something similar. That's sufficiently ambiguous that the source doesn't matter - e.g. an ortho is essentially a top-down view of a 3D-modelled surface. I guess most people outside GIS&#x2F
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University IP rules are usually quite strict. If your company has anything to do with your research they'll come knocking for royalties. You should also check at what level you're allowed to do outside work, in some places grad st
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You can also use the cheap ones, they work just as well for consumer purposes: https://www.yubico.com/ch/product/security-key-nfc-by-yubico... The only irritating bit is when you don't have USB-A (there is no
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It's also worth considering the fact you can see a point source that's a similar brightness to the host galaxy which probably contains several orders of magnitude more stars. A Type 1A peaks at something like 5 billion times the
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The annotated version gives a bit more context: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2302b/ Essentially the lensed objects show three very slightly different temporal views of the same galaxy. The time differences are p
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This is perhaps an Italian problem? In the UK loyalty cards are generally free, even if you were required to have one for the scan-as-you-shop systems. This used to be only Waitrose before the other supermarkets (Sainsburys, Tesco, etc) ado
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This is an interesting example, because there are brands like PB Swiss Tools which are Swiss and have a good reputation. Micro Swiss is named so, because of the type of (micro) lathes they used originally to make the nozzles. I don't
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Yes this is important to note: while the RAS is a charitable organisation, the publication process is facilitated by publishing companies (primarily OUP). Though exactly how the fees are distributed and what the arrangement is with OUP with

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