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by justinc-md 2y ago
The Netflix Cease and Desist ( https://www.eicoff.com/drtv-blog/netflix-cease-and-desist ) for a Stranger Things themed pop-up bar also comes to mind.
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by justinc-md 3y ago
I used PyPy extensively at a previous employer. The use case was to accelerate an application that was CPU-bound because of serde, which could not be offloaded using multiprocessing. PyPy resulted in a 10x increase in message throughput, an
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by justinc-md 3y ago
gc.freeze prevents considering the objects in gc, but doesn’t disable reference counting so you’ll still have CoW issues. PEP 683 introduces a way to make an object immortal which disables reference counting, which will address that issue.
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by justinc-md 4y ago
Why would landlords want to drive down the price of housing?
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by justinc-md 4y ago
The top speed to Orlando will be 125mph.
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by justinc-md 4y ago
Florida is connecting Miami, Ft Lauderdale, and Orlando this year for a total cost of $3-4 billion. That’s $7.3 million per mile, and it was mostly paid for by private enterprise instead of the government. Development started in 2012, with
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by justinc-md 4y ago
It uses a lot less energy for people to live in a warm climate with air conditioning than a cold climate with heat. The US spends four times more on heating than cooling, primarily because of greater temperature differences. Responsible env
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by justinc-md 4y ago
How distributable is training a model like this? Do all the gpus need to be physically close together or well networked?
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by justinc-md 4y ago
I was lucky enough to get to tour the clean room where they were fabricating the microshutter array at Goddard many years ago. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures, since this was before smart phones. I think that really helps conte
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by justinc-md 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of behavior that you'd see with reward hacking in reinforcement learning.
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by justinc-md 5y ago
Some time after they can't generate 122.0% year-on-year growth without lowering prices?
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Fast Order Search Using Yelp’s Data Pipeline and Elasticsearch(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
3 points by justinc-md 8y ago|0 comments
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by justinc-md 9y ago
If you're in the bay area and considering OIT, a friend of mine is opening a private practice offering only OIT [0], starting next Wednesday in Redwood City. She is currently a full-time clinician at the Sean N. Parker Center for Alle