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2y ago
I’d be surprised to find “middle managers” at all among the top 100 senior leaders of a company with 150k+ employees,
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> The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere But it’s not what it used to be. Now you don’t “run” Mathematica - you “access” it running another program. It’s basically marketing to weaken one brand and strengthen the other. “Upgra
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2y ago
2023-12-30
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2y ago
> I think the problem is in insisting on referring to the photon as a particle. Or in insisting on referring to the electron as a particle. “We begin by throwing an ultra-microscopic object — perhaps a photon, or an electron, or a neutri
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2y ago
“Parallel implementation of backpropagation neural networks on a heterogeneous array of transputers” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18255845/
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2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
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Llama-VSCode now supports local chat with the project's context
(twitter.com)
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2y ago
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2y ago
They talked about support for multiple images as input.
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2y ago
You’re not alone: https://synw.github.io/agent-smith/
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2y ago
> It's only the employees that suffer for every mis-step. They benefit for the overhiring mis-step.
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2y ago
> Measure theory and Kolmogorov axiomatization addressed very real problems like Bertrand's paradox. They don’t solve the “paradox” - and it can be “solved” without them. https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles
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2y ago
To the extent that one doesn’t need measure theory to do statistical mechanics there is no need to teach measure theory in a statistical mechanics course. “If anyone wants to concentrate his attention on infinite sets, measure theory, and m
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2y ago
> Non-correlation = reduced volatility If the volatility of each uncorrelated thing is high you may need to put together many more than 4-5 to bring it down.
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2y ago
Somehow Gibbs managed to write his “Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics” before Kolmogorov was even born (a few days before Gibbs’ death).
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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers
(nature.com)
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2y ago
How was that relevant to a statistical physics exam?
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Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds
(thefp.com)
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2y ago
> It's not like the pound is strong. It's just cheaper in the UK. You know that £9,699 are over $12k, right?
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https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/05/coreweaves-250000-st...
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Microsoft walks away from some CoreWeave commitments ahead of $35B IPO
(ft.com)
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2y ago
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What's the bargain? There is also "parity" in other products like a MacBook Pro from £1,599 / $1,599 or an iPhone 16 from £799 / $799. £9,699 / $9,499 is worse than that!
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2y ago
Note that 404 < 512
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2y ago
Could be. Does such a thing exist?
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2y ago
> a $100 free trial What?
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> completely incorrectly That meaning is also accepted by the French Academy nowadays: Fig. En parlant d’une période de temps, d’un processus. Commencement, début. À l’entrée de l’hiver. Dès l’entrée du repas. Par métonymie. Mets qui vie
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“Also, remember that the word is pronounced like it is spelled.”
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US and North Korea have never been at war though. The US (and other countries) assisted South Korea under the UN flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Command
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> my estimation is they had more (maybe 20k) A100s, and single-digit thousands of H800s. Their technical report on DeepSeek-V3 says that it "is trained on a cluster equipped with 2048 NVIDIA H800 GPUs." If they had even high-si
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> Back when we had to actually think > I recently realized that there’s a whole generation of new programmers who don’t even know what StackOverflow is. There was also a time before StackOverflow, when systems had manuals and librarie
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A Crypto Fairy Tale
(acadian-asset.com)
3 points
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2y ago
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