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by lacker 3y ago
That's about the number of pixels in a 2-hour movie at 4k. Not too common yet, but once it's possible we're going to want to feed this amount of data into neural networks.
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by lacker 3y ago
The question that I think you should be asking is which field of mathematics to learn next. You have high school knowledge, you want to learn how to read and write proofs, I personally believe the right place to go is number theory. Within
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by lacker 3y ago
I think the core problem is the incentives of the regulators. Groups like the FDA are democratic institutions, but if their only goal is to have the approval of national politicians, the feedback they get is either negative if there's
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by lacker 3y ago
It's touching how the author grapples with her own struggles to write and make money, in parallel to Borges working away before he wrote anything great. I see in the footer it says she is working on her first novel, as of 2016, and bas
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by lacker 3y ago
It really isn't clear. Specifically, is Ethereum a security? Nobody knows. Fight a lawsuit and figure it out already.
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by lacker 3y ago
for Cruise employees I was disappointed today when I opened the Cruise app to see that the service was still only available 10 pm - 5:30 am in one region of San Francisco. Upon reading the fine print I notice that the service is only runn
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by lacker 3y ago
Whether a physical theory can be consistent without them is an interesting question I agree, it is interesting, and the answer is yes, a physical theory can be completely consistent while never using complex numbers. If you don't wan
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by lacker 3y ago
No, if you want to sell some crypto to a friend of your, that's fine. I don't know why localbitcoins shut down, but it's perfectly consistent for "facilitating transactions at scale" to be illegal while "doing
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by lacker 3y ago
My guess is he doesn't want to answer the yes/no question because this question is going to be the subject of a lawsuit, and his lawyers like most lawyers are in favor of not talking publicly about court cases outside the courtroo
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by lacker 3y ago
Unregistered securities are legal, you just can't sell them to the public. That is one possible outcome for crypto tokens - you could still own Ethereum, and one individual privately selling some to another individual would be legal, b
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by lacker 3y ago
Well, it's easy to follow the law. Just be conservative and treat Ethereum like an unregistered security. Ie, don't offer it for sale to the public. That certainly isn't a good outcome for Coinbase, though, so I can see why t
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by lacker 3y ago
The Tabasco pepper is native to Mexico, but Tabasco sauce is not, it was created by some guy in Louisiana and is not really based on a Mexican sauce. eg https://www.tastingtable.com/930569/heres-how-tabasco-sauce-...
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by lacker 4y ago
It's pretty simple, they make a lot of money off Azure, and open source software is a complement to Azure. See the classic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ In particular
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by lacker 4y ago
Burn looks interesting... so I notice in the sample code you mention: use burn_tch::TchBackend; I don't see "TchBackend" mentioned in the docs. Is Tch = torch and Burn can be used as a Torch (or tch-rs) wrapper? Or am I imagi
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by lacker 4y ago
This reminds me of back in the mid 2000's, there were a lot of smart people working on search algorithms at different companies. But eventually, you'd talk to someone smart working on Yahoo Search, and they would just be kind of b
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by lacker 4y ago
I think this depends a lot on where you are working. I've talked to academics who are getting discouraged that they don't see how their approach to AI is going to be possible any more, with so much funding going toward the largest
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by lacker 4y ago
You mention that Google search is now useless for you. How did you double check what GPT-4 told you here?
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by lacker 4y ago
I agree, Meta's work in AI has been really impressive, and it's encouraging how they are open-sourcing so much. It's funny, back in the 90s I disliked Microsoft and thought they were inherently culturally opposed to open sour
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by lacker 4y ago
It should be completely fine, you don't really need a GPU to do this course. Maybe the exercises right at the end you won't get good performance, but the exact performance isn't all that important.
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by lacker 4y ago
As someone who used to work on Facebook open source, that makes sense! After all, an insecure subdomain could lead to all sorts of problems on facebook.com. Phishing, stealing cookies, there's a lot of ways it could go wrong. Whereas,
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by lacker 4y ago
For me, the top takeaway: "In 2022, there were 32 significant industry-produced machine learning models compared to just three produced by academia." It seems frustrating to work in one of these top academic AI departments, with i
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by lacker 4y ago
It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is more spoons.
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by lacker 4y ago
Teams is also an incredibly successful product, moving far beyond Slack in terms of usage, so it's an interesting case study. My guess is that speed just hasn't been one of the top priorities, and they have instead prioritized cra
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by lacker 4y ago
Well, when I'm considering biking or driving my car, the destination is fixed. I can drive 2 miles to the store or I can bike 2 miles to the store. I'm not choosing between, should I take an average bicycle trip right now, or shou
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by lacker 4y ago
Yeah, I can believe that. I remember one spot off the 280 there are some bicycle lanes that go right over highway off ramps. Drivers are just constantly zooming through at near-highway speeds. Yeah, they're painted green, so what? It&#
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by lacker 4y ago
I'm worried about riding my bike in the city. A friend of mine died on her bike when hit by a truck in Seattle a few years ago and since then I just don't feel okay biking alongside cars any more, especially with kids. I know this
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by lacker 4y ago
If bandwidth wasn't a factor, the first rearchitecture that I think would make sense is to do most of the processing in a single datacenter somewhere. Having one datacenter in West Virginia, one in South Africa, one in New Mexico, one
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by lacker 4y ago
It would be great if they could figure out a way to stop air travel crime that's fast, and stop doing the parts that take forever like taking off your shoes or removing things from your backpack. Go ahead, scan my face, biometric every
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by lacker 4y ago
check out https://bldata.berkeley.edu/pipeline/ if you want to download terabytes of radio telescope data from scans searching for aliens....
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by lacker 4y ago
Nowadays a modern radio telescope, let's take MeerKAT in South Africa, can produce maybe 10T of data per minute. The total bandwidth out of the site is orders of magnitude less, because it's in the middle of nowhere in the desert.

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