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by larryliu 3y ago
There are competitions in the AI accelerator field. Google's TPU in addition to Intel Arc and AMD GPUs. The latter two have incomplete pytorch and JAX support.
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Ask HN: Is an open source repository of IC simulation models desired/feasible?
1 points by larryliu 3y ago|0 comments
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by larryliu 4y ago
The service department will adapt by always talking nice, always promising to service the products but never send or perform anything that costs money. When you finally reach the person in charge: - "sorry sir, but your request has bee
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by larryliu 4y ago
what about recognizing handwritten math? https://mathpix.com/handwriting-recognition
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by larryliu 4y ago
They don't even have to use cops. They are able to let you lose your cash. They can prevent you from selling the apartments by refusing to issue titles to buyers. They can stop you from connecting to city-owned utilities. They can wr
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by larryliu 4y ago
There is zero evidence that build densely decreases property value. Structure is by itself a depreciating asset. Land value will increase when the neighborhood densifies.
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by larryliu 4y ago
Do we want a mass construction workers layoff in addition to tech layoff? Tech recession should be countered by encouraging developments in all economic sectors, especially pro-development policies that doesn't cost taxpayer money.
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by larryliu 4y ago
"I don't know what it does. I don't know how it would be controlled. I don't know how to keep kids away from it," he (Stayton Mayor Henry Porter) said. "I guess it's the fear of things we don't unders
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by larryliu 4y ago
In communication, there is a fundamental rule -- always consider the audience and the scenario, which overrides any specific communication advice. You don't talk weapon humor in front of a cop, however funny it is. The article is not
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by larryliu 4y ago
Working with old buildings require a compromise mindset. No you don't want to drill the asbestos tiles, but you can install poles standing on the floor with lights and wifi access points.
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by larryliu 4y ago
No, it's no longer produced anywhere in the world except Russia. New industrial projects don't use asbestos. Existing installations are replaced with rockwool, fiberglass or kaowool once it need replacement. Your undergrad profess
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by larryliu 4y ago
Roman concrete is simply concrete made by pozzolan cement. You make pozzolan cement by grinding quicklime together with volcano ash, fly ash from coal power plants, or metallurgical slags.
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by larryliu 4y ago
You can easily say these two sentences in Spanish that every Spanish speaker has no difficulty understanding. El GPS en mi barrio tiene precisión cien veces peor debido a la interferencia de radio. mueve este MOSFET 15mm hacia arriba para b
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by larryliu 4y ago
Agree very much. Hokkien is 65 million people's language, more than Italy's population. There are Hokkien-speaking people in Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province. They write Hokkien in Chinese characters mixed with pinyin
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by larryliu 4y ago
I asked them why. They said it's possible to say anything in Japanese, but English has the brevity for some topics.
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by larryliu 4y ago
It's anthropocentric to say a language can only be preserved by live humans rather than AI natural language models and digital corpora. No one use Latin any more but we can still figure out what Roman text meant. It's also counter
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by larryliu 4y ago
Ketamine is a prescription medicine that can be taken oral, intranasal or IV drip. ECT is an inpatient procedure that need one anesthesiologist and one psychiatrist plus nurses to administer, two to three times weekly for three to four week
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by larryliu 4y ago
but property prices of SF are still 10x-40x my little town's main street. If the situation in SF downtown is "trouble", small towns are in much deeper trouble since the beginning of time. Policy has consequences. Yes, nice co
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by larryliu 4y ago
US shipbuilders get orders mainly from military. Civilian orders is almost zero. The facility and technology for military vs civilian ships are vast, that a shipyard focusing on one cannot efficiently work on the other.
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by larryliu 4y ago
In California? Many badge terminals along Pacific coast. But it means much more for Eastern and Southeastern US where waterways are plentiful.
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by larryliu 4y ago
I know a retired American factory worker who did exactly what you said for his manufacturing career -- relocating to Philippines for introducing American machinery and management practices. He was a line manager in his late 20s(like a mcdon
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by larryliu 4y ago
Russian agents set up shell companies that hide their Russian nexus. IC vendors don't really background check cash buyers. Many ICs are sold in open markets like this: https://n.sinaimg.cn/sinakd10114/107/w102
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by larryliu 4y ago
Should we create a FDIC-like mechanism for chips, to reduce companies'incentive to "bank run" their vendors? Have the federal reserve always stockpile 10% of circulating chips registered in the program.
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by larryliu 4y ago
It's like America's racial desegregation in the 1960s. Life of white workers did not become worse since colored workers joined the professional workforce. I am in the US. Let it drop then, I will adapt by becoming a digital nomad.
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by larryliu 4y ago
US military also once bought fake chips from China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/oct/06/secu... There are good reputation vendors in China, but if purchasers type in the chip mod
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by larryliu 4y ago
Rather than "computer" science, CS is actually "the science of problem solving" Traditional engineering: you work on one field for X years to become a specialized expert of that field. The industry employs thousands of t
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by larryliu 5y ago
Coal contains very little lignin. Coal is still being formed in bogs, or anywhere acidic and anaerobic. Anaerobic fermentation is still used to stabilize harvested bamboo. Bamboo stem contains sugar making it susceptible to termites and rot
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Ask HN: Potential for pay-as-you-go serverless scientific computing?
1 points by larryliu 5y ago|0 comments