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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I feel like Andrew Ng has more name recognition than Google Brain itself. Also Business Insider isn't great, the original Australian Financial Review article has a lot more substance: https://archive.ph/yidIa I've
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I think that assumes that SBF and/or Ellison (I'm a bit less convinced Ellison thought they could trade their way out of the hole) saw negative expected value. I'm more inclined to believe that SBF, who's personal philos
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
If you're wondering why Ellison didn't quit, it's probably a combination of personal conflicts of interest and some hope that they could Martingale their way out of it. It seems like most of the rank and file didn't know
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I haven't trusted LTT benchmarks or opinions for a while, and I don't plan on supporting them post-drama. That said, GP just posts a video where they use a relevant product in question, and I can see the operation for myself. I th
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Definitely agree that this is not just a psychology issue[^1]. I'm not quite as optimistic about the implications, however. The way academia operates is very trust heavy. This makes sense, no lab can be experts in all fields of study,
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
FTC is something I learned a lot from and enjoyed immensely in high school. I'm glad you had a great time at competitions, and I have no doubt you'll have some fantastic takeaways for next year! The level of competition in high sc
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I imagine that the intention of micro is more like a modern, extensible editor, rather than a beginner friendly or ubiquitous editor. I think in the latter aspects, nano is still probably what you'd want to recommend your students (unt
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Yeah the encyclopedia analogy is actually better than GP probably intended because both encyclopedias and source code can take on a branching, fractal information flow. I obviously don't read an encyclopedia start to finish linearly, b
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Was gonna post this. That said, this is not what Levine is writing about. Levine is writing about how you can restructure your portfolio to gain exposure to fossil fuels _without_ lowering your ESG metrics by simply investing in companies w
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
MIT's research output is certainly top notch, but the blame for this breathiness is squarely on the institution's communication office and whoever directs them to constantly put out such fluffy pieces. FWIW they're not the on
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
MRIs would be another revolutionized field. Cooling is a big size constraint and cost driver. You would still need a large amount of power if you want to have clinical scans at 3T or 5T, though, but in wealthy countries the number of MRI ma
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Ironically one of the most famous fabrications was also material science[^1]. I'm not in the field so I don't have anything else to add but I suppose these retractions and scandals show that the scientific process is actually work
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Maybe it's my familiarity with R and the tidyverse paradigm, but I think in general this paradigm and syntax is pretty readable. The example you chose is perhaps a case where brackets and commas go a long way, but that aside it's
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
This is Monash U in Australia and seems pretty explicitly focused on the Australian context. Maybe corn is as subsidized there as it is in the states but a cursory search makes me skeptical. At any rate, this forum does attract a fairly int
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I agree with everything you say. Though papers really are a bit too hard to read sometimes, but I'd argue it's often not for an overly technical tone so much as writers cutting out a lot of background material for brevity and assu
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Idk, the tron metaphor was a bit too cute for me, and there's a bit too much of a conspiratorial bent. Like sure, banks, government, and tech companies are incentivized towards increasing demand for digital payments, but each are motiv
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
>It's arguably a good deal for both. Smart kids get access to wealth and power and they get to learn how the world works. This is the one thing they can't get anywhere else. And the legacy students get the prestige and credibil
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Wow, really like this piece. Not much to add, just think that it ties together a lot of concepts in really conceptually rich ways (dark forest communities, "breaking" platforms as a hallmark for success, aesthetics of identity, et
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I think there's a unique element to Windows with it's attempt to be extremely backwards compatible. This can be a tremendous boon when, say, running older software targeting a previous OS, but introduces vulnerabilities since your
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Agreed, or even the actual paper[^1]. While the methodology seems pretty well-designed, applicability to real-world type situations notwithstanding, they seem to show that LLM's primary advantage lay in the fact that physicians aren&#x
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I totally agree with doas being a good program with really good rationale. I also get that suckless does have a bit of a reputation that isnt for everyone (I've heard that it's basically impossible to make a PR to any of their pro
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I use Suckless terminal myself, but if I'm not mistaken it's actually not the fastest terminal out there, despite its simplicity[^1]. My understanding is that many LOCs and complex logic routines are dedicated to hardware/pla
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Don't forget optimizing the UI/UX to be as unpleasant as possible
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
I imagine location is a big part. That said it's probably an unfair comparison to put a wealthy private school to a public school, especially when prestige is so essentially self-reinforcing. ASU is obviously a fantastic school, but it
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Man I unironically love Fantasque Sans Mono (using it for nearly 5 years now) and I'm so glad someone else also brought this one up. Idk, I feel like Comic Sans hate was always a bit much, even ironic hate, and I'm just glad to se
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Imo package managers/repos, update cycles, and installation process can still be a reasonable differentiator between distros. Admittedly these decisions are fairly minor -- most popular packages are available on the major repos and you
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
For me it wasn't that the slide doesn't stay in place (that much is expected), but that if you deviate from the path it immediately slips back to the beginning. That's a bit anti-pattern w.r.t. typical slides that either have
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by lofatdairy 3y ago
Not really, insofar as that early buyers aren't paid out w the entry of new participants with the absence of any real productive usage of capital. It's more that firms invest in production with the expectation for demand to increa
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A man who faked human cloning [video](youtube.com)
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by lofatdairy 4y ago
More humanities than STEM but I'm a fan of damn near anything out of Yale's open courses. Personal recommendations are the Introduction to the Theory of Literature w/ Prof. Fry and the recent course on Ukrainian history. Both

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