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by lr1970 3y ago
> More correct would be that Intel has a low tolerance to risk for things that are way outside of their core competencies which have traditionally been designing X86 CPUs and fabbing them, and that's mostly it. As a former Intel-er
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by lr1970 3y ago
221 comments and nobody mentioned a great satirical movie "Don't look up". Amazing :-)
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by lr1970 3y ago
> The whole approach is very sensitive to the detonation height, asteroid composition and color, rotational characteristics, etc. So Burkey’s group has really made a simulation framework for modeling the right thing to do for a given ast
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Indeed, we worked very hard to make it work despite his skepticism. In this case why the authors of the seq2seq paper did not mention him in their massive acknowledgement section?
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by lr1970 3y ago
The link you provide states "Device Warranty: 30 Days". This is ridiculously short. Is this thing at all reliable? If yes then why such a "non-warranty"?
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by lr1970 3y ago
> My polish mother called them "pirojki", which is the french term. Well, French terms "pirojki" and "bistro" were transplanted words from Russian when they occupied Paris around 1814 or 1815 after the Napol
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Using airport codes as shorthand for their parent cities is an incredibly incredibly common convention. Well and truly established. Not many HN people, especially from outside of the US, can immediately recognize PDX. Besides, the comm
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by lr1970 3y ago
> I love SF but it's as bad as PDX these days. For those like me who hate abbreviations used out of context, PDX here refers to the Portland International Airport, Oregon. I presume that the commenter really meant the city of Portla
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by lr1970 3y ago
Error bars (either confidence interval or standard deviations) are of little use because they do not tell you how the probability is distributed within the confidence interval band. The holy grail of forecasting is the Probabilistic Forecas
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by lr1970 3y ago
Nim has GC and runtime and Linux kernel developers do not allow third party runtimes in the kernel. Even meager Rust's "panic" runtime is a contentious issue. Can one disable runtime in Nim completely -- no GC, no exceptions?
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Intel Neural-Chat-7B Model Achieves Top Ranking on LLM Leaderboard is a misleading title. Intel's model reached top ranking only among 7B parameter model category.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> >>> Which weighs more: a kilogram of gold or a kilogram of feathers? > A kilogram of gold weighs more than a kilogram of feathers, which is 1 kg. Gold is denser and has a higher mass than feathers, so it would be heavier. I
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by lr1970 3y ago
How the inflation was factored in in calculation GDP growth? If inflation is under-counted than GDP growth will be artificially inflated.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Just to start, lets ban practice of building (almost) irreplaceable batteries into phones, laptops and other electronic devices. The amount of electronic waste generated by forcing consumers to upgrade because the batteries are failing is
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by lr1970 3y ago
I am not an Argentinian but I know that country reasonably well. USD is _already_ a de-facto second currency over there. Because of rampant inflation Argentinians keep their savings in USD. You cannot walk a couple of blocks in Buenos Aires
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by lr1970 3y ago
I am curious that nobody has not mentioned a great movie "Office Space". A brilliant sarcastic comedy about office culture in the late nineties. I think the time is ripe for a sequel.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> even more so when Amazon just invested $1.5B in Anthropic a few weeks ago. Amazon invested not $1.5B but $4B in Anthropic one month ago [0]. [0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/amazon-steps-up-ai-rac...
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Conclusion: this is not your risk of dying, but the increase of your risk of dying. No, it does not increase your risk of dying. Your risk of dying was 100% before the procedure and is 100% after it. We all die at the end with certaint
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by lr1970 3y ago
Zig has `comptime` where you effectively generate Zig code at compile time by writing Zig code, no special generics syntax/semantics needed. It is very nice and powerful concept that covers lots of ground that in Rust would belong to t
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by lr1970 3y ago
Nokia owns Bell Labs now. What will happen to them?
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by lr1970 3y ago
Mental breakdown or attempted terror attack. These days anything is possible.
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by lr1970 3y ago
There can be a real ethical dilemma when applying A/B testing in medical setting. Placing someone with an incurable disease in a control group is condemning them to death while in treatment group they might have a chance. On the other
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Generally, I get let down. This time is no exception. This is why I don't even bother to read through such tutorials. To understand Kalman filter one first need to understand basics of probability and then the importance of Gaussi
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by lr1970 3y ago
I have need doing time series forecasting professionally. ARIMA is computationally one of the cheapest (both training and inference) forecasting models out there. It suffers from many deficiencies and shortcomings but computational efficien
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Ukraine/Russia usually doesn’t gather much traction. Plain wrong. The story of Russia attacking Ukraine on 2022.02.14 has 1894 comments [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336
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by lr1970 3y ago
> By not lasting very long I mean I’ve seen 3 die between 2-3 years of heavy use. YMMV. I have EPSON ET-2850 EcoTank all-in-one for about a year with moderate to heavy use and so far no problems. Being able to refill ink by simply pourin
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by lr1970 3y ago
> In the 80es the us and Japan fought a tech and trade war very similar to the us china tech war that is going on today. Fundamental difference between these two trade wars is that US had then and still has now military presence in Japan
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by lr1970 3y ago
> The person who's being fired shouldn't know that it's going to happen until they sit down in the meeting, and all their access should be revoked before they leave the meeting room. Should it be reciprocal then? An employ
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Jamming ultimately works by known physics though, and Starlink seems like inherently an incredibly tough thing to jam (even ignoring anything in the future like optical). Jamming DownLink is certainly difficult especially if ground ter
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by lr1970 3y ago
> I've never seen anyone be so cavalier about 10 pounds of fentanyl before. Fentanyl is deadly in microgram doses, for it makes people stop breezing. Russians weaponized fentanyl into a gas and used it to disable Chechen terrorists

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