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by lsb 6y ago
Proposals for such inoperable [perpetual motion] machines have become so common that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made an official policy of refusing to grant patents for perpetual motion machines without a work
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by lsb 6y ago
As long as the content is coming to your eyes, you can use another device to record it. If you have a separate phone that you use as a second factor for your 2FA, you have a convenient way of photodocumenting any screen that you see. People
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by lsb 6y ago
They are technically different questions, but think for a moment about what the speaker is trying to achieve. This is not talking with a friend, making pleasantries. This is at work, getting paid, by a company, to learn how low an offer the
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by lsb 6y ago
What sort of company behavior do you think you'd see there after you get hired? Seems like no callback = dodging a bullet
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by lsb 6y ago
Arrow is rapidly become a data interchange format for Pandas and GPU compute, didn't see that on there
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by lsb 6y ago
What workloads do you run that require fp64?
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by lsb 6y ago
I'm choosing to think it's based on the self-indulgence of art gallery websites dictating to readers what their screen sizes should be
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by lsb 6y ago
It looks like SiFive is making a vector processor, to potentially compete with GPUs (Nvidia makes chips with dozens of multiprocessors on them, each with arbitrarily many cores) Super exciting!
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by lsb 6y ago
This is a serious problem in many ways. Ethics can be a distraction from justice. Ethics sites the problem in the algorithm, whereas justice sites the problem in the power differential. People generally trust computers more than random huma
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by lsb 6y ago
Introduced async Slack stand-ups, introduced containerized artifact-based deploys, massively reduced scope and time of several engineering projects by relaxing constraints (uptime, generality, etc)
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by lsb 6y ago
For a company to pay almost a hundred million dollars to not rent office space in downtown SF, that's the abnormal part, compared to 2010-2019.
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by lsb 6y ago
Notably, they paid $90M to cancel the lease.
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by lsb 6y ago
Their 2020 announcement is 850K cores, which is even more impressive!
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by lsb 6y ago
Part of the genius of the Cerebras on-chip routing is that it can route around malfunctioning dielets.
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by lsb 6y ago
Yes: you can (for example) confuse a vision algorithm into thinking an image of a turtle is a rifle https://mashable.com/2017/11/02/mit-researchers-fool-google-...
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by lsb 6y ago
I'd seen it failing, and now it seems to be getting back. Sending hugops to everyone fixing it
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DuckDuckGo Search Is Down?(duckduckgo.com)
4 points by lsb 6y ago|2 comments
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by lsb 6y ago
Nuclear Energy does not exist without severely controlling access to fissile material, which is a strong police state. Nuclear Energy does not exist without being aware of where the fissile material is, and who is trying to get access to is
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What I Won't Build(slideslive.com)
2 points by lsb 6y ago|0 comments
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by lsb 6y ago
> Hsu sparked outrage again when he cited a 2019 study in a blog post concluding, "there is no widespread racial bias in police shootings." (from link 1)
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by lsb 6y ago
The graphs they present show the largest response with 110db audio, which is about as loud as a car honking right in front of you[1], but even still, to eavesdrop on corner offices from tens of meters away with nothing but a telescope and a
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by lsb 6y ago
> When have you most successfully hacked a non-computer system to your advantage?
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Traffic Cones, Leaf Blowers, & Other Tactics US Protesters Take from Hong Kong(vice.com)
5 points by lsb 6y ago|1 comments
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by lsb 6y ago
https://sqlite.org/about.html "Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()"
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by lsb 6y ago
Sure it does! You can `POST` the buffer that backs the database to your favorite blob store, and read it back when you're done. You can write to it as much as you like when the page is active.
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by lsb 6y ago
Reminds me of the Milgram experiment https://youtu.be/rdrKCilEhC0 , where people were followed up with, to ask if there was anything the man they were electrocuting could have said to get them to stop electrocuting him, no
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by lsb 6y ago
On a Pixel 4 it looks great!
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by lsb 6y ago
I've been going through the fast.ai course, and pre-training is like witchcraft, it's so spookily effective. You can take a 15MB mobilenet model, add a layer at the end, fine tune with half a dozen examples of a few different imag
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by lsb 6y ago
This looks cool! Something that I'd be interested in, when trying to determine if this would be useful to me, is seeing how useful it had been to other people: in X industry, doing process to achieve Y, compared to industry standard Z
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by lsb 6y ago
Before starting the fast.ai deep learning course, I made a light pollution map as topography. I channelled the panic about contagion into finding somewhere with low human activity: https://leebutterman.com/light-pollution-to

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