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by m0zg 6y ago
Why is this not happening in non-swing states other than Virginia? And why does Biden's luck improve over time when _only_ mail in ballots are counted?
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by m0zg 6y ago
Biden only gets lucky in PA a full day after that if you look at vote share per batch, well after in-person votes are counted, and the later you go, the luckier he gets. The pattern is the same in every swing state except Arizona, and in Vi
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by m0zg 6y ago
And just like that, within a year pretty much all of Apple's lineup will become the best available platform for AI inference, since each and every one of the new machines will have a TPU.
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by m0zg 6y ago
Mind reading doesn't work. I was merely pointing out there doesn't seem to be safety data yet, and it will be required to deploy this widely. This is PR pure and simple. It doesn't mean that "we have a vaccine" quit
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by m0zg 6y ago
Everyone is excited about "90% efficacy", but nobody mentions the rate of side effects. Hmm. If this is injected into several billion people, twice into each person, wouldn't you want to know at least an estimate of the ratio
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by m0zg 6y ago
As an aside, BTW, I would not recommend setting up any business ventures in Russia at the moment. Rumors have been swirling that Putin has Parkinsons, and will announce his departure in January. Kremlin denies, of course, but Duma (Russian
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by m0zg 6y ago
There's no way to win there, under _any_ definition of "win". The British failed. The USSR failed. The US failed once already, and will fail again. We can fail after killing 600K and spending $3T. Or we can fail after killing
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by m0zg 6y ago
But that's the democrat narrative as of a week ago: vaccine by EOY is too dangerous. Suddenly, a week later the same exact vaccine is perfectly OK and it's a scientific triumph. Is the attention span of the public _this_ short?
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by m0zg 6y ago
So what's the game plan here? Keep slaughtering them indefinitely, sinking trillions of dolalrs we don't have into that black hole?
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by m0zg 6y ago
But we funded and armed ISIS-affiliated groups to get rid of Assad. Unsuccessfully. Once we stopped funding and arming them, ISIS disappeared. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isi.
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by m0zg 6y ago
We've been there for 20 years, and killed 600K+ people (mostly civilians) in Iraq alone. It is that simple. GTFO. Never come back. They're not a threat. They've never been a threat. Saddam never had WMD. https://
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by m0zg 6y ago
And I want the Army to get the fuck out of the Middle East. Not gonna happen now, I know, but I still want it. A man can dream, right? I don't get the downvotes for this one in particular. Does anyone here _not_ want to stop droning ch
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by m0zg 6y ago
That's the thing, if your dataset is not similar to the dataset on which your model was pre-trained (which it often isn't), the initial weights may actually prove to be either worthless, or even detrimental. That is, they may be w
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by m0zg 6y ago
Trump was one of Big Pharma's biggest enemies and even got them to lower the drug prices. That was a big, big no-no. So it's no surprise that they hate him so much.
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by m0zg 6y ago
The answere is unfortunately "it's complicated" and "it depends on the task". Very large EfficientNet variants are impractical anyway. For detection I've been very impressed with https://www.paperswi
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by m0zg 6y ago
EfficientNet is extremely difficult to train: it took people months to replicate even a subset of original results from the paper, and for larger configs IIRC the results still haven't been replicated, same with EfficientDet - the dete
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by m0zg 6y ago
A lot of European states have a wealth tax as well as estate tax, which is not a good thing for an old dude worth $17B. Heck, it's not even a good deal for someone like me, if you run the numbers. Coincidentally, Eric Schmidt was a big
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by m0zg 6y ago
Wouldn't he be able to form business ventures in Cyprus in which he could own a stake, but which would pay him very little taxable income? Furthermore, wouldn't he be able to grow those ventures and later take a distribution when
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by m0zg 6y ago
In related news, Zoom appointed a member of surveillance state to its board: https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/zoom-appoints-janet-nap...
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by m0zg 6y ago
But I thought "nobody should trust the vaccine developed this quickly". What has changed in a week?
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by m0zg 6y ago
Don't know if I'd extend it to _all_ American produce, but some of it does suck very bad indeed, especially tomatoes. I grew up in an area famous for its tomatoes, so my standards for what constitutes a good tomato are impossibly
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by m0zg 6y ago
Here's how fucked up we are by COVID: all I could think of when watching demo video is "why are they hugging", and "why aren't they wearing masks". This will take time to undo.
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by m0zg 6y ago
I think you might be missing the perspective. A heavy deadlift is one of the most "focusing" exercises I know. You can't lift 500lbs+ barbell without complete, singular focus. That's part of the value I derive from this
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by m0zg 6y ago
Probably because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ2mWrejgnc /s
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by m0zg 6y ago
A big nation doesn't give a shit about a small nation unless there's something in it for them. I.e. if they're a part of some pre-existing union, or if they host their military bases, or something else. And there's zero
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by m0zg 6y ago
But then you don't need a treaty, because that nation can blow Chinese vessels out of their waters without it.
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by m0zg 6y ago
This is comically naive in the light of recent events. Trade wars will be over by the end of 2021, and _all_ of the US manufacturing capacity will move there now, unimpeded. The only thing that's stopping that now and forcing US compan
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by m0zg 6y ago
Why would a "larger nation" such as China agree to such a treaty when they can blow you out of their waters, and you can't blow them out of yours? What's in it for them? It's not in their interest, so a treaty is a
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by m0zg 6y ago
Yes, the fact that you reached for Hitler to compare to the guy whose daughter and son in law are Jewish, and for whom there are _parades_ held in Tel Aviv does indicate you're rather severely gaslit. https://www.theyeshivaw
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by m0zg 6y ago
Yes, having a president who did not start a single war for the first time since Reagan is "favorable" to a voter such as myself. And last time I voted specifically against this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXD

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