macawfish

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by macawfish 6y ago
Is it just me or are some of these billionaires serious misanthropists?
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by macawfish 6y ago
Why not? They encode state in a way that is stable over time. Any medium that preserves state over time can and likely does function as memory in some way or another. At any rate, DNA encodes useful information related to how an organism&#x
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by macawfish 6y ago
Thank you, this is really helpful. I think clarifying that those limitations somewhere early on in the website could save people a lot of time in figuring out whether this is a good choice for them. It sounds like this might not be best for
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by macawfish 6y ago
A lot of biologists these days use "generational memory" to refer to epigenetic configurations that are heritable, but in the context of my comment I was using it more to refer generally to information that is typically modified o
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by macawfish 6y ago
For most eukaryotic organisms DNA it might not be "random access memory" but it contains a record of genes that somehow managed to get through the selective pressures they were subjected to over countless generations. I'd say
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by macawfish 6y ago
Protein formation is well known to be involved in at least some long term memory formation and recall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_novo_protein_synthesis_theo... Although I'd again argue that there is no sing
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by macawfish 6y ago
RNA is literally a form of memory. The question should not be whether or not memory is encoded in RNA, it should be "what are all the ways that creatures with RNA can experience the encoding and decoding of information encoded in RNA?&
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by macawfish 6y ago
This is great! How does it compare to blazegraph and how does it compare to redisgraph? As far as I can tell, it's not for doing parallel graph analysis (i.e. GAS) on the GPU, is that right? (It's hard to tell, because I'm al
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by macawfish 6y ago
But can Torch/TF/Flax do autodifferentiation on constants ordinary functions? No they cannot!
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by macawfish 6y ago
I'm not justifying it, just giving context for why folks are alarmed, especially for people from other countries who don't necessarily have context for obscure US symbols. And yes, the American flag is problematic in its own way.
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by macawfish 6y ago
I believe there were full on bombs found, as in IEDs with electronic parts.
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by macawfish 6y ago
That flag symbolizes millions of dead and generations of bitterness. It's very, very weighty.
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by macawfish 6y ago
Prove it
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by macawfish 6y ago
Some useful context: https://www.riverlane.com/products/
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by macawfish 6y ago
It doesn't seem to me like the point of this is to "replace" classical computers, but to consolidate the tools people need to interact with a variety of quantum computing technologies: > We have a grand vision: an operatin
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by macawfish 6y ago
Surgery --> stem cells
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by macawfish 6y ago
Keep in mind that a lot of this stuff is really owned, at the end of the day, by capitalists... in the literal sense, by institutions and individuals who command capital. Auto gig workers typically rent or lease the cars, then work to pay
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by macawfish 6y ago
Not to mention GPUs! Can you believe how many GPUs have been cooked by this scheme? I got a water-cooled GTX 1080 almost 5 years ago on Craigslist for $500. Usually old things like that get cheaper as time goes by, but not GPUs. Nowadays t
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by macawfish 6y ago
Just wanted to point out that it draws up to 20 kilowatts. If it really is as fast as "10,000 GPUs", that means it's using 2 watts per GPU equivalent. Pretty impressive!
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by macawfish 6y ago
Open source hackers suffer the same fate as other creatives. What's the software industry analog of gigging at some shit bars that rake in money getting people who like your music drunk but not paying you all while working a day job so
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by macawfish 6y ago
Check out this conversation between Mike Tyson and Michael Franzese about how athletes repay gambling related debts owed to mafia bookmakers: https://youtu.be/lNlR3lfnLR8?t=2990 "I gotta tell you about athletes: they&#
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by macawfish 6y ago
Just a second though, betting markets are intrinsically subject to manipulation! Both in the markets themselves and in the world that the gamblers are purportedly "observing". The betters have active agency in the world they are b
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by macawfish 6y ago
Donate now
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by macawfish 6y ago
I did some more research after commenting and found that while surely the 5nm transistors help this processor to run cool and stable, it's the packaging that really brings the speed. Everything being integrated right there means less l
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by macawfish 6y ago
Probably has something to do with the 5nm process.
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by macawfish 6y ago
The sadists among us simply wouldn't let this happen. We must be disciplined.
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by macawfish 6y ago
I believe that "we all do better when we all do better", but not everyone does. Sadly, some of the most driven, charismatic, influential people don't believe it.
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by macawfish 6y ago
5G's hype has always been a cover for its real applications: data collection, tracking and surveillance. Please see my comment here for references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444 https://youtu
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by macawfish 6y ago
I think in this case, they're using the word "status" to refer more to how people might perceive someone relative to certain societal norms, whereas privilege is more about the basic abilities or advantages someone has becaus
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by macawfish 6y ago
I agree, Signal is great

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