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by mgraczyk 3y ago
No, it's obvious to everyone working with GPUs who knows what "serverless" means. It's a very standard construction in English. "Serverless GPU" means "GPU" that is "serverless". If you know
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
None, "GPU" is a word with a distinct meaning from "unit that processes graphics"
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
"Serverless" has been a standard term in industry for at least 7 years. Sometimes words don't map perfectly onto the subcomponents that form them. For example a "mailbox" isn't always a box, and doesn't al
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
No, "GPU" is a specific piece of hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I'm not claiming they weren't doing this, I'm claiming they were doing several other things as well, and that sorting the trash in the office is not the goal of this work.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Sure, but my point is that this research isn't about solving the recycling problem. It's about demonstrating a reinforcement learning solution to a difficult task in a difficult real world "everyday" environment.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I think most of the comments here are missing the point of this work. Google did not set out to build a robot that sorts recycling. I've seen these robots many times and know a few people who work(ed) on them, and I had no idea they we
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This is a completely different piece of technology, solving a different (but related) problem for different people in a different environment. Those industrial robots don't drive around an office building with people around. They can&#
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's a different chip
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Not in the US, based on a few basic queries I just ran
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Sure, but 24 hours is too short. It's a huge annoyance for day to day work when you interact with a large number of people and often forget to increase the retention window. Even then chats aren't kept much longer.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Maybe, but on the other hand what do you expect without personalization? At big high schools, the best students will learn more in a few weeks than the median students will learn in all.4 years. We shouldn't expect one curriculum to wo
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Why? I graduated at the top of my class. Wikipedia had more information on many more topics than are available at any high school anywhere in the world
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This sounds to me a lot like my high school teachers, who were extremely critical of this new-fangled thing called "Wikipedia". They said it would destroy my ability to learn, that it would ruin education if kids used it. How can
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I don't agree that "fair" is inherently subjective. There are many sensible ways to objectively define fair. For example you could say HN ranking is "fair" if the probability any viewer would upvote that article is
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Worth mentioning that C++23 adds something very similar to the standard library, called std::expected. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/expected Unfortunately it does not come with nice syntax to ret
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I'm talking specifically about fiscal and monetary response, and whether or not we punished people, addressing the comment I was replying to. For example it was good that we gave out PPP loans fairly literally even though it causes maj
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
You said "1,000 years ago if the crops failed, and the peasants started going hungry, either the priest or the lord was blamed." I'm saying we should not look to the distant past for guidance on how to handle situations like
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Well I'm hopeful we can move beyond medieval practice and that the presumption of innocence will prevail. Fortunately things seem to be going well for team rule-of-law.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
As someone who has been on the other side of many of these controversies, I know from experience that the popular narrative is generally wrong and fueled by anger and vengeance rather than sense or justice. I don't have any insider kno
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This isn't a bailout (unless you also consider FDIC a bailout). And fortunately most people don't see it that way, so this was the right move.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
We tried it your way many times, and it failed in every case (civil war reconstruction, Treaty of Versailles, Iraq provisional authority, response to the great depression, etc). When we do the other thing and focus on protecting the innocen
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Fortunately our criminal justice systems presumes innocence
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
That's tax evasion, not insider trading.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Do you think software engineers who write bugs should also be publicly humiliated? Should your bonus be clawed back if you tech lead a project that ends up failing because of bugs?
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Do you think software engineers who write code with bugs that take down their company should miss meals as a consequence?
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Imagine what the world would look like if you got what you're asking for. Tens of thousands of extra dollars of overhead to open a bank account? To save literally nothing directly for taxpayers, and a few dollars per account for banks?
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Ok but that's a bad policy that makes no sense and I'm glad the fed, Treasury, and FDIC are stepping in to change it. Sad that congress hasn't done anything over the past few years, but better the problem be solved than letti
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Do you think punishing depositors would disincentivize those executives? And do you have any examples of poor people being charged with insider trading? Every case I have seen is rich people trading.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Who are you trying to disincentivize? How would it dissuade the bank's management if depositors took a haircut? What behavior do you think punishing depositors would prevent? Do you think depositors should hire an accountant and econom

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