mooneater

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by mooneater 5y ago
I will quit ACM, this is the only perk that mattered.
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by mooneater 5y ago
> All this infrastructure must be extremely reliable, as we estimate some experiments could run for weeks and require thousands of GPUs Is it hardward-fault tolerant? Curious how well this will work otherwise as it scales.
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by mooneater 5y ago
Presumably for speed
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by mooneater 5y ago
You would think so, but see my comment above
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by mooneater 5y ago
Well based on the names you would think so. But in fact BCCLA fights at the federal level regularly, and is far more active than CCLA. BCCLA is way more effective and aggressive in pushing for meaningful change in Canada.
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by mooneater 5y ago
Would you name some please? Do you mean like ACLU (BCCLA in Canada)
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by mooneater 5y ago
Seems like a nice approach, I used to try things like this with postgres (embedding sklearn). Though it can be slow, harder to deal with memory usage issues, harder to debug in general, harder to extend/generalise. And for me postgres
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by mooneater 5y ago
Buffet openly brags about the anti vomiting effect. Saw this in a talk he gave to Indian MBA students and I was shocked.
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by mooneater 5y ago
More and more op-eds like this will be needed to desperately assuage the cognitive dissonance between climate denial and the actual news.
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by mooneater 5y ago
Awesome! Can you comment on choice of mongodb? I admit I have a negative association with it but Im sure there are reasons.
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by mooneater 5y ago
Well causal inference is considered distinct from statistical inference, and accounts for part of the gap here. (Not sure I would call that "qualitative" though.)
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by mooneater 5y ago
Looks great, please include Canada :)
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by mooneater 5y ago
"I noticed some white smoke at the south end of town and within 15 to 20 minutes, the whole town was engulfed in flame." -- town mayor That is terrifying speed.
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by mooneater 5y ago
Apr. 25, 2019: Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company June 22, 2021: Microsoft hits $2T market value
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by mooneater 5y ago
Podcast on this was good: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/18620183
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by mooneater 5y ago
> Our company actually spent more manpower and money than software on the hardware level such as machinery. I would like to know what was meant here -- software was the biggest cost?
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by mooneater 5y ago
Was hoping to find out who the next LTCM or Bear Stearns is.
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by mooneater 5y ago
I migrated my LAMP stack app to postgres+postgis in 2005, and met with Refractions folks in Victoria for advice, I have nothing but glowing reviews and its only gotten better since. Now I need something like that but in N dimensions...
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by mooneater 5y ago
> Python programmers will be able to use RAPIDS, Nvidia’s open software suite for GPU-enabled data science Ah not to be confused with OpenAI Rapid described at https://openai.com/blog/openai-five/ ^_^
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by mooneater 5y ago
Not just for perl! > namesake of Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to research showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
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by mooneater 5y ago
I misread the title as "meta-analysis". Now that would be an article I want to read.
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by mooneater 6y ago
I think 700k (or even 400k+ as estimated in these comments) is still huge
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by mooneater 6y ago
I love my Real book, for me its a lifetime worth of music. Though I consider its versions as vanilla, it would be cool to see a real bebop version.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Is there a way you can continue to teach in some capacity?
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by mooneater 6y ago
Lets hear some love for Refractions Research out of Victoria BC, who gave us PostGIS! Great folks, very helpful, and a wonderful open source product. http://www.refractions.net/
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by mooneater 6y ago
> Now, it belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art How did it come into their possession, I would be interested to hear.
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by mooneater 6y ago
> enabled more efficient hunting of medium-sized and small animals—until these populations also dwindled This means humans have been decimating wild animal populations for a very long time, we are accustomed to it. But we need to stop it
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by mooneater 6y ago
These fake-detector tools will only pave the way for flawless deepfakes. Im not sure what the solutions are to the societal problem it opens up. Media will get a lot stranger.
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by mooneater 6y ago
“Unite the whole Human Race! For we’re All-One or None! … Exceptions eternally? Absolute None!” --Dr. Bronner's philosophy in his soap labels
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by mooneater 6y ago
He looks as exactly as stressed out and sleep deprived as you might expect given the circumstances.

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