nealmcb2

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by nealmcb2 4y ago
You can run Galactica (the "base" model) for free on Colab ( https://colab.research.google.com/ ). It takes about 4 minutes to start up. Just specify a "GPU" runtime on colab, and follow the simple instruc
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by nealmcb2 5y ago
I love Kim Zetter's tweet: Must have been a turnip truck https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1384936715769503745 That's a dig at the turnipesque savvy of Cellebrite, which royally stumbled into this.
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by nealmcb2 6y ago
The best overview of this mess is from Cory Doctorow, who notes that while the claims of fraud in this election are garbage, the voting machines, and especially overused Ballot-marking devices (BMDs), are also hugely problematic. Voting mac
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by nealmcb2 6y ago
That article makes good points, but doesn't even mention the obvious alternative: join the fork that Amazon immediately announced, the need for which has also been supported by other significant contributors besides CrateDB like Logz.i
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by nealmcb2 6y ago
Re: > it was to inhibit Cathedral-style codebases from using GPLed software at all. I'm surprised at the notion that RMS ever had the intention of inhibiting GPL use in Cathedral-style codebases. And I agree with others that big f
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by nealmcb2 6y ago
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/iyk2... An adaptive deep reinforcement learning framework enables curling robots with human-like performance in real-world conditions
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by nealmcb2 6y ago
Apparently that isn't always the case. See the PyPy Status Blog: PyPy's new JSON parser https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser.... which talks about being more efficient with both d
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by nealmcb2 7y ago
Compliance with SEI CMMI Level 5 probably is expensive. While looking for more data I noted that several Boeing units are at Level 5. And I also found that between 2008 and 2019, about 12% of appraisals given across all industries and count
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by nealmcb2 7y ago
The raw ballots are available at https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002_tally.txt It would be helpful to also have that shared in in a way that makes it easier to see how many top-ranks each choice had, how man
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by nealmcb2 7y ago
That is an excellent and very helpful writeup! I'm particularly disappointed to hear that Google doesn't provide any way to rotate the signing key for an app. Is there an issue for that file with them anywhere, or more discussion?
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by nealmcb2 9y ago
The point is that they set the toll price to eliminate the bottleneck, i.e. to get the traffic flowing at 45 MPH or more. The previous bottleneck was caused by solo drivers who just ignored the HOV2+ restriction. So you have a new choice, t
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by nealmcb2 9y ago
That expresslanes URL is for I-495. The I-66 historical data is here: https://vai66tolls.com/ And I too would love to see that data in a more convenient form, via an API, etc.