nightski

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by nightski 3y ago
I don't even drink sugary sodas and I hate the idea of this.
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by nightski 3y ago
Honestly I don't see how it would impact them significantly. Intuit already offers free file for the cases that would likely be covered by this tool from the IRS.
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by nightski 3y ago
You act like training is this pre-set process you just "do". That's not the case, you train until you reach desired performance on the test set. If you don't have a test set how do you know when to stop training and av
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by nightski 3y ago
You have to know when to stop training. How are you going to do that without a test set? How do you know when you have achieved generalization without over-fitting?
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by nightski 3y ago
I'm confused, fine-tuning is training. How is that not leakage? I'm hesitant to call them researchers, they are employees of a for-profit company trying to meet investor expectations.
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by nightski 3y ago
I don't know about Japan, but the primary force acting in the consumer's favor in the U.S. is competition. When you have conglomerates that can use enormous profits in one industry to undercut competition in other industries it r
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by nightski 3y ago
No, your savings are only worth more over time if interest rates are greater than inflation. It doesn't matter if the are low or high in this case, just that they beat inflation. This is practically never the case, because the mark
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by nightski 3y ago
I feel the biggest weakness of PyTorch is that everything is an object with inheritance. It makes no sense that ReLu is a class for example. Seems like ML could take a few hints.
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by nightski 3y ago
Since interest rates are usually used to fight inflation, and inflation often is higher than interest rates, no your savings account generally does not have more value.
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by nightski 3y ago
The Witcher wasn't really Netflix's fault though? I thought Cavill was lured by the Amazon deal to do Warhammer. Gotta love a company like Amazon producing shows and selling toilet paper all in one shop.
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by nightski 3y ago
Government yes. But this has nothing to do with politics. The more I study the economy the less effect I see the president or congress having much direct effect on the economy (good or bad). The Fed sure, but not so much elected official
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by nightski 3y ago
That's not really true imho. If we are going to be pedantic and talk about the pandemic, almost all taxpayers received individual stimulus checks in the thousands. On top of that those with children received a lot more. The vast maj
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by nightski 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the government is the lender in the case of federal student loans. There aren't any banks getting "free money".
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by nightski 3y ago
PPP loans weren't really loans. It was known they would be forgiven before taking them out. If that had not been the case, most businesses would not of participated. I believe they were structured as loans providing a mechanism for
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by nightski 3y ago
I don't think that's even true. Where are you getting this? I can create an extremely compute heavy model that performs very poorly. Just adding more compute does not mean better performance on its own. Given the same model too
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by nightski 3y ago
I'd argue though that the customers are just as guilty/responsible as the company making the product that they demand/buy and maybe they should share in the financial burden of damages if that is the path we are on.
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by nightski 3y ago
I was with you until you said Bard. Sorry Google, no thanks. Open source is the future of these models.
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by nightski 3y ago
Your are joking, right? A niche market like gaming? lol
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by nightski 3y ago
That's not what nationalize means, you kind of went off on a tangent. Regardless the wealthy would find a way around any scheme like this, I have no faith something like this could be done effectively. Like I said they can't eve
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by nightski 3y ago
Yeah no thanks. The government is the reason these companies were able to do this in the first place. They lack the ability to simply regulate, let alone run a company.
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by nightski 3y ago
You can't maximize profit without customers, they must be aligned with someone.
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by nightski 3y ago
Heat pumps might work at -40c, but all the efficiency gains are lost and it's going to cost a fortune.
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by nightski 3y ago
It's a lot easier to keep a gas furnace running on a generator for an extended period of time than a heat pump.
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by nightski 3y ago
I suppose this would be true if gas is expensive where you live. It's really cheap here, our heating bill is like $80/mo in the coldest of months for a 3k sq ft house. A heat pump even with the efficiency gains would be on par w
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by nightski 3y ago
We have electric baseboard. It would cost hundreds more per month to utilize something like that instead of gas when it is -30F. In fact if we just leave it on over night a single time we notice it on our bill.
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by nightski 3y ago
The thing is (especially where I live) I'd still need a gas furnace. We regularly see -20F to -40F in the winter. While the 95% scenario sounds great, in practice still needing gas means we still need all the gas infrastructure. Fro
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by nightski 3y ago
Universal healthcare sets a base standard which is fantastic but it in no way equalizes healthcare across the economic spectrum.
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by nightski 3y ago
Thats interesting. All the recent scientific evidence I have been seeing has been saying that Aspartame really isn't bad. This seems suspect. It's so hard to trust science today since it has become so intertwined with politics
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by nightski 3y ago
Agreed, it is silly to say inflation "only" occurs due to money printing. I'd like to point out though that gold is printed. More precisely it is mined.
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by nightski 3y ago
If e-bikes are great then people will buy them. We really need to start cutting subsidies instead of creating more. Focus on the big problems in our economy such as fostering healthy competition, reducing M&A and anti-competitive beha

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