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by nmfisher 3y ago
On the other hand, moving cities/countries/continents for a salary boost can compound over your career and be probably the best financial decision you'll ever make. I think it all comes down to what you want in life. Some peo
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Thanks for the response. Interesting to see a lot of other people echoing the same comments - that dependency management in Python is an absolute PITA. I know exactly what you mean, but I'm probably so inured to it by now that I'v
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by nmfisher 3y ago
It's a great project and an impressive achievement, but I'm also struggling to understand what people use it for that PyTorch wasn't offering. Easy deployment on iOS I guess? I would have thought that's a pretty small us
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Singapore MRT actually operates with zero drivers!
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I think the point was that German energy policy has been a disaster, so it's not really a claim to fame.
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It's interesting to watch attitudes towards standardized education changing in real time. There's a growing realization that, outside a few specialties like medicine, when everyone has a university degree, then noone has a univers
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by nmfisher 3y ago
This is the same company that told people they were holding their iPhones wrong because the antenna was dropping out during calls. I'd prefer to try it myself rather than just take their word for it.
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RISC is good.
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I don't 100% disagree with you, but I'm still uncomfortable with this line of thinking. It smacks of "the plebs don't know what's bad for them, but I do". I find it hard to fault someone who just gives the crow
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Research [0] suggests that pretraining to uncover sparse subnetworks is faster when using "easy" subsets of the training data. Very small part of the overall picture but I do expect to see more research on data hashing/subset
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by nmfisher 3y ago
According to news articles, the law applies to someone who "intentionally or recklessly engages in conduct that obstructs the free passage of a public place". It's not about nuisance, it's about protests that prevent oth
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by nmfisher 3y ago
> a protest that doesn't cause "nuisance" isn't much of a protest, is it? Err, not really? When I was living in Australia I was aware of countless non-disruptive protests (usually outside various Parliament Houses, bu
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I think it is available now.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
My biggest fear is my kids dying in a car accident. I'd really prefer not to have to worry about school shootings on top of that, even if they are less likely.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
How would a speech model do sign language?
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Open AI has been pretty dishonest since the pivot to for-profit, but this is a new low. Incredibly scummy behaviour that will not land well with a lot of people in the AI community. I wonder if this is what prompted a lot of people to leave
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by nmfisher 3y ago
It's also plausible that, in the absence of regulation, social media optimises itself towards sex, outrage and provocation as the most profitable. Given that's my experience with Facebook, I'm going with that ad the more lik
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I was pretty amused when I first visited China and saw that the university communications/marketing department translated its name to "Propaganda Department".
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Facebook does exactly the same thing. I highly doubt it's a grand CCP conspiracy. It's more likely the incredibly mundane (but far more insidious) explanation that The Algorithm(TM) has discovered that, in aggregate, it leads to m
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Speech recognition is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was in 2001/2010, driven by a combination of deep learning and massive datasets. I'm actually working on a similar concept (speech recognition for Mandarin language learning
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Counterpoint - Singapore public transport is world-class and car ownership attracts punitively high taxes but for some bizarre reason many middle-class people still love driving. A lot to do with showing off, apparently. I also can't u
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I mean...isn't that just a smartphone? I know exactly what you're talking about because my father-in-law had the same thing. I'm just very skeptical that specialist hardware will overtake general commoditized computing device
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Flutter would seem to be a logical replacement (though admittedly last time I checked, there are big issues with Flutter Web on some of the points you mentioned, particularly around text selection and accessibility).
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Good example - and if we look at the ffmpeg security page[0], we can see dozens of CVEs going back to 2008, many related to manual memory management. I know it wasn't you saying this, but "just be a better programmer" is a du
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I'd be very careful with this - I've experimented with this extensively and GPT-4 gets some things horribly, horribly wrong (at least for Mandarin Chinese). I think the best of both worlds is pairing GPT-4 with human curation (tha
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by nmfisher 3y ago
> Lately, she is trying to learn Chinese in the same way. It's not going well but I think she's nowhere near the necessary effort level, based on the experience with previous ones. Duolingo's Chinese module is notoriously
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Understandable on a personal level, but bad policy. Other people's right to have somewhere to live trumps your right to be surrounded by woods. That's an opinion, of course, but I can't see how any other opinion leads to a st
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Just for funsies: Me: If a gloop is a glam, and a glam is not a flom, what is the fourth letter of the ninth word in this sentence? GPT4: The ninth word in this sentence is "sentence." The fourth letter of this word is "t&quo
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Maybe it's just a line item to them, but it's pretty relevant to anyone operating with a less-than-gargantuan budget. If a superior /affordable chip is widely available, OpenAI's competitive advantage recedes rapidly bec
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Counter-anecdote - I was searching for an error message verbatim recently (can't remember if I used quotation marks or not). Google literally had zero results, but the first DDG result was the exact one I needed. Given how fresh the DD

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