nmfisher

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1. 721.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   Jesus, can someone unravel that for me?
2. 722.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   > YC has also been a key indicator that a startup might have higher chance to succeed than a typical startup. Is that empirically true?
3. 723.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   Let's not kid ourselves - a lot of art transactions simply facilitate money-laundering.
4. 724.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   Looks like three.js with WebGL.
5. 725.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   Exactly! OP could barely disguise the company shilling, I'm hardly going to trust his opinion on whether or not another startup CEO was a fraud or not.
6. 726.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   > Three days later, according to BuzzFeed, New York apparently paid Oren-Pines $69,102,000 for 1,450 ventilators, or $47,656 per ventilator. It was the second-largest purchase made by the state of New York for coronavirus-related medical
7. 727.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   GPT-3 is the name for the architecture, but there are a few different versions/sizes. The OpenAI version that impressed us all was ~170B parameters, this is far smaller. To go from 2.7B to 170B parameters will need more than just a few
8. 728.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   What the OP wrote is considerably more offensive than what I responded with (and I also was originally going to respond with something FAR less polite, but decided against it). Sugarcoating it any more would just dilute the message. I stand
9. 729.▲
   by nmfisher 6y ago

   There's dozens already listed - but just to name a few off the top of my head - ARM, TSMC, Spotify, Sony, Nintendo, DJI, TikTok (ByteDance), Atlassian, Skype (pre-MS), Canva, Nubank. And that's also ignoring the dozens of Chinese
10. 730.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    > There's a reason why we have never seen a world leading tech company come out from anywhere except the US. Probably the most ignorant comment I've ever seen on HN.
11. 731.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    I've found this too. When I'm knee-deep in code, my brain gets locked into "problem mode" and it can't recompose itself for communicating with others like a normal human being. I need a good 2-3 hours away from the
12. 732.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    USA doesn’t require forklift licences?
13. 733.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    > Your wording flipped a bit in my head. That exact wording could be said of Europe. There's a whole show and dance to make it seem like it's not, but when everything is about government grants and consortiums, it is. Sounds ve
14. 734.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    No, I didn't get that impression at all.
15. 735.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    If you were his manager, why couldn’t you can him?
16. 736.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    I suspect these are mostly marketing stunts by people who own NFT brokerage platforms. It’a probably just moving 80k between a few wallets, and eureka - free press for days.
17. 737.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    I've never actually encountered a situation where the differences in terminology actually matter (same as sub-routine and procedure), so I'm comfortable dismissing them.
18. 738.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    I'm not saying we don't benefit from it, or complaining about Epic's involvement. I'm just observing that this result came about solely because the interests of a behemoth (in Epic) happened to briefly coincide with ours
19. 739.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    > Further evidence that developer pressure and legal pressure on smartphone platforms work, that they aren't a waste of time. Sure, if you're Epic. For the rest of us minnows, we just have to play the hand we're dealt.
20. 740.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    Great article, I had no clue Hinton had that amount of commercial savvy.
21. 741.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    ...by doing what thousands of people do around the world every day (and what OP was referring to) - using the List, HashMap, Stack and Queue implementations provided by your language of choice. Occasionally, you might need to dig deeper to
22. 742.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    Data structures are funny, because most of the time they're (a) the last thing you worry about (after feature specification/architecture/implementation/etc), and (b) it's usually pretty obvious which data structure
23. 743.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    Can you give a rough outline of how mature you were when you joined, and what the terms were?
24. 744.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    Man, I didn't realize 500 servers was still "little company" level!
25. 745.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    I'd be interested in "Why Zig over Rust?". Having dabbled with Rust, it seems to be the perfect solution/replacement for C/C++. I'm not clear why I should bother with an alternative.
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    by nmfisher 6y ago

    This is a terrible article. It's basically a single chart showing (what I can only assume) projected energy demand in the USA for a 5-day period in March, and some dispatch figures between various energy sources, and a couple of random
27. 747.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    > the real test of intelligence was knowing that you can lie about being an accredited investor If the USA is anything like Australia, this is still illegal. So maybe not so much about "intelligence" as it is "willingness
28. 748.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    This isn't necessarily a recent development either. I tried to reproduce Ghahramani's factorial HMM* directly from his 1997 paper, and ran into the same problem as the other implementation I found (basically, exploding mean field
29. 749.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    FYI this is what it looks like on my iPhone https://imgur.com/gallery/A5ltUKC
30. 750.▲
    by nmfisher 6y ago

    I assume it looks like this: - get a business that operates mostly on anonymous/untraceable cash (laundromat) - put drug money through it and pay taxes - business use "clean" money to buy a piece of art for $1 million from a