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Hence tea, indeed. In many ways it filled (and still does, as does coffee) many of the same roles as alcohol. Certainly not the partying aspect, but as a beverage to have with food, relax or socialise with. Alcohol was consumed a lot more o
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You make a good point, skilled craftsmanship definitely saw a dive, and certainly factory workers didn't need to be as skilled. But, big picture, each individual became vastly more productive thanks to industrialisation, which made roo
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It seems to me more of an artistic/social statement rather than an actual practical resource. And it is an effective one: interesting enough to become somewhat viral, and the architecture itself conveys a strong message.
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This is also consistent with how it is thought of in GameDev. The trendy ECS (Entity Component System) architecture is usually implemented with a data-oriented mindset to maximize cache utilization, make allocations/deallocations of ma
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As I understand it, the concept of microservices mainly originated to solve organisational bottlenecks, rather than to improve the quality of the software itself. Microservices are organized by business use-case in order to isolate a team s
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It's interesting to see how tiny Netflix mobile download files are. 200MB - 300MB for full-length movies, ~150MB for series episodes. This is on "Standard quality", but still. After some quick Googling (grain of salt) I see t
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I have been using it extensively during the last few weeks. I've very thankful for such a clean and practical API, and I think it will become the central solution for ingesting heterogeneous text in the Python ecosystem. However, I&#x2
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You seem to know more about it than I do. But isn't Nanite also about automatic and continuous LOD adjustment? A big selling point is to be able to drop-in extremely detailed unoptimized meshes made by artists, and have it perform well
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Real co-ops have similar structures as you describe. There is a large variety, since their structure often depend on regional regulation, the companies own "constitutional" rules and the legal category they fall onto (worker colle
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Microsoft could be in the same category. They've both had some pretty bad periods, no doubt, but they have been smart and quite diversified for the last decade at least. Same generation of startups too. There might be some insight in t
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This is the definition of a Co-op. The model has been reasonably successful in some cases. There are co-ops with >$10B annual revenues, although it took them half a century of steady solid business to get there. https://en.wik
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I think you misunderstood. He is saying that Uber is a better example of such a failure, not that it is a better business. Alphabet, Meta and MS at least have vast profits in the present, not just potential, so they are indeed "better&
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They Python part just generates Blender procgen specifications (compute graphs), that is probably relatively fast. But apparently the output graphs are huge and unoptimized, so generating the geometry takes a lot of resources (CPU bound). R
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Yes that's what I had in mind. Interesting that they can get decent convergence even with 100x, considering that to get a decently accurate gradient in all D dimensions you need to sample D forward passes, and we are talking of D in bi
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Since you seem knowledgeable about the topic and have explained it quite well, I'd like to ask a follow-up question. Could you summarize how this "zeroth order" gradient approximation works? In simple terms, how do we go from
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Yes, my bad. This is a bit far from my expertise, so I was trying out MirrorThink to understand what was being discussed. This reply seemed constructive so I copied it over, clearly I should have verified it better.
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It's just been quite useful in my own R&D work, so thought I would try it a few times today to connect the discussion to actual primary sources from research. But yes the message was partially AI generated. Still, thought it would
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It's just been quite useful in my own R&D work, so thought I would try it a few times today to connect the discussion to actual primary sources from research. Thought it would be constructive, but I've clearly started trusting
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While it's true that analog computers have limitations in terms of precision and error correction compared to digital computers, they can still offer some advantages in certain applications. For example, analog computers can be faster
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The achievement of training a BERT model to 90% of the GLUE score on a single GPU in ~100 hours is indeed impressive. As for the original BERT pretraining run, the paper [1] mentions that the pretraining took 4 days on 16 TPU chips for the
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The idea of using AI to tailor a resume to a specific job spec is promising. Although there isn't direct research on generating resumes using language models, I found related studies in MirrorThink.ai that provide insights into this ap
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I found other impactful and more recent papers via MirrorThink.ai that discuss various aspects of quantitative finance, trading, optimal execution, energy prices, GARCH, option valuation, portfolio selection, Kelly Criterion, Capital Asset
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MirrorThink: AI Agent for Science – GPT-4, 100M Papers, Wolfram, Patents, Grants(mirrorthink.ai)
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For reference (from 2013, but still), 13% of the US population were first-generation immigrants and 12% were second-generation. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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Yes the sand seems to darken a bit under where bacteria were eating, that might be the nitrogen, although it doesn't seem to spread over the rest of the sand, not sure if the plants are getting it. Also you need to keep adding bacteria
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Adding a lot of algae always makes daphnia reproduce a lot and eventually they eat all the algae. But I think I figured out the solution: many fish. With enough fish you can keep that initial wave of daphnia under control, so that they don&
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The balancing seems a bit off. But oh man, this thing is so mesmerizing and addictive :) Daphnia are too aggressive eating algae and produce too many eggs when doing so, so the algae population gets constantly suppressed in most settings. F
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by oersted 3y ago
Thank you for copying this over, it really helps have a proper conversation about it. At least from this snippet, it sounds like the author hasn't used Rust much and they are mainly imagining what it would be like to use Rust. In my ex
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by oersted 3y ago
There's not a even a logout button yet :) Noted, you are right. Yes interestingly GPT-4 identifies as GPT-3, and you need to be quite explicit about asking it to search for the answer in papers (see collapsed prompt). But it is excelle
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by oersted 3y ago
You should have gotten an email with the verification code. There's a spike in sign-ups right now so it fails occasionally, try a few times, it'll work.

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