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by orbifold 6y ago
Getting a job at google is nowhere near as competitive as getting tenure, you have to live in an alternate reality to believe that. I know several people that went there after their PhD one of them got the lowest possible grade on their dis
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by orbifold 6y ago
On PC it is a pretty decent game, nice missions, very nice graphics and art. Personally I like it better than other open world games that I played. It feels more immersive than most of them, as long as you don't go out of your way to b
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by orbifold 6y ago
It crashed a few times on me but never in missions or while I was doing anything important. Have a 1080 GTX and 32gb RAM it runs very well at 1080p and pretty high graphics settings.
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by orbifold 6y ago
What is more some of the deep learning libraries on top of JAX (like flax, linen) are close to a one-to-one copy of PyTorch. However the underlying implementation is in some ways more interesting than the one of PyTorch and naturally accomo
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by orbifold 6y ago
I tried to play GTA V, but found the story very off-putting and uninteresting. I couldn't relate to any of the characters and found some of them frankly disgusting. All the missions in Cyberpunk I've played so far are well made, s
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by orbifold 6y ago
Both GTA V and Red Dead 2 have pretty broken and uninteresting NPCs as well unless you start causing havoc in immersion breaking and unrealistic ways. I think the fact that in Cyberpunk 2077 you can't have fun just randomly blowing up
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by orbifold 6y ago
This has been tried before: https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-abstract/45/1/12/338...
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by orbifold 6y ago
What is dangerous is if a country has radical groups in both directions , which demand allegiance from moderates. It is also interesting how class (laborer, burocrat,farmer,...) has been replaced by race or “privilege” (basically inconseque
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by orbifold 6y ago
Jacob Wenzel also wrote pybind11 and contributed to the PBRT books. All his stuff appears to be super high quality.
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by orbifold 6y ago
I was under the impression that all the mobile communications standards had provisions for lawful intercept, is it such a leap to think that the baseband processor is compromised aswell? Maybe the EU is just salty that they don't have
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by orbifold 6y ago
Adobe has an API for all of their software, in principle you can hook into it with your own code. The main problem is that the document model are really complex, so I doubt lots of people would do that in their free time.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Personally I think the POWER instruction set is better in many ways. It has a proven track record of high performance and embedded implementations. A lot of ISA design is about avoiding patents and other traps. Ultimately it doesn’t really
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by orbifold 6y ago
Completely irrelevant since the model is run on a custom chip. So no part of the pytorch code actually ever makes it into production.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Do you think it might be possible to eventually use a Deep Learning model like GPT-3 to do the formalisation for us? It seems like a herculean task to do it by hand.
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by orbifold 6y ago
I always wondered this during meditation in high school: Do people actually see things when they close their eyes? The whole “you are at a beach, there is a gentle breeze...” never did anything for me. I can remember colors, relative posi
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by orbifold 6y ago
You should check out Shannon’s work on the differential analyser if you haven’t already. Before computers came along they used mechanical machines to solve differential equations etc. There are more papers with beautiful drawings of mechani
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by orbifold 6y ago
Pybind11 is a dream to work with and there are python packages that implement hot reloading for C++ into a live python session aswell as autogeneration tools for it.
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by orbifold 6y ago
A number of groups worked on this at the same time and of course because it is machine learning, everyone had to come up with their own name for it. Even though most of these are basically elementary linear algebra dressed up by fancy langu
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by orbifold 6y ago
That is only true in vacuum you get non-linear effects from (among other things) the medium and cell-membranes.
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by orbifold 6y ago
It is really hard to organise 6000+ people to do anything . HEP won’t come back if you do. There isn’t much to figure out on climate change on a fundamental level anyways. It is a political and technological problem, not something you need
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by orbifold 6y ago
Right good arguments in the political sense. A highly organized, well connected, motivated group of people that write excellent funding proposals, with a track record of Nobel price worthy results and the ability to execute on >10 billio
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by orbifold 6y ago
I honestly don’t think she is qualified to speak on the priorities of a discipline she has never been involved in. They will do and prioritise what they think is reasonable based on fierce internal discussions and consensus building. I pers
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by orbifold 6y ago
Well what I meant show me plans with 1000s of pages of itemized highly realistic goals that have a chance of succeeding and yield real technological advances over a period of 30 years with 100s of professors putting their professional caree
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by orbifold 6y ago
But we can do it all. Moreover a large number of talented people really want to do it. Whatever money they are asking for is a fraction of the cumulative benefits these people have provided to humanity. When arguing about money you nev
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by orbifold 6y ago
Get a beer with a particle physicist some time, you will find most of them didn't actually work on "finding dark matter" but worked on a myriad of specific technical challenges. - Superconducting magnets and power distributio
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by orbifold 6y ago
I have bad news for you: Most high energy physicists I know go on to finance or "data science" before they would work on climate science. It is just not that interesting and doesn't pay well. HEP carriers prestige and is actu
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by orbifold 6y ago
Pretty simple neither Hossfelder, nor politicians, nor you get to tell people what they would like to do. At this point it becomes a power struggle and so far mainstream physics has won that power struggle, because we have good arguments on
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by orbifold 6y ago
She is not a scientist active in this area. At this point she is for the most part paid to be a science communicator. A lot of money is spend on curing all these other things. Particle accelerators have been instrumental in developing the t
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by orbifold 6y ago
BTW her examples of experiments that received insufficient funding is really curious: FAIR she just happens to work at a university that is pretty directly involved with it, the cost overruns were so bad that the original people lost manage
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by orbifold 6y ago
Point me to something that has these characteristics and hasn’t received funding. Anderson made the case to fund many small scale experiments when it came to funding the SSC, but that doesn’t have the same secondary benefits.

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