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by owlbite 3y ago
If its anything like other UK government research bodies I've interacted with in the past, they started off with pay significantly below market rate for salaries and then failed to even hit inflation with pay raises due to UK governmen
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by owlbite 3y ago
For at least the next few months anyway. The speed this stuff is moving prompt engineering may just be a fad and the next wave of models changes things again. If they persist as a thing, then most of the hard work will just be abstracted aw
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by owlbite 3y ago
That doesn't stop them spending in such a way that they achieve their aims regardless of which color of tie is more dominant in the corridors of power.
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by owlbite 3y ago
Just finding the app native ones can be useful, I spent several years using macOs before someone told me about apple-spacebar bringing up a spotlight quick search, which is not the main way I launch things that aren't terminal commands
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by owlbite 3y ago
I'd definitely favor a system where you get 10 years of copyright for free automatically. The next year of protection requires registration and a fee of $1. It double every year after that (tune the exponential function to be broadly e
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by owlbite 4y ago
C with basic templates is normally what I want. Occasionally other C++-isms drift in, but normally to the harm of the code quality.
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by owlbite 4y ago
We certainly covered it about age 15/16 in the UK.
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by owlbite 4y ago
I'd love to upgrade to an electric heat pump, however being out in the urban-wild land interface of California, we're subject to occasionally multi-day power outages, for which having propane-based heating is a god-send in a winte
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by owlbite 4y ago
Well looking at Apple's more recent features for iMessage, Animoji and Memoji related features are presumably non-trivial to slap into an existing app.
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by owlbite 4y ago
If I have 10 points in 2d space, I can always hit them all exactly so long as I have a polynomial of degree 10 or higher. This is overfitting, which is indistinguishable from memorization.
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by owlbite 4y ago
Even on mainline x86 they often seem to have had a try twenty things and see what sticks approach to software, discarding the 19 that didn't win, and burning anyone who was trying to use them.
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by owlbite 4y ago
Not sure where you're going with that question. Fundamentally the current accommodation of copyright has two main justifications: 1) Protect economic activity 2) Moral right to identify original author of a work The point of ease of re
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by owlbite 4y ago
I can't be trivially copy/pasted and replicated at scale.
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by owlbite 4y ago
My understanding was it also helped firmly establish federal wrongdoing rather than merely state.
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by owlbite 4y ago
I wouldn't discount the difference chipset can make, especially with respect to features it can support - the original homepod had an anaemic processor in comparison to just about any other apple kit.
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by owlbite 4y ago
Or if you have a latency-sensitive computation, and the gpu round trip time is just too long.
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by owlbite 4y ago
My take is not using the higher precision operation is crazy.
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by owlbite 4y ago
If you're on an Apple platform, their simd.h header works with the clang vector attribute to provide a nice way to do very similar stuff.
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by owlbite 4y ago
Characterizing LaTeX as a rasterized image is really putting up a straw man - MathJax and similar have existed for a long time. As a reader of raw markup, LaTeX is much much more readable than MathML. As a human writing the stuff, MathML is
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by owlbite 4y ago
MathML always seemed like a waste of time. It was/is objectively worse on every axis (at least from a user perspective) compared to the long-established LaTeX notation.
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by owlbite 4y ago
From Lincoln, but not living there anymore.
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by owlbite 4y ago
Moving from the UK to the US a few years ago was like going back in time 20 years in finance tech. No-one supported contactless payment, cards didn't implement it, despite it having been standard tech in the UK for years. The UK de-fac
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by owlbite 4y ago
For some reason I thought battery life was more constraining than cooling in mobile devices?
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by owlbite 4y ago
> The 'C' way is very efficient for computing Ax which presumes vector x to be a Column vector. When you want to compute xA instead which presumes vector x to be a row vector, you want column-major ordering for efficiency. You
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by owlbite 4y ago
Not sure I 100% agree with (2) forming A^TA. In many real-world use cases A^TA+choleksy is going to be considerably faster than QR on A, and come with few numerical consequences. Even in the numerically challenging cases, pivoted LDL^T on
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by owlbite 4y ago
I could go for some scheme where the first 10 years are free, and then you have to register for $x where x is a value that doubles every year. That allows the big IPs to get roughly what they want for commercially viable stuff, but also mea
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by owlbite 4y ago
Well, at least not until your employer/kids school/other entity you don't really have a choice about forces it down your throat.
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by owlbite 4y ago
This only works if wage growth keeps up with the inflation.
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by owlbite 4y ago
It's worse than that even. As soon as a metric becomes a goal it distorts the entire system. People optimize for the metric discarding anything else. Metric is closed tickets? OK, open more smaller tickets, close aggressively and tell
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by owlbite 4y ago
> If you get it from the author you've no more idea whether it's infringing copyright (in UK, it's more liberal with Fair Use under the USC) than if you get it from scihub. It's normally standard academic journal lice

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