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by pavanky 6y ago
Isnt this assuming coal / gas powerplants ? Wouldnt solar / Wind have a smaller CO2 foot print and hydro electric be more efficient ?
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by pavanky 6y ago
Just a heads up 1) OOP concepts don't mean everything. 2) Forcing Whiteboard interviews is bad. Some people prefer writing code (on computers) to think. Some people prefer whiteboards. Please dont write yourself off because of these th
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by pavanky 6y ago
Thats not what they said. If it was the average, the sum of all plans (42 @ 0.81) would be 34.02 which is less than the most expensive plan at 108.
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by pavanky 6y ago
If anyone is else is interested in thought experiments on how other forms of intelligence / sapience may evolve, try to read "Children of Time" and "Children of Ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Also if anyone else has o
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by pavanky 6y ago
I think it has a harder time if more than one object is present in the image no matter what you draw. Even if the other stuff you draw is just a random line segment a bit close to the actual picture.
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by pavanky 7y ago
> and immediately messed it up by mixing ordered maps with arrays into a big soup, but hey, PHP And here I thought Lua was the only language insane enough to do something like that. Just realized Lua tables aren't ordered, but it st
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by pavanky 7y ago
The weights arent averaged unless the training step is synchronous. Even then most of the times it is the gradients that are added up rather than the actual weights. For inference, I dont think there are many papers that claim direct averag
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by pavanky 7y ago
The post no longer exists?
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by pavanky 7y ago
Isnt the GIL part of the implementation rather than the language?
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by pavanky 7y ago
There is no single Hindu philosophy. This feels like a mix and match of multiple different versions.
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by pavanky 7y ago
Yes, more than one infact.
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by pavanky 7y ago
We dont farm and eat as many carnivores. Octopus and some fish are the only exceptions. The non ethical issues raised do not generalize easily.
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by pavanky 7y ago
Did you intentionally remove the first part of the paragraph ? They are talking about the environmental impact of octopus farming which creates artificial strain on the environment. > The amount of feed needed to sustain and grow an octp
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by pavanky 7y ago
I dont care who or what is dictating them, as long as they are consistent. If someone is making the claim that it is OK to eat anything as long as they are delicious, I want to know what their stand on cannibalism is.
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by pavanky 7y ago
It isnt a competition. The point I was trying to make is that India not only has highly fertile land, but also a lot of it to theoretically feed its people without relying on others. As you said, US has only a 3rd of the population. This is
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by pavanky 7y ago
FYI India has more arable land than USA at the moment: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.HA?end=2016...
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by pavanky 7y ago
Alternatively, we need to see how well these algorithms can fake videos from different angles in a consistent manner. If we have enough enough people recording, it may just be enough to prove something is not a fake.
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by pavanky 8y ago
I traveled to India in 2017 and 2018. I had problems getting HSPA+ most of the time. Had no problems with local carriers.
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by pavanky 8y ago
You dont go from beginner to proficient in any language in 1 year, much less C++.
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by pavanky 8y ago
Not everything in the compute pipeline is going to be converted to fp16 operations. Anytime you are doing accumulation or exponentials, you would have to have it in fp32. There was a good talk from NVIDIA at last years GTC: http:/&#x2
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by pavanky 8y ago
I have friends who keep switching between three (not counting the made up language only those two understand). This isn't uncommon among multi lingual people.
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by pavanky 8y ago
Knowing Apple, I wouldn't be surprised if they come after the ctrl key next..
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by pavanky 8y ago
It depends on the type of vector operation(s) you are doing and the machine you are on. For one off vector operations it is never worth it to make a transfer to the gpu. If you are going to have a lot of temporary vectors as part of a large
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by pavanky 8y ago
> Possibly attractive for people who just like deep C++ platform building, which is an internal drive not often found in people wanting to solve business problems with ML models. And the world has plenty of people who are not interested
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by pavanky 8y ago
Before anyone flips out, he actually merged the code: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/774 Side note: I've merged it, and it's going through my build tests, so it's really not tha
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by pavanky 8y ago
I was happy paying a subscription fee to whatsapp when it was still a thing. I dont know if facebook has ever made money off of ads shown to me. Same goes with google and the subscription I pay for google music.
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by pavanky 8y ago
I mean it wouldnt be that big of a problem if they adopted Vulkan, but they are pushing Metal :-/
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by pavanky 8y ago
Why aren't they using LLVM :-/
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by pavanky 8y ago
not sure what the battery life on x230 is. I usually get 6-7 hours atleast on my current chromebook. Besides this was an impulse purchase. I was tired of my home laptop and wanted something so I went to best buy and purchased it within half
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by pavanky 8y ago
I needed a machine to ssh from and have a browser. $250 acer chromebook with crouton mostly works. This is not my primary machine however. I only use it at home to ssh into my desktop once in a while.

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