plasticchris

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by plasticchris 2y ago
Someone with the last name Blank told me their family lore was that the (Ellis island era) immigration paperwork person just gave up.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/136933/difference-be...
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Look at the statistics over time? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Backup camera is also required in the USA, along with the seatbelt chimes.
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GM acquires full ownership of Cruise(news.gm.com)
4 points by plasticchris 2y ago|1 comments
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Even accepting that, the law should be encouraging creative output by individuals and there is justifiable fear that this will be used to bypass protections designed to reward such behavior. For a more direct counterexample, I can memorize
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by plasticchris 2y ago
If the interviewer were better they would instead ask: if no one else on the dev team knows the type system how do you handle that situation? Which gets at the real risk, maybe valid, that someone super smart who isn’t the best communicator
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Human Shader(humanshader.com)
2 points by plasticchris 2y ago|0 comments
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Buying a single copy of a work does not grant you a license to duplicate or distribute that work. So just buying copies wouldn’t have helped them.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
If we are going to afford models like this treatment equivalent to sentient beings in this regard, why not others? In your extrapolation these ai walking among us are property of giant tech companies…
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by plasticchris 2y ago
I like telling it as 3 hard things: caches and naming things.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Smoke particles reduce overall solar radiation absorbed by the earth-atmosphere at local and/or regional scales during individual fire events or burning seasons. Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.02.020
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Or in short, the sensors are strapped down to the platform being measured - like your phone’s sensors for example.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Only if you can make a linear model of those things…
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Yeah, the best analogy for people that know a little physics is aether - it’s obviously ridiculous now, but there was a time when it filled in some unknowns and people took it seriously. It would be nice if it weren’t presented as fact in t
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by plasticchris 2y ago
A much more plausible take was that the matrix used human brains as coprocessors, credit to (who else?) Neil Gaiman for the idea.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Last time I played with it, 70b models are much larger than 24gb without a lot of quantization.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
The data set seems to be here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... Not sure what it implies, but there it is.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
The point was pedagogical, sometimes the “best” explanation just doesn’t work for a student. Some might get confused about where the state of the caller goes and get hung up.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Considering transmission losses it might make more sense to dam many smaller rivers. And the Mississippi is an important freight route, a dam would complicate that.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Call stacks help form a mental model for some people. It’s a way to help get an initial grip on the topic, one of many. Teaching usually involves many simplified models which in my experience helps a lot with initial understanding.
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Rendering Tiny Glades with Too Much Ray Marching(youtube.com)
2 points by plasticchris 2y ago|0 comments
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by plasticchris 2y ago
I imagine he would say to practice is to realize and to realize is to practice.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Always has been. Middlemen eat most of the margin. A bushel of wheat is cheaper than a fancy loaf of bread.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
It was used as a sweetener at one time…
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)(blog.mlc.ai)
313 points by plasticchris 2y ago|213 comments
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by plasticchris 2y ago
That’s true, but the question (minus the robot bit) is a zen koan.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Or they inherited a home and can barely afford insurance, taxes, or upkeep on it. So they could afford to live there but couldn’t afford to buy it.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
People like to look at the start of the sigmoid and extrapolate.
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by plasticchris 2y ago
Yeah, that’s what I meant in the first comment :)

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