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by plonk 4y ago
Why not move to a tech hub and start a challenging job? If you're technically good, I don't think your current lack of money would block you. You sound like you'd have a lot of motivation if you got out of your current local
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> This model works in the same way as GPT-3. It's just predicting what the next most likely word will be given the previous words. It does this by creating a generalizaiton over the content that was used to train it. This generaliza
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I have news about some people's approach to wives.
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Was Edge based on Trident? I thought they re-wrote an engine from scratch.
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> Compare that to Python, which still doesn't have a declarative package manifest format It does, with pyproject.toml [1]. It even had two [2], but setup.cfg is deprecated because it was specific to setuptools. [1] https:/&#x2
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You don’t make the company lose business just because compliance is unnecessary. You’ll (rightly) get overruled every time.
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POSIX defines a shell that's not completely compatible with Bash. IIRC Ubuntu's `sh` command actually runs bash in a special "POSIX-compatible" mode that's really bare-bones.
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Python is the main language for PyTorch and TensorFlow, there are few ML frameworks more complete than Scikit-learn, I'm not aware of an equivalent to NumPy in other languages, and this list is probably missing other things I don'
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Strangers on the Internet are a source of advice like any other. Some people on HN probably have experience with the "intellectual loneliness" OP is talking about.
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A month's worth of earnings isn't trivial for any company. Agree that Google can weather it easily though.
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My easy method to make such a self-contained environment: - download the Python embedded environment, - modify `pythonXX.pth` to `import site`, - install pip in the environment, - install all dependencies with pip, - install your code as an
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Sure, but as a non-American I see it as more prestigious than e.g. Dartmouth, at least in STEM. Maybe some employers would prefer the Ivy based on selectivity though?
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> less prestigious schools that graduate a ton of professors, like UC Berkeley How in the world can UC Berkeley be "less prestigious". It constantly ranks world top-10 in all rankings.
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Don't check the trends. Find a circle of people with your interests and stay away from political spam you're not interested in. That makes Twitter very useful for e.g. following research or getting informed opinions.
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I've done that progressively over two years as a junior and I'm basically unofficial tech lead now. Managers listen to me and I can plan and influence several projects. I have other goals so I won't become official team lead
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With the second-largest cryptocurrency using PoS, do you really expect the PoW ones to stay profitable for more than a niche group? I'd expect people who want to actually use it for something else than speculating to move to the superi
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Probably used much more efficiently.
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The market for GPUs isn't as efficient as the stock market. Miners might also have wanted to profit right until the end. The price doesn't come down until the used GPUs actually hit the stores.
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by plonk 4y ago
Are you concerned about damage from heat during previous use? You're going to be running it for hours or days anyway if you train on large complex datasets, so a GPU that's been used for a few months might not have lost you too mu
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Making a Twitter bot divulge its instructions with prompt injection(twitter.com)
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We spent hours calculating the impedance and current and resistance and whatever in dozens of complicated circuits in undergrad, and I can't tell you how a basic home electrical installation works. File that under "things that eve
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It’s very annoying that this article mixes “red and processed meats” like they are the same thing. The author themselves mention that there’s much better evidence against processed meat, but keeps talking about how dangerous “red and proces
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> has a tiny navy They have more ships than the US Navy, though they don’t beat it by tonnage. How can that be considered tiny?
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I don't understand why every discussion about climate change ends up with this comment. We know, the rock and the bacteria will be fine, that's obviously not what people worry about. We care about the Earth because it sustains us
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Well it probably was, among other things. But we're censoring a network here, not just a tool. Nobody is making the cryptography behind Tornado illegal.
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> My understanding of iCloud photos is that they're encrypted, as in Apple can't scan them on the server iCloud Photos currently aren't encrypted this way, just "in transit and on server" [1]. > iCloud secures
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Because the long-term trend is always upwards. Trying to take advantage of volatility in the short term is completely different, it’s a zero-sum game.
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Why investors are reaching for the astrology of finance(economist.com)
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> First, it has been amply demonstrated that (1) the rules aren't as tight as should be and (2) the "punishment" for failure is not strong enough, or should I say, it is non-existent. This means that banks can and will mak
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I don’t see the problem here. Creating money isn’t free for private banks, they can’t do it as much as they want. They start rejecting more loans when funding gets tighter. What is the concrete problem that this system creates in your opini

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