profsummergig

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by profsummergig 8mo ago
If anyone knows of a way to use this code on a consumer grade laptop to train on a small corpus (in less than a week), and then demonstrate inference (hallucinations are okay), please share how.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
I decided to make rotis every day for a month (am male of Indian origin who hadn't ever cooked breads), AND eat them. The first one was completely inedible. The 30th day's rotis were edible, but nothing like what women in my famil
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What will make it all worth it
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Apparently a return to the policies of 14 years ago when people like Bill Clinton, Hillary, and Obama used to call for enforcing laws against illegal immigration.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
People talk about "inbox zero". I want to learn "inbox Epstein". Somehow, this guy had time to have regular email conversations with about 1,000 of the most powerful people in the planet (the head of the Nobel Prize Comm
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Bow drills were still commonly used in India in 25 years ago. Because electricity was unreliable and machinery was expensive.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
> Queuing... not littering, respecting shared (public) resources Well, Indians are the pits in all 3, so your definition computes. Source: am Indian.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
I keep getting this alert (on Android) saying TikTok is draining the battery even after I've swiped-up on the app to exit it.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Steve Jobs had the AI vision. Siri was a (sorta) early AI. And it was acquired under his watch.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
> During the mid-to-late Pleistocene (∼1.2 million to 11,700 years before present) ... with temperatures ranging roughly between −6°C and +2°C relative to the pre-industrial mean of ∼14°C Does this mean during mid-to-late Pleistocene it
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
If the area was a major commercial shipping hub once, what's the reason it isn't any more? Depopulation? (If it's depopulation, then was it emigration or was it a fall in birth rates?)
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
This is a more accurate take. That you can own businesses, but you can't work for them without an appropriate work-permit. He was working for his businesses, which explains why he's in a pickle.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
I think that this might be the accurate take: That you are not allowed to work for a business (even if you own it) without a work-permit to work for it.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
If they are in the US on a work-permit, they have to follow the limitations of the work-permit. They are not free to follow the affordances available to people who are outside the US. For most temporary work-permits, owning a business is no
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
If we are talking hypotheticals here, anything can be possible. Subject could be an illegitimate direct descendent of Thomas Jefferson, which would make this entire case uniquely newsworthy.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
I realize this is complicated, I didn't say you needed to be a US resident to register a company. I said that most pre-GC work-permits (e.g. H1B) don't allow you to own a US-based business. If you're here on a work-permit, th
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Per article he owns a business. Usually a pre-Green-Card work permit doesn't allow that (you need a GC to own a business). This article is an example of sophisticated co-mingling of facts and omissions, designed to obfuscate the contex
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
There's a Taleb vs. Sornette debate (argument) on YouTube. I thought Taleb won (complex system outcomes, in the sociopolitical realm, cannot be predicted). But then I'm a Taleb fanboy. Sornette (my first and last exposure to him)
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Also, some people want to work on what's already familiar to them. If building a framework from scratch is what appeals to them, they'll do that even if a framework already exists. Busywork to look productive.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Also Teams and OneNote. If you're on Windows 11, search for "Startup Apps" and disable CoPilot, Teams and OneNote (if you don't use them). It'll speed up your system. CoPilot is a great name. But Microsoft being Mic
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
Also, it seems there are a lot of paid posts on NYT. Recently, both NYT and WP had front page articles about a book by some billionaire's daughter whose husband cheated on her. They seemed like puff-PR posts.
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by profsummergig 8mo ago
It will. Oh it will.
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
It's insane to me that BBC now has a paywall. Way to fall-off from being the one source of news everyone in "Anglo" countries in the Third-World used to turn to (and love and respect... however biased the news may have been).
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
Apparently the correct spelling is "transferring".
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
I think it's a message about how science is really about effective sampling.
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
"The way you can go isn’t the real way." Nope. This ain't it. The very first sentence misses the point. (It might be a literal translation. Perhaps. But that's not the essence.) I couldn't go (pun intended) beyond t
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
So sad that nobody thought it important to ELI5 whatever on earth "gaussian splatting" means, and how it's different than regular splatting (if there's such a thing), or regular video. To me the video looks like the figu
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
People from non-privileged backgrounds in India often have so called "correspondence" degrees (remote), the privileged will not empathize.
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
Like Trump, I too am a (albeit, small-time) real estate guy. Ownership gives me tingles that renting could never give me. You rent a place for 30 years, diligently pay rent, and in the end you own nothing? Pshaw.
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by profsummergig 9mo ago
How were Muslims treated? I don't remember anything other than isolated incidents.

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