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by qntty 2y ago
Whatever terminology you use, it can be run without API tokens.
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by qntty 2y ago
LaCun works for Meta who gives away models for free
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by qntty 2y ago
Percent vs percentage points. It's slightly confusing but the title is correct.
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by qntty 2y ago
Cassandra, GraphQL, Tornado, Presto
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by qntty 3y ago
With daylight savings time too, I would hope
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by qntty 3y ago
> Because of AI’s capacity to weave information and rules with acquired experience to support decision-making, it can be applied to enable a larger set of workers possessing complementary knowledge to perform some of the higher-stakes de
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by qntty 3y ago
Tarsnap is an order of magnitude more expensive than S3 standard, two orders of magnitude more expensive than S3 Glacier. It's great for secure backups on the order of kilobytes or megabytes (I use it), but not for this.
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by qntty 3y ago
This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
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by qntty 3y ago
A couple weeks ago I started noticing my terminal was weirdly slow to startup. I never understood why people cared about terminal latency until I had to wait literally several seconds after opening my terminal to start typing. I thought it
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by qntty 3y ago
Interesting that the first couple lectures start with distributed systems algorithms but then it quickly switches to mostly covering Machine Learning topics. Normally algorithms classes exclude ML.
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by qntty 3y ago
Can someone explain why they didn't simply admit more international students to avoid this problem? Not to say that this is a good solution, but it's what I would expect the people who run universities to do.
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by qntty 3y ago
See this talk for someone who tried to do this with MySQL on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc
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by qntty 3y ago
According to scientists, we only use 0.3% of our neural networks. Imagine if we could use 100%.
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by qntty 3y ago
Systems like this predate LLMs. For example this one at UCLA https://tvnews.sscnet.ucla.edu/public/ . Looks like this one has been around for a while https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*&#x2F
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by qntty 3y ago
Why do you assume your only options are pursing goals that burn you out or doing nothing? It sounds like you need better goals but more importantly you need to get better as giving up on goals that aren’t worthwhile.
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by qntty 3y ago
It means he partitioned his workload across several of his peers to increase fault tolerance and throughput.
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by qntty 3y ago
I interpret "GPU poor" the same way as "house poor", i.e. you're poor (lack cash) because you've use it to purchase GPUs, not that you don't have enough GPUs.
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by qntty 3y ago
Now we just need an orchestrator for all of our helm charts
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by qntty 3y ago
I'd be happy if I could just represent integers with more than 15 digits without rounding (e.g. 64-bit primary keys)
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by qntty 3y ago
Today I learned that the word ganja comes from Hindi but is unrelated to the Ganga .
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by qntty 3y ago
I don't know the significance of hula, but if it doesn't aspire to be something great, then assigning it to Hawaiians wouldn't be an insult, since it doesn't contradict their own view of it. People will often times conte
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by qntty 3y ago
A piece of culture is important in proportion to the reluctance of people to assign an owner to it, whether legal or otherwise. No one would criticize a Frenchman for using Newton's Laws because it belongs to the British. Someone who i
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by qntty 3y ago
Anyone try putting their number in? Did you actually get a call?
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by qntty 3y ago
He's remembered for On Bullshit but I always remember him for this lecture which had a big impact on my several years ago https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_resources/documents/a-to-z/...
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by qntty 3y ago
The Supreme Court said in Norwood v. Harrison (1973): Racial discrimination in state-operated schools is barred by the Constitution and "[i]t is also axiomatic that a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accom
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by qntty 3y ago
> The Open Buddhist University is an unaccredited, digital resource run by Khemarato Bhikkhu since 2020. > It is based on his personal library on Google Drive which he shared with his friends after his ordination in Thailand in 2019.
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by qntty 3y ago
For me, probably What Is This Thing Called Science? . It was the first time I really thought about some basic questions in epistemology.
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by qntty 3y ago
Intermittent fasting is when you fast intermittently
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your medical history?
44 points by qntty 4y ago|28 comments
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Ask HN: Common Misconceptions about Computers?
6 points by qntty 4y ago|3 comments

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