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I recall attending a technical talk given by a team of senior ML scientists from a prestigious SV firm (that I shall not name here). The talk was given to an audience of scientists at a leading university. The problem was estimating an inc
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How does one establish the ownership proof for class action lawsuits? I lost my holdings at Cryptsy, but I don't know how I would produce a proof of ownership. I do recall the net worth of my holdings.
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Yes, the 15x factor (14x in your quote) is what is often cited in discussions, given all else equal. What complicates is that fossil fuels can drive propellers, turbofans, and jets, where as electric motors can only drive propellers -- eac
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The web page claims that the electric motor can output 2000 kW at 10 kW/kg. For comparison, Europrop TP400, a modern turboprop engine, has 8200 kW 1938 kg (= 4.1 kW/kg) So, although the electric motor is smaller by a factor of 4,
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In my case, it was called "Physical Mathematics." An advanced undergraduate course in mathematical modeling could cover some material mentioned here.
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How could one order a hundred guinea hens for $200 shipped? Is this a birds-as-a-service model where you rent birds for farming? A genuine question.
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The article doesn't pass the smell test for me. Claim 1. Smaller SiC inverters enabled Tesla to implement sports-car-like streamlined design. Traditional Si inverters are not that big. Certainly not big enough to single-handedly chan
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There are many mushroom varieties that look similar but with completely different dietary properties, some being downright toxic. Many years ago, an agriculture research team approached me to develop a machine learning classifier to determ
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Perhaps you could start from here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics The book attempts to combine approximations with first principles to get at a desired conclusion. These resulting approxima
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Could one do a back-of-the-envelope calculation on a user acquisition cost for Google? 15b USD/year / 500 m users = 30 USD/user/year 3 searches/user/day = 1000 searches/user/year 30 USD/user&#x2F
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Oops. Thanks for the correction. The currency conversion in my previous comment is still correct, though.
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Dlib can use whichever BLAS library you want it to.
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In case people were wondering about the x-axis: LPA = laks (in Indian rupees [IDR]) per annum 1 laks IDR = 1.3k USD = 1.1k EUR = 0.98k GBP The right most tick on the axis, 70 LPA, is about 94k USD/year. It seems that the developer wage
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Dlib, when I used it for work, was a real pleasure to use. Some of its algorithms are actually state-of-the-art compared to other (often better known) open-source implementations. I would even say some of the advantages my team had over
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Indeed, the way emergent behaviors arise from simple rules is interesting, but to the best of my knowledge, analytically intractable for all but most simple cases. The converse way (from desired emergent behaviors to the engineered simple
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I studied Tilden's design of "neural network" when I was a young student. Even in early 2000's, his designs were popular, and he published a book. This particular robot was designed in the 90's, and I believe he h
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I agree with your ethos; too often poor science, regardless of kind, is being passed as "soft" or "applied" scientific research. That said, I do think even noisy studies (noisy as in inaccurate measurements) like this at
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It may be tempting for a programmer to take that view; programmers are the logical ones, and the non-programmers are either too dumb or lacks the right attitude. I am more sympathetic to non-programmers. They may be logical too, but they j
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As a programmer, I am hoping the low-code future comes true. Many of the comments here seem critical (and rightly so). It is naturally to be critical as the no-code/low-code approach overpromised before, and its hypothetical success (
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non-paywall https://news.yahoo.com/fastest-girl-connecticut-transgender-...
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If Apple offers real privacy now, that's good for them and the consumers who are willing to pay premium for privacy. Two questions: 1. Is there a way to verify that Apple is not using or selling the user's data? 2. What is preve
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> The electricity being used by miners in Iran would require the equivalent of approximately 10 million barrels of crude oil each year to generate - around 4% of total Iranian oil exports in 2020. 4% of the post-sanction exports. It see
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I appreciate your civil tone. However, I do think you are defending a much weaker interpretation, though. My interpretation of the OP's claim of "profiting from death" is far stronger than yours. > Yes, quite explicitly?
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A wonderful read on Russian literature, unfortunately tarnished by one unsupported, hard-to-believe claim: > There are endless articles on why America has failed to curb the pandemic. The truth is simple. People profit from our death. Fo
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This reminds me of when I was taking an advanced circuit design class. The analog circuit in question had many moving parts, and I just didn't have the intuition. The teaching fellow at the time thought it would help to visualize a m
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How does Nvidia limit the Etherium hashrate while keeping other functions (gaming, general computing) intact? Is the limitation implemented purely on the driver level? If so, how would the driver know which function it is computing?
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No offense taken. Your questions are valid. 1. Would he be informed of the/a bug(s)? Absolutely. We monitor bug tickets submitted to our team throughout the day. It's a main part of our job. 2. Was there a strict code ownershi
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Best: It was a lesson I got as a fresh grad. I was losing sleep over stress from work. "This is just a job," an older colleague told me. In reality, he really did his job -- he was always on time, his code was impeccable, and
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Even if the Google types have better spatial/technical problem solving skills, how does that translate to self-awareness?

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