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by querez 3y ago
No, I mean the owners sold the company to an (apparently not super well reputed) other company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777
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by querez 3y ago
Well for one I appreciated their free mailboxes, which are now gone ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777 ), for another, I've seen reports of their customer service not being very good anymore ( https:/&#
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by querez 3y ago
Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?
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by querez 3y ago
>> fired thousands unprofessionally > How do you fire thousands professionally? I thought ensuring market and shareholder satisfaction was the top priority for CEOs and they get paid to make those unpopular decisions as/when d
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by querez 3y ago
Both DeepMind and Brain use Jax, so they will definitely use Jax. However, they use different high level frameworks: All of DeepMind uses Haiku, while on the Brain side there are competing frameworks, with flax currently being the most ofte
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by querez 3y ago
DeepMind clearly is a household name. Think of AlphaGo or AlphaFold, those were legendary. Google Brain as well is a household name. Think of the Transformer, or BERT. Those are legendary, as well.
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by querez 4y ago
IANAL, but this seems very fishy to me: 1) I don't understand how this isn't a derivative work of the original code, as I very highly doubt you've done a clean room implementation. I doubt this would hold up in court. 2) Do
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by querez 4y ago
My comparison was merely in terms of how the technology evolves, not it's applications. Sure, Ether and zero-trust coins seem to add a lot, but from a 10.000 feet it's pretty much more of the same. Also, agreed that GPT1->4 did
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by querez 4y ago
As an AI researcher: don't forget that we're at the peak of the hype-trend: a lot of what LLMs can do looks extremely impressive, but most of it falls apart on more detailed inspection. Unless you ask about mundane things, they wi
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by querez 4y ago
as a long-time NeurIPS reviewer: the problem is that most submissions are kind of "meh", and everyone knows it. They're usually well-done papers (in the sense that the math checks out and the empirical evaluation is is done w
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by querez 4y ago
It's not wrong. It's how modern systems operate. E.g. look at Google's SayCan ( https://say-can.github.io/ ) which operates exactly like this (an LLM ordering a Robot around).
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by querez 4y ago
> from itself That is a horrendously bad source. ChatGPT doesn't know how ChatGPT works, because nothing about how ChatGPT works was published on the internet at the time when ChatGPT was trained. Frankly, there's still nothing
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by querez 4y ago
No they shouldn't. Russia has played the "we must protect the Russian minority in that region" card before to justify military action. Its' the whole reason we have a war in Ukraine. Estonia must make ensure that no such
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by querez 4y ago
The English name "Software Engineer" isn't protected in German speaking countries, but their German equivalents are: - The German equivalent would be "Diplom-Informatiker" (which roughly translates to "certifie
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by querez 4y ago
A lot of other posts here are biased to recent papers, and papers that had "a big impact", but miss a lot of foundations. I think this reddit post on the most foundational ML papers gives a lot more balanced overview: https:&#x2F
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by querez 4y ago
In my code this comes up often, e.g. when I use tuples instead of namedtuple or a dataclass.
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by querez 4y ago
yeah good luck with that, it's going to be a very tall order to integrate PageRank with neural networks. It's not just something you can do in a year or two.
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by querez 4y ago
In general I absolutely agree with you, I also never understood this either, and have chalked it up to being an "American-ism" (meaning: it's not something that people do in my part of the world (=Europe)). But I still prefer
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by querez 4y ago
> When I was single I absolutely hated the mandatory 1-3 days chatting that was necessary until it became acceptable to ask someone on a date. This was not my experience at all. 1-3 days of chatting would destroy any chance of ever meeti
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by querez 4y ago
It seems like you didn't read the article thoroughly. Why the cheapshot remark?
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by querez 4y ago
Isn't this addressed in the 2nd paragraph? > To confirm that the VLFs were not consciously detectable, 17 new participants (one of whom participated in the concert experiment) completed a two-alternative forced choice task using the
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by querez 4y ago
Oh, that's a good point! Indeed, from what I can see American fridges are indeed larger. Mine has a volume of ~250 liters (of which 180L are fridge and 70L are freezer).
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by querez 4y ago
> My chest fridge [...] consumes about 0.1 kWh a day. This fridge is 10 to 20 times more energy efficient than typical household fridges on the market today. According to a test report by Stiftung Warentest (the German equivalent to Cons
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by querez 4y ago
any suggestions on who to follow on Mastodon?
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by querez 4y ago
As an AI researcher, I feel like this is misguided advice. The field is overrun with people, and it's almost impossible to make a meaningful dent anymore. Even if you have a group of experienced researchers and large compute reserves,
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by querez 4y ago
true, except most people don't live in new builds. As explained in other comments here, adding insulation to old buildings is highly non-trivial.
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by querez 4y ago
> Google settled the case out of court, and we all know what that means. What does that mean?
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by querez 4y ago
To be honest, I often felt that a lot of Diversity and Equity campaigns lead to more sterile environments: when I (Not American) joined my current (American) corporation, DEI training hammered down the point to cut out any type of joke and
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by querez 4y ago
If you can run your inference on CPU and it only takes 10x longer than on GPU, then it sounds to me like a 3090 will be vast overkill. Have you considered an inference-only GPU like the T4 or the A2? From what you're saying it seems to
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by querez 5y ago
I don't understand how they're able to just "change their IP" to something that's located in those 2 cities. How does that work, do they have someone running a proxy for them in those 2 locations?

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