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by rayval 3y ago
I have several different specialists I've had to see and the minimum wait is 3 months, usually 4 to 6.
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by rayval 3y ago
Yes when I first moved to the US, people would greet me with "How ya doing?" and I thought they really did want to know. It took a while to understand that it was just a way of saying hello. I'm told that, in China, a way to
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OLMo: Open Language Model and Framework from Allen.ai(blog.allenai.org)
2 points by rayval 3y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia puts 30 years of high value knowhow in a 13B LLM(twitter.com)
67 points by rayval 3y ago|7 comments
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Last Post, Please Read(zandarvts.blogspot.com)
254 points by rayval 3y ago|105 comments
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by rayval 3y ago
I am still a regular user, but it has become more of a chore than a joy. The lively exchange of ideas without agendas (or with less of an agenda) is absent. Instead I do get some useful information about tech industry trends by some stalwa
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by rayval 3y ago
"Secretly dreaming" sounds like a thought-crime. In terms of real-world actions, the US has more 750 military bases in 80 countries, including 300 in Asia. China has 8 overseas bases: one in Djibouti and the rest in islands near C
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by rayval 3y ago
Please do! Thanks
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by rayval 3y ago
Economic dislocation will lead to rise of angry/insane populists/nationalists (like Trump 2.0) in multiple regions. Already a trend, will get worse. One unfortunate but plausible outcome is catastrophic global conflict. To avoid t
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by rayval 3y ago
Yes, Google launching .ZIP and .MOV domains is yet another sign of the moral rot at a once ethical company.
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by rayval 3y ago
Yes it is my experience in the US -- but not across the world. Last year, I was in visiting in Korea and needed to see a doctor. I randomly picked a name out of the phone book and asked my Korean-speaking friend to call and make an appointm
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South Korea to build world’s largest chip center in Seoul with $230B investment(cnn.com)
234 points by rayval 4y ago|115 comments
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by rayval 4y ago
CPAP for me was life-changing. I had sleep apnea when I was young, skinny and sporty. Then I got old, fat and sedentary and of course it got worse. I was falling asleep while driving. I tried a CPAP machine and could not stand it for more t
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by rayval 4y ago
Just to give additional context, the full passage I was trying to translate was a New Year's greeting as follows: 里祝愿在新的2023年风调雨顺，四季平安，五福临门，六六大顺，十全十美，万事如意，好运连绵，兔年吉祥 This passage has some nuance and wordplay, due to the stylistic
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by rayval 4y ago
Correct. Eight is by far the most common lucky number in Chinese, but six is also lucky. But I think it has to be repeated multiple times. Apparently the number 9 is also lucky.
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by rayval 4y ago
Yes, one would think. However, if it were a matter of specific idioms, the other translation programs would capture this (Google, Bing, Baidu or Naver). But, for some reason, none of the others did. I think perhaps it is not that common an
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by rayval 4y ago
I was surprised to find ChatGPT does a better job of translating than Google translate, at least for one difficult task I needed to get done. I have been a Google Translate user for more than a decade. I use it a dozen or more times a day f
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by rayval 4y ago
Reading the bureaucratese in the announcement, it seems he has reinvented Twitter's social policy mechanisms, except written in a lead-footed corporate HR manner.
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Code is LOL: Cryptocurrency is asbestos(ez.substack.com)
7 points by rayval 4y ago|0 comments
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by rayval 5y ago
Of interest to HN audience: "The unit was started by young university-educated Ukrainians who had been part of the 2014 Maidan uprising and volunteered to use their technical skills in the resistance against the first Russian invasion
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by rayval 5y ago
"Enterprise grade" = "you can do better, but you can't pay more" (with regard to systems from Oracle and SAP)
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by rayval 6y ago
I just found this HN thread from 5 years ago. Some good info about other famous guitarists who hacked their guitars. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582440
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Eddie Van Halen Hacked His Guitars(popularmechanics.com)
5 points by rayval 6y ago|2 comments
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by rayval 8y ago
Regardless, I found your description of design process & workflow extremely illuminating (no pun intended). Have not seen this succinct and informative descrption anywhere else.
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by rayval 10y ago
The "free media" given to Trump throughout the election process has been estimated at $3B, just in the primary season alone. See http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-has-gotten-nearly-3-b...
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by rayval 10y ago
Looking at Reykjavik, Taipei, Lisbon, Santiago de Chile and Valencia (Spain). In addition to well-known places like Sydney, Copenhagen, Amsterdam.
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by rayval 10y ago
Cool plot line, I'd go see that movie. A related scenario, one that theoretically could happen today, is hacking into commercial airliners auto-pilot systems, and directing dozens of flights onto a target. Set aside the fantasy movie p
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by rayval 11y ago
Hilary Putnam had many achievements in the field of philosophy. Here's some context about his concept of "brain in a vat"[1], in his 1981 book, "Reason, Truth and History". The brain-in-a-vat concept was famously us
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by rayval 11y ago
I recall that he said something like: "I don't play a lot of notes. I just try to play the right ones". I think that if a guitarist plays a lot of notes real fast, it often sounds like he or she is rapidly searching for the r
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by rayval 12y ago
Chinese people are amazed when they find a foreigner speaking their language. In part because they like to see themselves as speaking the world's hardest language. But also because there are not a lot of people who are able to learn an

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