sega_sai

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by sega_sai 6mo ago
The problem is that there is not enough infrastructure for EVs. If you can't charge at home (e.g. you live in a flat), it is hard to live with an EV and it's much more expensive than the ICE.
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by sega_sai 6mo ago
I think France seem serious in actually switching to open source/EU software. I recently had a telecon on Visio (France's Teams/Zoom substitute) and it worked well in a browser with ~ 10 participants.
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by sega_sai 6mo ago
I was not around at that time, so I have not considered it. But it is a fair point.
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by sega_sai 6mo ago
I think it would have been much better, if the nation that launched that mission did not in the same time start a war... I personally simply cannot separate these two things.
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Large language models are not the problem(nature.com)
11 points by sega_sai 6mo ago|1 comments
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by sega_sai 6mo ago
You missed the argument. When we are talking about faculty, yes their result is the only thing that matters, so if it was produced quicker with a LLM, that's great. But when we are talking about the student, there is a drastic differen
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
I am not sure it is that. The job of Microsoft is to satisfy shareholders. That is the only target. They only care about users to the extend that helps the shareholders.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
Some bizarre obsession with 'Soviet'. Did they invent optics, that was since forgotten ?
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
It is a pretty good book, but when I got, I personally hoped for more finance in it. A large fraction of the book is devoted to people.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
This is Telegraph for you. The cost of electricity is not driven by green levies or net zero targets, but by gas prices, as gas is a backstop when all other sources are exhausted. Therefore electricity prices are pretty much tied to gas.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
At this point, I would rather these people enrich themselves as long as they stop the war, but I am afraid they will continue doing both.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
I don't know if this just anecdotal random impression, but in a last week or two I had mostly good experience with Google cli. While previously I constantly complained about it. I have been using it together with codex, and I would not
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
When I see this: "One of the longest-standing misconceptions about software development is that writing code is the difficult part of the job. It never was." I don't think I can take this seriously. Sure, 'writing code&#
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
I have a similar situation and Amnezia (either in WG mode or Xray mode) works well with a self-hosted server. Also SSH tunnel as proxy so far also works.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
The observatory is named in honour of Vera Rubin. That makes sense. The commercial company deciding to name their new generation of chips does not (at least to me).
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
Would you want the commercial company use your name, or the name of your relative?
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
Wow, I just saw in the article that NVIDIA called a new chip Vera Rubin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin , also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory ). How is it allowed
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
Good old victim blaming. Apparently the main issue is not that the country that started the war hit the school and killed 150 people, but where the school was placed.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
Interesting, but scary, given that this is not a google product. Who knows whether that breaks any TOS somehow.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
it is open access, but often 'golden' or 'diamond' OA, where the researcher has to pay few K$ for this.
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by sega_sai 7mo ago
In astrophysics we now have Open Journal of Astrophysics that is basically an overlay on top of arxiv. https://astro.theoj.org/ It is now catching on with ~ 200 papers published last year, after some of the astro journals s
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
In some sense that is still correct, i.e. the words are taken from some probability distribution conditional on previous words, but the key point is that probability distribution is not just some sort of average across the internet set of w
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
I recently read a similar discussion in the context of AI in science and PhD students. And the point the author was making that the goal of having PhD students is NOT to produce academic research, but to train people. I think the same id
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
Do you think that he was killed because of human right violations? I do not think so. The current US administration does not seem very concerned with those.
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
I have no sympathy for Khamenei, but, if that is allowed we should not be surprised if Denmark prime minister is next?
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
The take home message from this is that the only way for any country to be secure is to have nuclear weapons.
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
Okay, I can understand investment from SoftBank, and maybe somewhat from Amazon (if they plan to use OpenAI's models), but investment from NVidia who will then sell OpenAI the GPUs with X% markup doesn't make sense to me.
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
5000 stars. That's an interesting threshold. I've checked and astropy -- the main python module used by pretty much every python user in astrophysics has 5100 stars. I would guess almost no open source code in science would pass
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Outage of Coveralls(status.coveralls.io)
8 points by sega_sai 8mo ago|1 comments
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by sega_sai 8mo ago
That is useful information to pursue data sovereignty even more.

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