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by sgu999 3y ago
Nicely put. The problem though is our society requires children to behave in a certain way at a certain age, late bloomers will simply be left aside in most cases.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> This is (partly) outdated. MPS (metal performance shaders) are now (since torch 2.x) fully integrated in standard Pytorch releases, no external backends or special torch versions are needed. Not sure what you're referring to, the
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by sgu999 3y ago
Note that there is a Metal backend for PyTorch [0]. Sadly it doesn't work well with codebases that didn't account for it from the start... [0] https://developer.apple.com/metal/pytorch/
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by sgu999 3y ago
I don't understand why Apple isn't trying to integrate better with the standard tools for that field. I guess it makes sense to lock in app devs, but ML eng.? That said I've had good success with onnxruntime recently [0]. [0]
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by sgu999 3y ago
How do you even find these people? I somehow managed to surround myself with highly technical individuals who are only interested climbing a corporate ladder, not any kind of serious entrepreneurship.
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by sgu999 3y ago
It's precisely because Tokyo is the best that we should compare everything else to it. That's the standard that every urban planning expert and functioning council should try to achieve.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> It's the same story with ChatGPT: Google had the tech but not the freedom to let it loose. I wouldn't be so sure, in my case ChatGPT passes the bar of being mildly useful but Bard is still absolutely useless. I can see two eq
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by sgu999 3y ago
Capital seems to be on Altman's side, they may make a good deal by jumping ship...
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by sgu999 3y ago
What a strange society you live in... I don't see how any kind of racial segregation can help the next generation do better than the previous one. Having to explain to your kid that they can't do X because of their phenotype feels
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by sgu999 3y ago
> - Good ebikes cost as much as my 2007 toyota Car manufacturers are operating on razor thin margins and intend to recoup some of it elsewhere... or at least I've been told. I agree that the price of ebikes really doesn't seem
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Right now you just filter it out, because it does not fit your narrative and social circle. I'd call that a projection... > Sentiment analysis, cross checking references, short summaries, ad filtering... Out of all these, only
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Something like that happened when Samuel Colt invented his revolver. Every person could defend themselfs. Overnight it become very unwise to randomly attack people! "Every person could attack anyone" seems like a better phras
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by sgu999 3y ago
> than get someone into power who will just build some decent apartment blocks. That's because they want a house, with a garden, and at least one car so that they can have a "bbq with some friends on sundays" like they&#x2
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by sgu999 3y ago
> What drives me crazy is people who try to argue that it's right for some historical reason. "Taiwan belongs to China" like if an entire population's faith could belong to some dictator. Like if it could belong to an
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by sgu999 3y ago
Not only it's not taken seriously, but afaik the political opinions basically range from "closer ties to China" to "closer ties to the rest", with "union" and "official declaration of independence&quo
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by sgu999 3y ago
If the generative model can accurately generate sounds matching a specific underrepresented specie, it must have somewhere an embedding that does separate well and could be used for classification by clustering. No?
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by sgu999 3y ago
> That’s just awesome. Indeed! Any links to share?
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by sgu999 3y ago
I don't think there is a unique reason for this but the availability of space is definitely a factor. French cities for instance have sprawled outward since the 60s, due to the prevalence of cars and influence of the "american dre
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by sgu999 3y ago
... at 120km/h! I've regularly seen electric scooters carrying two adults and one child. I think it's relatively safe at low speed in the less dense areas, but definitely not in Taipei.
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by sgu999 3y ago
I wish western political leaders would spend a bit more time learning from Taiwan instead of arguing about whether it is part of China, without even having set foot in any of the two. Having lived a couple months in Taipei, my only complain
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by sgu999 3y ago
> `cargo vendor` I had no idea \o/ Thanks!
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by sgu999 3y ago
> (which usually means being of another economic class as well) Class seems to be the determining factor, really. Europeans had a couple environmental advantages early on [0] that allowed them to monopolise the world's resources, wh
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by sgu999 3y ago
I took your "punch" literally on purpose ;) Even though I mostly take a "white X" as a metaphor for a lack of diversity (of opinions and mindsets), I don't think most people do. These people aren't assholes bec
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by sgu999 3y ago
> we just don't have many for some reason. If you're referring to futurists and visionaries, we do have many I'm sure, but most weren't lucky enough to stumble across a pile of cash they could convert into an infinite
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Always punch upwards. A couple famous chilled dudes prescribed to not punch at all. The ones I'm thinking of were referring to Romans and British colonisers, but I suspect they'd have applied it to white rich buddies as well.
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by sgu999 3y ago
Did you consider using BT or UWB as a radar? On a tennis court you won't have any obstacles to worry about, I suspect it's relatively easy to solve. UWB in particular is accurate enough to get breathing patterns...
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by sgu999 3y ago
> well ahead of robots now I am not working in that field, but as an outsider it feels like the industrial robots doing most of the work on TSMC's and Tesla's production lines are on the contrary extremely advanced. Aside from
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Private prisons are in the business of cheap labor, not rehabilitation. How so? From that post and a few others I've read touching on the topic, it didn't seem obvious that prisoners are being put to work.
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by sgu999 3y ago
I'm always amazed at this country in which incarcerating someone for 10 years (!!) for non violent drug dealing is economical, but public healthcare and education aren't.
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by sgu999 3y ago
You have a fair share of famous names in tech for a small country... You blew up Ericsson but I believe Spotify, Minecraft, Skype, Candy Crush, Flightradar are all from Sweden?

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