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by shwaj 3y ago
Or, it assumes that the only reason they didn’t act on this inclination is due to the fear of punishment. Which omits the possibility that they don’t do it because they know it’s wrong. Edit: typo
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by shwaj 3y ago
Valarie Plame.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Quote from Silicon Valley sitcom. Probably intended as a response to a different post, not as a top-level post.
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by shwaj 3y ago
It is not aimed at fixing Python’s warts. It seeks to provide (near?) 100% source compatibility, so those warts need to work the same.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Primarily by compatibility with Python, which is the de facto standard in deep learning.
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by shwaj 3y ago
That shouldn’t be hard I think. My confident guess is that there will be multiple backends for the language, an open source bare bones one, and one which integrates with their “value add“ highly scalable backend, with optimization for dist
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by shwaj 3y ago
Nope, they don’t all build on CUDA. OpenCL and Vulkan are cross-platform standards developed by Khronos group, the same as who developed OpenGL. OpenCL aimed to be roughly the equivalent of CUDA, but in practice the developer experience o
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by shwaj 3y ago
I think it’s probably North Korea. Or maybe Antarctica. Seriously though, why Russia?
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by shwaj 3y ago
Yes, let’s cheer on the precedent of unelected bureaucrats exerting control over things we don’t like. That precedent will surely never come back to affect something that we do like </s>
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by shwaj 3y ago
Wandering a bit astray now, but Operation Choke Point 2.0 is currently underway, with the goal of debanking the cryptocurrency industry. Same playbook, different set of undesirable businesses.
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by shwaj 3y ago
And I have to imagine that 10-20 minutes would drop significantly if you were exerting yourself instead of relaxing.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Facebook isn’t a dumb pipe. It is an algorithm which preferentially selects content which will increase engagement, in this case apparently sparking a genocide. Your analogy falls flat.
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by shwaj 3y ago
We’re talking about people who worked long past the typical retirement age, and who had (at least in Feinstein‘s case) no need to fear running out of money.
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by shwaj 3y ago
I think with Ginsberg, maybe she wanted to hang on until there was a Democrat President to fill her spot.
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by shwaj 3y ago
The limit doesn’t have to be 8 years. What if it were 16 or 20?
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by shwaj 3y ago
Interesting. Can you elaborate on the relevance of the telos here?
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by shwaj 3y ago
Of course sex is (also) recreational. I’m guessing you’re coming from a religious angle, so I’ll ask: is it a sin for a married woman to have sex after menopause?
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by shwaj 3y ago
How do we know it’s gravely immoral? I’m guessing according to some interpretation of some religious text? Otherwise, what is immoral about a couple using their own sperm and egg to conceive a child that they otherwise would not have had?
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by shwaj 3y ago
If it were, then people wouldn’t bother writing native applications.
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by shwaj 3y ago
There’s another anecdotal comment where someone heard that the audience was too tame, and some time into the performance they were prompted/goaded into interacting in more controversial ways, otherwise the performance would have been a
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by shwaj 3y ago
Crappening is likewise cromulent, although I can see why you might prefer encrapifying.
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by shwaj 3y ago
“Four decades of the internet (accelerated by COVID) has given us trillions of tokens’ worth of training data.” What’s up with the “accelerated by COVID”? It feels completely out of place. Would we have not had enough training data if COVID
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by shwaj 3y ago
I dunno, flippening seems as cromulent as most other neologisms.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Maybe in the short term. In the longer term, who is going to bother developing these skills? Not everyone “hits a home run” and is successful in galleries and museums, but there have always been fallback options like commercial illustrati
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by shwaj 3y ago
Good question. I just asked the same (well, different wording: “Have you heard of “Ego Death” by Polyphia? How would you compare it to some of their previous work?”) … and it responded with the boilerplate about “as of my last update in J
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by shwaj 3y ago
This is obvious. CIA is the spy agency. Given that China was stonewalling any attempts to learn about what was going on in WIH, it seems natural for the spies to see what they can learn. They likely have access to many internal Chinese c
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by shwaj 3y ago
I don’t know if you’re talking about this: https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-reda... … but if so your statement is a thorough mischaracterization. 1. These weren’t just “some scientists”
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by shwaj 3y ago
Are you doing it professionally or as a hobby? I’d wager that >99% of artists who make a living from music use a DAW (or pay someone else to)
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by shwaj 3y ago
It is incorrect that we don’t understand how NeRFs work. Unlike language models etc., they are not using deep neural networks; they are using shallow multi-layer perceptrons as function optimizers. The behavior of these is well-understood
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by shwaj 3y ago
Maybe not when it shifts in a lifetime, but I beg to differ when it shifts in less than 10 years. It was also not meant to be an interesting statement about the person, rather the shift itself.

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