singhrac

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by singhrac 6y ago
This took me a surprisingly long time. I was wondering why anyone was building a regular expression platform (maybe that's cool, I dunno).
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by singhrac 6y ago
Well, you said we could throw stones, so... this is a very unrealistic order. The parent comment is talking about a specific (long term) promotion that makes the decision very reasonable, but a realistic fee might be: - $15+2 for say, pad
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by singhrac 6y ago
The annoying thing is - the Pixel software experience is just really good. I love the call interception feature, the photos are uniformly great, all the Google-y AI stuff is somewhat useful. I can't get that on any other Android phone,
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by singhrac 6y ago
For what it's worth, I briefly looked into why we don't construct more above-grade track. There's actually quite a lot in the outer boroughs of New York (and of course one such mostly-freight track was converted in the High L
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by singhrac 6y ago
I think you will still likely encounter a lot of upgrade headaches. If you can wait, see if PyTorch/TF add the 6800XT to their test servers (it seems they current test using a Vega 20, but I'm not certain).
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by singhrac 6y ago
I also, independently, started writing an app in Flutter for fun (no experience in mobile/desktop GUI work, several years since I've worked in front-end web). I can give a list of pros/cons that probably overlaps what you&#x2
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by singhrac 6y ago
I would honestly pay significantly higher taxes if we could get Swiss-quality train service in parts of the US (and especially if they have good internet). When I traveled Boston to NY in the past, compare my flight experience vs Amtrak. Fl
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by singhrac 6y ago
This is also a good point to make: the popular interpretation of antitrust laws (e.g. current reading of Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) and Anti-Merger Act (1950)) is really rooted in a charge against judicial activism from Aaron Director and
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by singhrac 6y ago
Wow I love this. This is one of my favorite features of Rust/OCaml (along with variant types / data-bearing-enums). I think the latter would help a lot with error handling in particular, not to mention defining protocols.
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by singhrac 6y ago
I have had to tighten the screws on my IKEA couch every few months - to a significant fraction of my friends, that would be grounds for replacing it. But it's just a quick wrench away from being sturdy! And you can wash the (removable)
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by singhrac 6y ago
I agree with this - when I purchase furniture, I often think about how I will offload it - whether I expect to lose 20%, 50%, or 100% of its value in 1-2 years. It's just not possible to buy and use up everything when you move apartmen
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by singhrac 6y ago
I first encountered this idea and "cost disease" in this SSC article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... There are several interesting follow ups as well; I think this i
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by singhrac 6y ago
This is another phrasing of what jackdeansmith says, but this is not right: > Payments are transferring bits, and should be effectively free. Payments is taking on a short term risk that the (slow) transaction between a customer's b
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by singhrac 6y ago
> There’re vendor-agnostic equivalents like Eigen. That's looking at the wrong layer of the hierarchy, I think. There are many open-source linear algebra libraries, but iirc they all link against something that has a BLAS/LAPAC
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by singhrac 6y ago
I've heard credible claims that GPUs these days (esp. TPUs) have lower latency for big models than CPUs. I haven't really investigated, but I could see it happening if you give the TPU a huge L1 cache or something.
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by singhrac 6y ago
Sure, but if Nvidia/OpenAI/Google/Facebook have shown anything, it's that there's always more kernels to invent and train bigger nets with.
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by singhrac 6y ago
Trillions is a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. The iPhone is somewhere around 150-200bn of revenue a year.
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by singhrac 6y ago
Always fun to grade these kinds of proofs with a bottle of wine at 2am. I never faulted anyone for doing this, but I sometimes wondered why they bothered. Throwing stuff to a wall to see what sticks doesn't give you points.
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by singhrac 6y ago
They show up in a few other areas, like probabilistic analysis of algorithms or sketching (e.g. Chernoff bounds and definitely the Cauchy-Schwartz ineq.). But you're right, nothing heavyweight like Muirheads has many applications.
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by singhrac 6y ago
Furthermore, I've seen it used in the context of hidden transaction costs in the markets. For example, you see security A trading at $100 on exchange X but $105 on exchange Y. You think "free money!" but on closer examination
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by singhrac 6y ago
Voice acting for ... games, audiobooks, etc?
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by singhrac 6y ago
This is a hard comparison because pretty much all of these libraries call a BLAS implementation under the hood, so what you might be comparing is actually the cost of stuffing the array with your data in each language (which is obviously ta
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by singhrac 6y ago
Definitely not mine either, though I haven't benchmarked in a few years (and would love this to be true).
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by singhrac 6y ago
This isn't too hard to explain, I think - until recently AMD has been very strapped for cash and all their software engineering bandwidth had gone towards optimizing games (where they're still keeping up with NVIDIA where progress
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by singhrac 6y ago
Wow, why is Intel supporting Zen kernels in MKL? That seems... really interesting. One of the few places where Intel still has a somewhat clear advantage is in high performance numerical code that can't be easily multiprocessed (e.g. o
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by singhrac 6y ago
Python's type system is an instance of "gradual typing" (like e.g. TypeScript). PEP 483 is actually a nice introduction to this: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0483/
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by singhrac 6y ago
If you want to make a way to earmark contributions toward this feature, I'd be happy to help support (and probably many others).
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by singhrac 6y ago
It's not comparable - music is art.
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by singhrac 6y ago
As an aside, if someone is fairly risk averse (i.e. doesn't want to lose more then 10-15% in a crisis like what just happened) and wants to park ~200k, is the best option a high-yield savings account? A CD? I would have normally though
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by singhrac 6y ago
The title reminded me of the late SlateStarCodex's "more than you ever wanted to know" blog posts, which were pretty informative. The one on melatonin was particularly useful, I think.

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