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by skirmish 2y ago
I only read "The Order of Time" by him but it was very mind-bending to me. Paraphrased below. He argues that time arrow (mostly) does not exist in classical or quantum physics, all equations run as well forward in time as backwar
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by skirmish 2y ago
I personally resorted to logging time I spend working in a spreadsheet to keep weekly hours under control. Otherwise I often spend evenings reading work-related papers then the next day I feel guilty of taking a longer lunch. No more, the
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by skirmish 2y ago
Not that much lower, 295W vs 355W, and for LLM inference VRAM bandwidth is the main bottleneck. But the price is ridiculous.
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by skirmish 2y ago
They prefer you pay $3,600 for AMD Radeon Pro W7900, 48GB VRAM.
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by skirmish 2y ago
My understanding is that ROCm contains all included kernels for each supported architecture, so it would have (made up): -- matrix multiply 2048x2048 for Navi 31, -- same for Navi 32, -- same for Navi 33, -- same for Navi 21, --
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by skirmish 2y ago
For me personally, exercising makes me wake up multiple times at night and makes it hard to go back to sleep. I already never exercise after 6:00pm, it still happens. Any thoughts why? Update: did a quick search, Reddit says it could be o
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by skirmish 2y ago
Some memory manufacturers have lists of motherboards compatible with a given memory kit. E.g. I checked that my motherboard was listed in [1] before buying the memory, and everything worked effortlessly together with EXPO on. [1] https:&#
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by skirmish 2y ago
Indeed, e.g. magnetism was known and used in Ancient Greece, yet Wikipedia: "ferromagnetism can be fully explained only using quantum theory. A successful model was developed <...> in 1927".
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by skirmish 2y ago
Fohr-fyur-effect [ˈfoːɐ̯fyːɐ̯ʔɛˌfɛkt] Letter 'v' is called "fow" in German and is pronounced as sound "f".
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by skirmish 2y ago
I was banned by Total by Verizon for moving my SIM into a different phone. Does it just work with other carriers? Happy ending though, I switched to US Mobile with an eSIM and disputed the monthly charge by Total on my credit card since I
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by skirmish 2y ago
Same insanity at Google. Doesn't matter that you are the only team member at this location, it's 3 mandatory days per week in office, or else your VP starts getting notifications. A cherry on top, HR scripts don't properly a
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by skirmish 2y ago
Google already announced this in 2004: https://archive.google/jobs/lunar_job5.html The full trail starts from https://archive.google/jobs/lunar_job.html
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by skirmish 2y ago
Agreed, my math high school teacher told a few of us "you don't need to take weekly tests, I know you will do well; instead here are more interesting competition problems you should try". It definitely kept us interested and
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by skirmish 2y ago
Does it work for anybody? When I tried it a few weeks ago, it would freeze on any dialog boxes launched by an application, then would unfreeze if you managed to close the dialog without being able to see it.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Wow, it seems I was not able to satisfy your sky high metaphysical expectations either. Swearing does not make you right, good day!
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by skirmish 2y ago
Seems that nobody will ever satisfy your metaphysical expectations. I am content with the old-fashioned Turing test: if my interlocutor can communicate reasonably intelligently, I am happy to treat him/her/it as an intelligent bei
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by skirmish 2y ago
The AI also claims subjective awareness when you chat with its avatar in the Minecraft world. Now what?
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by skirmish 2y ago
> No my friend it is exactly those physical things and nothing else. There is no "the Internet" there is only physical things and subjective awareness. So if an AI model is controlling a character that walks around and interact
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by skirmish 2y ago
"edit" is useful for splitting a single commit into multiple. You couldn't do it with operations you just mentioned.
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by skirmish 2y ago
This will just lead to the evaluatee finding anomalies in evaluator and exploiting them for maximum gains. It happened many times already where a ML model controled an object in a physical world simulator, and all it learned was to exploit
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by skirmish 2y ago
But if I observe a Shroedinger's cat after opening the box every morning, I do get at least duplicated. Repeat this lots of times, and MWI says there are for sure 2^n copies of me as the lowest estimate. Counting all daily QM-influenc
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by skirmish 2y ago
That has been studied: "A comparison of 138 species finds that dragonflies perceive changes in their environment five times faster than humans and 400 times faster than starfish." [1] [1] https://www.newscientist.com&#x
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by skirmish 2y ago
Sure. But during a casual chat maybe somebody mentioned that reporting tax fraud can earn you money, and then somebody else assumed that they were talking about IRS employees even though they were not.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Maybe they were talking about the program where you report tax evasion and then once the missing money is collected you get up to 30% of it? That exists.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Google's RTO is very flacidly enforced right now. According to Team Blind, badging in one day a week avoids any nags from automated systems.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Google used to have Googlegeist when most everybody in the company would answer survey questions such as (rate 1-5): * I am excited about my Product Area's strategic direction * My Senior VP takes feedback seriously * I plan to stay wi
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by skirmish 2y ago
> meteoric growth Are you aware that meteors only go down, never up?
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by skirmish 2y ago
Hah, as a starving student I knew 3d gaming was the future, and thus scrounged $1.5k to invest into TDFX. Next, they sold all assets to NVDA and dissolved the company [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010405091710
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by skirmish 2y ago
Why 100% now? None of those satellites are exploding right now from overheating. Just add a laser on each pointed at somewhere where the energy can be used, done.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Are you claiming that it is not possible to put a satellite into an orbit around the Sun? Please take a look at how many times this has been done already: [1]. Now just capture Sun's energy on one and do something useful with it: par

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