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by sxp 3y ago
I was interested in seeing if raytracing or similar embarrassingly parallel workloads could be ported to a TPU.
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by sxp 3y ago
Is there any good way to program TPUs for non-ML work? The only official way appears to involve encoding the compute operation into a TF graph and loading that. Is there a better way to directly use the hardware?
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by sxp 3y ago
Since Netflix can still be accessed in the AVP browser, it's fun to speculate on what the marginal utility would be for a Netflix AVP app. There is some functionality that will be lost such as downloads/offline use, but the bigges
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by sxp 3y ago
The even more significant bit is that governments can track users this way without standard warrants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/push-no... It's unclear what data the gover
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by sxp 3y ago
I was surprised at how verbose and commented the code was. Then I read the note saying that Whitney's original code was in `ref/` and the two files in the root were annotated by other kparc members.
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by sxp 3y ago
A similar device is the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i. The next gen model was shown off at CES and is coming out in a few months. That one also has a 180 degree hinge unlike the Asus model which can't be fully flattened. I've seen good revi
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by sxp 3y ago
tl;dr: the official video shows the Cybertruck beating the Porche at 1/8 mile marker but by extrapolating the 1/8 times of a Cybertruck, Porche and Cybertruck + Porche (6.94, 8.38, 8.25), the results would be 11.0, 11.5, 12.2 resp
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by sxp 3y ago
My favorite rebuttal for this argument is https://www.machall.com/comic/things-to-think-about which uses applied theology and the ontological argument to summon a jelly donut.
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by sxp 3y ago
When the opening line is "Just days after Tesla was forced to recall nearly every car it ever made over safety issues involving its Autopilot system..", it's hard to take the rest of the article seriously. The "recall&q
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by sxp 3y ago
This "recall" news is clickbait. It's the NHTSA pushing Tesla to change how they monitor drivers. "Tesla said it did not agree with NHTSA's analysis but would deploy an over-the-air software update that will "i
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by sxp 3y ago
I don't see any difference either on Windows on either of my monitors. I wonder if the author's issue is due to the author using a Mac. Back when I was at Google working on VR images, my work machine was a Macbook and my home mach
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by sxp 3y ago
Doesn't this violate most Windows Licenses? Windows simultaneous multiuser support on all NT-based OSes but it was normally disabled by policy unless you paid for the Server license. This is why Windows RDP normally locks the local des
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by sxp 3y ago
The math is slightly incorrect. Magnetic field strength falls of with the cube of distance rather than square. For magnetic (or electric) monopoles, the inverse square law applies.
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by sxp 3y ago
FF's TTS is an important project for anyone who wants a trivial to use text-to-speech system. It's built into the browser so you can just run wss = window.speechSynthesis; for (let i = 0; i < wss.getVoices().length; +
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by sxp 3y ago
> At the sites where parking issues have not been resolved, businesses and residents have tried turning to the city for assistance. Koral and her husband and business partner, Dan Perata, contact the city’s 311 line and the police regula
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by sxp 3y ago
In many stories with "magic", the magic potential of a person is passed down through bloodlines. So one could stretch this concept into a thinly veiled cover for racist beliefs that some bloodlines/races (Wizards, Jedi, Aryan
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by sxp 3y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38179200 but with standard BI clickbait.
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by sxp 3y ago
> Tesla's revenue and profit is a tiny fraction just Toyota alone. Toyota's revenue last year was $10 TRILLION, with a profit of $500 B and a market cap of $289 Billion. Tesla? 25B revenue, 2.7B profit, market cap? 649 Billion,
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by sxp 3y ago
Citation needed that Google actively blocked installation of the benchmarking app. None of the links support that claim. If Google want to block benchmarking, they would have had their lawyers add that clause to the reviewers' contrac
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by sxp 3y ago
The scales are noisy, but the trendlines they provide are useful and match the visual appearance of my body. The biggest source of noise that I see is when I have a lot of carbs or sugar in a day and then retain water. Then I eat fewer carb
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by sxp 3y ago
BMI is imperfect, but it's better than the other fast & cheap measurements of obesity. A DEXA scan & full bloodwork would be better, but that takes a lot of time and money. A scale with body fat measurements is nice if you pay
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by sxp 3y ago
Technically, none of the stuff they've released _hasn't_ been open source since they're still in semi-stealth mode.
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by sxp 3y ago
I’m “semi” retired via the FIRE path after a decade of FAANG. It was always my plan to retire early after reading Cryptonomicon in college and learning about the concept of “fuck you money”. I’ve been spending my time learning random topics
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by sxp 3y ago
In non-nuclear families, the third "parent" is normally an uncle, aunt, or grandparent that can provide additional financial support and babysitting options for the two parents. This is common in many countries where multiple gene
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Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI(time.com)
5 points by sxp 3y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 3y ago
Avi Loeb is an interesting scientist. I read a longer article about him that gave some more background about his work [1]. While he is famous for going on podcasts and making wild claims about objects being signs of alien intelligence, the
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by sxp 3y ago
> I'm reminded of how poorly named the Go programming language is. So many people refer to it as "golang" since "go" is too common of a word. The first search results for [go], [rust], and [ruby] all return links
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Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs(reuters.com)
2 points by sxp 3y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 3y ago
The article doesn't do a good job of explaining the core problem, but this video about the VFX studio that created Life After Pi and then collapsed at the same time that the movie got an Oscar has better info: https://www.yo
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FlashSonar [Echolocation for Humans](nfb.org)
1 points by sxp 3y ago|0 comments

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