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by timmg 3y ago
That doesn't really follow. We know that the planet will warm from CO2 because of the physics of it. We spend gazillions modeling the climate. The scientists will tell you that the models have been very accurate (other will say other
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by timmg 3y ago
Is it just me, or are users trying to solve the wrong problem here? According to the CEO, Reddit is losing money. It won't survive long-term if that doesn't change. If people care about reddit and its community, it seems like th
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by timmg 3y ago
I would think the want/need for owning a home to be enhanced by marriage/children. Since younger generations are less likely to do those things -- and more likely to do them later -- than earlier generations, that must count fo
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by timmg 3y ago
FYI, that article is 4 years old. I think things have changed a lot since then.
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by timmg 3y ago
I'm sure there is a combination of factors. Work ethic without intelligence probably limits your earning potential. Intelligence without work ethic also does. An interesting study would be: is work ethic inherited (either genetically
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by timmg 3y ago
Would IQ be a confounding variable with wealth? Maybe I'm using the wrong term, but: a smarter person would (in many cases) make more money.
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by timmg 3y ago
Personal anecdote: I was being recruited by an early startup funded by a16z. It was not a crypto company, but could have had some tie-ins. Part of the process was an hour long chat with one of the partners there (I won't give their n
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by timmg 3y ago
> By far the most important thing in anti aging that checks all boxes is excercise and getting nutrition right (no excess fat). Do you mean "don't eat excess fat" or "don't have excess fat on your body"? It
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by timmg 3y ago
> The unionization vote passed 41-0. The National Labor Relations Board representative counting the ballots said 49 workers were eligible to vote. Slightly less impressive than what I thought it might be, from the headline.
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by timmg 3y ago
No new hardware?
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by timmg 4y ago
Dumb question: would mercury evaporate on the moon? For some reason I intuitively expect the lack of atmosphere to mean that any liquid would quickly bubble off. But I'm not sure that makes any sense as I think about it.
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by timmg 4y ago
How much faster could they do it if they kept the nuke plants in service?
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by timmg 4y ago
> all recursion that explicitly returns a function call Yeah, but that's not " all recursion".
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by timmg 4y ago
I think the reason is less interesting: when you start to go out of range, your radio thinks there is only a mono signal, so it switches to mono mode. Same reason "static" on your TV is black and white. Your TV didn't dete
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by timmg 4y ago
> (1) A mono needle would not have been able detect the vertical movement, resulting in a missing channel. (2) A stereo needle able to play such a record would not have been able to play a classic mono record, because the mono signal wou
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by timmg 4y ago
> This sort of ignores the global nature of our supply chains though. To me the answer is a pretty easy one: Take the CO2 emissions of a country and divide by its GDP. That gives you a CO2 per dollar. Then decide on a CO2 cost per unit
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by timmg 4y ago
I can't wait for someone to write the equivalent of "ray tracing in one weekend" for this stuff.
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by timmg 4y ago
Oh wow. I just came within millimeters of impulse-buying one of his clocks: https://www.daliborfarny.com/product/puri-nixie-clock/ For $1700, I might think about it first :/
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by timmg 4y ago
In that case, you can think of the prompt as being one vector of the model that is being tuned while the rest is frozen. Not exactly the same, to be sure. But fulfills a similar need: more efficient "fine tuning" of a large model
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by timmg 4y ago
This sounds similar to "prompt tuning": https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/02/guiding-frozen-language-mo...
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by timmg 4y ago
As I understand it: they found a single shape. Where existing Penrose tilings were composed of two (or more) shapes.
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by timmg 4y ago
> Now that we've reached a point where every person has some form of adblock from abp to brave I don't. I've never used an ad blocker. If I don't like the ads on a site, I don't visit it. In a lot of cases, ads
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by timmg 4y ago
Sorry if I offended your sensibilities. Feel free to downvote my comment if you don’t think it adds to the conversation. I would appreciate, though, if you didn’t misquote my comment when replying to it. Neither of the things you have quot
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by timmg 4y ago
Working as a SWE for lots of years, I've worked with people that always feel the need to "add a level of abstraction" or "build a framework" for (and out of) everything. A lot of the time it doesn't make thing
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by timmg 4y ago
Dumb question: is this only meant for students/non-professionals? It seems like a fun thing to do in retirement :)
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by timmg 4y ago
I suspect it was more: "never let a good crisis go to waste".
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by timmg 4y ago
I don't think I'm smart enough to understand the game that some of these people are playing. I'm pretty sure it is at a higher level than the way I see things. But my sense of it is that there really isn't much of a ris
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by timmg 4y ago
This seems so good (almost too good) that I wonder if they are being realistic. It seems like Intel has recently been missing all their projected timelines. Considering they are talking about full-on manufacturing in about a year, they s
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by timmg 4y ago
> What I see from people I know at different companies is that Friday--and especially Friday afternoon--has sort of gotten normalized as a sort of wind down into the weekend day. The question is, if you had a 4-day work-week, would Thur
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by timmg 4y ago
I thought "super resolution" used to mean: construct a high res image from several low res images of the same thing . Which means it isn't making up information (I don't think). ML-based "super resolution"

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