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by timmg 4y ago
I think that's a Google-specific problem. If Apple comes out with AR glasses with cameras, no one will bat an eye. (And if they do, Apple will already have a great story for why it isn't an issue.)
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by timmg 4y ago
I remember when I was pretty young someone gave me an article and said that, "This scientist made an equation to show many alien civilizations there are." I was like: that's amazing! How could anyone figure that out? Scienc
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by timmg 4y ago
> He might be able to salvage the Soviet Union into something else, but instead most of it turned into multiple heaps of dumpster fire... Wasn't he essentially removed from power by Yeltsin -- who did so by breaking up the Soviet Un
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by timmg 4y ago
> but Gorbachev seemed like a fundamentally decent man I caught this movie at the Tribeca Film festival: https://tribecafilm.com/festival/archive/meeting-gorbachev-2... It was very sympathetic toward him. And
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by timmg 4y ago
One of the reviews from GoodReads (linked above) summarizes how I've felt (so far): > but mostly, this reads like a one-sided argument that I don’t know anything about and that I didn’t know was taking place.
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by timmg 4y ago
How far have you gotten into it? What's your impression? I started reading it on the subway (so, 10 minutes at a time). So far it feels overly repetitive. And the evidence feels very cherry-picked -- though I don't have the
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by timmg 4y ago
Of course. My first sentence was a disclaimer saying it only makes sense if you don’t think abortion is immoral. (I don’t think it is immoral.)
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by timmg 4y ago
> In the world we live in, this would be used to abort babies that don't pass the PGS to the vast majority of people who have this information. If you think that aborting babies, in general, is not immoral, then I, personally, d
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by timmg 4y ago
Because murdering people and taking their land is wrong.
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by timmg 4y ago
Because I think we need to continue sanctioning Russia for their invasion of Ukraine.
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by timmg 4y ago
My biggest worry is that they are going to open NordStream 2 this winter "just to fill the emergency gap" -- and then it never gets closed. I honestly don't know how likely that would be.
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by timmg 4y ago
Garr: > And log in on your machine using the huggingface-cli login command. I find that annoying. I guess it is what it is.
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Particle Clicker(particle-clicker.web.cern.ch)
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by timmg 4y ago
I remember Connection Machines supposedly had an array (well, hypercube) of “one bit processors”. I never knew what that meant. Is this similar?
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by timmg 4y ago
> The thing is that maybe around 1% of the joules can be replaced with nuclear. Citation needed. These plants are running now . Are you saying the electricity they are generating is not being used? The question is what replaces those
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by timmg 4y ago
Germany typically uses X joules of energy to run its economy. Some percent of that X comes via nat gas (and oil) from Russia. If they replace some of those Russian joules with nuclear joules, then a smaller percentage comes from Russia.
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by timmg 4y ago
This is the smart/obvious thing for them to do, bravo. This is also a very negative thing for Putin and Russia. Glad to see more negative results to the Russians from their invasion.
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by timmg 4y ago
I have no idea if this is true or not. But for a moment I was just imagining a world where scientists agreed that the Big Bang never happened. How many physicists' work would be thrown in the trash? How many high school science books
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by timmg 4y ago
Oh, maybe that's exactly what I want. This is just for personal projects. But I sometimes write JS code for the browser and I tend to not want to use any 3rd party libraries. But I do like the extra type checking. So I just want s
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by timmg 4y ago
> TS "compilers" basically strip out the type annotations, they don't care about the validity of the types, so you'll be missing out on the main reason to be using TypeScript. I guess I'd want a Typescript compil
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by timmg 4y ago
This might sound odd, but: one thing I've wanted to do is use the Typescript compiler without using NPM. (I'm not smart enough to know why I hate NPM. I just want a tool that compiles TS.) It almost sounds like I could write a s
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by timmg 4y ago
Any sense for when it will "get back to normal" for the car industry?
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by timmg 4y ago
I wonder how this compares to the amount of money invested in crypto startups in the past few years. (I don't mean the value of crypto or the amount of money that was traded into it -- just the amount VCs invested into crypto startups
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by timmg 4y ago
> It's probably for the better. Until you want to build a train line (or some other form of public transportation).
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by timmg 4y ago
Any pointer to how that's done (in the context of an "easy" interpreter like this)?
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by timmg 4y ago
Dumb question: does 175B parameters mean the number of bytes (or floats?) in the model? Does that also mean you need the whole model in memory to do inference (in practice)? If so, not many machines have that much RAM. Makes it hard to &q
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by timmg 4y ago
Would love to have this in VR. Dumb question: is there a VR "player" for NERFs?
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by timmg 4y ago
You're kinda stuck writing JS on the frontend. The (only) advantage of also using it on the backend is that you can share code. In some cases, I could see that being compelling. FWIW, I think Typescript would make an even stronger ca
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by timmg 4y ago
I think what OP means is: if you've already paid for the hardware, it make sense to keep mining until the cost of electricity is higher than the value of a coin. And I agree with that.
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by timmg 4y ago
Does anyone know what price it needs to drop to to no longer pay for mining? Like with the most efficient rigs? (Particularly with energy prices going up.)

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