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by timmg 2y ago
Reading the description of that book on Amazon — and skimming some reviews— makes it sound pseudo-science-y.
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by timmg 2y ago
Have there been any recent books that try to reconstruct what pre-Columbian South America was like? I know that 1491 was a pretty good book about this. But it's like 20 years old now. And Lidar seems to have really opened up new insi
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by timmg 2y ago
Seems like you need to have a Harvard account to see the lectures(?)
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by timmg 2y ago
Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?
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by timmg 2y ago
You guys would have been really happy in the Soviet Union. Planned economies sound great on paper, I guess. (Though, to make my point: the standard of living there was below that of the West.)
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by timmg 2y ago
> We could cut a looooot of useless shit before our standard of living are impacted. Do tell.
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by timmg 2y ago
> However the people who had the power decided that monies is more important than a sphere of dirt. Is that really true? In the past decades, we really had two options to reduce CO2: massive decrease in standard of living; or massive swi
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by timmg 2y ago
From the memo: > We previously ended representation goals for women and ethnic minorities. Having goals can create the impression that decisions are being made based on race or gender. While this has never been our practice, we want to e
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by timmg 2y ago
In case one of the developers is reading, small-ish bug: I increased the vertical field of view "all the way" to 120 degrees. When in "morning" mode, there is a rectangular "shade" over the right bottom corner
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by timmg 2y ago
I mean, arguably, the installation of a lot of these processes were also driven by the government (and whoever was president at the time.)
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by timmg 2y ago
> However I’ve yet to come across an interface that really clicks. I'm not a Mathematica user, but isn't their editor also a structural editor? I wonder if anyone has any thoughts about how well that works.
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by timmg 2y ago
One thing I didn't see mentioned: this would be a good motivation for Nvidia to release "open weights" models. Just like Mac OS is free when you buy a Mac, having the latest high-quality LLM for free that just happens to run
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by timmg 2y ago
This is interesting. I welcome it. The cynical side of me knows that the content review humans are expensive. “Community Notes” is (I assume) volunteer. So it may also be a bit of a cost-cutting measure.
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by timmg 2y ago
From a non-expert here (maybe a dumb question): does “batching” affect quality in a similar way as averaging parallel batches? (Like is there a difference between having a batch that is 10x the size versus averaging 10 batches that were ca
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by timmg 2y ago
As someone who only has a passing understanding of parallel training, I always found it wonderful that averaging gradients works at all. It seems non-intuitive to me. Pretty cool, imho, that there are finding better ways to train in paralle
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by timmg 2y ago
It seems like, as a society, we're moving more toward "personal freedom" -- which includes "personal responsibility". Like: we used to ban alcohol, betting and drugs. But we unbanned alcohol and betting and are mov
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by timmg 2y ago
I recently wanted to try to get an LLM to help me organize my photos. (I'm someone who takes a lot of photos when I travel and then back them up to a hard drive -- assuming someday I'll organize them :) I created a prompt to try
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by timmg 2y ago
I wonder when they will be able to provide service in northern cities (that get snow). Once they can do that -- and (I guess) can prove profitable -- they could expand non-stop across the country.
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by timmg 2y ago
It's interesting how "array programming" (I think) was a sort of prediction of what we would be doing with GPUs today. (At least that's what occurred to me just now.) Does anyone with this expertise have a sense for how
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by timmg 2y ago
> Sooo they're finally launching a Spanner contender? It may be even better in one important way: (if I understand correctly) for Spanner, you have to provision servers -- and keep them running. So GCP version of Spanner really mak
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by timmg 2y ago
(I assume) it will fail if the eTag doesn't match -- the instance it got the header. The main point of it is: I have an object that I want to mutate. I think I have the latest version in memory. So I update in memory and upload it
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by timmg 2y ago
All I’m saying is, “There is no discourse there anymore, only loads of hate,” doesn’t reflect my experience. Apologies if I offended you.
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by timmg 2y ago
> There is no discourse there anymore, only loads of hate. I guess we just follow different people.
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by timmg 2y ago
> How would you feel about, multiple times a day, being required to defend your core beliefs that you find trivially true? Do you have to defend, or can you just ignore. I assume those statements are still being made, even if you don’t r
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by timmg 2y ago
> It feels like Twitter becoming a monoculture and others are having their monoculture somewhere else because Bluesky also doesn't feel diverse to me - more like the opposite of Twitter. Generally, it seems to me that a lot of peo
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by timmg 2y ago
Three.js is (or at least was) what Google pays him to do. Works out great for everyone, IMHO.
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by timmg 2y ago
You did not win the bet :)
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by timmg 2y ago
Imagine you collected a billion unique, feasible board positions (all positions is intractable, but most possible positions are impractical) and the best nest move for each. That "best next move" is the result of a tree searc
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by timmg 2y ago
There’s another side to this: if you accept the idea of “nature” — genes capable of carrying “talent” (in some sense) — it should be common for children of talented people to be talented. Of course, talent doesn’t always mean prosperity. Bu
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by timmg 2y ago
Just want to say thank you for making this project. I think there's a good chance I will use it for a (very low bandwidth) personal project.

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