timzaman

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by timzaman 4y ago
Have been looking for something like this! Alltrails and many other products (even paid Pro, which i have) is total garbage. There is a huge market for a great offline-first hiking/exploring maps app.
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by timzaman 4y ago
I wonder if he couldnt have used the memtest kernel parameter: memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> Specifies the number of memtest passes to be performed. Each
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by timzaman 4y ago
How is it people are allowed to blog about company internal implementation details and numbers barely a year after they leave?
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by timzaman 4y ago
Clickbait. Where does this valuation come from? Her masterworks sell for for this range https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/frida-kahlos-intim... So no way a page from her diary would sell for anywhere near that
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by timzaman 4y ago
My flashlight has this and I keep wondering why they didnt spend 50 cents adding two more buttons.
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by timzaman 4y ago
In fact, you are seeing the Trillion dollar companies not just make their own datacenters, but also chips; Dojo, TPU (Amazon, Meta ).
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by timzaman 4y ago
I stumbled upon this, as this region leaves a significant timezone gap, when the earth is divided into polygons of timezones.
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Bir Tawil: The last habitable unclaimed place on earth(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by timzaman 4y ago|2 comments
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by timzaman 4y ago
Copper price seems pretty nominal. Nonsensical article. Shrug.
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Operation Sea Spray(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by timzaman 4y ago|0 comments
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by timzaman 4y ago
Computer History Museum in Mountain View (CA) is amazing. Can spend half a day there.
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by timzaman 5y ago
Reminds me of OpenAI
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by timzaman 5y ago
Get a decent NVIDIA GPU. Then install PyTorch and off you go. I advise to make all your own tooling, as you likely have a specific use-case, and so your tooling can be tailored to that. Most ML tools are very generic, or so simply you might
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by timzaman 5y ago
He wants to reduce glare and fails to put on a polarization filter :facepalm:.
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by timzaman 5y ago
I take anywhere between 0-10 'shots' per day and it doesnt seem to phase me either way.
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by timzaman 5y ago
When i bought my house last year, first thing i did is upgrade to 400A electric and removed all gas. Welcome to 2022
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by timzaman 5y ago
Haha the bug in Tensorflow is in "tensorflow/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/training_generator_test.py". clickbait.
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by timzaman 5y ago
It is so typical to interview very senior people who get really arrogant about their skills, but when it comes down to it, they fail at this rapidfire, and in a very non graceful way. This rapidfire is very coarse and weeds out most incompe
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by timzaman 5y ago
Google Fi prides itself on blocking spam calls. Yet its business depends on the same cause: ads and marketing
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by timzaman 5y ago
Amen
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by timzaman 5y ago
Though I'm highly sceptical of FB, title is misleading clickbait itself. Should be: 'five points for emoji, one for a like'.
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by timzaman 5y ago
I worked with these guys at nvidia Helsinki office. They are super chill and just somehow crank out super research. Very interesting bunch.
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by timzaman 5y ago
Would be nice if we can just get out of this local minima of Python 3.30, and start working on Python 4 that's somewhat backwards compatible and has no GIL and has meaningful threading support.
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Tesla AP Has a Supercomputer(youtube.com)
2 points by timzaman 5y ago|0 comments
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by timzaman 5y ago
This is pretty much the only way I debug; - cross language/platform - forces you to come up with hypothesis up front, then test these very systematically - you know what you are doing - debugger doesnt interfere - works across threads
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by timzaman 5y ago
"triple state boolean", what's next, a double precision fp32?
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by timzaman 6y ago
Iirc the bug Karpathy mentioned in his tweet was actually due to the seed being the same across multigpu data parallel workers! You need to account for this too. So the author hasnt solved it. I know this bc I fixed the bug. And probably ca
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by timzaman 6y ago
Exactly. And prints are cross platform cross language etc.
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by timzaman 6y ago
I've been maintaining a git repo at my current and previous employer - both started out with submodules, and got axed due to added complexity and cognitive load. After removal, they were not missed. Case closed.
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Crystal Radio (Powerless Radio)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by timzaman 6y ago|0 comments

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