treasurebots

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by treasurebots 4y ago
It's all if-then statements, like "If this video has a bird in it, then show it to people who like birds." No ML needed /s
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by treasurebots 4y ago
Always cool to see new cloud GPU offerings, but isn't Lambda Labs' cloud offering roughly equivalent (in the case of V100s) or substantially cheaper (in the case of A100s)? https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-c
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by treasurebots 4y ago
Let's say Intel takes the deal and trades some ownership percentage for some funds to build more fabs. Suddenly the US government has a multi-billion dollar reason to provide political support for whatever is good for Intel. It's
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by treasurebots 4y ago
The government has an implicit return on investment for the entire economy, through the power to levy taxes. Why should the government own stock in specific companies? The only likely outcome for that route is the government playing favorit
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by treasurebots 4y ago
American education, health care and infrastructure industries probably shouldn't serve as a model for other industries
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by treasurebots 4y ago
If there's some externality in the way that someone is using public air, like burning garbage in their backyard, then they should be expected to pay for it
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by treasurebots 4y ago
Economies of scale don’t just have to be areas where unit marginal costs decrease as volume increases, they can also be areas where fixed costs dominate marginal costs, which is the case for many software firms because marginal costs are us
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by treasurebots 5y ago
I’m working on making robots to collect bottles and redeem the California refund value. Basically so you could bring your bottles to a big mechanical sorter, dump your bottles in, and get maybe like 2c per bottle paid to you, then 3c pays f