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by vivegi 3y ago
This news seems misleading. A charitable reading of the article would assign it a category of "clickbait". The periodic table and evolution are still part of high school curriculum. Here are the links to the class XI textbook for
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by vivegi 3y ago
Update: The Falcon-40b LLM is now under an open Apache 2.0 license including for commercial use. See [1], and HN discussion here [2] [1]: https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1663986216771936263 [2]: https:&#x2
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by vivegi 3y ago
This I learnt today about Dolly Parton! Very impressed with this work.
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by vivegi 3y ago
It is a minimal product. In order to be a minimum viable product certain features may be needed: 1. Some data reliability guarantees (eg. how does this compare with Amazon S3 [1] that provides 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availab
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by vivegi 3y ago
My phone ran out of battery once just as I got to the departure gate. I went to the gate agent and presented my photo id to get a boarding card printed and issued to me. Digital is great, but paper is nice sometimes.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Fascinating read.
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by vivegi 3y ago
https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b/blob/main/LICENSE.t... TL-DR; 10% Royalty on revenue earned if revenue is greater than $1M annually. From the license: <begin-extract> 8.2 Where TII gra
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by vivegi 3y ago
Divide and Conquer. Break your problem into a set of smaller problems. Then partition this set of problems into tractable and intractable subsets. The definition of tractable and intractable can change over time, but must be precise and com
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by vivegi 3y ago
IEEE Spectrum's profile on Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic. https://spectrum.ieee.org/lotfi-zadeh
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by vivegi 3y ago
I am wondering what are some good use cases for this algorithm.
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by vivegi 3y ago
SAT is tantalizingly simple to describe and is an intense rabbit-hole if you are intellectually curious. I liked the article. The SAT Competition [1] is a good place to find state of the art. [1]: http://www.satcompetition.org&#x
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by vivegi 3y ago
I think this paper [1] Piccinini, Gualtiero & Scarantino, Andrea. (2010). Computation vs. Information Processing: Why Their Difference Matters to Cognitive Science. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 41. 237-246. 1
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by vivegi 3y ago
Can't edit the parent comment. 2. Hypothesis. The set of all functions that form the basis of intelligence is computable and all members of this set are computable functions
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by vivegi 3y ago
Good. EV charging infra should be a utility. This move by Ford is a step in the right direction that increases the network effect for the charging infra.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Send an email to your supervisor asking them to approve a reimbursement request for couriering the work laptop to the company after getting an estimate from the courier. Ask them if they are also paying for insurance for the contents of the
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by vivegi 3y ago
intelligence [1] n. the ability to derive information, learn from experience, adapt to the environment, understand, and correctly utilize thought and reason. 1. Fact. A computer, by definition, can only evaluate computable functions. Fo
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by vivegi 3y ago
Does VisualStudio IDE count? I recall using MSVC 1.5 in 1995.
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by vivegi 3y ago
> “New laws would require operators of these systems to build safety brakes into high-risk AI systems by design,” Smith said in a blog post accompanying his speech. “The government would then ensure that operators test high-risk systems
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by vivegi 3y ago
FFmpeg - my favorite video/audio file transcoder. Initial release in Dec 2000. FFmpeg 6.0 "Von Neumann" 6.0 was released on 2023-02-27 Edit: I see OP mentions Desktop software. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac, so I guess th
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by vivegi 3y ago
Simple example. INTAKE_TABLE contains 100k records and each record has up to 8 names and addresses. The following SQL statements would perform the name de-duplication, new id assignment and normalization. -- initialize truncate table
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by vivegi 3y ago
Once upon a time (25+ years ago) I used to maintain an Oracle database that had around 50M records in its main table and 2M records in a related table. There were a dozen or so dimension (lookup) tables. Each day, we would receive on the or
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by vivegi 3y ago
> I think everyone should know some amount of mathematics to a certain level. High school math is sufficient for day-to-day life (for the vast majority). When was the last time you used Simpson's rule or computed limits? Maybe you d
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by vivegi 3y ago
I had a similar requirement several years ago and I settled on the service provided by my test lab. They are a large chain in India and their reports plot the trend of all the test report indicators along with baseline reference values and
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by vivegi 3y ago
IANAL. From the ruling [1], the only thing Apple lost. > We now turn to Apple’s cross-appeal, beginning with its arguments concerning the UCL. The district court found that Epic suffered an injury sufficient to confer Article III standin
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by vivegi 3y ago
My intro to Asimov's work was through the short story, The Fun They Had . It was part of our English Reader at class. After I grew up, I picked up the Robot Series and Foundation Series. I didn't find any fictional work of his to
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by vivegi 3y ago
All of Asimov, Philip K Dick, Jules Verne.
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by vivegi 3y ago
My data. Once a week, drive my car to the ATM 1.5 km away. 3 km roundtrip x 52 weeks/yr = approx. 156 km/yr. My car gives a mileage economy of ~10 km/ltr of fuel. So around 15-16 litres of fuel burning avoided. If I did half
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by vivegi 3y ago
I agree with your statement above. UPI is looking at also getting credit card accounts linked to the NPCI/UPI network in the future. NPCI itself is trying to push RuPay as an alternative to Visa/Mastercard for domestic card paymen
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by vivegi 3y ago
I use UPI daily. 1. In scenarios where UPI is replacing a cash transaction e.g., purchasing fruits from a fruit vendor on the street (just did it a few hours ago), the transaction is immediate. Disputes are settled exactly as how it would b
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by vivegi 3y ago
> They will still remain legal tender. Until Sept 30th 2023. An individual may exchange up to 10 notes (INR 20,000 per day) for cash between now and Sept 30th or deposit it into their account (no limit -- but be prepared to answer the ta

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