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by vivegi 3y ago
No dispute on crediting Meta for LLaMa itself. I dispute crediting Meta for the widespread interest in LLMs. IMO, that would be Google (for Transformers, BERT), OpenAI (for GPT-2, GPT-3). BERT and GPT-2 were released under Apache 2.0 and MI
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by vivegi 3y ago
It is ironic that The New York Time Manual of Style and Usage [1] cited by the article as one of the authoritative sources often doesn't follow its own style guide. A Google search for "comprised of" in nytimes.com [2] gives
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by vivegi 3y ago
Except that the LLaMa model public release was involuntary (except for the research carveout); So, I am hesitant to give Meta credit for that while as they are also issuing takedowns. Nevertheless, they are doing fundamental AI work. We can
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by vivegi 3y ago
There are around 32 cities [1] that will be hosting the events around the G20 summit in Sept 2023. [1]: https://www.g20.org/en/g20-india-2023/host-cities/
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by vivegi 3y ago
Yes. It is said the Colonial British used to say The sun never sets in the British Empire . In today's context with WhatsApp, The sun never rises without a billion GOOD MORNING messages and another billion GOOD MORNING TO YOU TOO rep
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by vivegi 3y ago
... and here [1] is the original bet. [1]: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1638136293065658368?ref=b...
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by vivegi 3y ago
That is a can of worms. What is the operational definition of Rich ? - Networth? - Income? - Net Taxable Income? Instead, it can be an escalating penalty that is based on repeat offences; increasing fines for repeat offences, cu
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by vivegi 3y ago
I was wondering the same thing just a few days ago. It is actually quite trivial to add an audio-stream (or streams) with the director/writer/actors commentary to HLS or MPEG-DASH and surface it in the application UIs. I saw a ver
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by vivegi 3y ago
For me, the sync is fine at the start of playback on PrimeVideo. It just becomes bad progressively (which leads me to believe they have used a video framerate that is ever so slightly different from the source and have keyframes insertion a
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by vivegi 3y ago
Customers, Business (i.e., Investors), People - of this trio of stakeholder categories, choose any two to satisfy. There are relatively very brief periods in any company's lifecyle when they are able to choose all three and keep them a
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by vivegi 3y ago
Of all the video streaming services I have used, PrimeVideo is the one where the video/audio sync becomes terrible progressively. It is pretty bad. It happens in 8 out of 10 movies. There is some misconfiguration in their AV transcodin
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by vivegi 3y ago
Not cool. [1] > What makes a cool URI? > A cool URI is one which does not change. [1]: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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by vivegi 3y ago
Meh. You don't get the list of every worker who was involved in the supply chain that ensured you got the laptop/tablet/phone/other device on which you are reading this. So, why is software or a developer special?
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by vivegi 3y ago
In this video [1] (NOT describing the paper), the professor is explaining Integrated Ammonia Plants and at 46:40 there is a slide that shows the Theoretical Minimum specific energy requirement at 20.9 GJ/ton Ammonia and the state of
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by vivegi 3y ago
It would have been great if the KEYGEN element's semantics meant - generating a fresh keypair of a certain strength and persistence of the newly generated key if a keypair is not associated with a specific domain - selection of t
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by vivegi 3y ago
It is there in the original CERN approval letter at the bottom of the article. CERN was relinquishing rights and putting into public domain the following three software artefacts and binaries. - W3 basic ("line-mode") client
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by vivegi 3y ago
Absolute BS. Correlation is not causation.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Its trivial. The obvious solution is to just simply read the extremely friendly documentation. /s
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by vivegi 3y ago
What is SM?
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by vivegi 3y ago
I guess the maxim Familiarity breeds contempt captures that.
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by vivegi 3y ago
If we look at the Top 10 oil producers in the world [1], India does not even appear in the list. If we look at the Top 10 oil consumers in the world [1], India consumes 4.79 million barrels/day or 5% of the share of the world consumpti
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by vivegi 3y ago
Software written in '98 on Oracle 8i/Sun/Solaris. Mostly SQL, PL/SQL & shell scripts. Still running even after db and os upgrades in 2023. It was mosly a database for online and batch transaction processing that fed
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by vivegi 3y ago
You can (by introducing the dependency between previously independent events).
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by vivegi 3y ago
Its 2023 and still we have a zillion different ways - of showing basic widgets like dropdowns, multi-select lists, toggle switches etc. - of UI frameworks that require a lot of code and get obsolete at a rapid pace - of dark patterns that
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by vivegi 3y ago
If you take two mutually independent events and somehow introduce a dependence between the two, then the events are no longer mutually independent and therefore by law of conditional probability, you can influence the probability of the out
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by vivegi 3y ago
Bithub is actually offering for Individuals > $1.9/mo | $17.0/yr | $299.9/lifetime (Not sure if they are A/B testing prices since the OP says $24/lifetime) It is a no-brainer. I'll go with the monthly pay-as
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by vivegi 3y ago
From OpenAI's Sam Altman https://playbook.samaltman.com/
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Ask HN: Is anyone using Amazon Mechanical Turk in 2023?
4 points by vivegi 3y ago|0 comments
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by vivegi 3y ago
Welcome to HN! Try to write the documentation for the feature from a end user's perspective first. Stick to the bare essentials and effectiveness for the user. Then try to write a brief about how the feature can be implemented using th
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by vivegi 3y ago
A few comments: 1. If your idea is truly novel, i.e., you have invented something new, then you can patent it. But the question then becomes which geographies. For e.g., if you patent your work in Country X, then it is not protected in othe

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