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by vonnik 8y ago
Depression expresses itself in a lot of unexpected ways. While severe depression can lead to the symptoms Hollywood has introduced us to -- total inertia, not getting out of bed, etc. -- somewhat milder but chronic versions include anxiety,
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It doesn't matter how TPUs are different from GPUs. It matters what the two chips have in common, which is the kind of workloads you can run on them. Any good that is a cheaper and plausible alternative to another good commoditizes the
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Google's TPU decreases demand for chips from Nvidia, by introducing a competing chip within Google that runs ML workloads really quickly, so people pay less for algorithm training. Since TPUs are not commercially available outside of G
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It works in all directions. Microsoft managed to commoditize upstack (Internet Explorer) and downstack (hardware) from its OS. The cloud vendors are attempting to commoditize the chips deeper in the stack (see Google's TPU and Amazon&#
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> "GET's"
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This is absolutely terrifying. Fwiw, Zach Mider won a Pulitzer in 2015 for his explanatory reporting on US corporate tax evasion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Mider
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US Could Regulate AI Exports(qz.com)
4 points by vonnik 8y ago|0 comments
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It's hard for me to understand why the fact that Google's autoreply exists is objectionable. If you don't like the response, don't use it. Nobody is the poorer. For those looking at a more nuanced critique, the Baffler p
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by vonnik 8y ago
I drove through Hof's district last year and picked up his memoir "The Art of the Pimp", which was stacked high in the gas stations. Hof was a selfish man with selfish politics, but it was a fascinating read, and weirdly hone
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> In other words, the virtual reality market is fundamentally constrained by its very nature: because it is about the temporary exit from real life... I enjoy VR a lot, but I never put on the goggles. A friend explained it to me the othe
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Mods: This link is broken and giving a 403 error.
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I was quoted in this piece, and I think people are interpreting it wrong. I believe the reporter was simply trying to describe the competition between the US and China in the race to develop technology, and the measures both sides are takin
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by vonnik 8y ago
The title of this article was poorly chosen. China's "Silicon Valley dream", if it has one, is much larger than economic development among the cities of HK, Shenzhen, Macao and Guangzhou. Problems linking those cities, which
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Home-Made Face Recognition Application(ramok.tech)
2 points by vonnik 8y ago|0 comments
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For those interested in Cold War dynamics between East and West Germany, the autobiography of Markus Wolf is very good. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Without-Face-Markus-Wolf/dp/18916...
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This is not the place to get into it.
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I misspoke. Funding by government is just as dangerous as ownership. Both create a conflict of interest. NPR receives more than 10% of its funding from the feds. As an NPR listener since the 80s, I've observed a long, slow shift toward
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by vonnik 8y ago
Every news organization has a conflict of interest, and that conflict of interest concerns whoever owns the organization. As much as I love NPR, the last entity you want to own or fund a news organization is the government, because it'
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by vonnik 8y ago
For any one learning Mandarin, the best advice I have is: don't start with reading, start with speaking. The Michel Thomas method has worked pretty well, much better than Pimsleur, for me: https://www.michelthomas.com/
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by vonnik 8y ago
Horizontal means platforms, frameworks and tooling that are agnostic to the industry they're applied to. Skymind is a machine-learning operations company (one of several): we help businesses train, deploy, monitor and update AI models.
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AI is not a business model. It's usually just a component in a larger solution. You need to get a lot of other things right for AI to produce value, notably around the data you gather and pre-process. For most startups, that data is ha
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My best LPT: remove every object (and block every site) that reminds you of the relationship. The author is trying to achieve an outcome in a patient, not enforce the adherence to some objective truth like "my ex is all right" or
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People in tech tend to take extreme positions in the debate about supplying tech to the military. But the extreme positions -- whether they be pacifist and assume all military engagement is bad, or militarist and stick to "my country r
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by vonnik 8y ago
Tangential but interesting: There's a great Borges short story called Funes the Memorious, which imagines a man who could never forget anything. To remember the events of a day, he must spend an entire second day, going through it seco
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This reminds of the teardown German engineers did back in May to reach the same conclusion: https://medium.com/@chrisvnicholson/analysis-teslas-model-3-...
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I grew up in Montana, not far from one of the routes Lewis and Clarke took through that state. The legend of John Colter is still alive there. Every year, Montanans hold the John Colter run to commemorate his escape. http://windd
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More regulation will benefit companies like Microsoft and lead to less innovation, because of the legal hurdles startups would need to clear. Much in the same way that the primary beneficiary of GDPR has been Google, because advertisers tru
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That small region of the US has been, for the last few decades, the global broker of capital and talent working in tech. Silicon Valley is a hub of international activity. The news here is that another place, China, has found ways of broker
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Here's our updated benchmarks. Thanks to Dragan for the cooperation! Benchmarking ND4J and Neanderthal (Scientific Computing in Java and Clojure) https://www.dubs.tech/blog/benchmarking-nd4j-and-neanderthal...
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For anyone interested in looking at or running ND4J benchmarks, these links may be useful. https://github.com/treo/benchmarking_nd4j/tree/master/src/ma... deeplearning4j.org/native http:&#x2F

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