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by wheresmypasswd 10y ago
Upper-middle-class low-density areas are great for this. Your neighbors have too much to lose to steal anything, and it's too far to bother for out-of-towners. The epitome of this is most of Switzerland. I went on a Tinder date with
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by wheresmypasswd 10y ago
It's generally pretty obvious anyways. Perks start drying up and people start getting chastised disproportionately for mildly wasteful actions.
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by wheresmypasswd 10y ago
Build a robot that balances this broomstick was a sophomore-level engineering course at my university. xD
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by wheresmypasswd 10y ago
Presumably we don't spend $10k/trunk on better brakes because humans can deal without them. But if that was what's needed to make self-driving work, the economics could support it. Electric regenerative breaking would do nic
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by wheresmypasswd 10y ago
Exploding offers are fine. Sudden exploding offers are terrible. If a company recruiter tells you at the beginning of the process: "Hey, this interview process takes two weeks and we expect a response 3 days after your offer letter
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by wheresmypasswd 11y ago
The AlphaGo team tweeted that the single node version wins 25% of the time against the cluster version. The bulk of the compute is in training the model... I would bet that a cell phone AlphaGo is <200 ELO (or whatever passes in the Go w
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by wheresmypasswd 11y ago
> What this underscores, if anything, is the accelerating pace of technological growth, for better or for worse. While growth may be accelerating, this is simply the result of one big paradigm shift in deep learning/NNs. Once we&#x
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by wheresmypasswd 11y ago
Generally, processes do not share memory, but threads may.
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by wheresmypasswd 11y ago
The nice thing about most of this deep learning stuff is that you can use a million machine hours to train your model, and almost no time to make an evaluation. So the single machine version has all of the pattern recognition given to it b