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by xiphias 9y ago
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/tesla-v100/ Tesla V100 is the thing to be compared with, as it's the first chip optimized for training with the Tensor Core operation (4x4 matrix multiplication a
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by xiphias 9y ago
Zdnet is writing about security and publishing a PGP public key on an unencrypted site
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by xiphias 9y ago
Tesla is not production limited, that's why it's planning to create 4 more Gigafactories this year, right?
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by xiphias 9y ago
No, he didn't pay. It was a fake chatlog created by the investigators to make him look worse than what he did.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Not worse advice than buying index funds which is strongly correlated to the globally connected over-leveraged bond market. I'm not against diversification, but cryotocurrencies are a good non-correlating asset class
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by xiphias 9y ago
This is totally American way of thinking. Just look at other countries, like Switzerland where the death rate is 3x lower per person: make sure that every car takes the law seriuously and put drivers who drive 2x faster to prison. Not seein
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by xiphias 9y ago
Cool, thanks, I'll do that!
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by xiphias 9y ago
Thanks, I loved the video, so I submitted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173566
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IQ and the Job Market (Jordan Peterson) [video](youtube.com)
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by xiphias 9y ago
No, it just makes sense to have a fast and safe HTTP server at the same time. Go is ona average 3x slower than C according to bechmarks, and it's hard to get rid of this issue because of how the language is architected. I just don&#x27
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by xiphias 9y ago
I think over time there will be a similar server written in Rust, where at least we can be sure that there are no buffer overflows..until then nginx is probably better in every situation.
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by xiphias 9y ago
This is a global problem for packages, and I think there's a push for a feature where developers can mark for a crate how stable it is. Anyways for the packages without passing tests we already know it can't be stable yet, as it d
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by xiphias 9y ago
I'm in Zurich...not as fun as London, but air quality (and salary) is much better.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Both companies are responsible, and both companies take full responsibility. Tesla doesn't make you go to the supplier. Also it's a very rare problem, so it's probably hard to find in QA. People (maybe not you) are still inte
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by xiphias 9y ago
Just move away from London while it's not late. I also was scared, but not scared enough... now I'm totally allergic to cars and people don't understand me. It's not worth for the money either: rents go up a lot if you h
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by xiphias 9y ago
Can you explain?
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by xiphias 10y ago
Why would a company that a lot of investors trust change/reelect directors every year if it's working well? For Uber, it makes more sense, as the trust in the CEO has gone.
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by xiphias 10y ago
I don't think Tesla can be L5 this year..it would be awesome, and I'd love them to be the first, and I believe that after some time they will have it, but they are just too far behind right now (just look at videos/stats). Wa
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by xiphias 10y ago
In Dlang you either opt for slower garbage collection or get back to manual memory management where you don't get any advantage compared to C++
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by xiphias 10y ago
I think communication bandwidth is the best estimator of the brain capacity.
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by xiphias 10y ago
One thing is for sure: they could have easily gotten somebody to get off the plane if they offered $1000 for waiting for the next flight, and their company lost more than that money, so it won't worth to be doing this again for any air
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by xiphias 10y ago
Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the proce
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by xiphias 10y ago
While your suggestions work at some companies, it's not a good solution for every company: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...
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by xiphias 10y ago
I think C++ is much harder actually. Making sure that the system doesn't crash means writing a lot more unit tests than what would be needed, and sometimes these problems come out in production only. I would love to switch to Rust, but
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by xiphias 10y ago
Rust is the first language since C++ that can improve/not hinder runtime speed while making development safer, so I definately see its future. The only problem is that the compiler is very slow now, so it doesn't scale to large co
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by xiphias 10y ago
It's crazy and scary at the same time how fast new approaches are improving machine learning efficiency. Am I only one who thinks that we will be able to simulate the brain with much less computational power than the brain itself has?
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by xiphias 10y ago
Actually I remember Sam talking in an interview about this.. older people have much better success rates, but they are also much less known, as they don't try to build billion dollar companies.
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by xiphias 10y ago
AMD should just do it for TensorFlow. They would get a lot of benefit if they could show higher performance per dollar at least on Linux, and it would take just a small team to implement it.
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by xiphias 10y ago
I know this doesn't sound that good, but if you learn programming, 25k + 2 years is nothing. All of us have made bigger mistakes in our lives (though not the same) by listening to other people. Now $250k, that's a lot of debt even
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by xiphias 10y ago
,,While the volatility of Bitcoin has decreased significantly since it launched in 2009, it is still not a good unit of account or a stable store of value. '' I will gladly accept his BTC from 2009 and give him USD from 2009 for t

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