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by xtreme 4y ago
Only problem is that they cost $10,000/mo instead of $10/mo.
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by xtreme 4y ago
Pop 3 stars were formed in the very early universe and have been long gone. So there is no way for us to see the light they emitted without looking at the most distant galaxies.
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by xtreme 4y ago
The cost of training is actually quite a bit less. Emad, the creator of SD stated this on Twitter: "We actually used 256 A100s for this per the model card, 150k hours in total so at market price $600k"
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by xtreme 4y ago
There is more to life than chasing TC.
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by xtreme 4y ago
If you ever find yourself asking "WHY???", the answer is probably "Why not?"
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by xtreme 4y ago
That's a typo, Frontier uses the Slingshot network from Cray/HPE. The table below has the correct information.
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by xtreme 4y ago
Not to diminish their contribution but implementing the model is only one third of the battle. The rest is building the training dataset and training the model on a big computer.
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by xtreme 5y ago
The biggest problem is having to deal with USCIS, at least until you get your green card. Simple things like renewing your driver license, getting a mortgage, filling your taxes becomes way more complicated and sometimes impossible. Dependi
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by xtreme 5y ago
Is there any evidence to support that NRC/CAA and farm laws caused slowdown of growth? Or is it a laundry list of things that Modi government did so they must be bad?
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by xtreme 5y ago
The US military is a job creation program first, and a defense force second.
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by xtreme 6y ago
Doesn't imply that positions popularly held by self-proclaimed liberals are closer to any objective truth. Reality is what we make of it through our biased consciousness, colored by our value system and sense of morality.
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by xtreme 6y ago
Unfortunately, Democrats don't have a great track record of passing pro skilled immigration bills either. In 2009-2010, when Democrats controlled the house and the senate as well as the presidency, they didn't bring in a single ma
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by xtreme 6y ago
> It's a win-win. Except for the individuals. US educated students who want to remain in the US, work, and raise a family are now basically being told to go back. Or people who prefer the US for non-monetary reasons (crazy thought,
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by xtreme 6y ago
While I don't think being able to sell your organs is immoral or unethical, there are practical ramifications that makes it difficult to agree with your position. If organ selling is legalized, poor people will be coerced by force or b
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by xtreme 6y ago
> If he is making the workplace less comfortable for particular groups of people then I certainly would have no issue firing him. Would you be okay with firing an LGBT person because they "made the workplace less comfortable" f
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by xtreme 6y ago
Just be aware that it's a double edged sword. Mass acceptance of censorship makes it easy to stifle societal progress by designating ideas which you disagree with as extremist content. We are lucky that the people currently at the helm
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by xtreme 6y ago
1. Price discrimination (some people care a lot about the purchase price, some aren't that concerned) 2. Upselling higher end models and trims (add-ons are where the money is) 3. Signing up people for high-interest long term loans they
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by xtreme 6y ago
It's far more likely that he held some options that became worthless due to the sudden drop in the stock price. I love Elon and his vision but tweeting that was irresponsible.
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by xtreme 6y ago
Sometimes you can learn a lot from the metadata without actually looking into the actual data stream. For example, if B&H was hosted on AWS, Amazon could deduce the effectiveness of their holiday sale tactics by looking at the overall p
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by xtreme 6y ago
You are correct, my math was way off. Buying ITM options is definitely not the best way to protect capital.
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by xtreme 6y ago
On the contrary. For example, MSFT is currently trading at ~$165. A single MSFT Put option expiring on March 19, 2021, which gives you the right (but not the obligation) to sell 100 shares of MSFT at $165 at any time before expiry currently
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by xtreme 7y ago
This may come across as crass but I legitimately believe that there is a market for "emergency preparedness" as a service. It can deliver a set of basic necessities at sign up and perishable supplies at regular intervals customize
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by xtreme 7y ago
Wow. At that point it makes more sense to fly out to another country, see a doctor there, pay for the medication in cash, and take a vacation at the same time with money left over.
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by xtreme 7y ago
But it is also plausible that if an indefinite strike was on the agenda only 1% of them had joined the walkout instead of 20%, making them easier to let go.
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by xtreme 7y ago
> there's such a shortage of top talent domestically in the USA >> The best engineers I've worked with (by far) have been US-educated GP's statement does not preclude your experience. For example, all US engineers co
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by xtreme 7y ago
I have used HTTrack in the past for this.
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by xtreme 7y ago
> Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. - Sallust, Roman historian and politician
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by xtreme 7y ago
Can someone explain why advertisements for prescription medication should be banned? Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't see anything egregiously wrong with it.
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by xtreme 7y ago
> But. The earth has a tendency to regulate itself and take care of itself. It will wipe out humanity if it needs to and then time will continue. There is no evidence that the Earth is sentient and assigning needs and wants to it is fall
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by xtreme 7y ago
The definition of a supercomputer has changed over the years, but currently what defines a supercomputer is its interconnect. Most of them have InfiniBand or similar with <1us node-to-node latency. It's necessary for the type of wor

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