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by yobbo 2y ago
Any graph of an exponential will look mostly the same regardless where you start on the horizontal axis, since it is scale invariant. However, what is seen in these graphs is several data series diverging after 1971-1981. The only suspiciou
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by yobbo 2y ago
Embeddings represent more than P("found in the same context"). It is true that cosine similarity is unhelpful if you expect it to be a distance measure. [0,0,1] and [0,1,0] are orthogonal (cosine 0) but have euclidean distance √2,
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by yobbo 2y ago
Here is one article stating an estimated 80% of jobs are filled through networks: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2020/10/15... That would be consistent with 4/5 job postings being
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by yobbo 2y ago
> Too bad that we are currently doing the exact opposite (cutting down more forest than is regrown)... Carbon is captured when trees grow. Lumber binds carbon into buildings and constructions.
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by yobbo 2y ago
Unimaginable Sums of Money: For Fun And Profit
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by yobbo 2y ago
I haven't read more than the abstract of this particular paper, but it is expected that training behaves differently with/without adam. The problem with adam is that it keeps one more statistic (the same size as the model paramete
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by yobbo 2y ago
Well yes, agree this is how it looks now. But my perspective is that there has to be layers of mechanisms protecting them, rather than the natural order. (These mechanisms are tricky to pin-point but seem to be on the themes of mutual loyal
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by yobbo 2y ago
> managers not really being incentivised to do the right thing It's more likely that managers are just incompetent. Not being able to distinguish between infrastructure and "decoration" means all their decisions are at bes
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by yobbo 2y ago
In double-entry, a transaction is the tuple (amount, credit_account, debit_account). In singly-entry, it is the tuple (amount, account).
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by yobbo 2y ago
The poster sees it like Hans Zimmer ( https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066405124/ ) being asked to play scales on a piano as an audition for writing a movie score, and then being rejected for some mistake. Indeed, that w
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by yobbo 2y ago
The amount of CO2 yet to be released depends on the amount of fossil fuel yet to be extracted. Current oil discoveries, wells, and coal mines will all be exploited as long as they are profitable. It will be necessary to lower demand for fos
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by yobbo 2y ago
A new energy source is not like a new technology that can be developed. It needs to be discovered - as in a scientific break-through. A plan can not assume that break-throughs occur. GDP measures the total production of an economy. That is
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by yobbo 2y ago
I don't think ice-core measurements give year-by-year resolution good enough to determine this, but it would be interesting to know if someone proved it.
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by yobbo 2y ago
That is not how money and "work" functions. There is no way to "spend money" without spending energy and emitting CO2. Assuming there is validity to the numbers (and no new source of energy), it means you need to reduce
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by yobbo 2y ago
There are levels of toxicity. For some old paints, allowing the dust or run-off from pressure washing to touch the ground would be violating some regulation. Removing those old paints is more complicated. They need to be removed completely
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by yobbo 2y ago
It depends. For example, if the previous paint contains environmentally harmful compounds, you can not sand it without the infrastructure to collect the dust. The details depend on the location (regulation), but typically you need to hire t
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by yobbo 2y ago
I agree with this from the perspective of the candidate. From the perspective of the employer and current employees, picking randomly among a set of 50 candidates (who are all adequate relative the "real world" requirements) trivi
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by yobbo 2y ago
> I'm nowhere near you, but I think it's absurd that someone with 26 years would still need to pass some graph traversal trivia Two more perspectives to this: 1) it's the ability to learn/prepare/improvise quickl
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by yobbo 2y ago
Some clues to make it faster: w is divisible by 5. 5m=100-3w. So, w ∈ {5,10,15,20,25,30}, m = 20 - 3w/5, c=100-m-w. It seems this gives all answers.
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by yobbo 2y ago
Might also be possible to inject water into the compressed exhaust gasses. The water evaporates and creates the second power stroke, while lowering the temperature of the exhaust gasses. There's quite a lot of energy left in the exhaus
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by yobbo 2y ago
This is what has happened with things like Linux, Android, chromium and so on because they are released products. GPL didn't foresee SaaS becoming such a huge thing. As I understand, AGPL is a step on the way to fixing this.
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by yobbo 2y ago
Jax variables are immutable. Code written for CuPy looks similar to numpy but very different from Jax.
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by yobbo 2y ago
Besides cookies, there are tracking methods based on fingerprinting, IP and so on. None of them are permitted without explicit consent. This means that a site may not load resources from a third-party server without consent, since the reque
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by yobbo 2y ago
While it is true that "lesson" is commonly used like that nowadays (and it's helpful that dictionaries explain this), it derives from latin "lection" which means ~reading~, related to "lecture". "Lear
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by yobbo 2y ago
I think both terms can exist with different meanings, but this article contains neither lessons or learnings. This article seems to contain "notes". A lesson is one packet of content with specific goals for use in teaching, possib
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by yobbo 2y ago
Furthermore, drinking weekly seems better than monthly. But frequency doesn't mean much unless we know amounts. For example, small amounts weekly could be benefiting social relations and regulating things like anxiety. Binging monthly
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by yobbo 2y ago
Yes, and the job itself is not that challenging or important compared to minimizing friction between people. Maybe selecting the people who memorized their algorithms labs also selects for people who are self-effacing and accommodating to w
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by yobbo 2y ago
In the video clip (2021-07-23), it looks like a powder is added to the water, and the small bottle is emptied. It seems the small bottle is just used for keeping in her pocket, and she might refill it during the day. He might have received
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by yobbo 2y ago
Wouldn't the prior 26 years in california include multiple huge wildfires?
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by yobbo 2y ago
For a normal reactor, the energy for pumping/lifting that amount of cooling water consumes too much of the energy output. It's not too dissimilar from running a hydro energy turbine backwards.

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