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by yufeng66 3y ago
Phi-2 basically demonstrated that you don't need a very large model to figure out language. It not very smart but speaks perfect English. it's not obvious the best way to gain IQ is to have a larger language model. some other stru
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by yufeng66 3y ago
I stopped using google map to navigate while driving due to the low contrast issue. I used to be able to scan the map and figure out which fork I should take. with the current google map, I have to stare at it for a fraction of a second to
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by yufeng66 3y ago
A hypothetical conversation by chatGPT Stephen Wolfram (SW): Hello, Donald. Have you heard about OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT? Donald Knuth (DK): I've come across some mentions, yes. AI has certainly come a long way since the
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by yufeng66 3y ago
Hudson's bay company is incorporated by English Royal charter in 1670. By definition it is a department store affiliated with the English king :)
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by yufeng66 3y ago
Initially, I didn't see much value in the metaverse due to the high barrier to entry for end users and the limited network effect. However, I am bullish now. With the advancement of technologies like GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion, there i
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by yufeng66 4y ago
I can see how this end. Musk decided to do more experiments on monkeys. Soon monkey + chip become smarter than human. And human cease to exist shortly after.
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by yufeng66 4y ago
I have been in finance industry for more than 20 years. People have been talking about replacing USD as reserve currency for as long as I can remember. The problem is nothing else is better. EUR? JPY? GBP? CNY? Gold? All of them have more i
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by yufeng66 4y ago
Model T is not efficient by modern standard. But it was the much more efficient compared to horse carriage at the time. Bitcoin is much less efficient than USD now. Very difficult to see why bitcoin would replace USD.
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by yufeng66 5y ago
De-dollarization won’t happen in China. Chinese government is addicted to economic growth. The legitimacy of the government depends on it. There are only 3 ways to generate growth: infrastructure investment, consumption and export. The inve
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by yufeng66 5y ago
legally the new definition of 3 month Libor is sofr + 26.161bps
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by yufeng66 5y ago
The omicron variant could be a blessing in disguise if the early stories on how it is less deadly checks out. That means people refuse to get the vaccine shot will be infected with the omicron variant with relatively low consequence and get
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by yufeng66 5y ago
The first reaction I got watching genetic dynasty stuff is Elon Musk probably has something like that planned. The technology is more or less ready. And he is that reckless
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by yufeng66 5y ago
Krugman is just too emotionally invested in the book, so nothing comparable to the book. If the show is not called foundation, he will probably enjoy it.
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by yufeng66 5y ago
The article is not about what kind of life style they can afford. It's more about their common belief system. They think they get where they are by hard working and ignore the luck factor. They think people poorer than them because the
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by yufeng66 5y ago
This is a common misunderstanding. As a percentage of GDP, debt did go down. But the US government didn't actually paydown the debt. The debt notional more or less stayed the same. The ratio decreased due to GDP growth and inflation.
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by yufeng66 5y ago
I practice something similar to fall sleep. I play a bit ping pong and the body and wrist need to be very relaxed do to a short push. I just lay down in the bed and do the short push mentally. That way my body is relaxed automatically and I
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by yufeng66 6y ago
Also, Cario-Jeddah and Cario-Riyadh are formerly Ottoman Empire. Seoul-Tokyo is briefly part of Japanese Empire. The only "true" international routes left are Dubai-London and New York-Santiago
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by yufeng66 6y ago
I am an actuary for 20 years and people have been trying to replace Excel for at least 15 of them. But Excel is not going anywhere. I think it will be even more popular with the recent introduced lamda function. Excel formulas will Turing c
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by yufeng66 6y ago
The original Chinese version is poorly written. The English translator, Ken Liu, did an excellent job polishing it up.
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by yufeng66 6y ago
Well, they got the husker-husky game wrong ;) Husker won the game and end up splitting the national tile with Michigan that season.
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by yufeng66 6y ago
The founding father of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, was heavily influenced by Georgism. He believed all income derived from land, including appreciation of the land, should be heavily taxed. He incorporated it into three principl
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by yufeng66 6y ago
The idea of field hospital is to move non covid related patients to the file hospitals and let the regular hospital to be covid only. This way there is much smaller chance to get covid while getting routine medical care. Reliable source to
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by yufeng66 6y ago
The issue is crazy. It basically come down to there is no unit test? Unit test traditionally is not done for numerical code in Fortran or C. We sent people to the moon on code without unit test. We build atomic bombs on code without unit te
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by yufeng66 6y ago
Here in Maryland, there are trucks from New York Chinatown stop at local park and ride regularly to deliver specialty Chinese food. You order through an app.
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by yufeng66 7y ago
I can't tell if this a April fool joke or real
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by yufeng66 7y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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by yufeng66 7y ago
There is a warning sign. Without actually running the number, I believe the energy generated by the proposed HB11 fusion should be several order of magnitude higher compared to the electric energy alpha particle can carry. So extreme hot t
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by yufeng66 7y ago
Costco capitalism can be summarized as hire top 5% of the population and the rest can take care of itself. However, not all worker are in the top 5% and they need jobs as well. Hence Walmart capitalism
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by yufeng66 7y ago
what kind of hardware is the GFS model run on?
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by yufeng66 7y ago
As a parent of teenager, it’s exactly that. Android phone messes up the iMessage group chat. So kids with Android phone tend to get excluded. Apple is obviously in no hurry to fixed issue. iMessage turn out to be the stickiest social networ

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