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Alison Gopnik is a huge name in the psychology of child development. If you find this area interesting, I recommend her interview with Ezra Klein: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/podcasts/ezra-klein-po
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For those who want more of a secondary source, but still deep, consider listening to the Literature and History podcast: https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episodes/all-epis... The podcast moves chronologi
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For NVIDIA GPUs, Nsight systems is wildly detailed and has both GUI and CLI options: https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-systems For DL specifically, this article covers a couple of options that actually plug into the frame
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Volvo is trying this! They call it a car subscription. Doesn't seem like it has had a huge impact, though: https://www.volvocars.com/us/care-by-volvo/
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest made $1.07bln global revenue. So Moderna made roughly 4 Dad Man's Chest's of revenue this quarter for their incredibly innovative mRNA vaccine, given to tens of millions of people, s
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I think you're accurate about mainland China, but SF is preserving Cantonese education. There are 10-ish public schools in SF with programs that teach a fair amount in Cantonese: https://www.sfusd.edu/learning/lang
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When I was a kid, I learned a tremendous amount from playing complex games like SimCity, Civilization, and Ultima. I feel like they opened my horizons to feel empowered to do interesting and meaningful things in the world, and they basicall
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Wondrium (formerly the Great Courses) has many excellent related series. Academic but very watchable. Like a 20 lecture series on the history of Jerusalem. I particularly liked their series on the Etruscans: https://www.wondrium.
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I wonder what the dev story looks like for these? I know they say "just use TF/Pytorch" but surely developers need to actually test stuff out on silicon and run CI on code... do they offer a baby version for testing?
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See, if you were an AI, you would understand EXACTLY what the poster means by this.
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We want something that is stable, has real value, and has backing beyond any one state's borders! Clearly, International Postal Reply Coupons are the better solution here.
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Has anyone found good interactive resources for learning (Attic or Koine) Greek? I started self-studying (with Jones’ book and Great Courses online) and found that I liked the focus on real classical texts (as opposed to Ecce Romani) style.
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Our grandchildren will look at old films of people blithely walking around next to internal combustion vehicles and laugh in mild horror, much as we look back on images of parents puffing away on cigarettes next to a child.
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Having an Eclipse release sit on HN for 3 hours with zero comments seems like the most accurate depiction of the market's current feelings towards Eclipse...
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Yes, this resolution is just symbolic. However, more concrete legislation to allow quadplexes in the vast majority of the city is coming soon. Our councilmember, Lori Droste, has been the champion for both initiatives. Following her on Twit
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The cheapest WGS I can find for consumers is $299 (30x WGS from Nebula). Do you know a cheaper alternative? I'd much rather get a whole genome that I can download rather than the handful of little snips from 23 and me... At $100 I woul
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Have to agree! I love my remote work lifestyle, especially since I have kids at home. But it works for me partly because I have a strong network that I built earlier in my career in face-to-face settings. There are lots of people I can call
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The first line in the article is: "The decline in total testosterone was observed even among men with normal body mass index." So obesity may be a factor, but it does not seem to be the only factor.
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Astronomy has entered a period of great stagnation. More and more grad students are investing huge amount of time and building larger and larger radio telescopes just to learn more about black hole formation and the properties of pulsars. L
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The gap between white and black piece performance is massive in these top engines if I'm reading it right. LCZero won 0/ lost 4 as black and won 24 / lost zero as white (with lots of draws)? I had no idea the split was so big
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Drive-by-contrarianism is just another form of nihilistic discourse. Low-brow practitioners (aka trolls) say outlandish, puerile things to get a reaction, then come back with "whatever, I'm just for the lulz" when challenged.
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This vaccine rollout will have post-approval surveillance - detailed tracking of side effects, sent back to the FDA and CDC for monitoring. Surprisingly, this is not required of all drugs, but it is considered one of the most effective way
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When my wife and I were discussing whether to have a third kid, the "we can justify a minivan now" argument was a big push in favor! If you think it's uncool, just remember -- if you buy a sports car, there is always someone
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This is a great time to check out Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk ( https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/132400264... ), which does a deep dive into NOAA, the weather service, and the wretched atte
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Is anyone else on HN depressed by the number of people who seem to think - "AHA, based on not reading anything, I believe there is a meaningful chance that the whole medical and regulatory community just missed this extremely obvi
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I think people are mis-conceiving L3 as "the car might yell 'grab the wheel at any moment.'" At least for L3 systems I've worked on, the model was - there will be exception cases we don't know how to navigate,
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Right wing district attorneys are currently suing Netflix over Cuties, in a throwback to early-90s moral outrage arguments by people who have not actually watched a film and understood anything about it: https://www.cinemablend.c
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2017, 2018, 2019, the committee has been on a tear, picking interesting, slightly-less-mainstream but still really defensible winners. E.g. Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer (2019) are unusually (for economists) engaged in the real world. Nordhau
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cuPy's sparse matrix support is still more limited than its dense functionality, but it's expanding quickly in version 8.0 in particular: https://docs.cupy.dev/en/stable/reference/sparse.html The C+
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To run inference on GPUs, people are typically using TensorRT or a similarly-optimized engine. That can make a big difference in cost tradeoffs vs. CPU. Ultimately, if you can keep a GPU reasonably well-fed, the GPU can come out much cheape

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