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by zhemao 9mo ago
TPUs aren't transformer ASICs. The Ironwood TPU that Gemini was trained on was designed before LLMs became popular with ChatGPT's release. The architecture was general enough that it ended up being efficient for LLM training. A sp
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by zhemao 1y ago
In computer architecture / digital ASIC design there's zero control theory. There's not much mathematics in general.
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by zhemao 1y ago
I had a similar starting point to the author but ended up in totally the opposite direction, haha. Took computer engineering in undergrad and did well in both CS and EE courses. My first job was as an SDE at AWS but I hated it. Went back to
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by zhemao 1y ago
No? There's plenty of overlap. I studied computer engineering in undergrad, which is similar to the author's original major. There are a lot of subjects that straddle the boundary, like computer architecture, embedded systems, and
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by zhemao 9y ago
Yeah, New Police Story was weirdly dark. Police Story 1-4 were all good fun. Not really for kids though. Plenty of bawdy jokes and innuendo.
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by zhemao 9y ago
And how open is the administration to taking in Rohingya refugees who've been displaced by the violence?
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by zhemao 9y ago
> the Buddhists didn't woke up one day and decided to commit genocide Germans didn't wake up one day in the 1930s and decide to exterminate the Jews either. That doesn't mean the Jews were at all to blame for their persecu
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by zhemao 9y ago
> What ideas have parents come up with to make it "feel" like there's more unstructured play time for kids during the school year? Uh maybe, I don't know, actually giving them more unstructured play time? Schools have
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by zhemao 9y ago
Thank you. I wondered if anyone else could see why the original essay is so ridiculous. It assumes that bad culture is the cause of poverty, and not the other way around. It's pretty obvious that the decision to get married and stay ma
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by zhemao 9y ago
Pretty sure GP means the mass emigration of Europeans to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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by zhemao 9y ago
> places where people aren't getting paid to innovate but rather are there to do a 9-5 job, there is little (and, in many cases, negative) incentive culturally to think outside the box and push the envelope That's pretty much e
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by zhemao 9y ago
Samsung is a strange choice of example. It also mostly follows a "well made clone" business model and Korean work culture isn't much different from Chinese.
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by zhemao 9y ago
> Does that same freedom exist for private entities that don't want to bake cakes for gay couples? I think sexuality should be a protected class. I do not think neo-Nazis or White supremacists should be a protected class. But in the
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by zhemao 9y ago
Religion, race, gender, etc. are protected classes. Political ideology is not.
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by zhemao 9y ago
Despite the existence of laws criminalizing holocaust denial and displaying Nazi symbols, Germany still has holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis. Criminalizing speech isn't a very effective way of diminishing it.
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by zhemao 9y ago
Yes, the 1st amendment protects freedom of association. That is, the freedom of private entities to not do business with Nazis.
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by zhemao 9y ago
Very true. I don't think the Republicans are solely to blame though. I live in the SF Bay Area, definitely a very blue part of the country. Despite pretty steep taxes, our public transportation and public schools aren't much to lo
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by zhemao 9y ago
And if you came to the US and saw our public schools here, you'd probably die of laughter.
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by zhemao 9y ago
Oh look, yet another article about a country that's doing education better than us here in the US. And the funny thing is that they all seem to do things in different ways. You know what I think the problem is? Americans on the whole j
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Chinese scientists create biggest virtual universe with world’s fastest computer(scmp.com)
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by zhemao 9y ago
LMAO. I didn't even get a chance to read illegal_in_ca's reply before it got flagged. What did they even say to generate this much controversy? (Probably something really stupid). And even aside from the obvious moral problems of
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by zhemao 9y ago
It also has one of the highest levels of income inequality, which is what this article highlights.
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by zhemao 9y ago
The picture of the combo toilet-kitchen made me viscerally upset. That must be so unsanitary.
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by zhemao 9y ago
> However the various administrations since then have spent significant resources and time going in different (and sometime opposite) directions, and not always in a blunder-safe way. Yeah, because there are different factions within the
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by zhemao 9y ago
The current norms of CCP leadership were established in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution for the express purpose of avoiding such a catastrophe in the future. Since 1989, the guiding philosophy of China's central leadership has
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by zhemao 9y ago
I really wonder how contemporary Chinese students square the information from their Marxism class with what Chinese society is like today. Does the Marxism class teach real Marxism or "Marxism with Chinese characteristics"? Grante
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by zhemao 9y ago
Yes, this is definitely true. Porn sites are also blocked for instance. Political censorship is the primary purpose of the firewall, but since the tool already exists, they go ahead and block things that don't fit into their conception
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by zhemao 9y ago
It's not just the technical services those platforms provide, but also the content hosted on them and the other users who use them. The article mentions Dropbox and Google Drive. Even if a Chinese file-sharing service was created as a
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by zhemao 9y ago
Uh. Are you thinking of Japan? The Qing dynasty was brought down by more than just a few gunships. Though the larger point about isolationism is still valid.
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by zhemao 9y ago
Genetic mutations. As you get older, you accumulate more genetic damage, which can be passed on to children. It's fairly well-studied that children of older parents are more susceptible to genetic disorders.

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