Fireflite

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by Fireflite 5y ago
Do you have a link to the electricity restoring sense of touch research? I've noticed the same thing by accident after some nerve damage and would love to be able to improve further.
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by Fireflite 6y ago
The enormously wasteful environmental cost of PoW is certainly a turn off to those of us on the left as well.
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by Fireflite 6y ago
The problem isn't at all soil or nutrients: those are cheap and make up a very small fraction of the final mass of food. Instead, it's energy required to power photosynthesis, turning them into delicious calories.
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by Fireflite 6y ago
AI Dungeon uses it to excellent effect, but with extensive fine tuning and tweaks.
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by Fireflite 6y ago
The way that you can turn normal Rust functions into systems, grabbing the relevant components through their type signature is wonderful sugar, and feels magic to use.
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by Fireflite 6y ago
When scaling this up, I would be concerned about climate control, disease management, infrastructure limitations and labor / distribution details. Light, nutrient and water distribution can be replicated, but making sure things scale p
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by Fireflite 6y ago
Yes, you'll often get better results by transplanting earlier. You're missing the inverse control though. In the absence of a specific mechanism it seems very implausible that the full moon has a measurable positive effect on the
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by Fireflite 7y ago
Whale corpses tend to reach the bottom of the ocean largely intact actually! It's hard for most creatures to eat them quickly enough, and they're typically largely eaten by sharks and scavengers on the ocean floor.
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by Fireflite 7y ago
Injecting entropy into your data in order to generate differentially private access actually typically improves model performance, rather than degrades it. This behaviour is counterintuitive, but effectively you're enforcing a degree o
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by Fireflite 8y ago
Most other word embeddings have hundreds of dimensions, not thousands. Are you able to hint at what causes this difference? Do you see better downstream task performance?
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by Fireflite 8y ago
Money alone can't guarantee good outcomes in cases of severe mental illness sadly. Our medications are not good enough, nor are they well-tolerated enough, and sometimes even with medication and money and strong supports and a willingn
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by Fireflite 9y ago
The whole point is that you can run your own algorithms; that's why it's on Google Compute Engine. As far as I can tell you should be able to avoid TensorFlow even, although I suspect that'll be a pain.
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by Fireflite 9y ago
Why is asymmetric intellectual property protection a form of friction here?