ThisIBereave

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by ThisIBereave 7y ago
the closest computational equivalent to writing that sentence we have today involves executing a model with 1.5 billion parameters. (and I couldn't find an estimate of the energy cost of that)
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by ThisIBereave 10y ago
Nor should we accept false equivalencies.
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by ThisIBereave 11y ago
Interesting implementation detail while "pigs" != "fly":
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by ThisIBereave 11y ago
Citation needed.
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by ThisIBereave 11y ago
Agreed. I was definitely expecting a reference, and I was confused that the table of contents listed the authors & their positions before mentioning the title of the chapter.
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
I lived in China for 6 months and saw plenty of cops with guns and saw undercover cops roughly throw around a street vendor who had gotten too close to the forbidden city for their liking. Your view here seems to be willfully obscured. Havi
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
Previous discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901357
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
Maybe this works for people in finance, but I can't see it being useful otherwise. The concept you're using as an analogy just isn't widely known.
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
It should be noted that public github repos are _not_ public domain and not even necessarily open source unless the author specifies a license.
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
Nice! Now I just need someone to make an emacs mode that does this.
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
I like the look of your mountain ranges. Is that done using a published method or something of your own devising?
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
As the poster above mentioned, Methane has a greater immediate impact, but it only stays in the atmosphere "for 11-12 years"[1], making it a relatively short term problem. CO2 stays in the atmosphere for "approximately 100 y
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
From Wikipedia[1], "In the past 540 million years there have been five major events when over 50% of animal species died." So if your measure for bio-diversity is the number of unique animal species, it dropped by half at each mas
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
If anyone else was curious about Scott's usage of "God" in this lecture, he talks about it here[1]. TLDR: they are "tongue-in-cheek references to an Einsteinian God." 1: http://www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
>Right now Liberia has about the population and land area of Virginia, which means it's already overpopulated. First, that assumes Virginia is 'optimally populated'. Second, according to Google, the population of Liberia i
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
Do you mean PARC circa 1970s?
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by ThisIBereave 12y ago
The drivers have to pay for their own insurance, so it's not that. Hard to see how a background check requires 20% of all revenue.
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
There certainly does seem to be a lot of political posturing going on, but I don't think it is coming from the scientists.
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
It can be very difficult here to get by without knowing chinese unless you live in a foreigner-friendly area (i.e. a tourist area or near a university). I'd suggest using a tour company if you want to travel more widely. Having a translato
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
"He had no idea who was behind it until last August, when he provided malware samples to a security firm at the request of a Bloomberg reporter. A forensic analysis of the malware by Joe Stewart, a threat expert at Atlanta-based Dell Secure
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
The HN reaction to this story is pretty sad, I have to say. Yes, journalists are poor at providing technical coverage. That's not really their job. Yes, this guy could have created a more secure network system, but if a government hacking
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
One of these, at least, is supported by a pretty weird edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason&diff=51...
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
"stealing other's content" that was completely user generated...
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by ThisIBereave 14y ago
Yes, but what you're providing is _not_ the Google Knowledge graph. You should not claim that you are.
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by ThisIBereave 15y ago
You really have to be a member of the clueless aristocrat club to write for Forbes. "Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now. That $2 million is $100,000 in income, if you bas
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by ThisIBereave 15y ago
Hah, don't mind my snarky comment. Just get these kids off my lawn.
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by ThisIBereave 15y ago
How I Advertised All My Websites To YCombinator
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by ThisIBereave 15y ago
Google Closure is what I'm talking about too. However, it's important to know _which_ Google Closure, as there are a number of components. It seems that the component most used in ClojureScript is the JavaScript optimizer, which is most l
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by ThisIBereave 15y ago
I presume Closure is only being used as a post-processing step to optimize the javascript that's produced.