adamt

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by adamt 6d ago
"Completely unrelated" is not quite true. Stockfish current NNUE models are trained on LC0 training data. LC0 is pretty much an open-source community replication of the ideas from AlphaZero.
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by adamt 4y ago
I believe they did - I've used this - full instructions here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=17337655031
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by adamt 5y ago
Switzerland is not that densely populated. It’s 219 per square km. For context Florida is about 150 and California about 100. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territori... https://
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by adamt 6y ago
Better align executive pay with business performance from the beginning. If the business is failing then parting company with the CEO is working as intended.
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by adamt 6y ago
Agree completely. The biggest threat I see to this though is Apple Pay (for mobile web). When sites integrate with this properly, it enables them to match the Amazon experience. No need to register or enter any details, just one fingerprint
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by adamt 7y ago
Indeed - Monzo has 50% of challenger bank market share. N26 was almost behind Revolut and Starling and had little traction in the UK. Source: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-7647253/M...
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by adamt 7y ago
It's a lot smaller than you think these days with all the effort that has gone into it. Google reports an average PUE[1] of 1.11 over the past year, 1.09 over the past quarter, and the latest/best data centers are at 1.06 [2]. In
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by adamt 7y ago
That is extremely rare at google these days. The average tech manager has more like 6-8 directs.
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by adamt 7y ago
A checking account is what is called a current account in several other English speaking countries.
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by adamt 7y ago
There's many factors at play here, but note that the majority of Internet subscriber growth is in developing countries. As the spending power of the average Internet user decreases, then CPC/CPM naturally falls with it.
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by adamt 8y ago
What makes you think that?
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by adamt 8y ago
3/8 or 3.0.0.0/8 means the IP address range from 3.0.0.0 to 3.255.255.255 - this is 2^24 or 16.7M IP addresses. Why does Amazon want it? - Amazon has a lot of customers who want EC2/ELB instances with their own IP addresses.
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by adamt 8y ago
It's not entirely true that in Europe that software patents don't exist. From: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html "The European Patent Convention states that software is not patentable.
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by adamt 8y ago
Note those charts are FY2016. With the growth of cloud, I suspect those ratios have changed considerably.
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by adamt 9y ago
It’s not been hard to get more than those returns in recent history. The Nasdaq-100 total returns have been 32% last year and 155% over the past five years. This is a average of just over 20% a year. Source: https://www.nasdaq.co
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by adamt 10y ago
augmented reality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
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by adamt 10y ago
This misses the fact that much of that UK figure is FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet). E.g. I live in the rural UK and have a 'Cable' line that is 200Mbps down/12Mbps up. Given most consumers use wifi within the home, and at these
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by adamt 10y ago
If you look at the value of ARM's $-denominated ADRs http://www.google.co.uk/finance?cid=662445 This is basically a measure ARM's value in $. You will see any value in the fall the pound was more than offset
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by adamt 10y ago
The phrase that Amazon used when launching lambda was 'deploy code not servers'. To me this sums up what 'serverless' means. It means the developer doesn't have to worry about servers in any way. With AWS Lambda&#x2
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by adamt 10y ago
From: http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/about-eurostar/press-office/pr... "Eurostar, the high-speed passenger rail service between the UK and mainland Europe, today reported the highest ever number of passen
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by adamt 10y ago
But that isn't an immediate expense it's a balance sheet asset written off over a period of time.
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by adamt 10y ago
Singapore has a very impressive GDP per capita, but it is massively skewed by external investment (with money that often flows straight back out of the country again), construction and being a major regional hub. To say Singapore has a high
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by adamt 10y ago
I agree completely and like you for a long time I didn't use ad-blockers on morale grounds. Personally I don't get overly excited about the tracking/re-targeting, but what did bother me was how ridiculously intrusive the ads
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by adamt 10y ago
There is a similar story appearing in UK in places like London and in my home town of Cambridge. This isn't yet not he same scale, but it is affecting the property market. In Cambridge 1 in 20 new-build properties is purchased by non-
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by adamt 11y ago
The deal is probably similar to the way an airline buys planes. E.g consider when Ryanair bought 200 737s for $22Bn [1] which is about the same in it's entire market cap. An order like this is probably: * For a delivery spread over 1
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by adamt 11y ago
Sensationalist title and also misleading. Most articles I can find on this say the US FCC already has laws in place that ban this, so why is the title blaming Europe for doing what the FCC has already done in the US? Sources: http:/&#
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by adamt 11y ago
I've been using their ARM Servers for a while as a build/test servers for some embedded Linux stuff. Overall a positive experience and things have 'just worked' with a Digital Ocean style interface. That said I've
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by adamt 11y ago
That was really impressive. Other than playing very accurately, I felt it played far more human-like than most computer chess engines. I've written several chess engines, and have often wondered for some time whether or not there was
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by adamt 11y ago
Note in there are a lot of prepaid cards (that can be mastercard/visa cards) that focus on children. E.g. Osper ( https://osper.com/ ) in the UK is a pre-paid Mastercard that targets 8-18 year olds.
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by adamt 11y ago
> Load average measures how long is the queue of processes waiting for the CPU I don't think that's quite right. Load averages measure the size of queue of processes runnable and waiting for CPU or disk. If you ever have a webs

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