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How to make good lecture slides with AI assistance and reveal.js(alexanderhoyle.com)
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by ahoho 3y ago
Kissinger picked targets in Cambodia. He gave the instruction to bomb “anything that flies, anything that moves” [1] [2] [1] https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodiabomb... [2] https:/&
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by ahoho 3y ago
This was exactly my undergrad research topic! My knowledge is a bit out of date (perhaps this is in TFA), but the running theory is that there are two number systems. The first operates noiselessly and immediately for numbers under 4. The s
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by ahoho 3y ago
sentence-transformers is excellent. It will be slow on CPU but, because it’s on top of pytorch, does have apple silicon/GPU support.
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by ahoho 3y ago
sentence-transformers has reasonably good tooling around this
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by ahoho 3y ago
This is spot on. I have two close relatives in their early 60s who lost their jobs during the pandemic. One has diabetes, and searched for months before finding a tenuous low-level position for the insurance
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by ahoho 3y ago
Right, and single thread performance won’t matter as much if it becomes easier to implement multithreading. This hurts legacy code, but I imagine it would be worth it in the long run.
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by ahoho 3y ago
I absolutely see the use case, and I believe AR is already being tested in some heavy industry sectors (eg oilfield services). That said, it’s not really in Apple’s wheelhouse as a primarily consumer tech company. Not directly relevant, bu
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by ahoho 4y ago
Do you know if there's there a good reason to favor 3.11 over 3.10 for this use case?
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by ahoho 4y ago
I think that if OP finds The Matrix too adult, Ex Machina is even less appropriate. Her is a good recommendation but I struggle to imagine a 12 year old identifying well with alienated-middle-aged-man-malaise ;) (although I loved Lost in Tr
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by ahoho 4y ago
In its defense, I saw The Matrix at 12 or 13 and adored it because I felt like it was something more serious—-that I could appreciate it was a sign I was maturing, and I was grateful for that Of course all kids are different. I always lov
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by ahoho 4y ago
> “It was a chicken-and-egg question that has been the subject of debate for a century,” says Karl Deisseroth, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in California Huh, I'd have said this idea was already well-established. I'm
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by ahoho 4y ago
It seems odd to pick on one of the most universally reviled Beatles' songs to make your point. Three of the band's own members despised it. I don't even think the dozen fans of Maxwell's Silver Hammer would argue it&#x27
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by ahoho 4y ago
It is pretty remarkable that I, someone born decades after those songs were released, can immediately bring each one to mind as I read that list
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by ahoho 4y ago
I've had the same thought, and I'd love to see an analysis of spreadsheet software adoption and (e.g.) financial sector employment to situate LLMs in their proper historical context. A brief glance at FRED data doesn't seem t
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by ahoho 4y ago
Inference costs are non-trivial, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the cost of running ChatGPT (given the 3M/day figure) has surpassed that of training it. Without optimizations, training only uses ~3 times the memory as inference, so exp
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by ahoho 4y ago
These are not universals. I’ve seen the no-shampoo meme repeatedly in online comments. As someone with long, fine hair, I’ve made two attempts to go without, waiting almost a month for my scalp to “reset”. It always looked extremely greasy
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by ahoho 4y ago
It’s about disease prevention (mad cow, avian flus, etc)
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by ahoho 4y ago
Eh, not so long ago you used to be able to get a decent bacon egg and cheese from a bodega for $3
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by ahoho 4y ago
Depending on your department and funding period, this may not be a like-for-like comparison. The 34k is an academic-year minimum; the CS stipend at Berkeley is $50k over the full year [1] (of course, to be fair, it is Berkeley). That said,
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by ahoho 4y ago
I assume it’s multiple orders of magnitude more expensive than Google because of the use of GPUs (not to mention the ad revenue)
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by ahoho 4y ago
There is ample evidence that CA had no impact. They were charlatans trying to sell snake oil; IIRC the underlying algorithm was based on a simple factorization of a User x Likes matrix that did not have substantial predictive value. There i
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by ahoho 4y ago
For ML, the bottleneck is often memory, which is the same between those cards.
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by ahoho 4y ago
I’m a PhD in one of the highest CoL cities in the US, so I wouldn’t say I’m speaking from a position of particular financial privilege
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by ahoho 4y ago
I appreciate the nudge to go for a walk/read—at home I can end up sitting on my couch mindlessly scrolling hackernews comments. I had to work from home consistently during the pandemic and I despised it. Once a week or so is ok, all th
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by ahoho 4y ago
Commuting is not so bad when public transportation is good and/or you live close to the office. I used to live a fifteen minute walk from my previous job. It was something I relished, and on days with poor weather, I just worked remote
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by ahoho 4y ago
This is great for the descriptions of Shannon alone: > Claude also had a swing about 35 feet long attached to a huge tree, on a slope. We started the swing from uphill and the downhill end of the arc could be as much as 15 or 20 feet abo
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by ahoho 4y ago
I’m not sure I agree. There are at least two independent websites designed to combat paid user reviews on Amazon alone.
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by ahoho 4y ago
Color me skeptical on BERTopic. Without human validation, I'm not convinced that it's an improvement over existing methods. I'm an author on a recent paper about automated topic model evaluation [1], and we found that current
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by ahoho 5y ago
You’re parroting unfounded conservative talking points. We never defunded the police. Any cuts were minor and temporary https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/cities-vowed-2020-cut-po...

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