bertday

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by bertday 3y ago
The model can return the internal details of a potential future product. For example, the next Pixel phone.
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by bertday 3y ago
The language is supposed to tell you if your thinking is broken. If a program is a logical statement, and your logic is impossible, the program should not compile. Reading dead memory or having race conditions should not be possible, yet lo
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by bertday 3y ago
It doesn’t have to be a totally new language. Javascript is an example where there are multiple front-end languages. You can go as far as formally prove the implementation is correct, too. Language theory is an abstraction for mathematical
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by bertday 3y ago
Quora is often self-promotion now. The template I think of when replying to your comment is: Great point you bring up on how useless <website> is. As the CEO of <random company>, this is a problem we have put a lot of effort int
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by bertday 3y ago
Sure, writing bug-free code is not possible for most programmers. The language can reduce the occurrence of bugs.
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by bertday 3y ago
New York Times ran an article yesterday saying otherwise. First tier cities, in terms of size, are losing people, but second tier cities are growing. The cost of living in the largest cities puts a negative force on moving to them.
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by bertday 4y ago
Being near profitable is the obvious way, though I find that surprising early on.
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by bertday 4y ago
Randomly perturbing the weights and then finetuning would probably make it impossible. If someone had access to the finetune dataset and you didn’t add noise, they could see if the finetuning curves intersect. I guess in practice, it’ll loo
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by bertday 4y ago
Postdocs are sometimes used as a mechanism to play games with tenure rather than getting the an academic job. You get a publication “head start” without invoking the countdown, and you already often have a future job in hand early.
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by bertday 5y ago
The vaccine doesn’t prevent infection; it mainly prevents death. The other way to interpret this is that they do not want to be responsible for deaths, but are fine with low-risk infections. I anecdotally know people who had a booster and w