falconroar

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by falconroar 8mo ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware; thanks for that. I will say, Polars' implementation is much more centered on out-of-core processing, and bypasses some of DuckDB's limitations ("DuckDB cannot yet offload some complex interme
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by falconroar 8mo ago
Polars also has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets. Also has GPU backend, distributed backend, etc. Polars is heavily underrated, even with the recent hype.
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by falconroar 8mo ago
Polars has all of the benefits of DuckDB (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
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by falconroar 8mo ago
Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
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by falconroar 8mo ago
Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
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by falconroar 1y ago
Does the food carry bacteria in reality? Why are we talking about bizarre hypotheticals?
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by falconroar 1y ago
Being against genocide isn’t a western standard.
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by falconroar 1y ago
Withholding food from children results in children starving. It’s not semantics.
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by falconroar 1y ago
They will get away with it if we believe we are powerless to change it. Russia has been proven to be pushing defeatist propaganda similar to your sentiment, and I'm sure Israel has been as well.
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by falconroar 1y ago
Are Gazans receiving adequate nutrition? If not, why are we discussing semantics?
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by falconroar 1y ago
Starving infants is justifiable sometimes? When?
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by falconroar 1y ago
Starving infants is morally justifiable if it's possible to make a rocket from their food?
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by falconroar 1y ago
A Pew poll in 2022 found that about half (48%) of Israeli Jews agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel. Horrifying statistic.
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by falconroar 1y ago
I thought the opposite - they set a precedent indicating that reproduction of a copyrighted text by an LLM is infringement. If authors refuse to sell to them (via legal terms indicating LLMs aren't allowed), it's infringement. No?
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by falconroar 1y ago
Essential context. So many variables here with very naive experimental procedure. Also "Cognitive Decline" is never mentioned in the paper. An equally valid conclusion is "People are Lazier at Writing Essays When Provided wit
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by falconroar 2y ago
Who did Tesla have to pay off to sell a product called Full Self Driving, that is not actually fully self-driving?
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by falconroar 3y ago
I don't understand why developers of PyTorch and similar don't use OpenCL. Open standard, runs everywhere, similar performance - what's the downside??
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by falconroar 3y ago
Is there any reason OpenCL is not the standard in implementations like PyTorch? Similar performance, open standard, runs everywhere - what's the downside?
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by falconroar 4y ago
Is the explicit threat of nuclear war by Russia a possible factor here? Ie. Developing nuclear energy would feed into developing nuclear weapons. From what I understand, the anti-war / anti-extinction angle was a primary motivation for
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Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself with Young People’s Blood (2016)(inc.com)
5 points by falconroar 4y ago|0 comments
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by falconroar 5y ago
Pretty likely this is associated with the huge increase in mental illness associated with isolation during the pandemic. The depression rate tripled from pre-pandemic levels, leading to a 20% increase in suicide rates. Obviously drug use an
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by falconroar 5y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, self-reported happiness is notoriously inaccurate, and is not correlated with objective statistics like suicide rate. The suicide rate in 2021 is at an all-time high [1][2]. I think it's more likely that after m