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by govg 3mo ago
I think air transport and oceanic shipping will probably still take time owing to energy density concerns, but there are electric trucks already (with trials of roadside charging rails that can actively charge during driving), and for a lar
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by govg 4mo ago
What is the "frontier" in EVs that Chinese automakers are yet to achieve? And what automaker is at this so called frontier?
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by govg 1y ago
There are variants and flavours of this already at smaller scales like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalPERS?wprov=sfla1 But the US in general hates "state owned enterprises" in the form that China has.
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by govg 2y ago
Fundamental research shows progress on timescales that are incompatible with most "free market" timelines, i.e. the stock market does not want a company to spend 10 years developing the science for something that only pans out aft
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by govg 2y ago
Not all high schools but the US has some schools which allow you to take very advanced material / even get a head start on your college credits.
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by govg 2y ago
Renting a 2b2b in the middle of Manhattan probably costs 100k a year, but that is very far from a "moderate-cost area".
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by govg 2y ago
Why would it be consistent with the scientific mainstream? Unless there's evidence that scientific reports and material are specifically up-weighted during training and prioritised somehow, whatever an LLM says will be only consistent
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by govg 2y ago
Tangentially related to the idea of "apply a random rotation matrix" is one where you apply a random matrix to a set of points to preserve distances between them but transform them into a lower dimensional space. This is captured
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by govg 2y ago
They also sell/have sold the Arya, the Sundara, and the Ananda.
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by govg 2y ago
It has more to do with the nature of the industry and firm. If your TC yearly is all cash and exceeds 500k, asking 100k of that as buy in is not too different from being granted stock options as an outcome. They could just reduce your TC by
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by govg 2y ago
What continent contains Iran, Syria and (as the other comment pointed out) North Korea?
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by govg 2y ago
The "mass market" in almost every country outside of NA is already adopting EVs, and a large part of that has been Chinese cars which aren't sold in the US due to protectionism and regulations. Take a look at EV adoption acro
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by govg 2y ago
It exists in the US as well (Zelle), except due to the super high number of banks, not all will have feature parity / have it enabled. The major banks like Chase support QR code scanning for instant transfers, smaller ones might requir
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by govg 3y ago
Is it clear if it uses the rotors in flight for lift or for forward movement? I think it would be wrong to call it a helicopter if the only time the rotors provided active lift was during take off / landing. There are fighter aircraft
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by govg 3y ago
There is no consistent scale on that graph, so any local maxima of reports received would look similar to any other.
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by govg 3y ago
This was a historic period for low rates, but rates have been higher and have been changed faster before, for example during the late 70s / 80s. It went from 4-5% to nearly 20% over the span of a couple of years.
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by govg 3y ago
Data point of just 1, but even in a small college town in the Midwest US, 50% or more counters at the grocery stores I've visited have been self checkout. Some places are almost entirely self checkout, to the point where if you need a
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by govg 3y ago
Venture Capital and Hedge Funds are similar in the sense of "they both invest money and try to make superior returns". Just like all software is similar since "it uses computation to do useful stuff". Venture Capital fir
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by govg 3y ago
That global persistence model across executions is very fascinating. If you don't mind, could you explain what line of work this is and how it helps the use case? I have encountered similar concepts at my old job in a bank, where progr
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by govg 3y ago
A lot of finance companies sponsor events / prizes like this simply as a means of advertising and PR. If you come across this prize as a math student, now XTX is in your head and maybe you'll look them up and decide to intern ther
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by govg 3y ago
https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io/ This is a similar contest where the plan is exactly as you describe - to develop a way to solve formal descriptions in Lean of IMO problem.
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by govg 3y ago
I know this comment is just adding on to the joke, but the number of people who can speak / read English in India is very high. There are more English speakers in India than multiple large European countries combined.
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by govg 3y ago
Is it the same as avoiding AWS because they will take your software and run it themselves to steal your clients?
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by govg 3y ago
A few of the current F1 drivers already have sim setups and play driving sims as well as the official F1 video game. What you're suggesting isn't too far off.
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by govg 3y ago
The near current generation chip being talked about is the one in the latest Huawei phones, made in collaboration with SMIC. I believe SMIC have older machines that can still be pushed to get to close to state of the art. It is newer machin
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by govg 3y ago
Could you mention where these chips from older mature nodes are used and what they look like(in terms of form factor / development environment), for context? I understand some aspects of chips being used for automobiles , but aren&#x27
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by govg 3y ago
>You could already cut out Visa with a "Pay with Zelle" type scheme but there's little appetite for it even in countries where their version of FedNow has existed for years. That is just wrong though - pretty much in every
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by govg 3y ago
The author has compiled these notes into a textbook and you can download the draft of the book for free on this webpage itself. It is also available on Amazon as a physical hardcover.
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by govg 3y ago
Most of the money "invested" in this deal belongs to institutions and individuals who have chosen to invest in BlackRock products. A trivial example is if your pension is with BlackRock, they are investing on your behalf and they
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by govg 3y ago
That is true in a broad sense, but there are certainly many city pairs / areas where cities are within few hundred miles of each other. For example, there are flights from SF to San Jose, there are flights from Chicago to Madison, ther

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