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by hdkrgr 21d ago
came here to make exactly the same comment
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by hdkrgr 11mo ago
As a corporate customer, the main point for me in this is Microsoft now retaining (non-exclusive) rights to models and products after OpenAI decides to declare AGI. The question "Can we build our stuff on top of Azure OpenAI? What if S
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by hdkrgr 2y ago
>> Always keep in mind that sometimes the only difference between yourself and the person writing the book/blog/article is that they actually wrote it. Well said!
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European companies sound alarm over draft AI law(ft.com)
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
When you write code, do you also ignore edge cases to keep things simple?
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
I agree, that seems reasonable! I was referring more to the users of such a system (what the AI Act would call a 'deployer'). They may have significantly less expertise but could still be required to track real-time energy use. Of
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
I agree and share this concern in principle. But... have you seen the state of GDPR enforcement? Anyone who made an honest effort is fine. I don't know of any GDPR enforcement action where the indicted company wasn't blatantly and
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
The AI Act EXPLICITLY enumerates all use cases that will be considered 'high-risk' (Annex III). If your use case is not on the list (or on the 'prohibited' list), then you're good to go. There's no mechanism wh
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
Since there's some confusion about this: - The AI Act regulates both 'high-risk AI systems' and 'foundation models' and applies different requirements for them. - 'foundation models' are essentially define
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
it goes further than that. the technomancers blogpost gets a lot of the actual requirements completely wrong (for example the supposed requirement for third-party or government "licensing". Which is nowhere in the Act). What reall
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
Sure... but maybe the GPU is sitting idle 40% of the time while still consuming 200W. Should I have to break this idle energy consumption down onto actual use (assuming the server/gpu is only used for this one model)? I guess it would
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
The full marks for Google in the 'member-states' section made me laugh out loud. -- Bard is not available in the EU. ;)
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
I do think this will be a useful metric, and it seems obvious that the hyperscalers will have a feature helping you keep track of energy use and emissions of the resources you rented. But why demand this on the level of an individual model&
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by hdkrgr 3y ago
I had the chance to talk to a staffer of one of the MEPs leading the political negotiations in EU parlament committee a few weeks ago. His take was that the pro-tech/pro-business parties conceded the 'AI users must track their ene
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by hdkrgr 4y ago
There are also significant consequences and side effects to having a 'free market', they are called externalities and in the case of fossil fuels they lead to huge unconsidered costs. I'm putting 'free market' in qu
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by hdkrgr 4y ago
In the linked Netzpolitik article (in German) it's pretty clear that the 90% refers to Precision (i.e. 90% of flagged instances are True Positives), not accuracy. Still, the article (and probably the primary documents as well) do a hor
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by hdkrgr 4y ago
That's incoming traffic from HN only. Remove that filter and it's closer to 5k visitors/day.
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by hdkrgr 4y ago
When I was studying abroad, I lived in a temporary student dorm that was placed in an industrial district with a special permit from the government. I tried to order a textbook online and my transaction got flagged as suspicious, so I had t
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by hdkrgr 4y ago
For me, it was Foodora Germany (before they merged with / were sold to whoever owns the brand now). I pointed this out to their support as soon as I started getting spam on my foodora-exclusive email. They politely told me to go tf awa
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by hdkrgr 4y ago
For me, it's a Shawn in Colorado who goes to bible study, renovates houses, and signs (me!) up for every Republican newsletter he can find. Also: When I use Facebook's feature "show data that others have uploaded about you&qu
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by hdkrgr 5y ago
To be fair: As a patient, except for them scanning my insurance card, I see very little evidence that would suggest that most of data exchange isn't being done via fax, snail-mail, or people talking into phones. Why in the world do I g
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by hdkrgr 5y ago
I wouldn't say this is true for "the majority user's of R" at all. But for "the majority of professors who tangentially use R code in classes on statistics/bioinformatics/economics/finance (anything n
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
This makes it sound more dramatic than it is. Let's assume the "real" share of infectious people in the population is 10/100k (That's twice as much as the most recent reported 7-day incidence (5.1/100k) of new
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
This has been exactly my experience. As a data scientist (not a lawyer!) I had to ensure that some of our existing data processing pipelines complied with GDPR (and make sure we could comply with its reporting requirements.) I found the Art
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
How is it ridiculous? The fact that purchasing a gun is the first step of shooting people is a good enough reason for most countries to ban the purchase of guns...
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
1. They absolutely can and do, but many sell themselves short. 2. Big caveat: There are absolutely many conservative managers who insist on speaking perfect German / not switching the team language because of the new junior dev, so the
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I used to do mostly data analysis in my day-to-day work and R was my go-to and absolute favorite language for years in terms of usability for data analysis. Doing actual software development in R is quirky at best, to
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
No aliases (afaik), but convention is that you explicitly call mypackage::mean in cases where names might even hint at being ambigous.
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by hdkrgr 6y ago
Working Link: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-pati...
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by hdkrgr 7y ago
Good to know, I missed that. Luckily I've given them AN email :)

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