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by hungrigekatze 2y ago
There were 5882 cases of CJD between 2007 and 2020 in the United States (not specific to CWD though). Nonetheless, when I learned of that tally a few weeks ago I didn't expect the tally to be so high. Public health messaging had convey
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
I have no doubt that this "feature" is a backroom deal worth millions because OpenAI is running out of public internet data with which to improve its models. (See this paper from researchers at MIT and a few other schools which pr
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
Was the L40S intended to be a workaround for the export restrictions on the H100, or did Nvidia always plan to create the L40S? https://fortune.com/2023/11/01/nvidia-shares-fall-report-us-... >The restrict
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
This video is incredibly long, dull, and lacking in any technical depth (as new product releases often are) but I watched Zuckerberg's keynote speech - the 45 minute-long one - and the engineering guy's speech in which he talks a
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
See my comment elsewhere on this post. Greg Brockman, head of strategic initiatives at OpenAI, was talking at a round table discussion in Korea a few weeks ago about how they had to start using the quantized (smaller, cheaper) model earlie
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
Check out this post from a round table dialogue with Greg Brockman from OpenAI. The GPT models that were in existence / in use in early 2023 were not the performance-degraded quantized versions that are in production now: https:/
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
https://imgur.com/gallery/izcx4Se
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
Greg Brockman from OpenAI said a round table chat a few weeks ago that ChatGPT is heavily quantized since the end of Q1/early Q2 2023: https://www.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/146rgq2/chatgpt_...
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
For some discussion on how to have the LLaMa tokenizer (properly) handle repeating spaces, please see this discussion: https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama/issues/40
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
A while back I was reading up on private equity as an 'industry' after a prior employer was bought up by PE, carved into bits, with each 'chunk' being sold off to the highest bidder. If you look up the names of some of t
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
I used to use this hosts file some years ago: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Forgot about it for a few years, but this post jogged my memory. We currently use a PiHole for house-wide, network-wide ad and telemetry
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
Has anyone ever looked into if pinball can be used in the same way that Tetris can for PTSD? Several friends with (C)PTSD love to play pinball, so I wondered if the research supports the whole eye-movement desensitization aspect that Tetris
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by hungrigekatze 3y ago
This page is pretty jank-tastic but it has some charts on it in addition to serving up H1B lottery numbers, the # of days in which the lottery cap was reached, etc. Has some interesting data points around the GFC plus or minus a few years:
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
IMO, as someone who has (briefly) worked in real estate tech the United States NEEDS TO pass legislation similar to what Canada has passed regarding the ownership of homes by non-Canadian: >Broadly speaking, the Ban prohibits foreign cor
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
There's a pretty informative video on PFAS in Germany; at the end of the video there's a guy in the US (southeast I think) who is located about five miles away from a PFAS plant whose pets keep dying and who is underwater on his m
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
It's not a book but I really like the Elements of AI two-part course series that the University of Helskini provided (financial) support for: the two courses in the Elements of AI series consist of a pure theory course and the second c
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
Does that lower the seizure threshold at all? (I've had docs get on my case about bupropion + mild other medication that can in theory impact the seizure threshold) But I'd be interested - potentially - in trying this combo as thi
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
Delysm is Dextromethorphan Polistirex which is a time-release form of DXM. I don't think it lets you get the same peaks / thresholds as 'instant release' dextromethorphan. Back in my day, all the kids were cold-water ex
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
Oh, yeah! The 'shared recipe' feature - or even just 'Let me easily export ALL of my recipes' (for my own records or to share with a spouse or someone else that I'm cooking/preparing meals with) would be awesom
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
I've found it to be pretty unimaginative, yes! :) It often suggests organ meats to me or omelettes with dark leafy greens. You know how there's the checkbox to exclude "My recipes" from the Oracles suggestions? I was deb
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
This seems like Cronometer? I've been using Cronometer for a decade plus. It was built for folks who were following the CRON way of eating: Caloric Restriction Optimum Nutrition. So undereating by 20 - 30% of your recommended caloric n
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
For folks who have already read the (great) CitizenLab report but would like more research-based literature into TikTok and/or Douyin: - Analyzing TikTok from a Digital Forensics Perspective : (Published in 2021 by some Portuguese rese
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
I was curious as to what the 'community AI' research org's stances on distributed training of deep neural nets were so some weeks ago I stumbled upon Eleuther AI's FAQ page which was talking about how it was not a task t
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
If you really wanna get your blood boiling read up on Sacramento as a water district... I moved to California some years ago from a water-rich area of the US after having spent some time living in a European country where water is very expe
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by hungrigekatze 4y ago
I found this site which is for nation-wide tallies of how (state) representatives voted: https://openstates.org/about/subscriptions/ It's free to subscribe. But - IMO - it is likely that the OpenStates.org s
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by hungrigekatze 5y ago
I've noticed a recent uptick in suspect 'new companies' debuting on HN. By that I mean I think someone is testing what sorts of company ideas, products, etc. gain traction with the HN audience, but to what end, I'm not s
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by hungrigekatze 5y ago
Agreeing with other commentors here who don't buy into the superficial 'silly Zillow's ML folks didn't consider the possiblity that the model might fail to predict the real world' narrative. Below I'll outline
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by hungrigekatze 5y ago
Meta has no plans to discontinue the use of facial recognition though: https://www.vox.com/recode/22761598/facebook-facial-recognit... The story of how Facebook's facial recognition capabilities came to be is
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by hungrigekatze 5y ago
Some recent news out of the commercial VPN universe... From a cryptographer professor at Johns Hopkins: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14493567426896896... Kape, an Israeli 'adware' company t