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by idkdotcom 2y ago
I have great respect for Terry Tao but let's not forget that while he won the Fields Medal at a relatively young age, he hasn't made any major contribution to math comparable to proving Fermat's Last Theorem (Andrew Wiles did
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
These seem classic challenges with running distributed systems loads that are not specific to training LLMs. Anyone of the super computers listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 suffers from the same issues.
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
In my view, the lesson of Lynn's life and contributions is twofold: - California continues to be a necessary place for America and the world. By this I mean not just the geography, but a place that welcomes people from all walks of lif
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
Truly RIP. I stopped counting the number of times I have watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4t_5v_y_0 that features him prominently as the scientific director of the Voyager missions. I can't remember well but I
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
RIP. A great reminder that great achievers tend to be idiosyncratic people, not necessarily "by the book, SAT 1600, GPA 4.0, Ivy League Plus" people. We should all be thankful for her contributions and for those who preceded her w
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
Anybody knows what the heck is going on with the broadcast? All I see is "awaiting acquisition of signal". Thank you in advance!
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
As a proud commodore Amiga 500 owner starting in 1990 I agree. When it was released in 1985, the Amiga was at least 5 years ahead of its time when it came to the graphics and sound technology. I don't care about angering Apple bots, bu
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
Safety is one of Python's greatest advantages over C or C++. Why would anyone use unsafe Python when P0ython doesn't have other features such as type safety and all the debugging tools that have been built for C and C++ over time
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
Have you identified actual VPN vendors that are affected by this? I won't disclose which ones I use, but I would love to know if they have been affected.
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
A lot of people, particularly those raised in non democratic countries, or are first generation Americans who grew up in families that came from non democratic countries, have this distorted notion that "democracy" means that ever
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
100%.
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
It's really a balance, but yes, I too have been in relationships like the ones you describe.
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
The Wizard Of Oz is based on a book written in 1900. There is a long history of embezzlement and snake oil salesmanship in the United States. The hardest form of embezzlement to put a check on is is things such as when you promise that GPUs
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
I agree with this "It's really hard to tell the difference between late stage capitalism and fraud". The best example to illustrate this principle is the unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the government, particularly the
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
Which is not to say that every nice person is an embezzler. I was given the advice early in my career of being mindful of very nice people. I misunderstood it as "be a disgusting person". You need to be nice and be a honest person
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
What's current USCIS policy, in terms of months, for allowing out of status immigrants to be sponsored for say an H1B visa? 6 months, 1 year, longer? Thank you in advance!
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by idkdotcom 2y ago
Go is a finite search game. So each chess. Equating intelligence to being good as these games is as silly as equating intelligence to being good at solving differential equations. Computers have bested humans at solving differential equatio
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
It's a nice high level overview about the state of the art in machine learning. If you have watched his other talks, Jeff Dean generally does a very good job explaining things from a high level point of view. Here is a controversial vi
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
As the author highlights, this is not a new thing. What is definitely a more recent thing is that half-life is much shorter than before. Now it is fair to say that even the knowledge that's most staying power has at most a 2-3 year hal
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
Don't get lost in technicalities and don't impute me what I never said. I never claimed that Twitter is, from a legal standpoint, bound by the First Amendment. What I said is that Parag Agrawal and team made the conscious decision
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
That's not what we are talking about here. We are talking about Twitter's policies or community standards favoring certain points of view over others. Under Elon Musk, while no moderation method is ever going to be perfect, more p
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
You don't have to take my word for it. The former CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, said he didn't believe in the First Amendment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icsx9U8M8U The First Amendment is one of America&#x2
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
Elon is smart enough and will make this work. Had it not been because of his purchase of Twitter, we would not have a free speech oriented social media in the world. SolarCity ended up integrated in Tesla and the same could happen with Twit
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
Great article! I make a living as a software engineer but my formal training is in electrical engineering (the applied math of the discipline). In EE, the mantra "if your design doesn't work is useless" was repeated ad nauseu
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by idkdotcom 3y ago
Say what you will, but I started my professional career with computers back in 1998 doing professional services for HP and its variant of UNIX, HP-UX, and I haven't looked back. As I kid I had played around with a number of personal co