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by irrelative 8mo ago
Regard | Senior Engineers | NYC, SF, LA | Full-time Regard is a New York City–based AI health-tech company building the next generation of clinical insights software. Our platform uses machine learning and large-scale data to help clinician
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by irrelative 1y ago
Correct, this is the actual headline too. 100 tflops sure seems like it'd be more than that, but here we are. If the headline was "FB8 is ~7% faster when kernel name has 'cutlass' in it...", it wouldn't seem se
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by irrelative 2y ago
Flying is incredibly less expensive largely due to deregulation, and Budweiser has always been brewed with rice. So, yes, this is winning.
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by irrelative 2y ago
It is, and small teams were often rebelling against incumbents, so rejecting the aesthetics of big companies was a good way to attract talent.
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by irrelative 2y ago
Seriously. It’s not like that was the actual purpose of html or anything.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Hadn't thought about it this way before, but given that LLMs are auto regressive (use their own data for next data), they're sensitive to error drift in ways that are rather similar to analog computers.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Classic spinal tap. “These go to eleven.”
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by irrelative 3y ago
Only if it works >4% of the time.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Well a carbon tax would essentially end coal.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Or perhaps you overestimate how many people hold any view of Boeing at all.
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by irrelative 3y ago
While I'm sure some chemical byproducts come out of that, it's important to note that hydrocarbons assuredly make some really nasty stuff along the way [1]. I also wish there was a way to more easily compare these things, but the
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by irrelative 3y ago
(slightly) less pop science version: fiber optic cables are so sensitive, they can even detect the sounds of cidadas.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Watts aren’t energy, so no idea what this means.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Anyone know why this chart[1] hasn't been updated in a while? One of my favorite displays of incremental improvements in a project. [1] https://www.sqlite.org/cpu.html
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by irrelative 3y ago
Roughly 30 times faster than an airliner.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Note that futexes aren’t especially new to Linux anyway. They first appear in kernel version 2.6 released in 2003.
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by irrelative 3y ago
Or we could make a generalized solution, like a carbon tax, that will minimize the government picking winners.
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by irrelative 4y ago
I agree it's not wrong to like trucks, and that hating on the owners is a cheap shot. I also think that this video points out the externalities that trucks impose. In a rational society, one would expect the government to address these
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by irrelative 4y ago
The low voltage side of a transformer needs to handle more current. You could use the same gauge on both sides and get the same voltage, but you'd experience more losses.
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by irrelative 4y ago
Sure, could be simpler, but there's a spec and multiple implementations: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html And the spec is ~5 pages. Not sure why NDJSON is considered simpler, as json objects can be arbi
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by irrelative 4y ago
Hopefully “for sale”, not “on sale”
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by irrelative 4y ago
Lithium-Iron-Phosphate chemistries appear likely to be the choice for less flashy vehicles, and don't require cobalt or nickel. It's slightly less energy dense, though has some other benefits. Lithium mining can be increased, thou
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by irrelative 5y ago
There was a sort of doomsday device built by the Soviets: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113242... > If there's a crisis, somebody in the Defense Ministries has to turn it on, so tha
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by irrelative 5y ago
See also: https://xkcd.com/2014
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by irrelative 6y ago
Not to nit apart the title, but it seemed a bit strange to me. "Reverse wealth transfer" seems to imply wealth transfer has directionality.
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by irrelative 6y ago
I don't think that's true. See, for example, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/22/for-the...
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Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies(wsj.com)
2 points by irrelative 6y ago|0 comments
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by irrelative 6y ago
Unsupervised | Full-Time | Boulder, Colorado | On-site and remote Unsupervised is building a platform to ingest complex business data and use unsupervised learning to find hidden patterns and insghts. We work with customers across cloud pla
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by irrelative 6y ago
Want to bet?
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by irrelative 6y ago
Not just the computer. > Covid-19 is like a burglar who slips in your unlocked second-floor window and starts to ransack your house.

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