lukecameron

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by lukecameron 4y ago
> 100× energy-efficiency advantage for running some of the largest current Transformer models, and that if both the models and the optical hardware are scaled to the quadrillion-parameter regime, optical computers could have a >8,000×
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by lukecameron 4y ago
> it may be possible to achieve a 100× energy-efficiency advantage Running the math on a machine with 8x A100 (enough to run today's LLMs), that would be 300w * 8gpus / 100 = 24w. This is within striking distance of IOT and per
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by lukecameron 4y ago
Not a book, but I had a similar question yesterday and ended up finding this article https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BThe%20... . Goes into more detail than I thought I needed!
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by lukecameron 4y ago
Pretty helpful! I would probably use this if there was an option for audiobooks.
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by lukecameron 5y ago
From the info in the article alone, it's impossible to tell if this is even a correlation at all. I don't know what the expected number of reports would be for a given year, and if 30k is higher or lower than that. > If a link
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Protection of BNT162b2 (Pfizer) Vaccine Booster Against Covid-19 in Israel(nejm.org)
3 points by lukecameron 5y ago|1 comments
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by lukecameron 5y ago
Fungibility is a spectrum. Bitcoins are _somewhat_ less fungible than most fiat currency, but way more fungible than art, or baseball cards, or NFTs.
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by lukecameron 6y ago
Reddit was funded by ycombinator in summer ‘05, which probably explains part of it. Then the rest I would say is down to similarities between the two sites (primarily acting as link aggregators, although reddit has gradually diverged from t
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by lukecameron 6y ago
Thanks for that! Coincidentally I’ve had that podcast on my list for a while, guess it’s time to give it a listen.
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by lukecameron 6y ago
Has anyone heard of good resources that teach you "when to use X" instead of "why you should use X"? It's somewhat understandable that the official websites of frameworks/tools/libraries/languages&#x2
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by lukecameron 6y ago
I want that protocolization too, although I don't hold out much hope that the monopolies in place can be broken, outside of fairly radical regulation. To add to your list, there is also Secure Scuttlebutt [1] which has had a decent use
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by lukecameron 6y ago
gameboy emulator. I've been doing more of a product-ish role in my dayjob, so it's nice to do something (relatively) well-defined, where it's easy to tell if things are working, but still challenging enough to be fun.
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by lukecameron 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668792
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by lukecameron 7y ago
The technique you're looking for is Acoustic Fingerprinting [1]. There's a pretty easily understandable python implementation[2] of it if you're interested. In Shazam's case it is looking for peaks in the sound's sp
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by lukecameron 7y ago
Not sure if this fits within your definition of strategy, but Mini Metro is a great example of a game that "works" on mobile. https://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/
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by lukecameron 7y ago
> It is hardly surprising that techies are not getting enough sleep, given the industry’s culture of long hours, and the widespread notion that for a true entrepreneur, everything else in life is secondary to succeeding at work. This art
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by lukecameron 7y ago
It's kind of hard to predict which way the fare would go for such a service... It might actually end up being higher than what Uber is currently charging. Which wouldn't be a bad thing necessarily.
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by lukecameron 7y ago
ADTs in Java, that's pretty cool. The nice thing it's not really adding anything new in the language, only restricted forms of classes.
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by lukecameron 7y ago
One thing I've noticed since moving to a city where driving is unnecessary, is how good it feels to drive occasionally. While I think a big part of that is the physical sensation, I also think doing these types of "menial tasks&qu
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by lukecameron 7y ago
I think the problem isn't the % of population that lives in a particular hemisphere, it's that the seasonal versioning scheme forces you to think about which hemisphere the software was created in. I'd say most users of an
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by lukecameron 7y ago
I use IdeaVim at my day job and can confirm it's gotten better. There are still some rough edges, especially around handling movements like L, M, and H which don't always go where you expect them to. And some operations like undo
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by lukecameron 7y ago
This (and others who pointed out the regularisation effect) might actually help me to accept it more. It's more constructive to think "grammar is slowly changing due to a weird rule that was difficult for even native speakers to r
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by lukecameron 7y ago
One that I've noticed everywhere throughout the tech community is "it's" instead of "its". It seems unrelated to whether the article author is from a majority-English speaking country. And I see it on the blogs
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by lukecameron 7y ago
Since the technology is based on knative, it should in theory be possible to run these on a local k8s instance. It would support some debugging use cases. I do agree as far as cold starts and runaway expenses go, although those issues seem
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by lukecameron 7y ago
I think this has the potential to be huge. Finally a FaaS platform without vendor lock-in, supported by a major cloud vendor, and uses regular containers. Basically removes all of the major drawbacks to move to serverless (for applications
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by lukecameron 7y ago
While I agree with the general unfairness of this, on the other hand we currently have an ecosystem where SaaS products are used by most people to get their work done and generally manage their lives. Shouldn't we have the right to kno
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Competition, not break-up, is the cure for tech giants’ dominance(economist.com)
27 points by lukecameron 8y ago|12 comments
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by lukecameron 8y ago
Previous discussion on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10887452 (2016)