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by pbadams 4mo ago
There's the Khadas Mind series of mini pcs. They have a proprietary docking interface though. Agree that it would be great if this form-factor was more common.
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by pbadams 2y ago
The weight and reinforcement of trees, poles, deer, etc. are difficult to change. Single-vehicle crashes cause more than half the crash deaths in the US[1]. I don't think the safety record of a motorcycle is a standard to aim for -- bu
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by pbadams 2y ago
It's not mentioned in the original paper, but DiskANN also supports PQ at build-time via `--build_PQ_bytes`, though it's a tradeoff with the graph quality as you mention. One interesting property in benchmarking is that the distan
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by pbadams 3y ago
I think you might be right that encouraging curious discussion of these topics is important to the mission of HN. However, if the moderation approach is going to change, I think it would be better to do so explicitly through changes to the
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by pbadams 3y ago
Something I don't fully understand, from [1], Altman was an employee of the for-profit entity. So to fire him, wouldn't the non-profit board be acting in it's capacity as a director of the for-profit entity (and thus have a f
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by pbadams 3y ago
Altman has claimed before that he doesn't hold equity in OpenAI. He could have some kind of more opaque arrangement that gives him a material stake in the financial success of OpenAI, and downplayed it or didn't disclose it to the
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Measuring the Intrinsic Dimension of Objective Landscapes (2018)(uber.com)
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by pbadams 3y ago
There are a lot of directions people try to go, making different tradeoffs in the complexity of the clustering, the loss from the quantization, the impact on performance (esp. trying to get some subset of the tables to fit in cache). Reader
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by pbadams 3y ago
Apart from the comments you've already gotten, another goal of geospatial systems is to support range queries (e.g. for the bounding box of the user's screen, what are all the businesses in that box). In higher dimensions range qu
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by pbadams 3y ago
> Let's put deep learning aside for a second. Can anyone here name a single academic in any other subfield of computer science who had a string of groundbreaking research works where every one of those works is from 1980 or after? S
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by pbadams 4y ago
Part of the difficulty is, if very few people are browsing to page 2, deciding what to put on page 2 becomes harder and harder. Google has a lot of user behavior signals to decide what should be in results 1-10. Deciding if a page should be
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by pbadams 4y ago
There are also fewer buses needed to carry the same number of people, and they are operated by professional (and hopefully less distracted!) drivers. I'm not sure a good data source, but I'd expect that the serious injury rate per
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by pbadams 4y ago
Even if the 'bug' of limited time off is solved, I think people's valuation of their time is still pretty high. The trains/airships would have to be quite nice (read: heavy, expensive, possibly less efficient) for you to
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by pbadams 4y ago
I agree in the typical case, but they support concurrent add/delete one of their index options. Handling consistency/contention for modifying whatever graph/tree/etc structure they are using is probably nontrivial, and t
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by pbadams 4y ago
They used to publish some benchmarks on their site, but seem to have removed them. You can find them on archive.org[1]. I guess it is understandable, since vector search performance is pretty unpredictable, and depends on a lot of factors.
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by pbadams 4y ago
Most vector search research teams are a lot smaller than you suggest, and haven't been around that long (e.g. the FAISS paper was published in 2017). From public info, you can see they have at least one researcher working there. It&#x2
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by pbadams 5y ago
In addition to these other answers, a commonly used metric in the literature is the k-Recall@R, or the portion of the top k ground-truth vectors that are found in the top R ANN queries. This parametrization can make it clearer when comparin