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by shmed 2mo ago
Phi was pretty revolutionary for its time. The accompanying paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644 has been pretty instrumental in pushing the idea of highly curated synthetic dataset to train model. The lead scientist
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by shmed 3y ago
You literally just proved it right
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by shmed 7y ago
Microsoft is investing massive resources into the Sound Transit system. They just donated acres of land to the city (as well as a bunch of money) to add a train stop right next to their campus. Microsoft is one of the main reason the East L
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by shmed 7y ago
Microsoft has over a 100 massive data centers throughout the world. The carbon footprint of their head quarter is just a small fractions of the massive amount of energy needed to power the millions of machines Microsoft deployed across the
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by shmed 7y ago
About 50 people signed some petition (most of them weren't even working on hololens). Not much out of the 120 000 people working at MSFT
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by shmed 7y ago
R&D is not just "research", it's also "development". All money spent on engineering work count toward that 16 billion.
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by shmed 7y ago
Yeah that's not true... Amazon's net income for the last quarter (ending on May 31 2019) was 3.561B, while Walmart's net income for the last quarter (ending on April 31 2019) was $3.842B
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by shmed 7y ago
People don't rent out empty apartments on Airbnb... There's plenty of stuff that could be stolen out of an Airbnb
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by shmed 7y ago
Cixin book covers those aspect pretty well. One of the main element behind his version of the Dark Forest theory is something he calls the "Chain of suspicion". He argues that in a world were communication is limited by the speed
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by shmed 7y ago
Some people don't care about hoarding game discs or cartridge. I have drawers full of Nintendo Cartdrige, playstation 1, 2 and 3 discs, a few older xbox games, that I can't play anymore because the required console died, or they a
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by shmed 7y ago
Surprising that the US consider themselves to have better social support than Canada and many other european countries.
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by shmed 7y ago
I have a hard time believing IKEA is worth anywhere close to what the big tech giants are worth.
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by shmed 8y ago
Luckily for Microsoft, there's many developpers that don't work on mobile. There's millions of developpers working for banks, governement, or other large organization, and many of them are choosing Microsoft technologies for
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by shmed 8y ago
Really curious about where you got the data that Apple has 1 billion active user. I know they sold over a billion iphone overtime, but that's certainly not 1 billion different customers buying iphones. Also, I would assume a pretty big
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by shmed 8y ago
I am not saying people shouldn't be outraged, but please read the actual claims rather than just reading the patent titles. Titles are just a general description of the invention. Inventor don't patent titles, they patent a claim
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by shmed 8y ago
Did you actually read the patent? Or did you just read the title? The title of the patent is not the patent itself. The details of what they are patenting is described in (sometime very longs and numerous) pages of technical description. I&
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by shmed 8y ago
You are right, and that's why diversity of revenue is a good thing. If tomorrow Office and Windows drop revenue by half, Microsoft as a whole wont drop revenue by half, and I guess that's the main point the pie chart is making. Bu
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by shmed 8y ago
The main point from an investor perspective is that if anything happens to the "ads market" landscape, Google as a whole will be greatly affected. For example, new legislation surrounding targeted advertising or use of personal id
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by shmed 8y ago
yeah not sure why this was news worthy. Over the last couple of weeks, MSFT and GOOG have been trading places pretty often
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by shmed 8y ago
And they are not taking your Surface RT either. You can keep using it for ever, in the same state as it was when you purchased it, just don't expect new features.
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by shmed 8y ago
What about thieves? If I break into a bank or a jewelry store and leave with million dollars worth of gold, then get caught. Should I just "restitute" the stolen goods and go back home? My only crime was to harm corporate profits,
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by shmed 8y ago
My understanding from this article is that Ford will continue to sell SUVs, Trucks and Crossovers. They are only decreasing the size of their "Sedan" portfolio. Basically they are discontinuing those vehicules : Fiesta, Focus, Fus
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by shmed 9y ago
There's a button "Search with filters" right next to the search box.
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by shmed 9y ago
The article clearly says that HR offered to switch her to another team, but she didn't want to because she liked her current team and her current boss. Other than this it would require switching the guy to another team, but then they p
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by shmed 9y ago
It's different from the vive controller due to not having external sensors, but its very similar to what Microsoft showcased with all their new touch controllers and inside out third party headset for Windows Holographic
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by shmed 9y ago
More importantly, it doesnt require external sensors (to the opposite of the vive controllers and headset which require the 2 lighthouse sensors)
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by shmed 9y ago
The title point out that it's "overfitted". Basically the AI just reproduced almost the exact song that it was fitted with. It's basically a failed experiment where the machine didn't learn how to make music, but in
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by shmed 9y ago
Which they do. There is absolutely a report bug item in the help menu. There's a full "Feedback" section in the menu made exactly for this purpose.
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by shmed 9y ago
Get the Enterprise Edition and you'll get full control on what data is leaving your machine.
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by shmed 9y ago
Its sophisticated in the sense that it makes you trust them and willingly share your information with them. It doesn't rely on some brute force method or some complicated hacking method, it simply rely on a modern workflow that people

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