surajama

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by surajama 2mo ago
That might stop European companies from buying inference directly from China. I don’t see how anyone could possibly stop them from taking an open-weight Chinese model and then modifying it and selling it to Americans as a European model.
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Brian Armstrong Makes 'Open Call' for Ex-Doge Staff to Join Coinbase(decrypt.co)
2 points by surajama 1y ago|0 comments
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by surajama 2y ago
The first edition was absolutely critical in helping me understand how to program anything more than simple scripts. I got hooked into the physics simulation portion and created a pretty fun Asteroids-inspired game. Although OOP is going ou
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The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Startups(nytimes.com)
15 points by surajama 5y ago|0 comments
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by surajama 5y ago
The Canadian tech sector has completely changed over the past 5 years (which is when I first came to Canada). When I first got here, $100k+ salaries were rare unless you were very senior or at a select few companies. I am now looking for a
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by surajama 5y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identi... “could someone go to jail for using the wrong pronoun? In the Criminal Code, which does not reference pronouns, Cossman says misusing pronouns alone
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by surajama 6y ago
You are basically describing IPFS. Content-based addressing instead of location-based addressing. Allowing content to be decoupled from any single hosting platform
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by surajama 6y ago
If they refuse to work during the greatest health crisis of the past century that is going to forever tarnish their record and may impact their ability to find a job in the future. Doctors often have hundreds of thousands of dollars in stud
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by surajama 6y ago
From the link in the post Facebook has two different metrics: MAU (month average users) and MAP (monthly average people). They don't define these terms but MAU sounds like someone with a Facebook/IG/WhatsApp/etc account
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A Timeline of Information Control on Chinese Social Media During Covid-19(citizenlab.ca)
2 points by surajama 6y ago|0 comments
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by surajama 6y ago
400-500 million people in India are vegetarian [1]. Are these all magical creatures? [1] http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/the-food-habits-of-a-na...
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Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event(axios.com)
2003 points by surajama 6y ago|517 comments
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Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention(wired.co.uk)
3 points by surajama 7y ago|0 comments
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by surajama 7y ago
The US's relationship with Taiwan is much more nuanced than that. Taiwan-US relations are actually at the closest they've ever been. For example: 1. US sells $8B of fighter jets to Taiwan ( https://www.aljazeera.com&#x2F
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by surajama 7y ago
The current government of Taiwan actually openly disagrees with the one China policy [1]. This is a major reason China has ramped up their pressure on Taiwan. [1] https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united