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by tfgg 4mo ago
The original post of 11% is referring to leaked numbers about _MFU_, which has erroneously been re-reported as fraction of GPUs being used at all. The parent post is trying to correct this misconception.
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by tfgg 1y ago
> BTW the reporter looks like Cotten Hill if he was real, and actually fought in all those wars. I'm quite surprised they had him hosting the video. I'm curious what decisions led to this. I hope positively surprised :) That&#x
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by tfgg 2y ago
And one of the interesting (and hard) computer science problems is how to turn an arbitrary einsum expression into the most efficient series of operations (transpose, matmul, etc.) available in hardware kernels. This is mentioned in the pos
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by tfgg 2y ago
Really sad - he was often the sensible voice in the UK media (e.g. BBC articles) when it came to security issues.
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by tfgg 3y ago
There was actually a lot of pushback against the austere aesthetic by government ministers - they wanted fancy looking photo banners and pretty things. This was pushed back on in the name of making something functional the prioritizes users
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by tfgg 3y ago
Honestly this sort of climate & environment tokenism frustrates me - spending a lot of energy trying to reduce and elimate things that barely matter (or even actually make things worse by displacement), while ignoring the big ticket ite
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by tfgg 3y ago
Harry Nyquist isn't exactly an unknown engineer who doesn't have his own achievements, though - not sure why people are saying he would be fired in a modern company!
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by tfgg 3y ago
What was remarkable is how Facebook's Threads app jumped straight to being full of advertisers and hucksters - they didn't think that maybe the right way to bootstrap a social network would be to make it full of authentic conversa
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by tfgg 3y ago
We're bad at onshore wind, not due to lack of possible sites, but because of a government ban on building it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/onshore-...
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by tfgg 4y ago
Why? At what level do you define "local" - country, state, city, neighbourhood, street, literally next door, just my house?
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by tfgg 4y ago
Social media owners wanted all the benefits of superscale communities with none of the responsibilities - it isn't surprising that moderation got worse. Reddit vaguely has a workable approach with subreddits, but it's still high v
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by tfgg 4y ago
I'm not going to detail challenges in medical ML - the literature can do that. But just to mention one that other people haven't that goes beyond just precision-recall: algorithms can be biased based on variance in physiology (e.g
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by tfgg 4y ago
So you should ignore it and see a doctor regardless.
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by tfgg 4y ago
Thermometers are well understood, simple devices, and there are other complementary checks (e.g. does my forehead feel hot) if they fail. This project might lead to people thinking they're in the clear and not seek appropriate medical
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by tfgg 4y ago
What peer review or regulatory approval process has this been through? Seems pretty irresponsible -- there are many notorious pitfalls encountered with ML for medical imaging. You shouldn't play with people's lives.
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by tfgg 4y ago
The best thing to do these days is use an AlphaFold prediction, if there exists a confident one, as a starting position for refinement. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35362474/
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by tfgg 4y ago
There's a responsibility under refugee conventions to take on people needing asylum. The conflation of them with illegal immigration is quite ridiculous. The UK is a rich country (~6th highest in the world), we should shoulder some of
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by tfgg 6y ago
> Just in case you live on another universe. Or any country that isn't the US?
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by tfgg 8y ago
I'm guessing here that ASA is 'American Statistical Association', rather than say, the UK's 'Advertising Standards Authority'?
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by tfgg 8y ago
Funny how when confronted with an article that gives a clear, unambiguous demonstration of how patriarchy negatively affects women, you come up with two weak articles that supposedly demonstrate cases where women were advantaged (they weren
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by tfgg 9y ago
Could you elaborate why you think it looks like a fractional FT? If you solve Schrödinger's equation with periodic boundary conditions on the potential what you get are Bloch functions, which are the product of a phasor and a periodic
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by tfgg 9y ago
If it meant that, I'd expect it to be: "The pound won’t be a round for much longer" so the original sentence is sort of a pun. Maybe "around" is a local use of English.
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by tfgg 10y ago
That video is basically nonsense and has nothing to do with string theory or physics.
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by tfgg 10y ago
It's not obvious that these designs have anything to do with deep learning; it doesn't appear to be mentioned in any of the linked articles.
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by tfgg 10y ago
That's true in our reference frame, with some error bar, but astronomers rarely make the distinction when talking about observing events, so I always find it odd when laymen insist on making it. I guess the distinction is rarely made b
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by tfgg 10y ago
> As it turns out, TensorFlow's optimizers don't have a way to manually terminate training before convergence. I don't know how you determined this, but the optimizer minimize op definitely only does one step, equivalent t
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by tfgg 10y ago
That's really amazing. In terms of utility to effort ratio, I think it's right to start with national legislatures. However, I hope there will eventually be a dataset that's as deep as Political Graveyard for the entire plane
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EveryPolitician: Open dataset on politicians(everypolitician.org)
270 points by tfgg 10y ago|49 comments
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by tfgg 10y ago
Agree with not getting involved in feature creep. There are hundreds of failed civic tech projects, mostly because they tried to do too much. Users do want "positions" or "issues" etc. but those are really hard to find &
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by tfgg 10y ago
You're taxed like a resident by the US. A friend had their tax-free (in the UK) PhD stipend taxed by the US government. Other people can find themselves owing significant taxes on property sales in the UK, despite the transaction havin

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