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by throwawaybbq1 1y ago
Does this mean a huge hiring uptick in the US/layoff reversal? I do think this law caused some of the bad market. Will undoing it get us back to where we were?
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by throwawaybbq1 1y ago
Can you clarify this? You saying non H1B's would not pay the crazy high rents of SV's housing?
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by throwawaybbq1 1y ago
Curious where you sourced the parts? In Canada, shipping kills it for me. When I priced out the robot + electronics + $100 in shipping, I am around $700 - far cry from the $100 on the "sticker".
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by throwawaybbq1 2y ago
My taste buds have become extremely muted after covid bouts and other sinus issues. Wonder if this would be helpful.
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by throwawaybbq1 2y ago
In the US? I don't think what you are saying is supported by real data. My understanding is that US works did see an improvement in incomes in the last decade but Canadian workers did not. What makes life better for everyone is competi
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by throwawaybbq1 2y ago
In the limit, this is like arguing against the use of wheels. Automation improves labor productivity. Economies that have not invested in capital, have seen labor productivity and incomes stagnant. This is a current debate going on in Canad
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
GGUF files seems to be proliferating. I think some folks (like myself) make an incorrect assumption that the format has more portability/generalizability than it appears to have. Hence, the horror!
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I've also been trying to figure out GGUF and the other model formats going around. I'm horrified to see there is no model architecture details in the file! As you say, it seems they are hard-coding the above architectures as const
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
This is neat to know. On Ollama, I see mistral and mixtral. Is the latter one the MoE model?
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I assume you are referring to Llama 2? Is there a way to compare models? e.g. what is Llama-7b equivalent to in OpenAI land? Perplexity scores? Also, does ChatGPT use GPT 4 under the hood or 3.5?
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I am not good at investing (lost money every single time I've tried). Liquid cash gets spent. I am paying off my 5 year fixed mortgage as fast as I can, as I will be up for renewal at the end of next year. Some people don't have t
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
Immigrants. 95% (made up stat) may be poor but the 5% who are not, can afford to. In Canada, there is a recent narrative which I think is correct that immigrants are driving our inflation. We expanded our population of 30 million by about a
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
This was actually a very nice article! Thanks! I liked the last line the most .. I think we've all gotten accustomed to zero interests, and this has changed our behavior. My father to a large extend screwed up his (and our family'
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
US mortgages are unique I believe. Canada does 5 year fixed and you refinance at the current rate. I believe the US mortgages work because of Fannie Mae/Mac and a market in mortgage backed securities ( MBOs? I thought they caused the 2
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What comes after Builder, from a career perspective?
5 points by throwawaybbq1 3y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I work at an industry research lab. Key challenge for LLMs is the legality and massive resources needed to train. I have research colleagues that are convinced that even OpenAI may be on shaky legal ground. A lot of non-profit and academic
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I'm a hobbyist in this area, and think the field is somewhat early in its development. MCUs and cyber-physical systems was like this until the Arduino happened. Arduino may not have been the first to do exactly that but it was just goo
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
Very insightful!! A 175B parameter model with 2 bytes per weight, and say 2 bytes per gradient (not sure if single precision gradients makes sense?) comes in at 700GB, which is beyond a single 8x80GB beefy machine!! I recall reading with te
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
If you want simple data, lets look at the price of bottled water or soda at an airport (I usually bring an empty with me but not the point). It is priced the freakin same across every eatery. No collusion?
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I'm convinced some people have a special gift in terms of # of hours of sleep required. Some famous people like Churchill and Thatcher just needed 4 or 5 hours of sleep. I envy such people. I am in my mid 40s and also awake at 2am but
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I only see one solution to right the wrongs of the past (with respect to the housing bubble). Tax wealth annually. Tax home sales the way the US does it. As a society, we need to acknowledge how zero interest rates were directly responsible
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I would have gladly had more kids if I could have afforded a place to put them. Do you know what a 3 bed condo costs in Toronto? It is financial suicide.
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I'm an immigrant and got really burned during the Harper admin (Kenny's handling of immigration destroyed my life). That basically meant my options are Liberal or NDP. NDP policies seem to think if I make more than 200K, I am a ri
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
Working with someone professionally is not the same as a beer buddy. In fact, I value having colleagues who are distinct enough from me that I would feel a bit uncomfortable having them over/hanging out (e.g. political views, humor, wo
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by throwawaybbq1 3y ago
I'll tell you one thing I got taught in management training that rung true to me, and had I known this earlier, would have saved a ton of grief. Your technical team will be gauging the candidates technical competence. You need to focus
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
Thank you for your post. Two questions for you: 1) Did your Masters cover non-deep-learning vision (classical vision?) in sufficient detail? There is a ton of math in there. Going from being a shallow user of OpenCV to a deep one seems a bi
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Ask HN: Books/Presentations on Google/Meta's internal sw infra/processes?
5 points by throwawaybbq1 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I switched to ML .. well .. Deep Learning in a big way in 2018. Switched from Cloud backend engineering/research(which I had been doing since its early days). I gotta say ..not the smartest move in hindsight. Peers doing cloud are now
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I thought it was me getting old (in my 40s now, with little kids, life feels like shit). My thoughts: 1) Globalization caused massive changes to this world that have not been properly acknowledged. Sort of like none of the politicians cared
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
This is brilliant!! Thank you for sharing. I had no idea who this guy is, and the talk series. How much field-relevant brilliant content am I missing?

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