xyhopguy

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by xyhopguy 4mo ago
Microbatch size is a hyperparameter, it can be set to 1 and work just as effectively. With gradient accumulation it's equivalent even. Large batch sizes are used to increase parallelism, and sometimes to reduce variance in the loss sig
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by xyhopguy 4mo ago
No one wants to be around an alcoholic. But it's not to be nice, but to understand them, their struggles, and their perspectives. Anecdote - I was at a concert with my brother, outside in the smoking area. A homeless woman came by, did
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by xyhopguy 5mo ago
cancer is more like debugging a gigantic DL model than an operating system. spaghetti of redundancies all the way down.
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by xyhopguy 5mo ago
He wasn't the only one who saw the problem computationally. Famously, the mathematician Michael Waterman sat on the other-side of the race for the human genome.
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by xyhopguy 5mo ago
not really. early deep learning models were run on single consumer-grade GPUs. the inflection occured _right_ when parallel computing became fast enough to do backprop in a reasonable amount of time with performance better than tree methods
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by xyhopguy 5mo ago
3x increase in compute for a 1.5x increase in tdp is pretty good considering the underlying process had barely changed. In anycase, consumer GPUs aren't a good metric as they operate with different economic constraints. H100 to GB200 s
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by xyhopguy 4y ago
> I wanted to conjure models I could play with in my hand. I wanted a museum where I could walk around inside the epithelium during an immune response. I wanted to put ideas into physical space, like on a pinboard—TLRs go here, with the
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
Currently we deal with >= 8am sunrise for 2 months of the year. With this proposal, you get it for November and February too. yay!
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
this proposal will set sunrise at 9am during december in Oregon and washington. 'Wake up later' doesnt really work for most people.
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
I recently dealt with this. Right before my free trial expired, I went to cancel. A support rep offered another 3 months free. The first red flag was not receiving a log of our conversation. Three months go buy and sure enough, when I went
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
Definitely is technically in the northwest part of the state, but I'm not sure I'd call it close to the Washington border. It's much closer to Salem and Bend than it is Portland, for instance.
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
For oregon the population center is almost exactly Detroit. There is a large population in the willamette valley south of portland (and bend is captured by this too).
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
Weird, it's all bulk in Salem.
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
I have no idea where you guys are seeing these prices. Chalice, on the absolute high end that I've seen, tops out at 250/oz. Nectar/Green Cross are my gotos, both of them are well below the prices yall are discussing. Green c
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
go to greencross in bend, they have the exact prices i'm referring to. Dont go to the stores that purchase from bulk retailers, shops that have their own farms typically have higher quality and lower prices.
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
i mean this is verifiably wrong: try this place in salem, really nice stuff and great prices. "Reserve" is their top-of-the-plant pickings that go for $160 oz. Not a big difference between their bulk (75-100) and reserve. https:&
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
its not hard to get top shelf ounces for $100-140 in oregon...
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
thats a dewpoint of 76F!!! dunno what its like a little more east but in the northwest that's unheard of. Portland's dewpoint I think peaked around 65F.
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
At 49C you need a dewpoint of almost 70 (!!) to get 20% relative humidity. thats nasty -- during the heatwave in portland the dewpoint was between 63-68 most days. Usually its ~55. For context, the dewpoint on the east coast during the stor
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
there is never a million people on the oregon coast.
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by xyhopguy 5y ago
'discord professional' seems like pretty low hanging fruit and an obvious upgrade over slack + zoom
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
or up north... 10-11pm, awful.
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
many long read assemblers (good ones, at that) treat it as a hamiltonian problem.
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
theyre not really similar problem, genome assembly is a problem that is most effectively solved in the lab and with traditional graph algorithms. protein folding fits very nicely into structured prediction and has a very quantitative way of
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
non-determinism can also be modeled as a state-machine (and in fact, you can prove non-deterministic state machines can always be represented by deterministic state machines).
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
You make excellent points -- the point related to culture is the most common I've heard from people outside Portland (particularly non-white people). I think the only things you omitted are the differences in weather and the size of th
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
agreed -- portland is right there with very similar recreational activities and literally 25% the rent. why rent a 1b1b in SF when you can rent a mansion right on washington park for the same price?
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
right but thats not the same as selecting for IQ. thats not even getting into the fact that genetics << environmental effects for predicting IQ..
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
Sun in winter sounds nice
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by xyhopguy 6y ago
Because sunrise is already at like 8 in the dead of winter. Pretty hard to wake up after that if you work at 9

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