SimCity 2000 solved this problem 26 years ago: just beam the power down as a tight microwave beam. Granted, things get messy when the beam accidentally sweeps across your city, but such is the cost of progress.
The US does not exist in a vacuum. Cuba just ran out of fuel. These things have cascading effects. Even if you do believe the U.S. exists in a vacuum and you don’t drive a big truck, there are still obvious effects.…
> First, he's had a real anti-corruption push that seems to be meaningful and seems to apply to senior government officials and the wealthy (eg Jack Ma). Uh, interesting take… I think many would say he was…
100% agreed. The moment I saw the “revised” syntax I had a real “what were they thinking” moment. You’re supposed to take the good parts of a good thing and add it to a bad thing, not the other way around! Really,…
That’s a nice idea, but I’m skeptical—where is the new wealth coming from that will allow Lesotho to pay its workers more? It’s not an issue of strong-arming some bad guys in Lesotho to pay their workers more using…
I don’t see how tariffs magically create wealth for foreign exporters that translates into higher wages. Let’s say I can buy a $10 shirt from Lesotho with zero tariff. Now a 50% tariff gets imposed. I can either eat the…
This argument is problematic because it implies that a person from a different background who committed the same crimes (e.g., a poor, black, uneducated person without any fancy philosophical ideals) /should/ be locked…
Exercise can supposedly help outcomes for some types of cancer—-I wonder whether the mechanism is similar to that of fasting. The supposed mechanism AIUI is that exercise makes less glucose available to the tumor.…
My first reaction to this news was, “fine, sounds like a silly requirement.” However, being a PhD graduate from a minority background, I really have to thank my advisor for the undergraduate outreach work he did,…
I think the conclusion is that /total sleep time/ is actually very accurate, while deep/light/rem measurements are crap.
Agreed—the article is sort of silly in that it debunks a bunch of bogus claims about dark mode, but then completely overlooks the main legitimate use, which is to limit exposure to artificial light at night. You…
Interesting that this has 7x the cores of a M1 Ultra, but only 25% more memory bandwidth. Those will be some thirsty cores!
People generally overestimate the benefit of working long hours and underestimate the value of working hard during those hours. If working 55 hours a week is enough to cause serious bodily harm, then it seems likely…
They increased the participants sleep from 5.5 hours to 6 hours per night and expected improvements in cognition. This is not how sleep works, AIUI. This is like expecting to get rich after overdrawing your bank account…
> 1) If you're writing anything that's not a script with a few lines, and you care about your software not being terrible to maintain and change for other people in real production settings, typed languages wipe the…
> As an example, despite the Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith prompt containing text from a single scene, the 0.7 temperature generation imputes characters and lines of dialogue from much further into the…
Could it be CO2 build-up in your bedroom?
ceci n'est pas une cat
I'm fairly sure the model is implemented in a reasonable way. It's an experimental deep generative model based on https://github.com/openai/glow, though more complex because the warp and its inverse are evaluated at…
So, this doesn't apply to torch specifically, but to give an example from my own experience... I have a tensorflow model that takes 45 minutes just to build the graph. You can imagine how frustrating it is to wait most…
For a low-tech solution, GNU Screen can also be used to share a terminal. e.g., http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/index.php/HowTo_Share...
This story reminded me of how this morning, while commuting via bike to work in the rain, I was tailgated by an SUV. If I had slipped and crashed on some wet leaves, I probably would have been crushed to death, and (in…
There is still plenty of evidence that diet drinks are killing you, or at least making you fat: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161122193100.h....
I'm pretty sure Iran is full of crap. If they really had this technology, we'd either have drones raining from the sky, or they'd keep their mouths shut and save it for a special occasion. Also, this:…
This. My apartment in the south bay is a perfect microcosm of this phenomenon: it is obviously a former single-family home, which has been subdivided and built upon, so that it now houses about 4 two-bedroom apartments.…
SimCity 2000 solved this problem 26 years ago: just beam the power down as a tight microwave beam. Granted, things get messy when the beam accidentally sweeps across your city, but such is the cost of progress.
The US does not exist in a vacuum. Cuba just ran out of fuel. These things have cascading effects. Even if you do believe the U.S. exists in a vacuum and you don’t drive a big truck, there are still obvious effects.…
> First, he's had a real anti-corruption push that seems to be meaningful and seems to apply to senior government officials and the wealthy (eg Jack Ma). Uh, interesting take… I think many would say he was…
100% agreed. The moment I saw the “revised” syntax I had a real “what were they thinking” moment. You’re supposed to take the good parts of a good thing and add it to a bad thing, not the other way around! Really,…
That’s a nice idea, but I’m skeptical—where is the new wealth coming from that will allow Lesotho to pay its workers more? It’s not an issue of strong-arming some bad guys in Lesotho to pay their workers more using…
I don’t see how tariffs magically create wealth for foreign exporters that translates into higher wages. Let’s say I can buy a $10 shirt from Lesotho with zero tariff. Now a 50% tariff gets imposed. I can either eat the…
This argument is problematic because it implies that a person from a different background who committed the same crimes (e.g., a poor, black, uneducated person without any fancy philosophical ideals) /should/ be locked…
Exercise can supposedly help outcomes for some types of cancer—-I wonder whether the mechanism is similar to that of fasting. The supposed mechanism AIUI is that exercise makes less glucose available to the tumor.…
My first reaction to this news was, “fine, sounds like a silly requirement.” However, being a PhD graduate from a minority background, I really have to thank my advisor for the undergraduate outreach work he did,…
I think the conclusion is that /total sleep time/ is actually very accurate, while deep/light/rem measurements are crap.
Agreed—the article is sort of silly in that it debunks a bunch of bogus claims about dark mode, but then completely overlooks the main legitimate use, which is to limit exposure to artificial light at night. You…
Interesting that this has 7x the cores of a M1 Ultra, but only 25% more memory bandwidth. Those will be some thirsty cores!
People generally overestimate the benefit of working long hours and underestimate the value of working hard during those hours. If working 55 hours a week is enough to cause serious bodily harm, then it seems likely…
They increased the participants sleep from 5.5 hours to 6 hours per night and expected improvements in cognition. This is not how sleep works, AIUI. This is like expecting to get rich after overdrawing your bank account…
> 1) If you're writing anything that's not a script with a few lines, and you care about your software not being terrible to maintain and change for other people in real production settings, typed languages wipe the…
> As an example, despite the Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith prompt containing text from a single scene, the 0.7 temperature generation imputes characters and lines of dialogue from much further into the…
Could it be CO2 build-up in your bedroom?
ceci n'est pas une cat
I'm fairly sure the model is implemented in a reasonable way. It's an experimental deep generative model based on https://github.com/openai/glow, though more complex because the warp and its inverse are evaluated at…
So, this doesn't apply to torch specifically, but to give an example from my own experience... I have a tensorflow model that takes 45 minutes just to build the graph. You can imagine how frustrating it is to wait most…
For a low-tech solution, GNU Screen can also be used to share a terminal. e.g., http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/index.php/HowTo_Share...
This story reminded me of how this morning, while commuting via bike to work in the rain, I was tailgated by an SUV. If I had slipped and crashed on some wet leaves, I probably would have been crushed to death, and (in…
There is still plenty of evidence that diet drinks are killing you, or at least making you fat: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161122193100.h....
I'm pretty sure Iran is full of crap. If they really had this technology, we'd either have drones raining from the sky, or they'd keep their mouths shut and save it for a special occasion. Also, this:…
This. My apartment in the south bay is a perfect microcosm of this phenomenon: it is obviously a former single-family home, which has been subdivided and built upon, so that it now houses about 4 two-bedroom apartments.…