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If you don't think your analogy is a miss then you haven't really read any serious literature.
A store placed where land and labour is expensive will necessarily have considerably higher prices than one far away from such an area.

I had friends who, in order to save money, went by bus, did shopping for the whole week and just Ubered back, because even compared to a local Lidl it was worth it. Of course it was a major time sink, but spread over a week didn't affect them too much.

My personal record was in Zurich, where I had a whopping 3.6km to the next Lidl, from which I only returned by bus, because those ~4CHF saved on the ticket there afforded me 1kg of bananas(2CHF instead of 3 in Coop) and a can of tuna.

This is the type of reality I'm talking about - note the lack of cars in these scenarios.

I wish I could find the clip showing the mentioned building, but a cursory search didn't yield results.
Nestjs has released a devtools site, allowing developers to traverse their backends and view changes across commits.
Sometimes yes, and sometimes yes.

I can be convinced, I just want to see the arguments.
Dish Network still reeling from week-old ransomware attack
You can’t do any transfer by any particular deadline if the network is down.

Assuming the network will recover in time may be a reasonable assumption sometimes, though.
Sadly AMD/Intel iGPUs (which AMD calls APUs) are limited to 83GB/sec or so, of which you'd be lucky to see 50GB/sec or so.

Apple has 100, 200, 400, and 800GB/sec flavors that fit in laptops (100-400), mac mini (100-200GB/sec), or mac studio (400-800GB/sec). Configurations up to 96GB ram are available.

Even does low power, air cooling, and pretty quiet. I do wish Arm, AMD, or Intel would do similar. Maybe a future AMD will have a better memory bus, like they one they ship i n the PS5 and XboxX. Or maybe Nvidia will ship a smaller version of the Hopper+Grace that fits in a SFF.
Does openAI have models for data to train it with.. data like pricing, locations, products .... Or would I have to use something else?
The reason I ask because companies are using it with their own data, like Shopify... sooo it has to be trained somehow.
Same viable as it was when we were at 1% of current consumption (i.e. viable).
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On-site works as well for me.
the all star game does have financial incentives. 25k to losing players, 100k to winners. Apparently 75k isn't enough to convince the players to try. I think it makes sense when considering how much they have to lose with the playoffs coming up.

I think this is where the midseason tournament idea can come in. 75k might be nothing to the max contract guys in the all star game, but half the players on every team are on minimum deals making around a million. The 75k would be big for those guys and I think the peer pressure from them could be enough to get the stars to really go out there and give it their all.

As far as the all star game goes, I'm not sure fixing it is possible or even that necessary. What's wrong with it just being a harlem globetrotters game? Sure the ratings won't be great, but maybe that's just something the league has to accept.
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Yeah it's good if it's a warning, not otherwise.
I once purchased a used textbook wherein over 75% of the text was highlighted.
A modern example of code like this would be any game coded in SmileBASIC for the 3DS.
An easier way to do this would be to limit the hardware resources available to Stockfish. You can get the 24x time ratio just by giving Stockfish 1/24th of the compute cycles.

That said, 24x is not even close to enough advantage there -- that probably removes less than one ply of depth. Stockfish can read far deeper than any human; you'd need a dramatically larger reduction to compensate for this.

You could probably put Stockfish on a desktop computer from the mid 90's, and expect the team of GMs to win.
Exactly. That's why OP suggested Erlang. I switched from Python to Erlang and never had issues with GIL or scaling or operability. Elixir shares the same BEAM VM so that's another option as well.
It's possible to use a lookup table (sort of) in a register. With x86-64-v2 and later, the code is larger, but potentially faster due to the shorter dependency chain:

int
div7 (int x)
{
return 9 - __builtin_popcountll (0x4081020408102040ULL >> x);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/Wj6P6jYGM

I think any monotonic function on 0 .. 63 can be written this way, so should be possible to fold in the outer 63 - nlz expression, too.
For B2C applications maybe. But I don’t know many enterprise users who would like to send any of their data to OpenAI. So “enterprise-readiness” would be another big contributor.
Most of the time 50% of the population is below average. If you want to fail everyone who is below average you will likely fail 50% of the population.

Sure, it is possible that there are very low outliers pulling the average down so that the median is well above average, but I doubt that is generally the case.

The description of a grade level standard is basically an average performance estimate. It may have been codified in the past when the average was different, and they may have chosen to set the grade-level standard lower than the mathematical average for various reasons.

So it's not necessarily the case that 50% being below grade level is just normal. But without knowing how it is calculated and what the grade-level means, the headline is not useful. The general idea that there is a expectation being met by slightly less than 50% of the population seems totally expected from a mathematical standpoint and does not indicate any deficiency on its own.

Lets say it were worded like this: "Less than 50% of students are not meeting minimum grade-level proficiency standards in math." That would tell me something much more concerning. Because Minimum standards should be something that a vast majority of students can achieve. But it will always be the case that if we have and estimate of the "normal" mathematics ability for a particular grade, about 50% will likely exceed it and about 50% will likely fall short.

So does on-grade-level mean minimum expectations, or an estimate of normal grade-level abilities? I don't know. Reading through the website I see that when their standard is that the student shows competency that is consistent with progress toward being ready to take college level courses after finishing 12th grade. So it seems that they have set milestones for certain skills and placed them along a track for each grade. However those tracks are still likely influenced by the average abilities of most students.

I would still expect that any given student is likely to have productive periods and less productive periods throughout their schooling and might fall-behind for a while and might catch up later when some focus is returned. As a result I would still expect that at any time a large portion of students are going to be in falling-behind mode, then catching up later. Only a small percentage will just spend their entire time being ahead of the curve in math ability. The ones who don't have a particular interest will do what it takes to meet minimum often enough, when pressured by parents or teachers or counselors.

If the standards are set so low that 70% of students stay ahead of them most of the time, the standards are probably too low and we are not ambitious enough in our expections. Likely we would not sufficiently motivate the schools to achieve maximally. If they are so high that 70% of students at any time are falling behind, then they are probably too high and would only be discouraging. ~50% seems ideal to me. If we had 55% of students meeting expectations at any time, I'd want to raise the expectations.
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Define dead?

The driver for the EPD is not (yet) upstreamed, and the device has never been sold to end users (only developers).

Either they are waiting for better software support to be ironed out, or they overestimated the interest in a $400 eink device.
Yeah, at this point it seems like you're just burning money if you're not rightsizing your parameters/corpus.
Total lifecycle. An ic can be made out of 99% easily recyclable metals. Lithium battery tech currently remains very tricky to recycle.
IMHO it's not a matter of readiness - most German automakers now have EV models that are very good, VW's ID.4 for example is excellent in my experience.

It's the fear that they won't make as much money as they are now, losing lines that probably will still be profitable in 2035. It's likely that 20-30% of the market will simply refuse to transition to EV, either for ideological or practical reasons; nobody wants to lose those customers.
I think you mean GPT-4 since Chinchilla is a Deepmind project. But yes, I was also suspecting that also as it seems unlikely this was the full 175b parameter model with such big improvements in speed and price.

In fact, given the pricing for OpenAI Foundry, that seems even more likely as this GPTTurbo model was listed along with two other models with much larger context windows of 8k and 32k tokens.
what do you mean "unscrollable"?
Yeah, it used to be I'd set Google results to just one year back, now I'm having to set it to one month.
this is good, the solution to cars is not EVs. it's investment in public transit and making people buy less cars overall.
Describing it as "soldered" is not right. It's on the same package. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1. There's no multi-centimeter hundred-plus-line bus to drive charges through. Pushing signals through those big long wires takes juice.
> But that's not because you built a system that successfully delivers messages exactly once... you build a system that successfully processes messages exactly once, even if delivery occurs multiple times.

I think the difference might be partly semantic. If processing at the messaging level is idempotent + at least once, then message delivery to the application level is exactly once. People mostly only care about the application level not the lower levels where they might just build on a library or system that handles that logic for them.
Interestingly this has just come up again recently with the 'dahl' controversy.[0]

[0] https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/should-we-update-old-...
> a spillover animal

"Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms between humans and mink and back to humans"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5901

Not what you meant?

How long did it take to definitively identify a natural reservoir for the 2002 SARS outbreak?

"Bats as Animal Reservoirs for the SARS Coronavirus: Hypothesis Proved After 10 Years of Virus Hunting"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258204548_Bats_as_a...
> Docker Desktop runs dockerd in a Linux VM with Apple's hypervisor framework

Which in my experience uses at a minimum 4gb of RAM just sitting idle with no containers running
In what way?

The decrease in life expectancy from 2014-2018 is well before the pandemic. Going forward when say pricing life insurance it’s worth considering pandemics or at minimum the the likely endemic nature of coronavirus variants becoming endemic.
It'll definitely be important to allow that to be overridden (either by just flagging a station "does the right thing" or by building some AIs to fill in) so the game is usable with fewer than the required number of players. But that can come later (last I checked, most bridge simulators don't have that so plenty of time to get around to it).

Regarding engines: A random tidbit I picked up about nuclear submarines is that the reactors actually require quite a bit of manual tuning and observation. This was intentional: especially back in the day of the first nuclear subs, automation hardware would have been bulky and (spacewise) expensive, and the alternative was to leave the systems manually-tuned and train sailors to do the job. From a safety perspective, one of course chooses automation... But war has a different safety perspective, and the great thing about a sailor is that when they aren't busy running the reactor they can do something else. They can also react to a captain's needs and get creative in a way that an automated system can't (a major concern for the design was that a captain could be hamstrung in a sea battle trying to get the sub to do something that the safety interlocks disallowed).

That aspect of real vessels, that it's possible to "redline" them and run them in a configuration that is temporarily viable but risks damage or makes them more vulnerable in some other way, is an interesting piece to play with in a game environment as a risk players can choose to take.
I agree in general, but don't think it's a particularly effective answer to this specific question relationship-wise. Nor would it be particularly useful when coming from a powerful but biased AI.
WASM-4 games and experiments built by users
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That's an excellent point that I don't think is made enough. The great pay and relative freedom software engineering provides the technically-minded people of the world is great for us, yet starves many other important fields from more technical innovation because of not enough workers in those fields.
And with the GPTs of the world, OCR is a vanishing issue.
After 20+ years of driving stick, I had to switch to slushbox because of the spouse. Fair enough, the thing didn't cost extra, has gone 200,000km+ without a lick of trouble and the fuel economy is good and the "vroom vroom" appeal fades with youth.

But now the slushboxes have turned into CVTs. Belt drive! Maybe they've finally solved that problem, turned them into bomb-proof long-term reliable transmissions. Maybe they haven't. What to do? Spouse is actually kind of, sort of interested in learning to drive manual, but what's the point? Our longer term future, like everyone else's, is likely PHEV or full electric.
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i really like the idea of this app, i ma giving it a try
Conjure: GUI Front End for ImageMagick
but many do
Not for sure if you are working on SD card based things but this might get you half way there. We do this for loading RPIs https://github.com/Robertof/nixos-docker-sd-image-builder
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Life expectancy dipped due to COVID, opioid overdoses, and suicides. They all count obviously, but the last two are particularly avoidable.

In other words, I'm not too worried about accidentally committing suicide or overdosing on heroin.
I’m stunned you can change your Apple password with just a passcode and the device.
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Its a good baseline, but I very much doubt that openAI is paying anywhere near the public cost for their compute allocation.
No, I'm trying to say that developers - like me - are not entitled or knowledgeable about what are the properties of a sentient mind, and frequently not very good at reasoning about subjective, non analytical things. That being "an ex Google employee" is a shitty credential and should not give this guy any real credibility to argue about the moral implications of AI for humanity, and there are experts out there who have been studying human and animal behavior for centuries and these people have a lot more to add to the discussion than a bunch of nerds - like me - on Hackernews.
> the ROI must have been worth it

Or, it was a speculation
I understand you’re joking, but surely it’s asymptotic to some multiple of human gestational periods.
You illustrate the OP point. Having some fools don't compare to a number of other countries where poverty rate is 80% and people trying to leave.
Florida grew by 15% in 2020 compared to the previous census.

Comparing child test scores Florida isn't much different than CA. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-24/californ...

There is plenty to criticize about the US and individual states but some people don't seem to have any context as relates to many other countries.
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I think they are actually selling this service at a price point that is profitable.
evidence of Vikings in Italy is not comparable. that's a seafaring society, known for migration, unbound by a time period. now if you found evidence of some connection between the Vikings and the big pyramid at Giza, then that would be more comparable, but still geographically and temporally closer, by at least double.

by Tamils in Australia, do you mean the bell they found in New Zealand? I couldn't find anything significant pointing to evidence of Tamils in Australia from a search, but I'd be interested to read about it if there is?

>more and more we are understanding that our modern perspective has grossly underestimated people of the past.

while I completely agree with the sentiment, this is such a classic pseudo-archaeological buzzphrase. even the way you phrased it specifically sounds like it's coming from someone trying to sell me books. the connotations of it are off-the-charts levels of off-putting
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I have to say, this is a really interesting application of (e)BPF. Looking forward to other infra providers picking up on Akita' approach.
no the language model decides what a token is
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