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Fireflite

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    Comment #26535070

    Do you have a link to the electricity restoring sense of touch research? I've noticed the same thing by accident after some nerve damage and would love to be able to improve furthe…

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    Comment #26195486

    The enormously wasteful environmental cost of PoW is certainly a turn off to those of us on the left as well.

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    Comment #25561369

    The problem isn't at all soil or nutrients: those are cheap and make up a very small fraction of the final mass of food. Instead, it's energy required to power photosynthesis, turn…

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    Comment #25549406

    AI Dungeon uses it to excellent effect, but with extensive fine tuning and tweaks.

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    Comment #25480669

    The way that you can turn normal Rust functions into systems, grabbing the relevant components through their type signature is wonderful sugar, and feels magic to use.

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    Comment #24098368

    When scaling this up, I would be concerned about climate control, disease management, infrastructure limitations and labor / distribution details. Light, nutrient and water distrib…

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    Comment #23676455

    Yes, you'll often get better results by transplanting earlier. You're missing the inverse control though. In the absence of a specific mechanism it seems very implausible that the …

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    Comment #22280449

    Whale corpses tend to reach the bottom of the ocean largely intact actually! It's hard for most creatures to eat them quickly enough, and they're typically largely eaten by sharks …

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    Comment #19588600

    Injecting entropy into your data in order to generate differentially private access actually typically improves model performance, rather than degrades it. This behaviour is counte…

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    Comment #18347686

    Most other word embeddings have hundreds of dimensions, not thousands. Are you able to hint at what causes this difference? Do you see better downstream task performance?

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    Comment #17912988

    Money alone can't guarantee good outcomes in cases of severe mental illness sadly. Our medications are not good enough, nor are they well-tolerated enough, and sometimes even with …

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    Comment #14363537

    The whole point is that you can run your own algorithms; that's why it's on Google Compute Engine. As far as I can tell you should be able to avoid TensorFlow even, although I susp…

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    Comment #14353519

    Why is asymmetric intellectual property protection a form of friction here?