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Kissinger picked targets in Cambodia. He gave the instruction to bomb “anything that flies, anything that moves” [1] [2] [1] https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodi…

This was exactly my undergrad research topic! My knowledge is a bit out of date (perhaps this is in TFA), but the running theory is that there are two number systems. The first ope…

sentence-transformers is excellent. It will be slow on CPU but, because it’s on top of pytorch, does have apple silicon/GPU support.

sentence-transformers has reasonably good tooling around this

This is spot on. I have two close relatives in their early 60s who lost their jobs during the pandemic. One has diabetes, and searched for months before finding a tenuous low-level…

Right, and single thread performance won’t matter as much if it becomes easier to implement multithreading. This hurts legacy code, but I imagine it would be worth it in the long r…

I absolutely see the use case, and I believe AR is already being tested in some heavy industry sectors (eg oilfield services). That said, it’s not really in Apple’s wheelhouse as a…

Do you know if there's there a good reason to favor 3.11 over 3.10 for this use case?

I think that if OP finds The Matrix too adult, Ex Machina is even less appropriate. Her is a good recommendation but I struggle to imagine a 12 year old identifying well with alien…

In its defense, I saw The Matrix at 12 or 13 and adored it because I felt like it was something more serious—-that I could appreciate it was a sign I was maturing, and I was gratef…

> “It was a chicken-and-egg question that has been the subject of debate for a century,” says Karl Deisseroth, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in California Huh, I'd have s…

It seems odd to pick on one of the most universally reviled Beatles' songs to make your point. Three of the band's own members despised it. I don't even think the dozen fans of Max…

It is pretty remarkable that I, someone born decades after those songs were released, can immediately bring each one to mind as I read that list

I've had the same thought, and I'd love to see an analysis of spreadsheet software adoption and (e.g.) financial sector employment to situate LLMs in their proper historical contex…

Inference costs are non-trivial, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the cost of running ChatGPT (given the 3M/day figure) has surpassed that of training it. Without optimizations, trai…

These are not universals. I’ve seen the no-shampoo meme repeatedly in online comments. As someone with long, fine hair, I’ve made two attempts to go without, waiting almost a month…

It’s about disease prevention (mad cow, avian flus, etc)

Eh, not so long ago you used to be able to get a decent bacon egg and cheese from a bodega for $3

Depending on your department and funding period, this may not be a like-for-like comparison. The 34k is an academic-year minimum; the CS stipend at Berkeley is $50k over the full y…

I assume it’s multiple orders of magnitude more expensive than Google because of the use of GPUs (not to mention the ad revenue)

There is ample evidence that CA had no impact. They were charlatans trying to sell snake oil; IIRC the underlying algorithm was based on a simple factorization of a User x Likes ma…

For ML, the bottleneck is often memory, which is the same between those cards.

I’m a PhD in one of the highest CoL cities in the US, so I wouldn’t say I’m speaking from a position of particular financial privilege

I appreciate the nudge to go for a walk/read—at home I can end up sitting on my couch mindlessly scrolling hackernews comments. I had to work from home consistently during the pand…