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With genomics, your data is probably write ~once, almost entirely numeric, and is most likely used for single-client offline analysis. This differs a lot from what most SQL databas…

Amusingly, (to me at least) there's also an SSE instruction for non-reciprocal square roots but it's so much slower than reciprocal square root that calculating sqrt(x) as x * 1/sq…

Yeah, I think DRAM is almost certainly the future, just in terms of being able to afford the memory capacity to fit large models. Even Cerebras using a full wafer only gets up to 4…

Seems like the claims of the abstract for speed and energy-efficiency relative to an RTX 3090 are when the GPU is using a batch size of 1. I wonder if someone with more experience …

The article also gives reason to be skeptical of the quoted "10 fatalities out of an estimated 3.65 million jumps in 2023". If we count 28 known fatalities at this one facility fro…

Thanks for the link, and very good to know. I've always struggled to find component prices for Kioxia drives and higher-capacity RAM sticks so it's good to see I can finally look t…

Are you sure you're comparing equivalent memory and storage specs? I needed to go into the customization menus in the Dell configurator to spec something equivalent, where prices s…

The specifications page [1] gives a bit more context. I think minimum buy is about a half rack, which includes at least 16 64-core CPUs, 16 TiB of RAM, and 465.75 TiB of NVMe SSD s…

If the function chooses to overwrite the value of a variable binding, it doesn't matter how it is defined at the call site (so inner x wins in your example). In the tidyverse libra…

The good news is that most variables in R are immutable with copy-on-write semantics. Therefore, most of the time everything here will be side-effect-free and any weird editing of …

One of the wildest R features I know of comes as a result of lazy argument evaluation combined with the ability to programmatically modify the set of variable bindings. This means …

To my knowledge AlphaGo models never became meaningfully available to the public, but 8 years later the KataGo project has open source, superhuman Go AI models freely available and…

I'm sorry about negative experiences and/or regrets other commenters might have about their vaccinations. Measuring the risk/reward profile of vaccines seems far from simple, parti…

Strong second for wishing they tried physically testing some model output. The importance of "model that makes outputs AlphaFold thinks look like Cas" is very different from "model…

Sadly even SSE vs. AVX is enough to often give different results, as SSE doesn't have support for fused multiply-add instructions which allow calculation of a*b + c with guaranteed…

I hope this is just the start of egress fee changes in response to the European Data Act. Taking a look at other parts of the law's text [1], I think this change related to Article…

Yeah, the crux of the issue would definitely be whether use of an API is prohibited by default under copyright law for a country (i.e. does using a library make something a derivat…

I think it is known that the Chinese state is making genetic databases of these minority populations and is taking genetic samples without consent. It's also known that the Chinese…

Looking closer at the GPL, it seems like most requirements only kick in once you "convey" GPL-covered code. If you make your users get the GPL component themselves from a 3rd party…

I think this 2019 article from the NY Times gives a reasonable introduction [1]. In short, the concern is that China is developing genetic databases as part of its state surveillan…

I appreciate that the authors released code and weights with their paper! This is the first high-profile DeepMind paper I can recall that has runnable inference code + checkpoints …

> Other tasks required studying the input data I also felt there were more problems than usual this year that could not easily be solved without looking at the input for special ca…

I believe McFly hangs on to all history in the database, though you can limit the UI to only return the most recent entries (MCFLY_HISTORY_LIMIT). One side note -- I made a small t…

Reading the methodology of the underlying paper makes this estimate seem quite dubious. Quoting from the paper [1]: > Due to lack of data, we assumed that revenue per minute of pla…

Though there are a couple caveats as to what code is available. Quoting from the github: > implementation contains an implementation of the evolutionary algorithm, code manipulatio…