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Very nice work. Training these from scratch is a big undertaking. - Did you train the encoder & decoder together or separately? It would be nice to have the encoder representation …

EPA range tends to be pessimistic for EVs as it assumes you are always traveling at highway speeds. Even small reductions in speeds can make EVs much more efficient since drag is q…

You can buy stock in a solar "yieldco", which is exactly this. It holds the assets of solar farms and pays out the cashflows. There were a lot circa 2018, I believe Brookfield boug…

It's a very simple change in a vanilla python implementation. The encoder is a set of attention blocks, and the length of the attention can be changed without changing the calculat…

If you are hosting whisper yourself, you can do something slightly more elegant, but with the same effect. You can downsample/pool the context 2:1 (or potentially more) a few layer…

Most of this decline isn't driven by a change in current fertility rates, but instead by a persistent trend downward in number of reproductive-aged adults. That was locked in by th…

Your measuring wall time, not CPU time. It may be that they are similar, but I'd suspect you aren't loading the worker nodes well. If the savings are from the reduced shuffles & se…

When you talk between remote machines, you have to translate to a format that can transmitted and distributed between machines(serialization). You then have to undo at the other en…

The difference in throughput for local versus distributed orchestration would mainly come from serdes, networking, switching. Serdes can be substantial. Networking and switching ha…

Longshoreman is not a typical blue collar job. You cannot just go out and become one today. It is a nepotistic profession where positions are passed within families and closely gua…

It seems like the program has some issues to iron out, but the general concept is really compelling. Being able to group both the supply and demand side of delivery systems could m…

Norway's vehicle fleet is now 25% EVs and their per capita electricity usage is the same it was a decade ago[1]. Oil infrastructure uses a ton of electricity, and California refine…

This feels like a convenient excuse for cost cutting. Experienced people are expensive. If you need to make cuts, it's an easy place to start. Ironically, it's felt like US tech co…

I think that's the real loss here. Rental vehicles are a big source of cheap used cars. Having a steady flow of EVs from there would have brought down used prices and made them mor…

They just laid off 6,000 people. Sounds more like it was an attempt to get people to quit so they don't have to pay as much severance. https://www.firstpost.com/tech/tech-layoffs-2…

The article you linked is from 2017. 80% of Australia's solar was installed after that came out. Hard to argue that it's somehow responsible. Seems like your knowledge is a bit out…

Australia is transitioning >3% of their electricity supply to solar per year and still accelerating. Rooftop solar is near 50% uptake. Combined with wind, they are on track to almo…

The grid was much nearer to collapse seven years ago when there were actually brownouts, and renewables have been entirely responsible for its improvement. Moving toward renewables…