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Just curious, what is the spec you pay $6000/year for? Where/what is the line between rent vs buy?

yea I used a lot of low price editions in college that i would order from ebay etc and would ship from india. Wow i didnt know about the ink x-ray stuff, thats pretty interesting. …

This is a bit off topic, but why are used books so expensive on abebooks, thriftbooks, amazon so expensive compared to booksales, etc? I recall a time when a lot of these online st…

Is there something I can read to get a better sense of what types of models are most suitable for which problems? All I hear about are transformers nowadays, but what are the types…

Maybe I'm out of touch, but have transformers replaced all traditional deep learning architectures? (U-nets, etc)?

My best movie experiences were probably watching hard to acquire bootlegs in the pre-digital age. The barriers were just so much higher, half the excitement was just getting a crap…

Yea, also often the movies were cams from people that recorded in the theater so you can see the audience walking around etc. Quality hardly matters when the real treasure was gett…

I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but I have heard it said more than once that Republican led states are able to greenlight projects faster, are more business-friendly envi…

Section 9902 of the act authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance to "covered entities" One can argue how to interpret "financial assistance" broadly, wh…

...thats how the US Constitution works. Congress passes laws (CHIPS Act) and the executive branch is empowered to carry them out - in this case the Secretary of Commerce and Commer…

Agree with this, but I think LLM's have been a net positive in helping generate commands? Admittedly, getting working commands is still tough sometimes, and i'm 50/50 on whether Ch…

The other thing no one wants to say is the technical software/hardware talent in biotech is not as good as broader tech, and the people in charge of these projects are usually comi…

A lot of the technology is regulated by FDA requirements, which apply to humans but not animals. Some of these requirements are challenging engineering problems - like how to do ce…

What environment do you use? Is it still the case that Windows is the main development environment for cuda?

Are there non-icloud backup options? There used to be local encrypted backups through itunes, but I can't tell if that feature is still around.

because the spelled out domain is free advertising and easy enough to remember. It says exactly what it is.

What does that mean that "the sun is brighter"?

Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities have proven it's possible to interfere with autonomous vehicles by exploiting their reliance on camera-based computer v…

These comments make it sound like Jon Stewart himself wields no power. He commands an audience he can take to any platform he wants. It just looks like he took a liking to the pot …

Definitely agree here. I have been making this transition and currently work on life science lab automation robotics. It definitely takes intentionality because if you're good at s…

Another angle. Looks like it landed on someone's property https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1739686569676566911?s=20

how big is the market for $1100 rice cookers?

I think what the comment is saying is, if the government is spending a lot of money inefficiently (i.e. spending $100,000 on a weapon that has $10,000 in raw materials plus layers …

Not sure the point here. California St is a major artery in and out of downtown. All I'm saying is there is an opportunity for improving the quality of traffic but instead the publ…