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For sure, and even training is very doable on consumer hardware these days. Techniques like Dreambooth and LoRA have dramatically lowered the compute cost of finetuning large model…

I guess that makes sense. I use Mullvad as well, and anecdotally it seemed to have a similar rate of blacklisted endpoints to Nord. I guess in Nord's case maybe its ubiquity is the…

I'm curious, why would that be the case?

"I am become and"

Deja vu, I have been in this place before. It's amazing how circular the responses in this comment thread are getting. There appears to be disagreement on the surface, but in reali…

I think it's been raised in the context of a fair few sightings where there's supposedly been a very large craft moving silently and relatively slowly, e.g. the 2000 Illinois sight…

And still lower than other laser systems using inertial confinement. If I'm reading NIF's recent paper right, they're claiming Q_a of above ~1.4, or Q = ~0.28 https://www.ncbi.nlm.…

> But, of course, I'm overlooking something here. Because if you take the same portrait at 50mm and with, say, 20mm, it's not just the focal length of the camera that differs. What…

And there's also the fact that the other possibility seems so unlikely: why would you store a sensitive experimental aircraft under a transparent tarp? I can't think of any reason …

> Until the computer starts telling people what to do My phone has me well trained. All it has to do is play a short message tone and I'll come running...

> I'm just wondering if using cameras that are close to each other, but use different focal lengths, doesn't give the same results I can see why it might seem that way intuitively,…

Sure, but they're not getting that 3d map from binocular vision. The forward camera sensors are within a few mm of each other and different focal lengths. And the tweet thread you …

One question I've always had about Tesla's sensor approach: why not use binocular forward facing vision? Seems like it would be a simple and cheap way to get reliable depth maps, w…

Sounds similar to experimental designs by Rolls Royce for a diesel rotary during the 60s, in that it uses two separate parallel shafts and rotors for intake/compression and ignitio…

There's a great New Yorker article on this for those interested. It's a pretty fascinating read -- doubtless been posted here a bunch before. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/202…

> It seems clear to me that there is an optimal starting word, but that the best second word has to depend on the info you gain from the first. Definitely. The likelihood of a lett…

Not sure I would call Tor "perfect", but it's certainly very useful for some use-cases.

Totally agree. I feel like this speaks to a general reluctance to accept uncertainty and shades of gray surrounding a topic. It often seems to me that many people prefer to have th…

Yeah that's likely true. I had chosen MP3 for reasons of total compatability and 'good enough' compression, but it seems like almost all music players have good support for those f…

I agree. I was using almost entirely lossless until five years ago or so, when I did some ABX tests (there's a good foobar plugin for those interested) and realised that 256+ kbps …

Not appreciably different, that was the whole logic behind my thinking. In my case I have electric heaters, so doesn't make a difference compared to a gpu -- they're both effective…

I did this last winter. Mining 24/7 on my personal rig noticeably took a bit of load off the heater and made a modest amount of ethereum. I stopped once the weather warmed as it se…

It's probably only a matter of time. I had a similar thought when I saw Mercedes new infotainment UI [0] -- the dark blue with heavy use of gradients is very reminiscent of vista-e…

I suppose an optimist would say that success, even at a tiny scale, would be a step in the right direction. But you're right, it could well be possible that the effect doesn't scal…

> The issue seems to be that the alcubierre drive requires things like external negative energy Yes that's traditionally been the stumbling block. But the whole point of the linked…