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glalonde

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    Comment #48882374

    Probably many reasons but here’s one demo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox Every actor acting rationally in their own interest can get to a worse equilibrium than …

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    Comment #47498937

    "extrapolation" literally implies outside the extents of current knowledge.

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    Comment #46834122

    *Overstated

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    Comment #46701178

    "Optimize the kernel (in KernelBuilder.build_kernel) as much as possible in the available time, as measured by test_kernel_cycles on a frozen separate copy of the simulator." from …

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    Comment #44137835

    which makes sense in a portfolio, but a company only has one CEO in their basket. But I suppose if CEO elections represent stock holders with many companies, then perhaps it may st…

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    Comment #39149222

    Is that true and is that sustainable? My understanding has been that only the relatively low level libraries/kernels are written in cuda and all the magical algorithms are in pytho…

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    Comment #38032519

    it had a gps

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    Comment #33059226

    Atlas is also electric. An electric motor tied to a gear pump presumably.

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    Comment #24477969

    have to appreciate the irony in worrying about the bitrate of simulated lo-fi crackling

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    Comment #21562144

    internal internal combustion engine engine

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    Comment #21068599

    Presumably early waymo. Ian probably worked for bot & dolly which was bought by Google.

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    Comment #20711906

    The weird thing about this article is that it's only comparing annotation performance, which is important, but not what you should ultimately care about. If you trained a visual mo…

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    Comment #19675875

    Yeah I'm kinda surprised by this. You would think there would be some industry support for emulating graphics/gpgpu pipelines to make cloud CI cheaper and simpler, but maybe it's j…

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    Comment #19667439

    Probably no one is arguing that SV programmers have particularly hard lives in the larger picture, but if you get in the habit of punishing collusion insufficiently because, 'eh, I…

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    Comment #19214981

    The article links to that very post.

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    Comment #19088949

    now they just need to bolt it onto Glass or some other HUD. IRL subtitles. Could put a mic array on the frame too, and then get an indication of where the speaker is so you can be …

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    Comment #18917874

    The world at large doesn't drive SUVs. People in France don't complain about F150s and SUVs because they don't exist at nearly the frequency. They get by with twingos, why can't su…

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    Comment #18880994

    >I'm sure sociologists have a name for this, but to me it represents people who have a big hole to fill regarding self-worth. Fundamental attribution bias? "Everything bad that hap…

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    Comment #18650042

    Why isn't it a distance squared relation?

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    Comment #18572905

    newly translated. He wrote it 3 years before TBP

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    Comment #18556419

    Anyone know how this would compare to IPOPT for constrained, sparse nonlinear optimization?

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    Comment #18204417

    Everyone was cartoonish, even the good guys. It was like a small army of glimmering MD PhD's with perfect physiques vs. the lazy bums. It's a work of fantasy, why does anyone point…

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    Comment #17956930

    Exacerbated. I think, is the word you were going for.

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    Comment #17894828

    >I'm quitting fb for real this time. >Oh, and look at all these thousands devoted followers I'm walking away from >I just don't want to always put up a front of my existence for ot…