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irrelative
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About irrelative
reach me at jedavis83@gmail.com
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Comment #46858311
Regard | Senior Engineers | NYC, SF, LA | Full-time Regard is a New York City–based AI health-tech company building the next generation of clinical insights software. Our platform …
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Comment #44532999
Correct, this is the actual headline too. 100 tflops sure seems like it'd be more than that, but here we are. If the headline was "FB8 is ~7% faster when kernel name has 'cutlass' …
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Comment #42543954
Flying is incredibly less expensive largely due to deregulation, and Budweiser has always been brewed with rice. So, yes, this is winning.
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Comment #41614412
It is, and small teams were often rebelling against incumbents, so rejecting the aesthetics of big companies was a good way to attract talent.
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Comment #41339377
Seriously. It’s not like that was the actual purpose of html or anything.
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Comment #39540290
Hadn't thought about it this way before, but given that LLMs are auto regressive (use their own data for next data), they're sensitive to error drift in ways that are rather simila…
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Comment #39269994
Classic spinal tap. “These go to eleven.”
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Comment #39250643
Only if it works >4% of the time.
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Comment #39160343
Well a carbon tax would essentially end coal.
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Comment #38981834
Or perhaps you overestimate how many people hold any view of Boeing at all.
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Comment #38943381
While I'm sure some chemical byproducts come out of that, it's important to note that hydrocarbons assuredly make some really nasty stuff along the way [1]. I also wish there was a…
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Comment #38504675
(slightly) less pop science version: fiber optic cables are so sensitive, they can even detect the sounds of cidadas.
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Comment #38032946
Watts aren’t energy, so no idea what this means.
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Comment #37255730
Anyone know why this chart[1] hasn't been updated in a while? One of my favorite displays of incremental improvements in a project. [1] https://www.sqlite.org/cpu.html
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Comment #35749672
Roughly 30 times faster than an airliner.
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Comment #35713321
Note that futexes aren’t especially new to Linux anyway. They first appear in kernel version 2.6 released in 2003.
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Comment #35315428
Or we could make a generalized solution, like a carbon tax, that will minimize the government picking winners.
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Comment #35203750
I agree it's not wrong to like trucks, and that hating on the owners is a cheap shot. I also think that this video points out the externalities that trucks impose. In a rational so…
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Comment #34385817
The low voltage side of a transformer needs to handle more current. You could use the same gauge on both sides and get the same voltage, but you'd experience more losses.
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Comment #32745055
Sure, could be simpler, but there's a spec and multiple implementations: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html And the spec is ~5 pages. Not sure why NDJSON is considered sim…
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Comment #32209253
Hopefully “for sale”, not “on sale”
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Comment #31070590
Lithium-Iron-Phosphate chemistries appear likely to be the choice for less flashy vehicles, and don't require cobalt or nickel. It's slightly less energy dense, though has some oth…
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Comment #29503831
There was a sort of doomsday device built by the Soviets: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113242... > If there's a crisis, somebody in the Defense Ministries …