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> …‘‘computer science’’ is not a science and…its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express…

"sleeping on the streets" and "living in Brooklyn Heights" are hardly the only two options here.

To be fair, I don't think the rationale is really "if they have nothing to hide...". More something having to do with whether privacy is something that should come along with the l…

It's only a problem if you want to use Bayes to take some credences + evidence and prove them irrational (indep. of prior). Bayes is great for verifying self-consistency: given som…

I imagine at least part of this is that specs (and documentation generally) just suck now. It's nigh impossible to sort out which bits are CYA legalese, and which bits are "no, act…

It's a matter of economy-- if you spent all day measuring obvious things you'd never get anything done. Clearly which things you choose to measure should be a function of how certa…

Agreed with the general point, but it doesn't apply here. Memory locality can be objectively measured (e.g. with last level cache miss counters), and parent comment is correct besi…

The problem is exactly that the improvements are not most of what you're paying for, at least in many locales where this sort of policy would make a difference.

How certain are you that the upper tail is not impacted just as much, if not more?

The claim here is that the military families are /so much more stable/ that it explains their kids (collectively) performing better than every other state in the country. Obviously…

Yes, in my experience rural areas around bases tend to be more well-off than rural areas not around bases -- the base stimulates the local economy quite a bit, if nothing else. (Ot…

Yeah, I had a similar upbringing, and this is my feeling as well. There's a massive trade-off here, but I do feel like the military kids I knew (and run into now) are radically mor…

Yeah, this is along the lines of my comment. (Am a military brat, attended some DoD schools, also attended a school in FCPS.) The educational rigor across different districts is ma…

This sounds familiar -- I wonder if we were there at the same time.

I grew up on military installations and attended some DoD schools. Some things unmentioned/underemphasized: Families PCS (move) extremely often -- sometimes every school year, freq…

Because the model (=="dictionary") is 70B floats -- 280GB naively, 40-70GB aggressively quantized (which might reduce compression rate). If your file is big enough that the margina…

> The existence of even the most basic objective truth, such as 1+1=2 You might be surprised that even this is a relatively (sorry) controversial view. Many (most?) practicing math…

Whoever sold them those call options, at the very least.

> It seems like almost every day I run into some Cruise or Waymo (mostly Cruise) vehicle stuck in the middle of the street blocking traffic ...really? I've seen this maybe once or …

Really? Maybe my (large, relatively well respected state school) lectures were uniquely bad. But I found MIT lectures to be leagues ahead of what we got. They covered more content,…

Quantization is hardly a "finding of the open source community". (IIRC the first TPU was int8! Though the tradition is much older than that.)

The Presidio is not dense.

This does indeed improve efficiency significantly: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07061

Which makes you wonder what would happen if you gave ChatGPT two streams of output: one for "speech" and one for inner-monologue-style "thinking". For most of our "hmm, let me thin…

What if I hook some (very hypothetical) actuators up to the rock? Surely the /concept/ doesn't depend on us having the tech to make such actuators...