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The Netflix Cease and Desist ( https://www.eicoff.com/drtv-blog/netflix-cease-and-desist ) for a Stranger Things themed pop-up bar also comes to mind.

I used PyPy extensively at a previous employer. The use case was to accelerate an application that was CPU-bound because of serde, which could not be offloaded using multiprocessin…

gc.freeze prevents considering the objects in gc, but doesn’t disable reference counting so you’ll still have CoW issues. PEP 683 introduces a way to make an object immortal which …

Why would landlords want to drive down the price of housing?

The top speed to Orlando will be 125mph.

Florida is connecting Miami, Ft Lauderdale, and Orlando this year for a total cost of $3-4 billion. That’s $7.3 million per mile, and it was mostly paid for by private enterprise i…

It uses a lot less energy for people to live in a warm climate with air conditioning than a cold climate with heat. The US spends four times more on heating than cooling, primarily…

How distributable is training a model like this? Do all the gpus need to be physically close together or well networked?

I was lucky enough to get to tour the clean room where they were fabricating the microshutter array at Goddard many years ago. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures, since this w…

This is exactly the kind of behavior that you'd see with reward hacking in reinforcement learning.

Some time after they can't generate 122.0% year-on-year growth without lowering prices?

If you're in the bay area and considering OIT, a friend of mine is opening a private practice offering only OIT [0], starting next Wednesday in Redwood City. She is currently a ful…