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mdda

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About mdda

email me : {your.name} at mdda.net my blog : blog.mdda.net (AI and OSS)

Co-organiser of : https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-Singapore/

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    Comment #44523433

    You've got to be careful with PDFs : We can't see how they are rendered internally for the LLM, so there may be differences in how it's treating the margin/gutters/bleeds that we s…

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    Comment #44005126

    "Make this better in a loop" is less powerful than using evolution on a population. While it may seem like evolution is just single steps in a loop, something qualitatively differe…

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    Comment #43572251

    and (of course) the company will record the data so that the robots will be able to learn via imitation learning ASAP

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    Comment #42776451

    I think the "Aha" is that the RL caused it to use an anthropomorphic tone. One difference from the initial step is that the second time around includes the initial step and the aha…

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    Comment #37388723

    "Track your potential while staying current" would be more apt

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    Comment #36903880

    So you're the one in charge of the unix epoch rollover?

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    Comment #35799050

    Did you see the tennis players from Nvidia? https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/vid2player3d/

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    Comment #33841238

    Google Colab gives you $free GPU (usually a 16Gb T4) preloaded with frameworks, ready to run. Later, you might be tempted by the Pro(+) version, but there's plenty of scope to move…

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    Comment #33814972

    Could you point to any resources online about how to do this? e.g. is this using 8-bit quantisation?

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    Comment #32274371

    Isn't that for only one quarter of the A100?

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    Comment #32124936

    To just play with something : https://huggingface.co/spaces/nateraw/yolov6 (There's an images tab, and some samples below). If you go to the associated code, you'll see that it nee…

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    Comment #32010553

    "All models are licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0" : So, to clarify, does this mean that companies cannot use these models in the course of business, or is it more about selling the tran…

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    Comment #31087078

    Could be... Except their page (should you choose to believe it, of course) specifically addresses the advantages: """ "Advantages over Traditional GANs" : Thus, we observe that our…

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    Comment #31086897

    Or the two can be combined : https://nvlabs.github.io/denoising-diffusion-gan/index.html

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    Comment #29849599

    The automatic bug report generation tool produces the following: "Absent comma results in unwatned string concatenation on line 330" Bug-ception!

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    Comment #29457082

    Also : Zero capital gains tax. Zero estate taxes.

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    Comment #29326944

    Failing at a business in the UK: "Told you so! And now everybody knows you're a failure." Failing at a business in the US: "Every success has a few failures on the journey : If you…

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    Comment #28788452

    The search term you're looking for is "Keyword Spotting" (or "Wake Word Detection") - and that's what's implemented locally for ~embedded devices that sit and wait for something re…

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    Comment #27927061

    FWIW, for the International audience, the (excellent) UK series "Spooks" was renamed "MI-5" - it was all about the domestic intelligence services in the UK, and (IMHO) worth lookin…

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    Comment #27927005

    "I wanted to use splines for the baseline survival" - isn't this a modelling step that could have been revisited? It seems a somewhat arbitrary choice (there are other ways to ~int…

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    Comment #26951511

    Definitely a thing in the UK : http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools/lingo/

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    Comment #25889781

    Look under "FP16 16-bit (Half Precision) Floating Point Calculations" on https://www.microway.com/knowledge-center-articles/compariso... These raw numbers don't tell the whole stor…

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    Comment #21749602

    I was a summer intern at the UK company (Perihelion) doing the Atari-based Transputer machines. The word there was that because Atari had invested in the UK company (?) the Atari m…

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    Comment #21614247

    Where "variant" is Japanese! Much like English is a "variant" of Italian.