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You can run Galactica (the "base" model) for free on Colab ( https://colab.research.google.com/ ). It takes about 4 minutes to start up. Just specify a "GPU" runtime on colab, and …

I love Kim Zetter's tweet: Must have been a turnip truck https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1384936715769503745 That's a dig at the turnipesque savvy of Cellebrite, which royally…

The best overview of this mess is from Cory Doctorow, who notes that while the claims of fraud in this election are garbage, the voting machines, and especially overused Ballot-mar…

That article makes good points, but doesn't even mention the obvious alternative: join the fork that Amazon immediately announced, the need for which has also been supported by oth…

Re: > it was to inhibit Cathedral-style codebases from using GPLed software at all. I'm surprised at the notion that RMS ever had the intention of inhibiting GPL use in Cathedral-s…

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/iyk2... An adaptive deep reinforcement learning framework enables curling robots with human-like performance in re…

Apparently that isn't always the case. See the PyPy Status Blog: PyPy's new JSON parser https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser.... which talks about being more…

Compliance with SEI CMMI Level 5 probably is expensive. While looking for more data I noted that several Boeing units are at Level 5. And I also found that between 2008 and 2019, a…

The raw ballots are available at https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002_tally.txt It would be helpful to also have that shared in in a way that makes it easier to see how many t…

That is an excellent and very helpful writeup! I'm particularly disappointed to hear that Google doesn't provide any way to rotate the signing key for an app. Is there an issue for…

The point is that they set the toll price to eliminate the bottleneck, i.e. to get the traffic flowing at 45 MPH or more. The previous bottleneck was caused by solo drivers who jus…

That expresslanes URL is for I-495. The I-66 historical data is here: https://vai66tolls.com/ And I too would love to see that data in a more convenient form, via an API, etc.