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Exactly. The smaller bit widths from quantization might marginally decrease the compute required for each operation, but they do not reduce the overall volume of operations. So, th…

Kanye has done this. Multiple times I believe, but notably with different versions of "The Life of Pablo" on music streaming services.

These days, there are more audio plugins to add hissing and cracking than remove it; but iZotope RX is scarily good and the best noise removal plugin I've ever tried. ML has enable…

Agreed, small sample size; but in defense of the researchers, I don't think the general public appreciates how difficult it is to find research participants - nevermind a lot of th…

Lidar would increase car cost so much that most people would die of sticker shock. The strongest candidate for proving lidar AV tech is Waymo, which to me means it has a relatively…

I suppose what one considers the near future is relative.

You may be right, but it's also commonly believed in these communities that hardware is the part that's already been solved. Computer hardware already vastly outstrips human capaci…

It probably will be, just extremely computationally expensive. But 30 years is also further out than when most experts predict the singularity will arrive; after which all bets are…

As the neighbor just moved in, I'm guessing they were unaware of your friend's liver transplant. If this was indeed the case, I find your friend's situation difficult to sympathize…

Quite a saga, and entertaining writing; but all of this was easily avoidable with a little bit of research.

You just need sub-millimeter precision, on a slippery glass remote made for babies with small hands, and then to time it so you touch the trackpad then click it such that you activ…

That sounds pleasant to deal with.

Gift cards with expiration dates are illegal in some states.

Are "100%" drained crabs are effective bait?

It's not that they didn't want to be in the business, but that manufacturers couldn't scale their own dealerships across the country fast enough. So they opened up ownership to thi…

The cornmeal and skim milk was provided to the baby's family in order to discourage them from distributing the baby's formula: "The nutritional intervention (groups 2 and 3) consis…

I'm surprised that the psychosocial intervention was as effective as it was, however I expected the nutrition arm of the trial to fare better. I guess interacting with intelligent …

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