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The advertised Azure Databricks pricing for NCas_T4_v3 series (NVIDIA T4 GPUs) is incorrect on the website. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/databricks/ The ad…

From Matt Levine: “Doesn’t that Journal story sound a bit like that? I mean here is a story you could tell: 1. You have 1,000 Bitcoin worth about $17 million. 2. You want to buy mo…

I am seeking recommended readings regarding the possibility of creating AGI (artificial general intelligence). In particular, I would like to read intelligent, scientifically suppo…

A [crypto] Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing [crypto] investors with funds collected from new [crypto] investors.

Sounds like a cool place to work! I interned at SpaceX in undergrad and worked at ONERA while getting PhD. I work as Data Sci now. I see an open Data Sci position that looks like g…

I am interested in finding a job at a company that is having a positive impact in the world. I think this probably rules out FANG (MAMAA?) companies. Does your work make at least a…

Seems like maybe you would want to teach kids about safe smartphone use instead of abstinence only

I don’t understand what point you are trying to make. Specific stocks being bad investments is not an argument against passive investing. The whole point of index funds is to diver…

If employees are “hybrid” without mandatory attendance, then I think most people won’t go into office. I work in a smaller satellite office and if you randomly go to office you may…

I don’t think you could easily prove Twitter is materially misrepresenting the number of bot/spam accounts. Presumably, it is just an estimate based on some combination of assumpti…

I believe they (Twitter etc) are working on moderation. I do not know if that is their core competency or if they want to be in the content moderation business. I was wondering if …

It seems a lot of people in tech believe the ability for anybody to share largely unmoderated content on large social media platforms is very important for free/open online communi…

I would focus more on the enabling technology for this scam (e.g., how would a victim transfer $300,000 using traditional financial system? how they might recover those funds if ne…

“One can, in theory, start with lots of architectures, then optimize each one and pick the best. “But training [takes] a pretty nontrivial amount of time,” said Mengye Ren, now a v…

“Where does that fit in your categories?” It sounds like it falls mostly under illegal transactions because you are using crypto for something that would otherwise be illegal (avoi…

In the absence of a stable government backed currency it seems cryptocurrency could have some value. However, cryptocurrency is also unstable. You are speculating that holding cryp…

IMO the technology blockchain has only demonstrated success in 1 application which is cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency has only demonstrated success in 2 applications: speculative in…

People are commenting on the quality of Door Dash predictions, but that isn’t what the article is about. The article is just about the architecture for high speed/throughput of pre…

Couldn’t git lfs handle large non-textual files? How does SVN hand large non-textual files?