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Comment #47639356
if the probability mass is on a single token, its a precise answer like `1 + 1 = ` if next token predicted shares probability with other token, then there are multiple answers like…
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Comment #33329928
Both my 3090s have heat problems. I would avoid the 3090 and 4090. Get a 3080ti or 3060 with 12gb of ram. If you want to experiment with very high memory models then pay for colab …
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Comment #33197039
every organization is held back by the slowest adopter. If you advance too quickly compared to your colleges then you will likely leave because everyone else feels like they are tr…
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Comment #32609315
Near the end of last year, I had to renew my passport that had expired. I had to travel and was in a sweet spot window where I couldn't renew it and get it in time and I couldn't j…
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Comment #31836298
And his verified fakes is just a way to introduce bugs because taken to the extreme you'd have to 100% recreate the 3rd party dependency you are interacting with.
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Comment #31356001
bravo, I've wanted something like this
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Comment #29472154
Yes but potentially without a bunch of people and software to prevent you from going to jail.
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Comment #29471990
You could have a currency where taxes are already built into the transfer system and the government is funded by those transfers. Your argument is kind of like saying your paper fi…
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Comment #28730417
you can tow charge an electric car with another car or truck
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Comment #28684062
It would be nice if there was an effort that pulled the public/prviate keys hidden in the binaries of apps like facebook/google and decrypted the traffic for inspection/blocking. R…
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Comment #28678058
Contrastive and triplet loss is pretty cool for generating hashes. I'd imagine the trick they are alluding to is a rewrite the loss function to be more aware of locality instead of…
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Comment #28650490
The equity gain on single family is probably much more than the rents lost in the pandemic for most smaller cities. Small landlords might be hurting a bit but they are likely still…
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Comment #28647447
The prices on layer 2 like lightning and polygon/matic are pretty reasonable right now. I don't think its far fetched to say that the network capacity will increase with adoption. …
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Comment #28644790
My point was that you need less people for a transaction to happen. The cost will go down over time.
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Comment #28644213
I'd argue that BBS and compuserve/aol were in the 80s. It took 30 years before everyone had a computer in their pocket and Amazon took off. A debit card is similar to crypto. Is a …
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Comment #28643957
Any time you deal with physicals things? Yep. I wouldn't need a lawyer if a digital contract enforced a 2% commission paid to a wallet address. I would need a lawyer if all transac…
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Comment #28643430
Selling a future that hasn't happened is fine. If you saw the initial version of the internet or a cell phone you'd likely dismiss them. Crypto is rebuilding the same things that a…
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Comment #28598653
I figure if you are actively managing your account, then most of it is short term.
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Comment #28598353
Home prices are a function of monthly costs. As much as people want to compare the value of a home from year to year, in every instance, I've seen values reflect to monthly spendin…
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Comment #28569944
I'd recommend reading Joe Friel's stuff for anyone that's interested in this and wants to improve. Executing a periodization schedule for the stress of an event is something that a…
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Comment #28567410
In theory, a 3% wealth tax makes the life of a billionaire difficult. You have like a 60% tax rate for fed/state/local. You make maybe 8% by being safe in your investments. If you …
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Comment #28514646
A few teachers I know are selling their course material and lesson plans online. A majority of their sales come from home school parents in their local district whos kids attended …
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Comment #28384074
When you have deflation, capital in general, not just money, competes with labor. Buffet became very rich because of this fact. In the current environment, revenue, profit, growth …
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Comment #28370491
deal. code should be written to be easily replaceable, not extendable to me, more often than not, it means simple
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Comment #28359570
Elegant and clever code wont live through a maintenance cycle. I'll take a software developer who writes and structures code so change requests and code are written in a way that t…