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Microbatch size is a hyperparameter, it can be set to 1 and work just as effectively. With gradient accumulation it's equivalent even. Large batch sizes are used to increase parall…

No one wants to be around an alcoholic. But it's not to be nice, but to understand them, their struggles, and their perspectives. Anecdote - I was at a concert with my brother, out…

cancer is more like debugging a gigantic DL model than an operating system. spaghetti of redundancies all the way down.

He wasn't the only one who saw the problem computationally. Famously, the mathematician Michael Waterman sat on the other-side of the race for the human genome.

not really. early deep learning models were run on single consumer-grade GPUs. the inflection occured _right_ when parallel computing became fast enough to do backprop in a reasona…

3x increase in compute for a 1.5x increase in tdp is pretty good considering the underlying process had barely changed. In anycase, consumer GPUs aren't a good metric as they opera…

> I wanted to conjure models I could play with in my hand. I wanted a museum where I could walk around inside the epithelium during an immune response. I wanted to put ideas into p…

Currently we deal with >= 8am sunrise for 2 months of the year. With this proposal, you get it for November and February too. yay!

this proposal will set sunrise at 9am during december in Oregon and washington. 'Wake up later' doesnt really work for most people.

I recently dealt with this. Right before my free trial expired, I went to cancel. A support rep offered another 3 months free. The first red flag was not receiving a log of our con…

Definitely is technically in the northwest part of the state, but I'm not sure I'd call it close to the Washington border. It's much closer to Salem and Bend than it is Portland, f…

For oregon the population center is almost exactly Detroit. There is a large population in the willamette valley south of portland (and bend is captured by this too).

Weird, it's all bulk in Salem.

I have no idea where you guys are seeing these prices. Chalice, on the absolute high end that I've seen, tops out at 250/oz. Nectar/Green Cross are my gotos, both of them are well …

go to greencross in bend, they have the exact prices i'm referring to. Dont go to the stores that purchase from bulk retailers, shops that have their own farms typically have highe…

i mean this is verifiably wrong: try this place in salem, really nice stuff and great prices. "Reserve" is their top-of-the-plant pickings that go for $160 oz. Not a big difference…

its not hard to get top shelf ounces for $100-140 in oregon...

thats a dewpoint of 76F!!! dunno what its like a little more east but in the northwest that's unheard of. Portland's dewpoint I think peaked around 65F.

At 49C you need a dewpoint of almost 70 (!!) to get 20% relative humidity. thats nasty -- during the heatwave in portland the dewpoint was between 63-68 most days. Usually its ~55.…

there is never a million people on the oregon coast.