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Stuff like this exists for bicycles. For mopeds and motorcycles there are electrification kits. It should be possible to just replace the flywheel altogether with a generator/motor…

This (classic) argument is symmetric with respect to the value of money and quantity of goods. As in "if you know money will buy more in the future, it increases your incentive to …

4) add taxes to effectively double price of gasoline

Normal use means loading data into the GPU for each batch. The load is not even, though training might be worse than "production".

Looks very nice, but I can't find numerical gradient checks, which is helpful when verifying that backward pass is correct: https://github.com/markusheimerl/gpt/blob/main/transform…

Testing was the annoying flood barrier. AI is the rainstorm that shows why it was necessary.

The point of automation is that it reduces the bargaining power of human workers, but they still have to trade their time and effort for wages. When automation improves, the wage p…

Housebuilding is motivated as much by need for housing as the prospect of increasing market value, "building equity" and so on. This prospect depends most strongly on location, whi…

> Sweden had nothing like this Not entirely true. AstraZeneca and ABB are examples that remain partly Swedish but many companies were merged into big multinationals and eventually …

My understanding after scanning the code examples is the technique expands the dimensionality of each data point with a set consisting of the quadratic coefficients of its existing…

If your goal is to translate Haskell (or other garbage collected code) pattern-for-pattern into Rust, you will almost certainly burn out.

> difficult or impossible in Rust were to me pretty basic patterns for modularity Many things are plainly not permitted, either because the borrow-checker isn't clever enough, or t…

The reason for exp(x) is that its derivative is exp(x), which makes it possible to express the gradient of s(x) in terms of s(x), or both in terms of exp(x). This simplifies the co…

In ancient times, slaves didn't revolt because they were oppressed by weapons and violence. Instead of paying workers, resources were used to pay and feed the military. Slaves were…

The point is rather that in a pure language, each io operation needs to be dependent on a sort of "world state" which is updated for each operation. They chose to implement this st…

> I don't know if I agree with either assertion… Yes, I don't think this matters. Much of "knowledge work" was always a proxy for something else. High quality in terms of typos and…

> this law will make phones _worse_ for most people Not really. The battery just needs to have a connector rather than soldered, and no other things blocking the battery once the b…

They are conditions to be met. It's not enough to proclaim them as "your process" and expect results. When playing piano, the condition you are measured by is acoustic harmonies in…

Deepmind was not a viable business at the time Google acquired it. Today, it is probably even less viable. It functions as R&D-lab for Google which has its own products and datacen…

Start by shifting taxation from worker incomes to corporate incomes?

"What you do" seems more sympathetic than "who you are" and "who you know". American culture might be more meritocratic at a basic level.

"The only reason people disagree with me is because they are emotionally deficient."

> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. I routinely close tabs when I sense that low-quality code is wasting time and resources, including e-co…

> We can assume they are doing so at a profit This is false. We may assume it's the most efficient way of generating revenue given their GPUs, but their overall profitability will …

> Isn't that how LLM models are trained right now It's neither how computer chess works or how LLMs are trained. Computer chess uses various tricks to prune the search space of boa…