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TPUs aren't transformer ASICs. The Ironwood TPU that Gemini was trained on was designed before LLMs became popular with ChatGPT's release. The architecture was general enough that …

In computer architecture / digital ASIC design there's zero control theory. There's not much mathematics in general.

I had a similar starting point to the author but ended up in totally the opposite direction, haha. Took computer engineering in undergrad and did well in both CS and EE courses. My…

No? There's plenty of overlap. I studied computer engineering in undergrad, which is similar to the author's original major. There are a lot of subjects that straddle the boundary,…

Yeah, New Police Story was weirdly dark. Police Story 1-4 were all good fun. Not really for kids though. Plenty of bawdy jokes and innuendo.

And how open is the administration to taking in Rohingya refugees who've been displaced by the violence?

> the Buddhists didn't woke up one day and decided to commit genocide Germans didn't wake up one day in the 1930s and decide to exterminate the Jews either. That doesn't mean the J…

> What ideas have parents come up with to make it "feel" like there's more unstructured play time for kids during the school year? Uh maybe, I don't know, actually giving them more…

Thank you. I wondered if anyone else could see why the original essay is so ridiculous. It assumes that bad culture is the cause of poverty, and not the other way around. It's pret…

Pretty sure GP means the mass emigration of Europeans to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

> places where people aren't getting paid to innovate but rather are there to do a 9-5 job, there is little (and, in many cases, negative) incentive culturally to think outside the…

Samsung is a strange choice of example. It also mostly follows a "well made clone" business model and Korean work culture isn't much different from Chinese.

> Does that same freedom exist for private entities that don't want to bake cakes for gay couples? I think sexuality should be a protected class. I do not think neo-Nazis or White …

Religion, race, gender, etc. are protected classes. Political ideology is not.

Despite the existence of laws criminalizing holocaust denial and displaying Nazi symbols, Germany still has holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis. Criminalizing speech isn't a very effec…

Yes, the 1st amendment protects freedom of association. That is, the freedom of private entities to not do business with Nazis.

Very true. I don't think the Republicans are solely to blame though. I live in the SF Bay Area, definitely a very blue part of the country. Despite pretty steep taxes, our public t…

And if you came to the US and saw our public schools here, you'd probably die of laughter.

Oh look, yet another article about a country that's doing education better than us here in the US. And the funny thing is that they all seem to do things in different ways. You kno…

LMAO. I didn't even get a chance to read illegal_in_ca's reply before it got flagged. What did they even say to generate this much controversy? (Probably something really stupid). …

It also has one of the highest levels of income inequality, which is what this article highlights.

The picture of the combo toilet-kitchen made me viscerally upset. That must be so unsanitary.

> However the various administrations since then have spent significant resources and time going in different (and sometime opposite) directions, and not always in a blunder-safe w…

The current norms of CCP leadership were established in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution for the express purpose of avoiding such a catastrophe in the future. Since 1989, t…