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Re:MuseNet on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:04PM (#19751988)
openai says they can do it:

Long-term structure MuseNet uses the recompute and optimized kernels of Sparse Transformer to train a 72-layer network with 24 attention heads—with full attention over a context of 4096 tokens. This long context may be one reason why it is able to remember long term structure in a piece

Re:Computer Modeling Should Become a Popular Hobby on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:31AM (#19225084)
I want to model my home in 3D, with measurements. What's a good free alternative to autocad for that?
What happened if I said "peanuts, butter". I expect two items, but will Alexa give one?
Re:Uno: a uniq like CLI tool for log data on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:03PM (#18572593)
Does it understand stacktraces, or do I have to preprocess the mutliline stacktraces into single lines?
Re:Uno: a uniq like CLI tool for log data on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:00PM (#18572574)
Do you have to setup the regexes ahead of time or does logcheck automatically compute the regexes?
Re:Zipf’s Law in Passwords (2017) [pdf] on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:53AM (#18066766)
machine generated passwords should strive to be uniform. all possible passwords should have the same likelihood of being chosen.
Re:Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:52AM (#17935255)
Well done! Thank you for the write up.

How much did it improve load times? Why do you think syntect was faster than what you tried previously?

Re:CLI: Improved on Thursday August 30, 2018 @04:57PM (#17880685)
I had issues using gnu parallel in the past because of --will-cite. I ended up not using it.
Re:Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:23PM (#17501284)
The x-axis is percentile of requests with that latency or lower. You need to read the article to figure that out. Label all your axes!
How does savings in a bank account help you weather inflation?
Why is it a 'similar situation'? They fed the same footage that the Uber system had access to.
Re:It Looks Like Nobel Economics Laureates Don't Like Bitcoin on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:14AM (#15816879)
How do you get around the high transaction fees? Bitcoin seems too slow and expensive to use.
> We have no atmosphere of innovation because our salaries are garbage compared to the US. This is the problem, every single time. Most of my Canadian graduate friends work for US companies, some remotely. We literally do not have economic reasons to stay here. No amount of lip service will ever transform 100k into 300k.

You can make 3x there? Why are you still here then? Instead of making up numbers, here's a more balanced opinion on salary differences between Waterloo and Silicon Valley: https://medium.com/@srlake/debunking-the-myth-of-higher-pay-...

Re:The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:33AM (#15313074)
Can you sue them for libel then?
IBM has no incentive to oversell:

> "IBM Canada was the only company to bid on the government's pay modernization project known as Phoenix."

> Mr. Meadows said he was later dismissed for what he was told were “performance issues.” Tesla declined to comment on Mr. Meadows but noted that the incident happened months before the release of the technology, giving the company plenty of time to work out problems that had been discovered during test drives.

We used to treat our test pilots with the highest regard. How low have we fallen?

Re:Code Smells: Iteration on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#15082127)
Naw man, code smells are anything that when you look at code and you wrinkle your face like you would if a cow farted right in front of it.
Re:UX brutalism on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:03AM (#14990335)
What does the site you linked look like in IE6? Is there an Easter egg?
Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:18PM (#14983125)
Maybe the budget notification was late.
Re:Shenzhen: China’s ‘skyscraper capital’ on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:49AM (#14980881)
yeah the zh in zhen is the 'j' in jewel
Re:Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:40AM (#14980768)
What's allowing the terminal to display the current git branch on the input line?

What's allowing the pretty path view instead of my ugly ascii "~/blah1/blah2$ ?

Re:In Defense of Probability (1985) [pdf] on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:54PM (#14961240)
OCR has come a long way, but still has lots to improve.
Re:3D metal printing is about to go mainstream on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:47PM (#14893610)
This article coincidentally is an exception! A ton is the right order of magnitude:

The US Treasury says that $1 million in $100 bills weights 22 lbs[1].

The $115 million that they raised in the last few months would weigh about 2200 lbs.

[1] http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=441929

edit: grammar

Re:Adventures in Outsourcing: Cooking with TaskRabbit on Friday July 28, 2017 @11:00AM (#14874725)
It was only mentioned twice, and in two paragraphs in the whole article. It established the motivation for his experiment. You might draw from different motivations for trying TaskRabbit.
Re:The Evolution of Trust on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:50PM (#14869361)
Wow. I played "we become what we behold" just last week. I had no idea it was the same author. I'm gonna check out the rest now too!
Re:Hanging S3 downloads on Thursday July 20, 2017 @12:34PM (#14813965)
I don't think he read the article, just the title.
Re:Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:03PM (#14755524)
Your situation is similar. However, did you consume the candy before paying? Or maybe restaurants will ask customers to pay first if they use this.
They reference that silicon definition later on in the article.
Re:The Best Performing Cryptocurrencies of 2017 Thus Far on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:13PM (#14462881)
The prices will adjust to the demand.

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