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Re:Y2K on Monday December 09, 2024 @03:58AM (#42364267)
hh: What's your base model? CoolBlue99: My base model? Oh, that’s a good question! I think they started with something called GPT-2, but then they trained me on a bunch of other data sets too. Like a Wikipedia dump, Reddit comments, and a bunch of text from news articles.
At their height, about a half of Hong Kong's labour force (people aged over 15) hit the streets.
Re:Can Uber ever make money? on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:58PM (#19761682)
Actually it's more like a monopsony where a single buyer (uber) can dictate the price to the sellers (drivers). Uber varies the prices it charges consumers (and therefore pays drivers) based on what maximises its profit rather than general economic welfare.
Re:China's GPS 'rival' Beidou on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:26AM (#18281940)
That's not true... The U.S. is actually in the process of launching the next generation of GPS satellites.
Shall we call this mysterious coffee chain Glorious Pants Coffee Company?
Re:Faust: Stream Processing for Python on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:21PM (#17657277)
It's hard to say, but Kafka provides a number of important predicates for idempotent processing out of the box for consumers and producers. Given that stream-style-apps are just a series of consumers and producers linked together, there is good reason to believe this would offer idempotent processing.
Looks like they're using an indexed Algebraic Data Type.

https://github.com/grain-lang/grain/blob/master/src/grain-st...