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Re:Matplotlib on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:26PM (#38243299)
odd how it's still the de facto standard python library for plots despite much better libraries like ggplot or plotly
I doubt they were fired. sanitation workers have pretty strong unions
It's 8 years and even then you'll still be be able to enable updates for Google chrome
Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:43AM (#37073962)
effectively different languages? no, both the mainland and Taiwan both speak Mandarin, although with distinctive slang and accents. I grew up learning simplified and I can guess a lot of traditional characters reasonably well, although I hear going from traditional -> simplified is much harder
I also got a prompt to follow accounts that didn't exist yet. I there's no proof whether these accounts were included in usercount estimates
> My guess is not, network effect is extremely strong.

100 million users in less than a week

then use Lightsail or set a maximum size for your ec2 autoscaling group
zoomer here. that's the thing - I use Discord because when chatting casually, shitposting, and sharing memes I don't want my message to show up on Google tomorrow
this Canadian engineering student's favourite teachers are Indian YouTubers
Re:Production AI systems are hard on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:20PM (#36118238)
DeepL?
An Afgan electrical engineer was sent to Guantanamo Bay for wearing it as Al-Qaeda was known to use the F91W in IEDs
Re:A brief history of LLaMA models on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:35PM (#35759245)
You can either spend $5 per month for VPS for a webserver for your static blog which you now have to secure properly, or you can just stick it on Cloudflare Pages for free
Re:There Is No A.I on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:47PM (#35662539)
> In any case, someone is going to fall in love with one of their browser processes soon. I'll guess by mid-August.

We've already got Blake Lemoine

Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:34PM (#35620584)
If you reject cookies, the site has no way of knowing you have rejected cookies the next time you visit. You need a cookie in order to store the cookie decision
Re:Docker on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:55PM (#35310723)
The cow has to produce milk or they go bankrupt
Re:Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ on Saturday March 18, 2023 @05:33PM (#35213313)
You can still use raw pointers and sockets in C++, which the code examples provided in the book do
TAs are paid based on how many hours they are expected to work and don't receive additional pay if they work longer. At my uni TAs are paid as if they worked 12 hours a week, but often have to work 14-16 to get through the assigned work
They probably mean the use of GPTs to correct OCR errors
Re:Python is two languages now, and that's great on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:18PM (#34959118)
Pydantic is that for Python
Re:Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:02PM (#34931440)
> https://research.facebook.com/file/1574548786327032/LLaMA--O...

> Dataset Sampling prop. Epochs Disk size

> CommonCrawl 67.0% 1.10 3.3 TB

> C4 15.0% 1.06 783 GB

> Github 4.5% 0.64 328 GB

> Wikipedia 4.5% 2.45 83 GB

> Books 4.5% 2.23 85 GB

> ArXiv 2.5% 1.06 92 GB

> StackExchange 2.0% 1.03 78 GB

At no point do they use information from Facebook customers

Re:November 2022 Progress Report on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:28PM (#33711029)
You can search tabs on firefox if you add % to the address bar