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Re:California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a rec... on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:11AM (#40049527)
Serious question: will the cost of energy come down in California as a result? Why is it still so high?
Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:03PM (#38489089)
We're the same team! We have some comparisons in the paper.
Re:No Language Left Behind on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:36PM (#32007760)
Evaluation was important to us, and we really wanted to have a benchmark that covers all 200 languages
Re:No Language Left Behind on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:26PM (#32007648)
Dhivehi is currently not supported, unfortunately. We view this as a starting point and are committed to expanding to many other languages as in the spirit of our project name.

Full list of currently supported languages can be found here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2...

Re:No Language Left Behind on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:21PM (#32007578)
Hey all, I work on this project. Full list of languages can be found here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2...

As well as in the research paper: https://research.facebook.com/publications/no-language-left-...

Re:Faculty hiring dominated by graduates of elite institutions on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:48PM (#30448350)
Seems anecdotally true for many so called "Elite" careers, ie. Investment Banking, Management Consultant, Law, etc. They mainly hire from "Elite" schools.
Re:Giving Ada a Chance on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:02PM (#26317446)
Or Cardano
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:21PM (#25392195)
It looks like some people in the comments are interpreting it differently
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:50PM (#25391640)
I think there's a difference between:

(a) I WILL WAIT because I don't trust it yet, and

(b) I WILL WAIT because I want to let the more at-risk people to have access it to first

That seems to be lost in the poll

Re:750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:12PM (#24994444)
2020 code freeze please
Re:Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:00PM (#24947954)
What type of ML model is it training on? Is there a base pre-train image model it's fine-tuning on top of?
Re:The Fall of Silicon Valley on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:00AM (#24915029)
I thought that this article was going talk about how 2020 broke apart SV and caused everyone to scatter. But to say it was 2012? No way. That totally misses out on Uber, Stripe, Coinbase, Lyft, Plaid, and many more.
Re:Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitr... on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:35AM (#24727710)
Facebook has been unable to stop new entrants: Pinterest, Snap, Tiktok, Twitter - All global and multi billion dollar companies, and still growing.

More to come are: Telegram, Discord, Houseparty, Clubhouse

Plus global competition from: Wechat, Weibo, Line

Social networks come and go. The space is a lot more whimsical than people think. Remember Friendster, MySpace, AIM. A new challenger will emerge every 3-5 years.

Re:14% of Americans Are Considering a Move Out of Their State Due to C... on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:16PM (#24434366)
What's the baseline of each state though? Pre-covid, what % of the state already considered moving?
Re:Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California? on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:06PM (#21305417)
California is terrible at managing infrastructure projects.
Re:Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:47PM (#20299168)
He’s making more money at Apple than he will leading his own design agency.

This makes me think that he no longer finds his work compelling at Apple. Or Apple decided it’s time for a new leader, but wants things to have a soft landing.

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