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1,396 karma · joined March 5, 2007

web - http://www.alexwg.org

twitter - @alexwg

email - alexwg@post.harvard.edu

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alexwg··on BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Risk SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.24.474095v1
alexwg··on De novo protein design by deep network hallucination
Coverage: https://phys.org/news/2021-12-deep-protein.html
alexwg··on Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
Have you evaluated against the AI2 Leaderboard benchmarks? https://leaderboard.allenai.org/
alexwg··on Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683
alexwg··on Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
Yes: http://alexwg.org/
alexwg··on Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
Yes: http://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pd...
alexwg··on Links between Paul Graham's essays - revisited
Yup, Graphviz: http://www.graphviz.org
alexwg··on Never noticed News.YC's CO2Stats before. How do they compute this stuff anyway?
Thanks, Mwerty! That's right, RECs function subsidize the difference between renewable/non-renewable sources.
alexwg··on Never noticed News.YC's CO2Stats before. How do they compute this stuff anyway?
Absolutely!
alexwg··on Never noticed News.YC's CO2Stats before. How do they compute this stuff anyway?
The CO2Stats calculation includes the contribution of client electricity use. In order to more accurately measure the time clients spend on a given CO2Stats-powered page, it's necessary to have the client infrequently check in.
alexwg··on Never noticed News.YC's CO2Stats before. How do they compute this stuff anyway?
Thanks for your comment! In fact, every time our customers' footprints have gone over their monthly cost, we've paid for the full corresponding number of RECs. That clause is there to protect against gross abuse. For example, if a site consistently receives 20M hits per month (a custom tier) and signs up for a 5M hit per month package, we reserve the right to manage only the first 5M.
alexwg··on Never noticed News.YC's CO2Stats before. How do they compute this stuff anyway?
Thanks!
alexwg··on Never noticed News.YC's CO2Stats before. How do they compute this stuff anyway?
Great question! We measure quite a variety of signals, including but not limited to client locations (e.g., is traffic coming from coal-burning areas?), visit lengths, server locations, transfer sizes, transfer times, and window sizes. These signals are fed into a "hand-built" database that allows us to compute aggregate carbon footprints.
alexwg··on Greenseng: A Green Search Engine That Actually Conserves Energy (by CO2Stats, YC Summer 08)
Dear Rob,

Try adding it to your search bar now!

Best, Alex

alexwg··on What a Space Shuttle launch looks like from a plane [video]
Right!
alexwg··on Amazon S3+SQS are down, bringing down Scribd, Docstoc, Twitter, SmugMug, JungleDisk
SmugMug too, apparently.
alexwg··on Amazon S3+SQS are down, bringing down Scribd, Docstoc, Twitter, SmugMug, JungleDisk
Thanks, added that!
alexwg··on Ask YC: What web hosting service do you use?
http://www.co2stats.com

Automatically purchases renewable energy to offset CO2 emissions due to your clients, network, and servers, independently of your hosting provider, so you can use it with Slicehost.

alexwg··on Ask HN: Carbon neutrality for a startup?
Right! CO2Stats Pro already incorporates client, network, and server contributions.
alexwg··on Ask HN: Carbon neutrality for a startup?
A number of venture-backed startups I know use CO2Stats Pro. Take a look:

      http://www.co2stats.com
alexwg··on The secret history of Star Wars [4.6 MB PDF]
Done!
alexwg··on Why are academic salaries lower than commonly assumed?
Where do you think people who want to do research should go?
alexwg··on Founders: How many startups have you been a part of?
Books on Poster -- http://www.booksonposter.com Wikiosity -- http://www.wikiosity.com