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bwv848··on Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest
I don't understand, if you are not sure about a two bolt anchor, you can always drill more, rock quality is usually very good. Why do you trust, say an ice axe deadman more than expansion bolts?
bwv848··on UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet
In China, the retail price is 90 yuan, which is 12.5 dollars and 17.2 Canadian dollars according to current exchange rate. Sometimes people can get them cheaper.
bwv848··on How to think about OpenAI's rumored (and overhyped) Q* project
You don't need so-called educated guesses for that. Learning to plan is not a new concept; it's a general direction in the research field, and I bet everyone is working on something related. However, it's essentially just glorified search. If you can't find a perfect answer to the problem within 1 million[0] sampled generations, then I don't think a smarter search will help you.

[0] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode2/Alp...

bwv848··on How to Escape North Korea
I think that the Caleb Mission meantioned in the article has a Youtube channel [0] and it has some narly videos from inside North Korea. Definitely worth checking out.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@calebministry

bwv848··on The GRU's Disruptive Playbook
And I thought this is the most transparent war ever. I mean, you've got tons of footage filmed by drones, helmet cams and smartphones from both sides. Not to mention high res commercial satellite images that you can pay for.
bwv848··on John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI
Not really, LLM Decoders(without RLHF) are usually trained by teacher forcing, that means they just get learning singals from just predicting one token.
bwv848··on Classical music is for everyone
Play Grosse Fuge loud and make everyone hate you. Well, not everyone - except for me and a portion of one percent[0] of the population.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/business/media/stream-cla...

bwv848··on Classical music is for everyone
What does it mean to understand a piece of work? Do I have to read the sheet music? Do I need to know musical theory? Should I be familiar with the composer's background? The definition is somewhat vague. However, I would argue that one have to remember the works, know what tune plays next to really appreciate them. At least that's the case for me with Mahler.
bwv848··on None of us are truly living off the grid
You do realize that Alone has a lot of limitations, right? The show begins at the start of winter. Participants are geofenced, and hunting activities must abide by local laws. Not to mention, they don't even get to choose their sites, which is crucial in a real-life survival situation.
bwv848··on Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
Managed to snatch a 3090 during the GPU shortage in 2020. Did a lot of training and mining, and got some of my results published, think I gained much more than the cost of the hardware purchases. Kinda miss the day of eth mining. 3090 is a still good card and I'm pretty sure your rig is going to serve you well.

ps: ~280W power limit is a good call, it won't heat up your room too much.

bwv848··on Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM
Funny you sort of describe me

1. For BERT scale model, all you need is a good codebase from GitHub (I had some luck with this one [0]) and a few weeks of trial and error. Want to try training T5 or LLaMA, but don't have the resources needed. Of course training models with more than 100B parameters is another level of labyrinth.

2. Finetuning is mostly related to how well you understand the task and the data you are dealing with. Since the BERT paper focuses on the GLUE benchmark, I've become very proficient in fine-tuning GLUE and eventually got sick of it.

3. Made some architectural improvements to BERT, got decent results so I wrote a paper, and got rejected because the reviewers want a head-on evaluation against some well funded papers from Google.

4. Not in my country. Damn, I am envious.

[0] https://github.com/IntelLabs/academic-budget-bert.

bwv848··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
> Apple showed off 180-degree 3D videos with spatial audio in something called the Apple Immersive Video Format, which the company apparently shot with proprietary cameras it may or may not release. (They looked like the 3D videos we’ve been seeing in VR demos forever.) https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23750003/apple-vision-pro-...

Let's see how this will pan out

bwv848··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Actually, this makes sense. Existing VR porn is not well produced. The resolution is far from sufficient, and the scaling is downright bizarre. If Apple can solve these issues using their '3D camera' and provide the audience with a unified standard, then it is likely that we will see high-quality homemade VR porn being posted on platforms like OnlyFans and Pornhub.
bwv848··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
I still occasionally come back to Pavlov for some good old Search & Destory gameplay. It is like childhood nostalgia but relive in an unimaginable way.
bwv848··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Dualshock 5 is very differnt from VR controllers.
bwv848··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
'Pro' as in 'Prototype' I guess.
bwv848··on GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities

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What I got using your prompt.
bwv848··on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop
Interesting! Can you order faux meat for claypot rice?
bwv848··on Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan
Raw grass carp cut into thin transparent slices: chewy, sweet but not overwhelmingly, with lots of fresh flavors, very good for salad but you should not eat it anyway as it can contain liver fluke

Raw shrimp: crunchy and fresh, not as sweet as fish

Sushi grade raw egg available in my region: the white is smell-less slime with a tiny little bit of taste, the yolk has a mellow sweetness, I can understand why Japanese pair it with rice.

bwv848··on Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan
Please allow me to quote a passage from an article https://time.com/6199237/is-farmed-salmon-healthy-sustainabl...

> We know that every fish is a trade-off between omega-3 content and toxic content like PCBs. From the perspective of salmon in general, the balance favors consumption of that fish. Now the challenge here is that I can’t tell which salmon is farmed the right way or the wrong way.

bwv848··on Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan
And yet you should avoid farmed salmon[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_salmonids#Issue...

bwv848··on Mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties
Reminds me of this previous paper.

Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04223-6

bwv848··on How Wes Anderson Turned The New Yorker Into “The French Dispatch”
It's a sad and beautiful obituary, a miniseries would be unnecessary long.
bwv848··on Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition
It's worth noting that, in the third screenshot, "儒家文化" is Confucianism, and "屁" means bullshit(literally means fart).
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