mooneater

I will quit ACM, this is the only perk that mattered.

> All this infrastructure must be extremely reliable, as we estimate some experiments could run for weeks and require thousands of GPUs

Is it hardward-fault tolerant? Curious how well this will work otherwise as it scales.

Presumably for speed

You would think so, but see my comment above

Well based on the names you would think so. But in fact BCCLA fights at the federal level regularly, and is far more active than CCLA. BCCLA is way more effective and aggressive in pushing for meaningful change in Canada.

Would you name some please? Do you mean like ACLU (BCCLA in Canada)

Seems like a nice approach, I used to try things like this with postgres (embedding sklearn).

Though it can be slow, harder to deal with memory usage issues, harder to debug in general, harder to extend/generalise.

And for me postgres is now one of multiple datastores so doing this is not as helpful.

Buffet openly brags about the anti vomiting effect. Saw this in a talk he gave to Indian MBA students and I was shocked.

More and more op-eds like this will be needed to desperately assuage the cognitive dissonance between climate denial and the actual news.

Awesome! Can you comment on choice of mongodb? I admit I have a negative association with it but Im sure there are reasons.

Well causal inference is considered distinct from statistical inference, and accounts for part of the gap here. (Not sure I would call that "qualitative" though.)

Looks great, please include Canada :)

"I noticed some white smoke at the south end of town and within 15 to 20 minutes, the whole town was engulfed in flame." -- town mayor

That is terrifying speed.

Apr. 25, 2019: Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company

June 22, 2021: Microsoft hits $2T market value

Podcast on this was good: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/18620183

> Our company actually spent more manpower and money than software on the hardware level such as machinery.

I would like to know what was meant here -- software was the biggest cost?

Was hoping to find out who the next LTCM or Bear Stearns is.

I migrated my LAMP stack app to postgres+postgis in 2005, and met with Refractions folks in Victoria for advice, I have nothing but glowing reviews and its only gotten better since.

Now I need something like that but in N dimensions...

> Python programmers will be able to use RAPIDS, Nvidia’s open software suite for GPU-enabled data science

Ah not to be confused with OpenAI Rapid described at https://openai.com/blog/openai-five/ ^_^

Not just for perl!

> namesake of Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to research showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating

I misread the title as "meta-analysis". Now that would be an article I want to read.

I think 700k (or even 400k+ as estimated in these comments) is still huge

I love my Real book, for me its a lifetime worth of music.

Though I consider its versions as vanilla, it would be cool to see a real bebop version.

Is there a way you can continue to teach in some capacity?

Lets hear some love for Refractions Research out of Victoria BC, who gave us PostGIS! Great folks, very helpful, and a wonderful open source product.

http://www.refractions.net/

> Now, it belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

How did it come into their possession, I would be interested to hear.

> enabled more efficient hunting of medium-sized and small animals—until these populations also dwindled

This means humans have been decimating wild animal populations for a very long time, we are accustomed to it.

But we need to stop it now.

These fake-detector tools will only pave the way for flawless deepfakes.

Im not sure what the solutions are to the societal problem it opens up. Media will get a lot stranger.

“Unite the whole Human Race! For we’re All-One or None! … Exceptions eternally? Absolute None!” --Dr. Bronner's philosophy in his soap labels

He looks as exactly as stressed out and sleep deprived as you might expect given the circumstances.