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zirkonit··on Replicating GPT-2 at Home
First off -- the author has done an amazing tutorial, it's very enjoyable, so I am by no means throwing a shade.

But a week of TPUv3-128 is anywhere between $10k and $20k in TPU costs alone; saying that this is an "at home" kind of experiment is cheeky at best, clickbait at worst.

zirkonit··on Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
Cardiac valve procedure at Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood City Medical Center - $458,254.00 cash price. Oh my.

I get it that it's an expensive procedure, but OH MY.

zirkonit··on The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine
I presume, Principal Variation Search (https://www.chessprogramming.org/Principal_Variation_Search)
zirkonit··on Apple's New M1 SoC Looks Great, Is Not Faster Than 98 Percent of PC Laptops
To add even more insult to the injury, the only laptop with 9900K you can currently buy in my market is a gaming monstrosity 3.5x more expensive AND 3.5x heavier than M1 MacBook Air.
zirkonit··on Apple's New M1 SoC Looks Great, Is Not Faster Than 98 Percent of PC Laptops
To provide a bit more nuance to my snark - out of 8-core Intel Core i9's currently sold in laptops, in multi-core Geekbench 5, M1 loses to 9900K by 18%, beats 9980HK by 13% and 9880H by whopping 20%.

In single-core, it is single fastest currently available processor, destroying the aforementioned i9's by 30% to 50%.

zirkonit··on Apple's New M1 SoC Looks Great, Is Not Faster Than 98 Percent of PC Laptops
> First of all, no matter how good Apple’s ARM core truly is, there is no way in physics that a fanless quad-core Apple M1 is going to outperform an 8-core Intel Core i9.

Well, just two months in, and this claim didn't age well at all.

zirkonit··on Otto: Friendly Machine Learning Assistant
The obligatory "auto"/"otto" pun is quite popular, it seems.
zirkonit··on Putin's People – a groundbreaking study that follows the money
Interestingly enough, Putin's space force predates Trump's by years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Aerospace_Forces (Air-Space Force, in Russian).

zirkonit··on My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine (2018)
Relevant to today's news of similar doxxing of Scott Alexander, author of Slate Star Codex (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416)
zirkonit··on Data Dividend Project
> Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

Cutting off entire countries at the level of firewall rules seems almost dehumanizing.

zirkonit··on Ask HN: What was the first site to use “karma” voting?
Man, I feel old when Imgur, a yesterday's establishment from my point of view, can be considered a ’first‘ of anything.

While I also believe Slashdot to be the first one (it certainly is the first one to use the _term_ ’karma‘), some two other early communities to check for prior art are Kuro5hin and Advogato.

zirkonit··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)
Location: Moscow, Russia

Remote: Preferable

Willing to relocate: US, China

Technologies:

* I program Ruby, Python, Go, Elixir, Clojure, web backend, CLI/service, scientific computing.

* I have impressive product management, data science and entrepreneurship experience.

* I have been working as a programmer, data scientist, manager, executive, founder with companies ranging from one-man shops to Fortune 100 enterprises.

Looking for a difficult multidisciplinary project or a company facing insurmountable odds to help.

Résumé/CV: please email me.

Email: zirkonit@gmail.com

zirkonit··on Why did HN's traffic tank so hard recently?
Similarweb doesn't show any significant change: https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...

Seems to be Alexa's bug, not HN's.

zirkonit··on Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach
"tl;dr" here actually means "Too long; didn't read", as in, GP's result of reading the book, and not the "here is the summary" we usually tend to associate with the abbreviation.
zirkonit··on LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing
Vadik Marmeladov's manifesto, which was penned in 2016, instructs as a rule #2 to think 30 years ahead, and finishes with “We are year 2046 kids”. This is clearly a reference to this.
zirkonit··on Folding Paper in Half (2015)
Current world record is 13 folds.

For 14 folds, the minimum according to the paper is 373x373 feet, for the 15 folds (“5-meter thick”) – a bit over 1000x1000 feet.

zirkonit··on A world war has begun. Break the silence.
#2 on the front page and no comments? Come on people, let us know what do you think. Without passing judgment, it was extremely strange to see such an out-in-the-left-field opinion piece on HN homepage.
zirkonit··on A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript
As a casual student of German, is there any context in “der Schmetterling” which is not translated as “the butterfly”?
zirkonit··on Show HN: Mr. Chatbot, a one-click e-commerce chatbot
Hey all, very happy to open doors to something we've been working on for quite some time.

Mr. Chatbot's goal is for any e-commerce shop owner to have a Messenger (and other platforms down the road) bot which is more sophisticated than the state-of-art we currently have in commerce chatbots.

90% of effort in creating a good engine for conversational commerce is shop independent – how to react to people's intent? how to answer questions? how to give the bot a personality? We want to cover these 90% so that the ecommerce companies can focus on the other 10% – the products themselves and unique copy/reactions.

Feel free to ask me any questions or provide feedback, constructive and otherwise, here or at i@cherevko.net

zirkonit··on Bringing Up Genius
Namely?
zirkonit··on UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’
“was unlawful”, “is unlawful” and “will be unlawful”.

It will not stop just because of the court decision. The rule of law is for mere mortals, and not the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies, unfortunately.

zirkonit··on Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
Atom has an ambitious concept and is generally engineered well, but the performance is crippling it so far. I'm not sure whether it's possible in the current web-to-native implementation to actually reach native performance, especially for large files, but so far it's just not ready for the primetime.
zirkonit··on 20 Most Common Mistakes WordPress Beginners Make
#2 is awful and is damaging for the Internet as a whole and a big oversight on the Automattic's part.

“admin” as a default username + lack of out-of-the-box rate limiting of incorrect login attempts + default login page address means that any Wordpress blog is bruteforcable. WP blogs are overtaken by malicious entities all the time, every day; they are used for SEO purposes and to spread malware. I would be hardpressed to estimate the actual spread of the problem, but a significant share of all malware online is spread precisely by the overtaken Wordpress blogs.

zirkonit··on FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
Holy shit. We did it.
zirkonit··on Alibaba begins drone delivery trials in China
A big win for BABA.

I wonder what is the difference in efficiency between drone delivery and the old-fashioned truck logistics, taking into account speed, carbon emissions, human factor etc – I wouldn't be surprised if 5x or 10x is the factor.

zirkonit··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015)
SEEKING WORK - remote, distributed

Doctrina is a tiny shop (currently, one-and-a-half developer pairs) working fully remotely in different locations (Kent, OH / Zagreb, Croatia / moving-around-but-mostly-Dubai) on tackling business-critical challenges.

I have worked as a developer, CTO, CTO-for-hire; my colleagues are developers that have worked for startups and enterprises alike.

Two of us code fluent Ruby/Rails, two of us code fluent Clojure.

Ruby, Rails, Clojure, React, Angular, web design, data science, algorithmic work. Fair rates.

Contact me (Kyle) at hello@doctrina.io

zirkonit··on Hex Invaders
A short and fun game =) Visually a bit busy, though.
zirkonit··on ‘Soft’ Artificial Intelligence Is Suddenly Everywhere
And yet no serious research is being put into hard AI. Just like five years ago. Or ten. Or twenty.

My childhood passed in reading circa-computer books of 60s, 70s, 80s, where full, general AI seemed to be just around the corner. Obviously this problem is far harder than it seemed to be.

But the (almost universal) lack of trying is extremely disheartening.

zirkonit··on ‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8
Whoa, today is the first time I've heard about Krita. Visually, seems very powerful, original, and a much more interesting PS replacement than Gimp is.

Gotta download and try it out!

zirkonit··on Google Glass sales halted
Not really unexpected, the writing was on the wall.

It's a shame though, Glass hate is coming from the old school, technophobe camp. While it _is_ a clunky, underdesigned, underpowered piece of tech, we should aim for sleeker, more powerful, more useful head-mounted computers… instead for no HMC at all.

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