AlmightySnoo
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- Comment on Dark Gathering - Episode 21 discussion 1 day ago:
Favorite moment:
- Comment on A guide to a longer lasting Smartphone. 1 day ago:
Great advice! Cross-posted to !android@lemmy.world if you don’t mind: lemmy.world/post/8842817
- Comment on Biontech is planning cancer vaccines before 2030 2 days ago:
Looks like OP’s Google Translate link doesn’t work. If you have Firefox, you can open the original link in German (zdf.de/…/biontech-krebs-forschung-impfstoff-100.h… ) and then use the offline translation that’s available on recent Firefox versions, it’s fast and pretty accurate.
I’m not sure what’s new though, as they’ve already stated that goal last year: theguardian.com/…/vaccines-to-treat-cancer-possib…
- Comment on What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why? 6 days ago:
Roughly one year. No GPU code however as the target library is CPU-only anyway so not really comparable to PyTorch (and PyTotch is more than just the autodiff), but there was lots of SIMD vectorization.
- Comment on What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why? 6 days ago:
Automatic differentiation in C++17, had to do it from scratch as they weren’t open to 3rd-party libraries and it had to integrate with many symbolic calculations that are also done in the library (so even if you used a 3rd-party library you’d have to rewrite parts of it to deal with the symbolic stuff).
It was pretty cool because it was a fun opportunity to really abuse template meta-programming and especially expression templates, compile-time lazy evaluation, static polymorphism and lots of SFINAE dark magic and play around with custom memory allocators.
Then you get scolded by the CI guys because your template nightmare makes the build times 3x slower, so the project then also becomes an occasion to try out a bunch of tricks to speed up compilation.
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- Comment on Black Friday not the cheapest time to shop, says consumer group 1 week ago:
agree that the name is silly, it apparently also broke the tl;dr bot below
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- Comment on OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach' 1 week ago:
When you point out that figure, it’s also important to provide more context and take into account the fact that Satya Nadella promised to hire every single OpenAI employee. It’s not hard to imagine that for many, going to Microsoft and working in a for-profit environment with potentially higher bonuses (as they’d be more encouraged to seek much higher profits than under OpenAI) is a significant career upgrade.
The OpenAI salaries are pretty low (archive.ph/jPbYR ) compared to what Microsoft offers (archive.ph/nonSV ), and as I said all of that doesn’t include the potential bonuses that would result from those teams aggressively pursuing profit at Microsoft.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 1 week ago:
Haven’t experienced that so far (but that’s probably because I don’t log into my YouTube account anymore and mostly use private browsing), but I imagine that’s something that adblockers will eventually be able to block?
- Comment on Airlines will make a record $118 billion in extra fees this year—their websites are designed to get you to pay 1 week ago:
Their UX is also incredibly deceptive. I’ve personally seen old folks trying to book on low-cost airline websites and they often believe they have to pay extra to get a seat.
- Comment on Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure Elon can pay that btw.
But that will involve more TSLA stock fire sales (as that’s literally what he did the last time he needed to pay Twitter’s bills, his “net worth” is mostly unrealized gains from his shares) and he will face more backlash for that from Tesla investors. His house of cards will collapse quicker the more he resorts to that.
- Comment on OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach' 1 week ago:
You can check many of the Sam dick riding contests in the comments in any Sam Altman related thread and how everyone is advancing the classic “she’s just a gold digger who suddenly remembers he raped her when he got rich” thesis while trying to bury the rape story with massive downvotes.
- Comment on OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach' 1 week ago:
it’s been really strange seeing so many comments cheering for Sam Altman
It’s the same with Elon’s cult. People probably really believe that Sam is a genius and the one who made ChatGPT.
- Comment on Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return 1 week ago:
She still deserves all of our attention and her voice needs to be heard. She struggles for survival and probably can’t even afford good lawyers to sue him.
He’s also quite openly gay… So him raping his little sister doesn’t make a whole lot of sense
This is quite irrelevant, as that would apply to pedophiles too otherwise.
She also mentions in her interview with Weil how she has gotten angry at her brother over money on more than one occasion
How could she not be with how she was, according to her, pushed into sex work? Having one of your siblings resort to sex work for survival while your own net worth is more than half a billion dollars definitely means you’re the bad guy no matter whose version is correct and no matter how you look at it.
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- Comment on Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return 1 week ago:
So Microsoft has no issues with Sam Altman being a rapist?
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 1 week ago:
Have developers be more mindful of the e-waste they’re contributing to by indirectly deprecating CPUs when they skip over portions of their code and say “nah it isn’t worth it to optimize that thing + everyone today should have a X cores CPU/Y GB of RAM anyway”. Complacency like that is what leads software that is as simple in functionality as equivalent software was one or two decades ago to be 10 times more demanding today.
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- Comment on He was kind of right 1 week ago:
If this is true then he’s a disgusting POS, sending his own sister to prostitution for survival instead of letting her get the money that her late dad left for her. The POS eventually agreed to help her after she came out publicly, but only for a fucking year. His net worth is more than half a billion dollars for fuck’s sake.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see the point of the video. The whole thing is just him looking at a screen.
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- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 2 weeks ago:
What’s worse is that their “8GB = 16GB” claim has a tiny bit of truth in it: many apps that are GPU-accelerated usually load/generate stuff on host RAM and then transfer it to the GPU RAM to launch some shaders/kernels on it and they do this repeatedly. The idea with Apple’s (also AMD’s when you consider APUs) is that since the RAM is “unified” you just have one RAM and you probably don’t have that redundancy anymore if those apps are built with that in mind, so in a sense if previously you had a 1GB buffer that had to live on both CPU and GPU RAM, this time it will only live in as a single 1GB buffer on Apple’s “unified” RAM. That’s still very different from the “8GB = 16GB” deceptive marketing by Apple.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 2 weeks ago:
For $1,599 you’d at least expect 16GB+ RAM given how cheap RAM is…
- Comment on [question] Which ML library should I learn in Python? 2 weeks ago:
Linear and logistic regression are much easier (and less error prone) to implement from scratch than neural network training with backpropagation.
That way you can still follow the progression I suggested: implement those regressions by hand using numpy -> compare against (and appreciate) sklearn -> implement SVMs by hand using cvxpy -> appreciate sklearn again.
- Comment on [question] Which ML library should I learn in Python? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say since you’re a beginner, it’s much better to try to implement your regression functions and any necessary helper functions (train/test split etc…) yourself in the beginning. Learn the necessary linear algebra and quadratic programming and try to implement linear regression, logistic regression and SVMs using only
numpyandcvxpy.Once you get the hang of it, you can jump straight into
sklearnand be confident that you understand sort of what those “blackboxes” really do and that will also help you with troubleshooting. - Comment on Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good 3 weeks ago:
In that case the premise of the entire article is wrong then.
- Comment on Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good 3 weeks ago:
Can someone confirm whether YouTube ReVanced really uses WebView?
