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Comment · 3 years ago
From the link:

> "While we can definitively say this weakening is happening, we are unable to say to what extent it is related to climate change or whether it is a natural variation," [the first co-author] Piecuch said. "We can see similar weakening indicated in climate models, but for this paper we were not able to put together the observational evidence that would really allow us to pinpoint the cause of the observed decline."

but also...

> [The second co-author] Beal added, "The Gulf Stream is a vital artery of the ocean's circulation, and so the ramifications of its weakening are global. I used to think of the ocean as our last remaining frontier, wild, pristine, and indomitable. It saddens me to acknowledge, from our study and so many others, and from recent record-breaking headlines, that even the remotest parts of the ocean are now in the grip of our addiction to fossil fuels." (emphasis mine)

Seems a little disingenuous to state in the publication that you cannot conclude the cause of the decline, and then in the press release go about definitively blaming it on fossil fuels, including stating that this conclusion is supported by your study.

Comment · 3 years ago
I read this paper as commenting on the second-order derivative of benchmark progress with respect to DL techniques. The trends presented start with 2012-era models with 2012 data, and end with 2020 results for 2020-era models. Thus the extrapolation on training costs accounts for the current pace+style of progress and innovation in all relevant subareas of ML. To me it seems that it’s saying “if research continues in the same trends as it has from 2012 to 2020, here is where we will end up in 2035.”

In other words, in order for us to buckle the trend we would need to start innovating in ways that are unlike the ways that got us from AlexNet to here.

Comment · 5 years ago
This sounds exactly like what I want to do! Would you mind answering a few questions? How did you find the town in Japan to move to? Also, did you buy/rent an apartment, or was it an Airbnb or something similar? How did you pay for it - savings, or the odd jobs that you talked about?
Comment · 5 years ago
Reddit.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Why do you think so? Why does the US care about essentially poor-people benefits in Spain?
Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe they should, actually - I am surprised they’re not.
Comment · 6 years ago
That’s why you put the asterisk first - that way, autocorrect doesn’t correct the word after it (at least for me)
Comment · 6 years ago
Regarding the last point specifically, there is an established texting convention. Say you you (or autocorrect) have made a mistake and typed word A and you have already sent the message, but really you meant word B. Then, if you notice this mistake (granted, if), it is common convention to simply reply “*B”. Then, when the recipient reads to the mistaken word A and wonders why the word A seems out of place, they can look at the subsequent message and substitute B for A, without you even having to explicitly designate which word you made a mistake in (this is still sometimes necessary, but rarely).
Comment · 6 years ago
Great idea, great UI, very intuitive, but unfortunately the AI just doesn’t work that well.
Comment · 6 years ago
Zoom does a few shady things with your OS, like starting hidden webservers with code execution privileges, auto-updates, etc. I think this tries to remove those parts, and leave just the app itself.

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