jefft255

Joined 10 years ago

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Mar 4
Ph.D. student in mobile robotics

https://jefft255.github.io

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Comment · 2 years ago
A couple millions IIRC. Nothing "large" compared to modern transformer models.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, CPUs are still the main workhorse for many scientific workloads. Sometimes just because the code hasn’t been ported, sometimes because it’s just not something that a GPU can do well.
Comment · 3 years ago
Looking forward to an electric car that’s not a gadget on wheels. Oh well that’s probably never going to happen
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not sure how I would do it otherwise, do you have an idea? The concept is that you can swap for the port you like, if that's USB-C then you have to choose between leaving the adapter slot empty (which you can I guess, even though it's probably awkward to use then), or using said "identity function".
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm the first to complain about Tesla overselling their self-driving abilities, but I think the numbers used in this article are misleading. Miles per disengagements comparisons between Waymo (to pick one) and Tesla is like apples to oranges. Waymo operates in a closed fashion, is a laboratory-like setting (1), and I don't believe for one second that their miles per disengagements would be significantly better than Tesla in the real-world open settings that Tesla's FSD is being tested in. These numbers mean nothing when the environments used to compute them are so vastly different.

(1) Here's what I think is the case for Waymo's operations: - Phenix AZ only (maybe one more city?) -- Amazing sunny weather -- Clear line markings -- Can overfit to said city with HD maps, handcoding road quirks, etc - Waymo employees only -- Not to sound to tinfoil-hat, can we really trust this data - Even within Phenix, some filtering will happen as to which route are possible

Comment · 3 years ago
So... Karaoke? Why do I have to read all of this to understand that they mean Karaoke?
Comment · 4 years ago
For me, fish made my life instantly better without any real investment coming from bash. There are some incompatibilities, but I felt productive right away.
Comment · 4 years ago
The parameters are the number of weights in a neural network, in this case.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is really good news. It was a really contentious issue in RL and robotics research to be so reliant on proprietary (and very expensive) software.
Comment · 5 years ago
All (I hope) gaming mice with fancy drivers will also just work fine without them.
Comment · 5 years ago
My understanding is that it's pretty clear that vaccine do not do a good job at preventing infection (i.e. testing positive and/or having cold-like symptoms), Delta or not. I don't think they were ever advertised as such.
Comment · 5 years ago
Exactly; sorry for the confusion
Comment · 5 years ago
I think you just made OP's point.

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