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Comment · 3 days ago
Artists aren't machines that churn out one masterpiece after another, they do create bad works (most artists would acknowledge that) and there are one hit wonders. I look at a lot of art and sometimes I like only one painting out of a series, or even out of a lifetime of work. Also, you often need the context of the artist's broader work to judge the quality of a single piece, which might otherwise appear like a bad picture in vacuum.
Comment · 23 days ago
Chromium is a pyramid of components and the higher you go up, the longer the compilation of single file takes, because they depend on so many things. This makes caching difficult. A small change at the bottom can invalidate many files, especially the heavy ones at the top. The build system ninja already does caching, but it only offers limited benefits. Then there is so much activity that if you plan to do a weekly build, you can do it from scratch.
Comment · 2 years ago
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh.
Comment · 2 years ago
Flies easily fly through the window if it's substantially brighter than the room.
Comment · 2 years ago
The sponge design of SHA-3 makes it a CSPRNG basically. You can keep draining it after you fed the data in.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's already happening. For example, ECMWF provides experimental forecasts by their own deep learning model, plus models from Deepmind, NVIDIA, and Huawai.
Comment · 3 years ago
They perform several model runs with slightly different configurations and then compare the predictions to a reference period, currently 1991-2020. When they say "above average", most model runs fell in the upper tercile of the reference period and the probability is derived from the fraction.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. I finished it yesterday.

It's a collection of articles the author wrote for The New Yorker around the middle of the last century. The stories are portraits of weird, eccentric people and peculiar places in and around New York. Mitchell describes his subjects with dignity, without putting them on a pedestal.

The author is a very good writer and his stories are enjoyable, but only after I had read the book to the last page, I understood what makes this book so great. The stories tell you as much about the author as they tell you about the protagonists. I started the book to get a glimpse of the old New York and finished the book with a great curiosity about the author himself.

Comment · 3 years ago
If I understand it correctly, you are only attending preceding tokens in your paper. Can the constant bias matrix be made symmetric for unmasked tasks?
Comment · 4 years ago
They still publish all their data free of charge and are required to do so by law. For weather forecast, they dump all parameters of their recent model runs.

So I guess I'm saying that you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...

Comment · 4 years ago
The expensive stuff still bears the trademark of the brand, the lead designer, or the collection. It's more subtle, but ultimately the reason why people buy it. And some brands really just sell the logo at a high price, like Hermes or Louis Vuitton.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's necessary to keep them sortable at byte level.
Comment · 4 years ago
JPEG doesn't support transparency.
Comment · 4 years ago
My rule of thumb is that once I start writing imperative LaTeX with loops and stuff, I'm almost always on the wrong path. Now, I might be missing some important corner cases, but by skimming through the blog post, I feel like the author's solution is too complicated. For example, I don't get why this requires auxiliary files.

I would create a counter for the affiliations, let the \affiliation command define macros that contain the name of the affiliation and the value of the counter and then append the output to two different helper macros, one for authors and one for affiliations, whose contents I dump in \maketitle.

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