jkw | 1 year ago | on: California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
Serious question: will the cost of energy come down in California as a result? Why is it still so high?
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jkw | 2 years ago | on: The Seamless Communication models
We're the same team! We have some comparisons in the paper.
jkw | 3 years ago | on: No Language Left Behind
Evaluation was important to us, and we really wanted to have a benchmark that covers all 200 languages
jkw | 3 years ago | on: No Language Left Behind
Dhivehi is currently not supported, unfortunately. We view this as a starting point and are committed to expanding to many other languages as in the spirit of our project name.
Full list of currently supported languages can be found here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2...
jkw | 3 years ago | on: No Language Left Behind
Hey all, I work on this project. Full list of languages can be found here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2...
As well as in the research paper: https://research.facebook.com/publications/no-language-left-...
jkw | 4 years ago | on: Faculty hiring dominated by graduates of elite institutions
Seems anecdotally true for many so called "Elite" careers, ie. Investment Banking, Management Consultant, Law, etc. They mainly hire from "Elite" schools.
jkw | 5 years ago | on: Giving Ada a Chance
Or Cardano
jkw | 5 years ago | on: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
It looks like some people in the comments are interpreting it differently
jkw | 5 years ago | on: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
I think there's a difference between:
(a) I WILL WAIT because I don't trust it yet, and
(b) I WILL WAIT because I want to let the more at-risk people to have access it to first
That seems to be lost in the poll
jkw | 5 years ago | on: 750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
2020 code freeze please
jkw | 5 years ago | on: Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models
What type of ML model is it training on? Is there a base pre-train image model it's fine-tuning on top of?
jkw | 5 years ago | on: The Fall of Silicon Valley
I thought that this article was going talk about how 2020 broke apart SV and caused everyone to scatter. But to say it was 2012? No way. That totally misses out on Uber, Stripe, Coinbase, Lyft, Plaid, and many more.
jkw | 5 years ago | on: Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
Facebook has been unable to stop new entrants: Pinterest,
Snap, Tiktok, Twitter - All global and multi billion dollar companies, and still growing.
More to come are: Telegram, Discord, Houseparty, Clubhouse
Plus global competition from: Wechat, Weibo, Line
Social networks come and go. The space is a lot more whimsical than people think. Remember Friendster, MySpace, AIM. A new challenger will emerge every 3-5 years.
jkw | 5 years ago | on: 14% of Americans Are Considering a Move Out of Their State Due to Current Events
What's the baseline of each state though? Pre-covid, what % of the state already considered moving?
jkw | 6 years ago | on: Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?
California is terrible at managing infrastructure projects.
jkw | 6 years ago | on: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
He’s making more money at Apple than he will leading his own design agency.
This makes me think that he no longer finds his work compelling at Apple. Or Apple decided it’s time for a new leader, but wants things to have a soft landing.
jkw | 7 years ago | on: In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife
Ask HN: Do you think this can be a good analogy for gun control?
jkw | 7 years ago | on: M.B.A. Applications Decline at Harvard, Wharton, Other Elite Schools
I wish this article would touch upon economic trends' impact on MBA applications.
MBA applications go down as the economy performs. The opportunity cost is higher when there are well paying jobs readily available and promotions to be had without needing to go back school.
During a recession, MBA applications should go up as work is not as readily available. People also want to retrain their skills to make themselves more marketable to employers, as anyone else would do by going to vocational schools during hard times.
jkw | 7 years ago | on: California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online
Will this be true for gyms as well?? That would be a game-changer.
jkw | 7 years ago | on: Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now
A mass extinction in progress. Rather an explosion, it’s disguised in a slow dimmer.
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