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Microsoft - Azure OpenAI University of Washington

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/erikuri/

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eksu··on Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve
QEMU now has ‘hvf’ (hypervisor.framework) available in master as an accelerator, I think it was a summer of code project.

Wish I could use it, but the current implementation calls the xgetbv instruction which is not available on my Westemere EP processors.

All MacOS/QEMU needs is PCIE passthrough and you could have an amazing setup with thunderbolt accessories.

eksu··on Intel kills off the 10nm process?
@intelnews https://twitter.com/intelnews/status/1054397715071651841 “Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.”
eksu··on Why are conversations limited to about four people?
Care to elaborate on elaborate/enlighten on the difference nature of collectivist culture communication?
eksu··on Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
It was a federal grant.
eksu··on How Lies Spread Online
Saying the NYTimes spread lies (answering the question in the post title) in a context WMD's or other contexts is not the same thing as saying the NYTimes or journalists were/are lying (with intent).
eksu··on Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series ‘Knights Landing’ Host Processors
Intel has GHC (Haskell) running on these in-house if I recall correctly.
eksu··on Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
Somewhat related: I’d be thrilled to work on a contract with the U.S. Dept. of Defense, willing to seek clerences etc.

Where should I be applying? Do the companies offering these jobs compensate comparably to companies working on other stuff?

eksu··on Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or Any EU Traffic Under GDPR
The E.U. has no legal authority or enforcement mechanism to stop foreign, online companies from not doing business in the E.U.
eksu··on The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest
commercial fishing industries have a vested interest in achieving the maximum sustainable yield.

furthermore, legislation like quota systems are generally supported because it gives companies a golden ticket to harvest while denying newcomers from entering the space.

eksu··on Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case
There's a big difference between your own DNA being publicly hosted and identified, and some DNA that is pretty similar to yours but not the same as yours being posted and identified to someone that is not you.

Why should you have a right to block the later from happening? It's not your own personal information.

eksu··on Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case
You don't have a reasonable right to privacy of relations. That's all public record.
eksu··on A rundown of the new Gmail
There is reason to be concerned with time expiring messages and other features that fragment the web and email, ultimately making us all more dependent on Google Services.
eksu··on A solar power researcher discusses the “duck curve” he helped discover
They should do dynamic pricing throughout the day and then there would be a market for users to use smart devices to schedule load, when to charge batteries vs when to discharge batteries, etc.
eksu··on Peter Thiel’s Money Talks, in Contentious Ways. But What Does He Say?
I was listening to Mike Rowe's podcast this morning, episode 93, "As Long As It's Legal".

It was about how just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right.

Just because something is legal also doesn't mean that they are taking "journalistic risks".

The world is better without Gawker.

eksu··on Washington state has passed the country’s toughest net neutrality legislation
I liked the above comment and wanted to tack on my reply to jonwachob91 here.

There are some cases where affirmative rights granted to the federal government also limits the power of the states.

For example, the Supreme Court found in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) that not only does Congress have the right to regulate interstate commerce, but only Congress does, and that States can't create their own rules for commerce between each other.

(The FCC can claim they don't have the right to enforce Title 2, but that's really for the Supreme Court to decide.)

I think it's worth noting that Title 2 classification is not Net Neutrality, and that the Title 2 classification was based off of an idea of 'forbearance', that the government has granted itself broad sweeping regulatory powers over telecoms but promises not to use a lot of them (rate setting, etc).

Title 2 classification had a lot of problems, and real Net Neutrality legislation is preferable.

eksu··on Peter Thiel Is a Flawed Messenger with a Crucial Message for Tech
I couldn’t agree more — We must reject the goodwill vegans show animals, and instead embrace goodwill towards our fellow man.

Scientists agree, meat and dairy are part of a healthy diet. It’s even in the food triangle!

If we don’t turn things around now, veganism could spike to 20 or 40 percent in the next generation, and after that there is no going back... the implications are clear.

eksu··on U.S. considers adding nuclear cruise missiles to destroyers and submarines
If we’re not willing to escalate there’s no nuclear deterrence.
eksu··on Peter Thiel Is a Flawed Messenger with a Crucial Message for Tech
I feel the same way towards vegans. How dare someone have a different opinion than I!

(Except I’m talking about meat consumption obviously, not political preference. Also only 0.4% of the US population are vegan, vs the 46% of voters that swung for Trump.)

eksu··on Donald Glover Can't Save You
Why should we put so much weight into the personal experiences we're told about instead of statistics?

Doesn't are reality then get warped by whatever people have the biggest megaphone for their personal experiences?

eksu··on Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute
I don't know why this comment died, it's accurate.

If you disagree with the parent comment, give your viewpoint on why this isn't the case or these changes were good.

eksu··on Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute
Ideally Boise, potentially Salt Lake City or Bozeman or Spokane or Denver. Mountain West.

If you or someone you know is hiring College Graduates in these areas, drop me a line.

eksu··on Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute
I would love to have good public transit, but being someone who bused from 2008 until 2015 it will never happen.

Busses in the city are plagued by our homeless. A lot of the busses simply don't feel safe, especially if you're a female traveling solo.

The exception to the rule seems to be the 'commuter' busses, double deckers that go to park and rides straight downtown, but park and rides are full by 6:30 with not enough parking, and service is limited.

Connecting busses out of county (Community Transit, Gnomish county) sucks, no service out of 9-5 hours Monday through Friday. Total roundtrips for most people start at 2 hours and go up to 4 (my commute to college and home).

Ultimately, the buses are torn between two opposing causes: serving disadvantaged members of the community by being cheap and helping people commute at odd hours, or serving mass commuters that work downtown, and it fails at both.

eksu··on Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute
Interstate 405 toll lanes, turning two way roads into one way roads to add a bicycle lanes in many places, lowering arterial speeds from 30 to 25mph and in downtown streets from 25 to 20mph.

The 405 toll lanes originally removed capacity on off peek hours by removal of the HOV lanes, until pushback had them undo it. 2 person HOV was removed.

The way the WADOT has been measuring success of the toll lanes is by polling people at the Bellevue Transit Center to find out if they are now taking the bus because of the toll lanes.

eksu··on Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute
How Seattle is winning the war on cars: make driving a car into the city a living hell, and actively peruse road expansions that make commute times worse to move people over to mass transit.

Mass transit use up, quality of life down. I've grown up slightly outside of Seattle and have been working at some startups, but I'm leaving at the end of this year.

eksu··on Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair
OP was talking about tractors software and machines that can run people over and kill them, not washing machines or serviceable parts.
eksu··on Visual Studio Live Share Preview
I believe you can between Visual Studio for Windows and Visual Studio Code (Windows, Mac, Linux).
eksu··on Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists
Isn’t that point based on the possibly incorrect assumption Columbus doesn’t have a chance?

And if their odds really are slim, wouldn’t the rational choice for Columbus to make be to offer tax breaks?

Like, why is the actor that is Columbus concerned at all if they put some sort of pressure on Boston/NYC/DC?

(I think HQ2 will be Columbus or Denver).

eksu··on Engineer says he quit Google after order to stop pro-diversity posts
Does it seem bizarre to anyone else for a company to have an internal social network?

I thought the general concessions was that on social networks, people are more likely to treat each other as jerks than when face to face.

If your company has a social network, would you engage with it? If you run a company, would you make your social network more than just an auxiliary function for management?

eksu··on Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time
Alaska for decades.
eksu··on Stuff You Can't Say in Silicon Valley
You are literally part of the phenomena described.

This, "I'm right, you're wrong, this is the only lens to look at this through" positioning is really bad.

In Policy Debate (CEDA, Cross-Examination) it's part of the sport to take mundane issues like creating a tax credit for electric vehicles and both teams try to extrapolate out to the worst possible impacts. Nuclear war, mass famine, extinction, etc.

It seems to me that we're adopting this quality for our public discourse, and that's a bad way to go. There is no 'discourse' in debate, that's an activity about winners and losers, not about truth seeking or implementing any real policy.

Sure, people can hold animosity toward Trump, just like most trump supporters hold animosity towards Secretary Clinton. But you shouldn't extend this animosity towards the people that support that candidate, and you shouldn't convince yourself that there aren't two sides to every issue, because there are.

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