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Yes translations pivot through English.

If you're interested in classical philosophy this YouTube channel (Daniel Bonevac) has high quality recorded philosophy lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkHDwe_kfS8

Because Business Insider says so?

For anyone curious about the detailed history of Python interpreters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdJ9BxgRpOY

What's the difference between this and PyPy? They're both JIT/performance oriented Python interpreters?

Good to see more work on this front! It's seemed crazy that Python can be this popular but still not be nearly as fast as it could be.

Purchasing this type of carbon removal potentially has a massive second order effects if it helps encourage big unit cost reductions like what happened for solar. The Collinsons have talked a lot about creating the conditions for progress so I wonder how intentional this is.

Left pad your strings, no import necessary!

> fund managers discovered new ways to generate high returns, and more investors were willing to trust them with their money.

Is the first part of this true? Most funds underperform the S&P.

Great write up! I hope Brave can improve on this.

These are awesome

I was more responding the the "zombie OS" comment then the profits idea. I think I basically agree.

>For instance the zombie OS Android has great value to Apple because if it didn't exist then antitrust regulators would be at Apple's throat

People in upper middle class U.S. circles have a very skewed perception of the popularity of iPhones (almost everyone has them). The vast majority of mobile phones in use worldwide run Android.

Yay!

I wonder what difference satellite internet like Starlink will make in future situations like this.

Fun tangent, Russian cosmonauts had pistols to defend themselves from bears and wolves in the Siberian wilderness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82_Cosmonaut_survival_pisto...

I switched from Windows to Linux, Easter eggs were not the reason.

Are there any good news sources for following/understanding what's going on in China? Reading the state media has obvious issues but reading defector media also isn't going to represent how most people in China actually think.

I interpreted it as aspiring to a trillion paramters but I'm not sure.

GPT Paper:

"Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters"

README:

"1T or bust my dudes [...] An implementation of model & data parallel GPT2 & GPT3 -like models, with the ability to scale up to full GPT3 sizes (and possibly more!)"

It seems the largest model they released is 2.7 billion parameters or ~0.01 the size of GPT-3. The most interesting part about GPT-3 was its size and it seems this is only "GPT-3-like" in architecture.

I also have a translation library with ~100 million (0.001 GPT-3) parameters:

https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate

I don't have anything against Flatpak but maintain a Snap package and think Snap has made a lot of good design decisions even if it still has rough edges. For a basic application it's pretty easy to package for Snap. A lot of the things that bother Linux power users like polluting their mounted file systems wouldn't matter to regular users. My understanding is they support either pre-declaring permissions or requesting them at run time.

https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate

Most open source licenses are themselves permissively licensed. Your probably fine copying any major open source license into your project.

The difference between not giving back to open source and over grazing is not contributing to open source doesn't actually hurt other. It's just not helping others.

Discovery is definitely the hardest part of the fediverse. Your best bet is to join a server with similar interests and start following people.

LibreTranslate a Google Translate clone: https://libretranslate.com/

I think the Ethereum Foundation owns the trademark.

In fairness we used a similar service in high school to bypass all other filtering. I wrote a script to setup a remote desktop server on the VM they gave you and then run a web remote desktop client. Unfiltered internet unlocked!

> Ethereum “has been moving” to proof of stake for almost as long as it has existed. It has been so long that “Eth 2.0 PoS Coming Soon!” is something of a running joke.

Ethereum seems to very much be in the process is switching to proof of stake but we should ignore that because of the author's gut feeling it's a "joke"?

I think I've learned a lot more from Wikipedia rabbit holes than a lot of books I've read.

Please add GPUs! Google cloud and AWS's interfaces are hard to use. I recently discovered vast.ai which is great but cheap DO GPUs would be more trusted/professional (even if they only had one option).

Not having to go through dozens of companies crummy web apps to enter the same information that's on your resume would be a start.