Hacker News: forgotmyoldacc

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new locations"

forgotmyoldacc — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:43:45 +0000

I'm skeptical that Miso Robotics can actually deliver a useful product that outperforms or matches human labor at the same price point. They don't show clear videos of what exactly the robot is capable of, and keep buying Instagram ads to invest in their company.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "PyTorch vs. TensorFlow in Academic Papers"

forgotmyoldacc — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:55:19 +0000

> The #1 problem with PyTorch is that it’s great if you want to use one videocard for training

Incorrect information so confidently stated here. Tons of research papers that use more than one GPU for training, not sure what you're referring to? Standard DDP works fine, for starters.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Launch HN: Tensil (YC S19) – Open-Source ML Accelerators"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:22:01 +0000

It'd be great if you could add benchmark numbers for this comparing CPU/GPU on inference / sec and inference / watt.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated meat"

forgotmyoldacc — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:35:18 +0000

Beyond Meat is not meat though. It's not even close in taste.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records"

forgotmyoldacc — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:46:51 +0000

Is the demo down for anyone else? It's stuck loading. Chrome on MacOS

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Apple Mac Studio"

forgotmyoldacc — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:41:21 +0000

Geekbench scores came out, The Epyc 7443p scored 27461, M1 Ultra scored 24055 on multi-core. Geekbench uses ARM-native for Mac M1 iirc.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Apple Mac Studio"

forgotmyoldacc — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:38:25 +0000

My workstation build with Epyc is ~$5,000 and has more cores (24 core), more memory (256 GB), faster GPU (3090), a 2TB pcie 4 SSD and I suspect will perform better on standard benchmarks. Definitely not as compact as the Studio though but lot more extendable.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Apple M1 Ultra"

forgotmyoldacc — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:26:26 +0000

Apple isn't an OEM? They don't sell products that are marketed by another company.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Apple M1 Ultra"

forgotmyoldacc — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:22:00 +0000

Neural Engine cores are not accessible for third party developers, so it'll be severely constrained for practical purposes. Currently the M1 Max is no match for even last generation mid-tier Nvidia GPU.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "How to make (almost) anything (2020)"

forgotmyoldacc — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:58:56 +0000

Note that the title is fairly misleading, students don't actually do real practical labs. A random example: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S63.21/class_site/pages/micr.... Probably because this class was being held during COVID times.

There's no hands on biology work. Homework consists of:

- Find a research or journal article - Propose a technology - Propose a methodology

etc

The 2019 version looks a little better: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S66.19/S66.19/

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming signal jamming"

forgotmyoldacc — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:26:54 +0000

On the positive side, a solution for global warming.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:13:56 +0000

NYTimes stock has gone up 200% over the last 5 years. I think they're doing fine.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:08:16 +0000

This extension has been around for 2 years, and has worked reliably. Just need to update it once in awhile.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "A 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:07:10 +0000

> (My take on VR is far more pessimistic. VR just… isn't going to happen, in any "changing the world" form, in our lifetimes. This is a subject for a different blog post, but I think AR and projection will do much more for us, far sooner.)

Can Carmack toss in a free Quest 2? It looks like the last time he tried VR was back in 2015. The state of the art is a lot better now.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Deck from YouTube"

forgotmyoldacc — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:35:29 +0000

Is it difficult to notice that you're in the minority here?

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet"

forgotmyoldacc — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:48:19 +0000

Why not use a RM2 then?

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot (2020)"

forgotmyoldacc — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 05:59:20 +0000

The paper you've linked seems to be written by a crackpot with no training in biology, nor was the paper published in any journal, much less a reputable biology/medical one.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life (2021)"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:33:37 +0000

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 01:15:21 +0000

Higher PPD is good, but with the lower FoV it's going to feel like you're looking at your computer screen through binoculars.

New comment by forgotmyoldacc in "Launch HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Automatically clean Jupyter notebooks using AI"

forgotmyoldacc — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:46:21 +0000

The documentation in the screenshot seems pretty meaningless, they're already being described by the function name and parameters.

Are there more examples that we can see?