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- 45%: learned scheduler improves average job completion time; 61%: apps share data with Facebook; 45,037,125: people who watched Bird Box on Netflix in first week; 32,368: color images collected by the Curiosity rover on Mars between August 2012 and November 2018; $36.1B: AI healthcare market by 2025; 20%: object recognition failure in light rain; 350: pages in Donald Knuth's new book; $1,000: price needed to deactivate Facebook account; $3B: Epic games profit; 1: bitcoin mined from body heat of 44,000 people;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @Hannah_Chutzpah: What are the technical terms, in your field, for 'dunno'? In medicine there's 'idoeopathic' In archeology/anthropology there's 'ritual purposes' How do you professionally term 'we haven't got a clue'?
- @peterseibel: In programming we don't have a special term for it, just like fish don't have a special term for 'water'.
- @robn: everyone seems to want stateless services and stateless protocols but I have three kids that can't remember shit I told them ten seconds ago and believe me it's the worst and I don't know why you'd want that
- @stranter: "A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible, high-frequency signal" || Sounds like the algo needs some parenting
- @pmddomingos: Overheard at Stanford: trying to run a university in Silicon Valley is like trying to run a monastery in Gomorrah.
- @scalzi: So, things I've learned in the last few days: 1. Sometimes 15GB+ updates to video games are in fact necessary and unavoidable 2. Devs mostly hate 'em too but right now there's not much to be done about it 3. I still hate it but UGH OKAY FINE I guess
- @copyconstruct: "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends."
- @hotjamz: he's makin a list / it's kept in plain text / an elf just got phished / you know what is next / santa claus has leaked 2.2 billion user's names, addresses, naughty/nice statuses, and the times they are asleep in their homes
- So many more quotes...
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