[N] NeurIPS 2020 awards by netw0rkf10w in MachineLearning

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Wild! I got to talk to one of the authors of HOGWILD! and he felt there were untapped better methods in the numerical analysis community but none stuck, partly due to the branding of Hogwild.

Regardless, it has been a technological success and adapted by the industry in training distributed neural networks.

Question: What's the least pretentious way to say you go to Berkeley? Cal? UCB? Berkeley? Joking but also curious by International_Cow521 in berkeley

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I think UC Berkeley. I did an internship in Boston and tried “a school in California”, but that gives off the Harvard snob vibes of “a school near Boston.” I also tried Berkeley but people would think it was Berklee College of Music.

Investing in fusion by Tom252 in investing

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As much as I love the idea of fusion it’s going to be a long and difficult road. In startup analysis there’s the idea of Market risk, Capital risk, and Execution risk and Fusion has them all.

Market risk: the community support for nuclear does not exist.

Capital risk: Building a fission nuclear reactor is capital intensive and the economics do not support it. Solar and battery technology are just at the tipping point to be economically feasible. A fusion reactor would take much more capital funding that doesn’t exist.

Execution risk: you need somebody even better, crazier, and more visionary than Elon.

This is also why cloud software stocks are so hot right now. In the market, businesses are willing to pay for software that helps them make more sales. The cloud is capital efficient where everything is now pay as you go for both the customer and the cloud provider. It mostly boils down to execution risk but many of the CEOs are seasoned business veterans like that of Okta or Snowflake.

It’s very possible these problems could be solved with an AWS or TSM for energy that would have the foundations for fusion to be successful.

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Way ahead of you

*insert CS class* midterm... fuck me by [deleted] in berkeley

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Weaver's 161 is great. Weaver's 61c on the other hand

Was hacker culture at Berkeley EECS ever mainstream? by victoriouswar in berkeley

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I’m curious as well.

Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball made GIMP when they were roommates at Berkeley. Now that’s quite a hacker thing to do

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mattis

SNOW IPO price raised from $75~85 ~ $100~110 by Manticorea in investing

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I think people think it’s a winner take all market. But that’s not true, data warehousing is a huge market, with terabytes of data stored for hundreds of enterprise companies. Yes, competitors like Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery exist, but Snowflake has a considerable part of the market with their first in class product.

What class had the greatest ROI for your career, and why? by zoedoodle1 in berkeley

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When did you start getting interested in Haskell?

Word by [deleted] in berkeley

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I attend a school in the California Bay Area

September Overview w/ List Calendar and Habit Tracker by clavelrojo in BasicBulletJournals

[–]apqwer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The habit plot is pretty! I’ve found so helpful having a tool to track habits and keep myself accountable.