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madenine commented on Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo   reuters.com/article/us-eg... · Posted by u/wslh
SllX · 4 years ago
No but some Departments are moving more of their bureaucracy out of the capital to avoid paying higher salaries in a higher cost of living area.
madenine · 4 years ago
...and as a part of a deliberate effort to reduce the size and effectiveness of government agencies.

If you relocate a government agency HQ to an area that doesn't have any competitive jobs, you're making it more difficult for that agency to attract and retain tallent.

Just by moving the office in the first place you'll hemorrhage experienced personnel who don't want to move their lives across the country.

To proponents - that's a feature not a bug. Less effective regulation (and eventually deregulation) being the goal.

madenine commented on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop   twitter.com/KHOUStephanie... · Posted by u/Miner49er
JumpCrisscross · 5 years ago
> If their customers - the firms that pay them, not app users - see the RH platform as a threat to their business

This point has been made repeatedly elsewhere but it bears repeating. Market makers are getting rich off this trading. Robinhood's customers are not hurting from this.

madenine · 5 years ago
Point taken.

Still, as far as risk to RH is concerned - if this kicks off a change via their customers, regulators, or legal action the change is probably not in their favor.

madenine commented on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop   twitter.com/KHOUStephanie... · Posted by u/Miner49er
kart23 · 5 years ago
Why can't they just stop the people on margin from buying gme? That would be reasonable. But if it's your money, I don't see how it's risky for RH.
madenine · 5 years ago
RH makes money by selling data to investment firms, not off individual trades/fees.

If their customers - the firms that pay them, not app users - see the RH platform as a threat to their business they could pull the plug[0]. Or if this prompts regulators to examine RH and similar products.

The risk isn't in the outcomes of options/trades; its risk to their business model.

[0] RH's customer are actually market makers, who by and large will be profiting heavily off of this.

madenine commented on FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol   wusa9.com/article/feature... · Posted by u/danso
SQL2219 · 5 years ago
I watched the summer riots on youtube live streams, I don't recall the FBI using this technique for the tens of thousands of man-hours spent looting, burning and rioting in Portland, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC or Atlanta.
madenine · 5 years ago
I don't think its the FBI's job to figure out who smashed up a Target or looted a Footlocker.

Its definitely the FBI's job to figure out who breached a federal building, let alone the seat of our legislative branch during an active session.

That being said... the FBI, DOJ, DHS, and state agencies definitely do shady stuff and track people via their devices at protests. I'm remembering surveillance planes over Baltimore that were traced back to feds.

madenine commented on Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best practices   github.blog/2020-11-20-nb... · Posted by u/pbowyer
kowlo · 5 years ago
The author writes

> we decided to assist fastai in their development of a new, literate programming environment for Python, called nbdev.

but this is followed by:

> nbdev builds on top of Jupyter notebooks to fill these gaps and provides the following features

is it a new environment, or is it an extended Jupyter Notebook? It looks like Jupyter Notebook to me. Why not Jupyter Lab?

> JupyterLab: Jupyter’s Next-Generation Notebook Interface https://jupyter.org

madenine · 5 years ago
>is it a new environment, or is it an extended Jupyter Notebook? It looks like Jupyter Notebook to me. Why not Jupyter Lab?

Neither? It doesn't change the features of jupyter notebooks, and its not an improved/expanded UI like jupyter lab (you could use nbdev with jupyter lab). Its utilities and automation to make package/library development a better experience if jupyter is where you write your code.

From https://github.com/fastai/nbdev:

"nbdev is a library that allows you to develop a python library in Jupyter Notebooks, putting all your code, tests and documentation in one place."

madenine commented on AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review   overclock3d.net/reviews/g... · Posted by u/ZenithExtreme
nvarsj · 5 years ago
Is it the same? I've done CUDA development myself, and the ease of local development is hard to beat.
madenine · 5 years ago
No, its not really the same - but the parent is "planning to have a dabble with NLP and machine learning" so my guess is HuggingFace/SpaCy/PyTorch/Tensorflow/FastAI are more the consideration than touching CUDA directly.
madenine commented on AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review   overclock3d.net/reviews/g... · Posted by u/ZenithExtreme
GolDDranks · 5 years ago
I'm running a desktop Linux, and I'm planning to have a dabble with NLP and machine learning. I do some ML-related stuff at work, but I don't have any actual hands-on experience about neural networks or modern NLP.

Provided that I'm running Linux, and I want to do ML, should I get current-gen AMD Radeon or NVidia GeForce?

madenine · 5 years ago
If you want to dabble; use the cloud.

Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.

madenine commented on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro   macrumors.com/2020/11/11/... · Posted by u/antipaul
madenine · 5 years ago
Is there a common linear algebra benchmark?

Would love to see a non-Intel chip + OpenBLAS beating out Intel + MKL

madenine commented on China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet   reuters.com/article/us-ch... · Posted by u/adventured
smithza · 5 years ago

  > But we also can't say anything because China makes all our stuff.
Thinking of Lebron James who hypocritically spoke up about BLM and not about human rights abuses in China[1]. We cannot place our hopes in capitalism to deal with these human-rights atrocities, even though there is much the NBA could do to use their financial power to influence the region and demand change. MLK would use boycotts to force racist businesses to grapple with losing the black people's dollar if they did not stand up for justice. We can still learn from this; the Western gov'ts are not the only players in this game.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/lebron-james-nba-players-told-move-...

madenine · 5 years ago
> Thinking of Lebron James who hypocritically spoke up about BLM and not about human rights abuses in China[1].

I don't understand this take.

Why does LeBron James have to address human rights in China before he, a Black American, can address human rights abuses against Black Americans in America?

madenine commented on Science and steely nerves spared Houston from a nightmare hurricane evacuation   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
ramses0 · 5 years ago
Have you seen how people in the U.S. try and board airplanes?
madenine · 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMgarcFkXz4

Plane boarding is kinda fascinating.

u/madenine

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