Grün(schnabel) KI.

  • 2019-10-23

This position paper advocates a practical solution by making efficiency an evaluation criterion for research alongside accuracy and related measures. In addition, we propose reporting the financial cost or "price tag" of developing, training, and running models to provide baselines for the investigation of increasingly efficient methods. Our goal is to make AI both greener and more inclusive — enabling any inspired undergraduate with a laptop to write high-quality research papers.

Roy Schwartz, Jesse Dodge, Noah A. Smith, Oren Etzioni: Green AI.

Bakkerijwetenschapper.

  • 2019-10-22

Het rechtbankverslag bevat lange alinea’s met teksten als: "Koek is geen maaltijd maar een lekkernij die wordt gegeten als tussendoortje of bij het ontbijt. Koek is een stevig, droog product. Koek wordt gemaakt van deeg, bestaande uit bloem en stroop of honing en wordt gebakken in een oven. Pannekoeken en poffertjes zijn juist zachte producten."

Dirk Waterval (Trouw 2019-08-12): De vraag van 8,5 miljoen euro: is een pannekoek een koek?

Decent enough.

  • 2019-10-21

Decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works.

the motto of ZeroTier One

Mierskunde.

  • 2019-10-20

"There's only zero of you," said the Queen of the Ants. In ant arithmetic, there are only two numbers: Zero, which means anything less than a million, and Some. "You can't cooperate, so even if you were King, the title would be meaningless."

Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age

Fernsweh.

  • 2019-10-19

There was a lull while Hackworth and Finkle-McGraw watched the little scenes; one of the hazards of living in a world filled with mediatrons was that conversations were always being interrupted in this way, and that explained why Atlantans tried to keep mediatronic commodities to a minimum.

Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age