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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'm not actually sure it's "more documented". It has more documentation, that's true, but that's not the same thing as better documentation, and after some point the mountain of documentation becomes a daunting
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by 0xbear 9y ago
But _why_ use TF when you have PyTorch which is just as powerful, runs noticeably faster for most workloads, _and_ is easy to understand? What are you gaining by using TF these days?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You can't avoid FB either. It tracks you even if you're not logged in, and even if you don't have an account. And by tracking you across sites it can infer your age group, gender, sexual orientation, political leanings, incom
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And you seem to have this weird notion that whether or not a team has a high profile does not impact its chances of getting a grant. In the absence of a feedback loop this largely turns into a popularity contest, and dire predictions are he
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's common sense, no? Who do you think will get more grants, the "we're definitely all gonna die of heat, drought, and hurricanes" group, or "there is 40% probability that the temperature might rise by 1C in a hund
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by 0xbear 9y ago
There were literally hundreds of outlandish predictions and most people only remember a few, and the one from the 70s has no names tied to it. For all we know those same people might still be getting grants and making insane predictions, so
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And Earth once was frozen all over, and there were times when concentration of greenhouse gases was much higher than it is today, with no "runaway" effects.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It would be good if there was some website that would aggregate and preserve these predictions along with the names of people who have made them, and then compared them against what actually happened years or decades down the road. Right no
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I don't see anything hilarious about this guy getting fired for a well sourced memo due to pressure from virtue signaling zealots who didn't even read it. To those tempted to respond: do please make sure _you_ have read the origin
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by 0xbear 9y ago
They also have also inadvertently confirmed that their Linux testing efforts are lacking. Which just blows my mind TBH, because they're also in the server market, dominated completely by Linux.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The main contribution of a technical leader is calling bullshit on things that are bullshit. Left to their own devices, large teams of people will produce a lot of things, but someone qualified needs to decide which of those things actually
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I sure hope so, but given the epic fail of Ryzen, I'm going to wait for others to beta test it for me, and/or for some sort of explanation and fix from AMD.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
In case someone from AMD is reading this: guys, you need to fix stability issues on Linux, or your Epyc is DOA. People are having some serious lock-up trouble with Ryzen, even with the latest AGESA updates and kernels. This is the only issu
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I mean real SIMD, the kind you need these days: AVX, AVX2, FMA. And to add insult to an injury, MS was running the chip in 32 bit mode, which further restricts the usable instruction set.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It was a shitty chip anyway. No SIMD of any kind. Good riddance, I hope Microsoft picks something more respectable next time.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
QT is really expensive for commercial use though. And it's not as easy as Builder was. Builder basically gave you Delphi capability but in C++. You could focus 100% on the problem you're solving rather than on the UI -- true compo
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Now someone just needs to clone C++ Builder and we'll be all set. Power of C++ with the simplicity of Delphi.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I don't know if I'm the "best", but I quit when I'm bored. That usually happens every 2.5-3 years. Money bump that comes with the new job is nice to have, but not the main reason why I leave. They offer more, I take
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Actually I think the opposite is true. The winning side chose to rub Germany's nose in it the first time around, both economically and politically. The result was the rise of national-socialist party, with "national" bit addr
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Understandable. Germany has experienced crushing, humiliating defeat not once, but twice in a hundred years, and the second time it was abundandtly clear that they were on the wrong side of history. No wonder the fightin' spirit hasn&#
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Not an option until they fix Linux crashes and hangs. Threadripper would be pretty neat for a 4 GPU deep learning server, but I've had nothing but trouble with plain Ryzen
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You are mindlessly parroting liberal talking points. I'm not going to try to change your mind here, but do try to hear the actual conservative POV from an actual person offline, not what the democrats tell you it is.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
This actually dates back decades. DEC invented "no output division": a team comprised of senior but bored people who would be unfashionable and dangerous to kick out. You give them some bullshit bling project and segregate them we
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by 0xbear 9y ago
They were extremely poor though, and they got there through currency manipulation, which is now reaching its limits.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Key phrase is "so far". The math behind it all is definitely not a joke.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
What I don't quite get is why the US government is so nonchalant about cryptocurrencies. The US owes much of its privileged financial position to the ability to siphon wealth from other economies by printing dollars. That's why it
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by 0xbear 9y ago
To boost productivity, wouldn't you want the internet to be really bad most of the time? Like "only good enough to read textual docs and ssh into AWS" bad.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Can't tell if you're one of those people who get people fired for differences of opinion or you just honestly don't see it. So I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the latter. I find it amusing that I only h
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'm sorry, saying to someone "you look good" is not "sexual harassment" no matter how much you want it to be.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You say you're surprised, and then confirm my opinion almost to the letter. Truth is, it's dangerous to not "keep it to yourself", so people don't talk about it.

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