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by GregarianChild 6y ago
I don't know how FlashFill works in 2020, but from [1] I learn that the original implementation was a brute-force enumeration (with clever heuristics along the lines of CDCL (= conflict-driven clause learning in SAT solvers) for speed
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
See also the recent related HN discussion [1] about "Corporate Memphis" which is orthogonal in principle from Kawaii, but in practise often overlapping. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890877
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
The long interview [1] with Morris Chang is interesting. When asked why he went to Taiwan to found TSMC (at a reduced level of compensation) he replied: it was the newness that appealed to me, the difference from what I had been doing for
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
Your link [1] seems to suggest that the campus does not just house administration but also clinical departments of the School of Medicine. This may be School of Medicine administration, I am not sure.
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
Scott's article devastated IIT. Lot's of people stopped looking at IIT after it appeared. Here is a related question: has IIT ever lead to an interesting neurobiological insight? Has IIT suggested an interesting research hypoth
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
Exokernels are orthogonal to unikernels. Unikernels run exactly one application, but can be based on an arbitrarily complicated OS (specialised) to that one application. Exokernels can run arbitrarily many applications, but OS functionali
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
I'm interested to learn why unikernels would be better at handling backpressure. Because there are fewer sources of interrupts that might interfere with each other?
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
I split my email addresses into 5 (private, university teaching, research, commercial work, side business), and use different computers (though fewer than 5) for different jobs. In part that was forced by my commercial employer's trade
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
Arm's competitive edge will whither, since other companies are frantically working on RISC-V implementations!
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by GregarianChild 6y ago
You are correct, right now Arm has better software support etc. But how long will that last? The competition is not happy paying Arm large fees, and it may well happen in the long run that RISC-V will have a better eco-system. 5 years? 10
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by GregarianChild 7y ago
G. Orwell, In Front Of Your Nose [1]: "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. One thing that helps toward it is to keep a diary, or, at any rate, to keep some kind of record of one's opinions about
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by GregarianChild 7y ago
The loss function needs to be differentiable. The paper uses square hinge loss which is differentiable.
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by GregarianChild 7y ago
Everybody in the business knows the secrets anyway. That's so interesting. How does this knowledge (the secrets) transfer between individuals, in a way that doesn't generalise to teams? I'm asking because I'
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by GregarianChild 7y ago
I imagine that a Chinese manufacturer will eventually also play a role, since it's a strategic priority for the PRC to be self sufficient in terms of semi-conductor production. The PRC (most probably) has the 'advantage' of a
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Wearing a Face Mask Is Encouraged in Asia, Shunned in the U.S.(time.com)
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by GregarianChild 7y ago
This is very interesting. I have been wondering about this for years. I have asked neural network people whether it is possible to build a neural network from the non-linearity induced by rounding. I have never received a convincing answer.