Matumio

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by Matumio 11y ago
Talking about unfamiliarity and specific needs: FPGAs are much better suited than CPUs for processing minimum-sized frames at wirespeed. They can still forward all unhandled frames to a CPU. Yes, it's a lot of development effort compar
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by Matumio 11y ago
What costs? Is hosting really so expensive, or is it something else? Obviously you have invested a lot of time. Personally, I wouldn't think twice about spending, say, $10 per month to publish something where I have invested the equiva
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by Matumio 11y ago
The problem with ECI is, you can force the government to talk about your topic. Essentially, people have right to make a plea to the rulers, who are then free to ignore it. Apparently, this is called a "democratic instrument".
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by Matumio 11y ago
I don't think this can be solved by punishing the cheaters, or "educating" them about the consequences. The problem is that expectations and pressure on individuals have gone out of hand. If you feel that your very existence
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by Matumio 11y ago
I like the build-up explanation in this chapter (Monte Carlo Methods) from MacKay's book: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/356.384....
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by Matumio 11y ago
The article mentions corrections beyond 500ppm. I worked on time synchronization (using PTP instead of NTP), and when we are talking about "cheap oscillators" we mean those specified at 50ppm (50us per second) which you find in ev
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by Matumio 11y ago
What is the goal? In my understanding it's to get rid of all this goal-seeking business for a moment. Which is a beautiful contradiction and the reason why you don't need a lot of literature in order to practice. If you try hard
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by Matumio 11y ago
There seems to be a lot of experience behind this presentation. But I wonder, how does all this G-testing compare to Thompson sampling? (Which was not mentioned at all in the presentation.) For example, is there any drawback with adapting t
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by Matumio 11y ago
In bash, you hit Ctrl-R on the empty prompt and type "w": (reverse-i-search)`w': echo wow Hit return to execute, or any motion keys to start editing. It was the first thing I missed in Fish.
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by Matumio 11y ago
For some definition of "optimal". I expect you can reach the "5% deviation from target" region much faster if you allow a bit of overshoot.
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think parent was getting at the classical problem of using a scientific result to justify a policy. The problem is that no statistic (not even the proof of a causal link) is enough to justify a policy. A policy is also about the question
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by Matumio 12y ago
(Apologies for deletion. I moved my comment to parent. Won't try that again.) It is, but on a different level. I think the analogy would be that in VHDL/Verliog you are dealing with a template or macro language (which is executed
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by Matumio 12y ago
They are programming language, but you don't program the FPGA device with them. Your program a generator that runs on your CPU and creates the physical layout for the FPGA device as its output.
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by Matumio 12y ago
The big issue with Python2 is that it's easy to accidentally mix unicode and byte strings during development, and it works fine until some user has a non-ascii home directory or similar. You get bugtracker conversations like "it c
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by Matumio 12y ago
I agree it seems to be a stupid move for a government, and maybe someone else has gained access to the right routers. But "some test gone wrong"? You can't be serious. This is a carefully targeted attack and includes packets
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by Matumio 12y ago
The 75% result (chance to survive) seems about right, but the confidence in this result seems completely unnatural. The sharp peak in the posterior plot suggests that I have nailed down the exact probability to +/- 2%. No way.
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by Matumio 12y ago
How do network cards fail? Simply as if you cut the link? Or can you see error counters increasing and sporadic frame loss that gets worse over time?
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by Matumio 12y ago
Hm. I thought the largest part of our money is actually debt money created by private banks when they are granting credit. In order to create the money to pay interest on that credit, it is necessary that somebody makes more debt elsewhere.
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think they have given up to prevent you from capturing the output. The binary blob does decryption and decoding in one step, which prevents you from replaying the compressed stream.
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by Matumio 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think NTP usually synchronizes the system time, so programs don't have to use any NTP specific API to get NTP time. PTP won't help here: all it does is increase the accuracy from milliseconds to microseconds - not much use if th
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by Matumio 12y ago
I (another layman) don't think AI research is divided that way. The most visible area of research is "machine learning", where the goal is not AGI but to find better algorithms to solve well-defined statistical engineering pr
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by Matumio 12y ago
Tcl is the major scripting language used by all FPGA vendors, and sadly it doesn't look like it is going away. You can call Python from it, but FPGA developers (especially those Windows) will make a big fuss about installing an externa
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by Matumio 12y ago
I think the problem is that our civilization is built in the idea of comfort and economic specialization. Agree. But in order to change that, we have to change our value system. Worst thing, I'm almost sure that this accumulation of
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by Matumio 12y ago
For some companies it may be more profitable to burn out employees and replace them with fresh meat. Do you even have a limitation on the weekly working hours in the US? Nothing against free markets, but the point of them is to improve our
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by Matumio 12y ago
It has everything to do with our society. There are some things that just waste an awful lot of resources if they are done according to market logic. Science is one of those things. Luckily, some people are intrinsically motivated (or just
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by Matumio 12y ago
But I'd like to know if the power density of this device can get anywhere close to the "health hazard" limit. We need citation or numbers about that. I'm sure you can already harvest some microwatts from wifi, and most p
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by Matumio 12y ago
We are either already there and improving (reprap, add vitamins and lots of human labour) or still far away (no printing of motors, microchips and hotend on a single machine).
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by Matumio 12y ago
Fudge factor? What I meant to suggest is to just define that UTC is now equal to TAI, and forget about the offset (set leap seconds to zero, or drive slowly towards zero if required).
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by Matumio 12y ago
An actual proposal was to wait until an hour has accumulated and then change time zones.

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