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by Random_ernest 6y ago
I recall a story where a friend was unable to publish a paper in which he wrote an alternative to a very commonly used commercial tool (that virtually everybody used) with roughly 10 times better performance. He open sourced it and all, it
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Cold calling businesses is definitely not illegal in Germany if you got the contact info from their website.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
The huge difference between spiritualism and religion is that religion is dogmatic and systemically organised. In my opinion freeing spirituality from the clutch of religion is the final step, not the other way around. So being spiritual bu
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Bayes Theorem is one of the most fundamental theorems in the history of mathematics. I have yet to work in a field where it doesn't have deeply fundamental applications. In many cases expert knowledge or heuristic rules serve as prior.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
> by automating consumption It's called the subscription economy for a reason. Automated consumption exists and is constantly growing. The money spent on subscriptions grew in the US by >50% from 2010 to 2015.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Testing out the demo: SELECT * FROM trips WHERE tip_amount > 500 ORDER BY tip_amount DESC Very interesting :-)
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
From my very limited understanding the Graphcore machines outperform CUDA only significantly in inference, in training the improvements might not be sufficient to switch technology.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
With likely very dire results, yes I think you should. If your mothers insurance rate goes up, since you got one of these dna tests for Christmas, she should be involved in the decision to publish this data in the first place.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
But the problems where we apply human labour are vastly different from the ones where we apply machine labour. In (most) tasks where we apply human labour a few errors are tolerated.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Having worked extensively on synthetic data, what's your "verdict" on the topic? People seem to be very divided about it.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
To me it's not about input being the bottleneck, but about Vim having a modular grammar, such that my brain can stay in "problem space" instead of "how do I edit the file space". It allows me to have a deeper level
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Very interesting. I feel like I have written this exact sentence somewhere online only with the languages reversed. Tried to get into FP multiple times with Haskell, never clicked, then tried Clojure and felt productive after 2 days.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
For some years I was the developer you talk about, who always knew everything better, now I am a manager at a startup. So I was able to see both sides of the discussion. I feel like it always comes down to a communication issue. Team member
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
> Even the example of hosting complexity being replaced by cloud companies seems kind of silly to me. Maybe that’s saving very small companies a sizable fraction of their engineering resources, but I really doubt it for medium or larger
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
I just would like to add to all the great comments, that clojure also has access to the python ecosystem via libpython clj.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
One could even argue that a lot of startups are VC backed R&D. Only VC does not care for the scientific, not-directly monetizable outcomes.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
I haven't figured that part out either ;-)
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
From what I understand, you asked four questions in one: 1. how do you learn, 2. How do you decide what to learn, 3. How do you manage your learning time and 4. How do you handle the pressure of that huge mountain of stuff you don't kn
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Probably not the question you had in mind, but what Lisp and what made you choose it?
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
AWS has roughly double the market shared. So it is very likely that they take that title. https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-clou...
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
Thanks for your honesty, I thought I was the only one.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
> The higher the frequency, the steeper the gradient. Losses also scale with frequency. And while other acceleration principles have higher voltage gradient, they still can't reach TeV of collision energy, since you either can'
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
That is simply not true, the plasma wakefield accelerators are really a rather new technique but they are NOT meant to be used at such high energies, but rather for small experiments. Also (as far as I know), while they do have vastly super
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
That is really vague. Even if there are interesting advancements in photonics, I seriously doubt that it will be able to accelerate particles to terra electron volts of colision energy in a controlled manner (in the next few years). Everybo
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
A little off topic, but is there a german version of Solaris that is "readable"? The one I got reads like it was done in google translator (back when it really sucked).
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
I think people severely underestimate the scale, complexity, and time it takes to build large scale accelerators. There wont be some magical new accelerator popping up. Building them takes years, sometimes decades. Additionally you need a l
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
A senior scientist told me they grow mushrooms now in that tunnel ;-)
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
What you are referring to is used in e.g. CAD modelling, we call them non-uniform rational B-splines or NURBS. Recently there has been super interesting research on using these nurbs as ansatzfunctions e.g. for FEM stuff. They got a lot of
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
In the Hyperion books by Dan Simmons there is a being that can move in higher dimensions and the books will reportedly get a movie. Maybe they will adapt some effects like this.
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by Random_ernest 6y ago
I took it from the article that dropping requests was permitted (since that happens when all servers go down). So my assumption is still that a better solution is that the load balancer allows only a specific number of requests per server a

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