SethTro

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by SethTro 6y ago
I have a 2 socket E5-2650 v2 for 16 cores which is as fast as a modern Ryzen above (but 50% slower on real world tasks) 0.8 seconds for 10,000 28.16 seconds for 100,000
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by SethTro 6y ago
Same idea as this game development legend https://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/02/coding-tricks-of-game-dev... > he had put aside those two megabytes of memory early in the development cycle. He knew from experience
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by SethTro 6y ago
It will be curious to see if CMP revenue is broken out in future earnings. Nvidia has been reaping great profit from the crypto-craze, it would be interesting to see that number quantified.
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by SethTro 6y ago
This article took a more holistic view than BTC Endgame ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198210 ) but the author doesn't seem to have landed on a position only enumerated "maybe, maybe not"
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by SethTro 6y ago
You can see what this page looked like for Curiousity at https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?page=0&per_page... Can't wait till they start posting raw images :)
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by SethTro 6y ago
Over the last year Tether has looked more and more like fraud. I was reading this article covering some of the recent developments since Tether's failed attempt to suppress discovery by New York's Attorney General https:/&#x
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by SethTro 6y ago
Ben Delo joined the project and has been running several hundred AWS cores.[1] Slightly related a new method to validate the result was found which means that they no longer need to run a 2nd double check run to validate that there wasn&#x2
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by SethTro 6y ago
PCG and LCG (permuted/linear congruential generator) seem much stronger. This is one of my favorite presentations on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Oet5qjlms&t=2s and this matrix breaks it down well
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by SethTro 6y ago
> Reuters recently reported he expected to be fired after he pushed back against false claims that Democrats "rigged" the election, a claim that Trump has heavily promoted. Sad day when doing your job means you get fired.
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by SethTro 6y ago
Commit message was "felt cute, might put gh source code on dmca repo now idk" https://web.archive.org/web/20201104050026if_/https://github...
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by SethTro 6y ago
I have seen a third conjecture tracker that displayed odds of current(?) collisions as arcs plotted in real time. Do you know what this system is called? I searched for 10+ minutes and can't find it.
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by SethTro 6y ago
Only if one of the two objects has passed over one of their tracker stations (and they got a good scan of it)
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by SethTro 6y ago
Any idea what Apple is using this for? The bottom of the page says "Apple Search may take the following into account when ranking web search results:", is this another confirmation that Apple is developing a search engine?
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by SethTro 6y ago
Google has a whole list of these (ActionableIM, OnlyHello, ContextPlz); I'm into FastHello 1. Open the chat window, and type your question with no "hello". Do not press enter. 2. Instead, press Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-X to cut y
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by SethTro 6y ago
Article doesn't mention the formula for adjustment. I heard it's 5-15% of base salary depending on what state you move from/to and partially dependent on level.
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Facebook remote salary adjustments are coming(ft.com)
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by SethTro 6y ago
It's been interesting to watch public sentiment outside of tech. My personal anecdote is a class mate of mine started at FB and used to wear all their swag and talk it up, slow public sentiment had moved against them and now they say t
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by SethTro 6y ago
It's pretty standard to have 8 slots [1] on motherboards and rarely 16 slots [2] 64 gig DDR4 modules cost ~$300 [3] 128 gig DDR4 server modules can cost as little as ~$800 [4] 8x64 = 0.5 TB of DDR4 ram = 8 300 = $2,400 16x128 = 1.5 TB
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by SethTro 6y ago
This is very likely in response to the Stop Hate For Profit campaign[1], it has been picking up steam the last week with a bunch of major brands[2] (REI, Coca-Cola, Unilever) saying they're going to pause FB's cash cow, ads, for a
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by SethTro 6y ago
This is something called "results oriented thinking" it can be very destructive to learning in noise environments (e.g. poker, investing)
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by SethTro 6y ago
Some of this is being documented on Github. https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/repor... There are several open issues that tech could help out on (IPFS backup, front end for viewing,
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by SethTro 6y ago
They've been digitalizing media and only streaming it when it's outside of copyright. This means many 2050+ for recent music but ~1970s music and earlier is fair game.
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by SethTro 6y ago
Thanks for the confirmation.
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by SethTro 6y ago
Slightly misleading headline. The test is not new, it's been launched since April and has already shipped 10M tests. According to https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-05-08-Research-from-Univer...
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by SethTro 6y ago
It now allows backup which is a really nice feature to avoid the my phone broke and now I'm locked out problem.
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by SethTro 6y ago
I'm a little skeptically of the Swish implementation after looking at Table 2. Method | Top 1 | Top 5 No-op | 78% | 94% Swish | 64.5% | 86% Mish | 79% | 94.5% Swish is the only value that decreases performance (and by a huge magnitude
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by SethTro 6y ago
Looks like Ubuntu 20.04 came out 24 hours ago https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/
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by SethTro 7y ago
This is one of the few pieces of non-free software I'm happy to pay for. I've been doing some PenPlotter for fun, I wonder if I can use Mathematica with HatchFilling for some of my plotting now.
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by SethTro 7y ago
The article doesn't say it anywhere but I sure hope all the games are backed up to disk/tape in txt format and that this is just used to keep in-memory DB/memcache size down. Otherwise an interesting article about injecting d
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by SethTro 7y ago
The progressive loading video is great!

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