SomeStupidPoint

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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I'm terrified of people who use phrases like "inciting hatred" as an excuse for why we should start ostracizing entire swatches of people from social discourse. Hilariously, I'd say that if anyone is "inciting hatre
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> This is also naive. In that case you won't be able to publish your results in prestigious journals and your career will die out. Charlatan fortunetellers aren't owed careers as scientists -- if they can't produce reliabl
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Bitcoin radically gimped their VM at the start, destroying the inherent value of the coin. BTC is going to die to a gen 3 VM that learns from the ETH mess of gen 2 and just ungimps the BTC VM. I don't believe BTC has the political lead
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Then it's outright fraud to present your results as reliable when there's radically uncontrolled variables that dominate the results.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Your experience of it being hard to even get started because of the insular hardware community mirrors mine. (Well, I guess my employer does use FPGAs somewhere, but in a department far from me.) Are you just using a Cyclone V demo board?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Tangent, but I suspect you've researched this topic more than I have -- do you know of any good source on the subject of FPGA NNs? It dawns on me that FPGAs might actually be better than GPUs for a project I've been thinking about
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Do you even want to use floats when talking about FPGA NNs? You can talk directly about circuits on bitvectors, of which a subset looks like floats doing math, but your network might have a better encoding than that.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's mostly just pointing out that in a particular extension of the integers, if we attach the square root of -5, then (1 + sqrt-5) * (1 - sqrt-5) = 2 * 3. 3 divides the left hand side, but it is not a divisor of either term. This is d
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Fun fact: many desktop printers can hit 3kbps in V40L QR codes (biggest + lowest ECC). (Estimated at approx 10ppm by 20KiB per code.) For the security conscious on a budget, printing QR codes to scan to a networked machine can be a way to g
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> core functions We're not talking about outsourcing tangential features, we're talking about the outsourcing of waging war and core abilities of the military, eg the hired hackers at the NSA or outfits like Blackwater. Privati
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
How -- conceptually -- does the military being unable to afford the salary of person A get fixed by subcontracting to hire person A through corporation B? That literally just makes person A cost more money.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Aren't muons terrestrial particles created by cosmic ray impacts on the atmosphere, though?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
This is what happens when you force the military to outsource core functions to fleece taxpayer money for your buddies. For a long time, there's been a push to not let the military develop capabilities in-house, despite repeated contra
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Everyone should appropriately consider the source (and their security concerns), but this also exists: https://github.com/iadgov It provides some advice and references a number of other government sources once you dig into
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
The question that you're circling, but can't seem to put your finger on is "if they weren't concerned with oil's future, why would they diversify?" Historically, oil has gone gangbusters. I doubt any of the sov
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Also, what a great chance to have a sanctioned hunt of an Argentinian sub/vessel. Nothing breeds experience at hunting subs like going sub hunting -- and now several navies get to, in an area they know one exists, without it offending
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
OP is dumping the change at home, then converting it to bills all at once. That works even when coins have non-trivial value.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Also, healthcare isn't the only industry with that type of problem. That makes the issue more resonant, because the deep corruption of the legal system and routine criminality of corporations cuts across pretty much every facet of life
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
That argument is based on the premise that the best thing to do is be cowardly if it benefits you, even if it costs a lot of people who you have a duty towards substantial amounts. The long term prospect of repeatedly caving to corruption t
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
....Default 'featured' sort? When I go to Amazon.com and search, I see 'relevance' as my default, with 'featured', some price related ones, 'average', and 'new' as options. ('Featured&#
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
They invented a whole language to paper over the fact that their entire field is weaponized psychology employed against their customers. Do a noun for noun substitution to unpack a marketing meeting, and you'll want to puke. Frankly, i
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
What's weird is they don't even test knowledge of the theory or operation of data structures, just if you can puke a few classic ones on a whiteboard. Honestly, I think they've optimized on simply hosting an ordeal and select
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean -- could you elaborate? Amazon probably doesn't use straigt score averaging to decide "best" items sort, and this is just proposals of how to change that to be better by not just using averages
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
....Dosing has everything to do with how harmful something is. Otherwise, the term over dosing wouldn't exist.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I'll be honest: I suspect that this is actually quite common and I have absolutely no idea how to fix it. But I suspect that much like homelessness, step 0 is gathering an accurate, systemic level picture so we can even understand wha
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Child endangerment laws are enough. Are they, for small doses?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Sincere question -- how do we spot things like this? Let's pretend for a moment that I'm a relatively competent programmer with small amounts of disposable income to spend on hobbies, such as running algorithms over government dat
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
What really changed laptop buying for me was the cloud. No laptop is going to have 8x discrete GPUs, but all of them can manage to SSH using my cellphone as a hotspot. So I started buying laptops that were easy to carry, nice to type on, et
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Tangent, but... I'm actually curious if the wealth gap is part of what caused the slowdown -- the super rich got greedy, ate into their seed corn by taking too much wealth from the productive parts of the system, and now won't mak
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
They could directly invest in infrastructure (coupled with suitably sized bribes, which can be kept to a small portion when done directly), which is what China is doing. But they'd get accused of colonialism if they actually tried to h

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