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by TFortunato 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate_descent - Coordinate descent is another nice one that works well for certain problems.
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by TFortunato 6y ago
If you are interested in this kind of thing, there are a whole host of "derivative free" optimization methods out there. One I've seen used in particular at a previous job, the Nelder-Mead (downhill simplex) method, always st
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by TFortunato 7y ago
That is an astoundingly selective reading of the article you linked...
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by TFortunato 7y ago
LongJmp can be used as a way to implement exceptions at a low level, especially in languages like C, where you dont have them as a language construct. You call SetJmp, where you would want to put your try/catch blocks, then no matter h
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Africa is a very large continent with countries that range from "have legalized same sex marriage" to "have death penalty for homosexuality", so saying a region is "clearly closer to Africa when it comes to LGBT+ ri
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Statecharts are not the same as simple Finite State Machines.
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Heh, you do have to hand it to them for making stuff where your use cases include "Robust and Intuitive enough for a six year old at the playground"
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by TFortunato 7y ago
My guess is you want to start by looking at three.js --I've been on teams using it for a robotics debugging tool with a web interface, and it's definitely a nice library to work with!
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Also, It does not mean 16nm is cheaper than 20nm... the smaller the feature size, the more the wafer costs. Also, this is aggregate revenue at the foundry, and is ignoring things like tapeout costs. Not trying to crap on the tech, but it&#x
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by TFortunato 7y ago
I would be VERY shocked to see 100% yield... theres only so much you can do on chip though this strongly depends on what your definition of a working chip is :-P
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Assuming you are referring to this: "N5 provides around 15% higher performance at the iso-power or, alternatively, up to 30% power reduction at iso-performance." They are just saying that for the same power usage as previous tech,
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by TFortunato 7y ago
If you shrink the SIDE of a square to half its size, then you can fit 4 of those smaller squares in the same area...
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by TFortunato 7y ago
When you read the study, you actually realize that the number isn't 99%, its 59%, which I'm sure you know.
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by TFortunato 7y ago
(Full disclosure, former AD employee) In particular with precision Analog / mixed-signal / RF, there is a real recognition that there is no perfect Amplifier / Converter / Black Box X, that will satisfy all applications.
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by TFortunato 7y ago
I'll double check if there was anything interesting about how we did documentation lying around. One thing I did want to point out if you like the application notes, is you definitely owe it to yourself to check out the companies tech
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Former Analog Devices employee here. I used to write programs and that collected all of the data for the data sheets. We would take all of these complex measurements on a part in just seconds using some pretty fancy test equipment. It defin
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Hey, after reading "Skin in the game", he showed he had what it takes by staying on to layoff 40 employees before retiring to that 9000 sq ft, multimillion dollar home. Real working class hero!
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Prefabricated easily moveable homes are already a thing. You can go on https://factorydirectmobilehomes.com/ right now and buy a home larger than a shipping container for less than $30k. Modular apartment buildings also exi
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Heh, sadly, I would not at all be surprised to see a: "TODO: encrypt this" somewhere in the comments
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Where exactly are they getting a hold of bamboolib, there is nothing in the github, and as far as anyone has seen, there hasn't been any development done?
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by TFortunato 7y ago
It says right in the article this is a dialogue between the papers space industry reporter, and their fashion critic...
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Very good point! I was only thinking about the specific case of a statement that just makes an object and shoves it into a unique_ptr (e.g. does what make_unique does in the linked Herb Sutter article), in response to the comment about not
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by TFortunato 7y ago
FYI, you can use a constructor with a shared/unique ptr. auto p = unique_ptr<Foo>(new Foo()); Totally works, and may be easier to remember if you dont like the "magic" parameter forwarding.
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by TFortunato 7y ago
"Cross-platform" "Only supports Windows 10"
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by TFortunato 7y ago
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by TFortunato 7y ago
I don't have time to find scholarly articles for you, but this type of thing isn't exactly a secret. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44089161 The parent article linked even mentioned that their inaccuracy
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by TFortunato 7y ago
Regardless of my personal feelings on the matter - you should know that the facial recognition tech you are advocating for increases the chances that you would become wanted by the police, even if you didn't do anything, because the te
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by TFortunato 7y ago
As parent mentioned, there is overhead to using async: both in actual execution (e.g. likely spinning up another thread, plus creating a future object) and cognitively (in terms of following control flow, and knowing when exactly things are
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by TFortunato 7y ago
You mean like this? https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
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by TFortunato 7y ago
I think maybe they are using the word "garden" in the US sense of "part of your land sectioned off to grow vegetables, fruits, etc.", not "the green space in your land surrounding the home" which we'd refe

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