VanillaCafe

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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
As a parent of three young children, we've established weekends (Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday) as video and screen time. This is pretty easy criteria for the kids to understand which makes it easier to enforce no video Mon-Thu. The
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
> They were talking about how to gauge student progress when the students had taken a 100-question test, and a 50-question test. None of the three teachers realized that you had to scale the test scores before making a comparison between
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
The way I look at it is composing benchmarks to estimate the upper bound on the number of pages that can be served per second. So for GITHUBALL for instance: * BenchmarkHttpRouter_GithubAll at 66732 ns/op serves at most 15k pages/
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
From watching the video, I get the impression that there is a very large amplitude of the input audio -- taking advantage of the "loud" in loudspeaker.
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by VanillaCafe 12y ago
On the bright side, we'll probably never explore much of our galaxy, let alone the universe at large.
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
Decimal floating point would hardly affect accuracy compared to binary floating point -- with the exception of domains where the inputs and output are strictly human-readable and human-precise constructs (e.g. banking... is there a better t
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
It is trivial to write a binary sort using a single iterating loop instead of using recursion. This is not true for quicksort which needs to maintain a bit of state generally on the stack via recursion. Basically it is a false start to try
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
> History has shown many times that it's not always the 100% dead serious who make it, but those who are just, well...making it up as they go along. Examples, please.
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
But in particular to create a seed training set (for the neural network) -- not as a standalone house number recognition system.
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
Alternative: on substring, reference the original string through a SoftReference registered with a global ReferenceQueue. Have one global system thread poll that reference queue and to convert substrings to hard copies (requiring a reverse
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
"Why do we dream?" doesn't seem like it ranks in the top 10.
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
"Can you name a single other service or product in the world that include such restrictions, and "up to X" quantity?" Sure. Semitrucks pay greater highway tolls (and are subject to greater usage scruitiny e.g. weighing
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
> I find it amusing that there isn't a single word about runtime performance in the whole essay. It most certainly is. In fact, it's the answer to the opening question, "Why does Go, a language designed from the ground up
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by VanillaCafe 13y ago
Also that Provo residents receive free 5 Mbit/sec internet for the next eight years. I assume that is to offset the $39M, which I read was equivalent to $8/mo/resident for the next seven years.