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by _yosefk 10y ago
Your analogy is pretty precise up to the "naked" part. I've heard pretty bad things about Getty Images from their customers (much more expensive than competitors, much worse customer service.) Naked I've never heard...
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You can't program a brain the way you can program computers. You can't program NNs either, im that sense. They have their place, I work for a company shipping them now with hw acceleration. Let's ignore the role of RAM here a
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by _yosefk 10y ago
SQL is not Prolog though. SQL, at least the parts mapping to relational algebra, is not Turing-complete, Prolog is. I'm pretty sure Prolog not specifying an execution strategy would mean that your program terminates under one interpret
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by _yosefk 10y ago
First impression, could be misinformed, but I'll bite. Since a hardware circuit is a recursive function that takes a state of the hardware and produces a new state, starting from an initial state (and so is the universe where the initi
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Not only are FPGAs as far from the ideal of "computation as reduction" expressed in the paper as they could possibly be, but they're the hardest machine to fit into this sort of a paradigm. The typical CPU will run functional
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"Do you know what ROI stands for? Radio on the Internet."
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by _yosefk 10y ago
If you think your political opponents are short democracy, and only your political allies are long, you're not helping democracy function. The biggest advantage of democracy over alternatives is that when a decision is made, an entire
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Islam obviously doesn't equal jihad as proven by >1000 years of history, but do you think civil rights are "on Iran's curriculum", to pick a Muslim country as far from Saudi Arabia both religiously and politically as
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Rent control and protectionism are different, and immigration for instance, a hot subject in today's politics, is another thing altogether. Supporting rent control doesn't make you stupid/uninformed, but the only other option
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by _yosefk 10y ago
People who lie about having checked signal integrity suck. I have a horror story of my own along these lines, with very creative memory corruption.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Then it wasn't deduplication. I swear it was a NetApp file server, two files, one modified by a program that logged the change, the other getting the same bits as the first, the time stamps were completely identical. Dedup was just a g
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by _yosefk 10y ago
This works at higher levels of abstraction, too. For instance, NetApp filers have a deduplication feature, where identical files are detected and stored once instead of several times. When one of the files is changed, supposedly a copy on w
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by _yosefk 10y ago
The math examples look interesting, standard math notation and all. Though if I got it right, you get standard math notation with the help of TeX when viewing source code, I'm not sure about editing source code (I sure would rather wri
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Does anyone have a theory of why she did it? I mean, I can imagine using Gmail instead of corporate email if the latter doesn't really work and you can't do anything about it - definitely not the case here though. This prompts one
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by _yosefk 10y ago
If you look at it that way, it's also hard to theorize about stocks in that modern economic wonderland "we" (they?) have created. There could be, for instance, a large wave of defaults on the plentiful debt created by low int
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by _yosefk 10y ago
For someone with no responsibilities except work, 70 hour weeks are sustainable (did it for 3 years, not to be recommended, but no burnout.) People report way larger numbers of hours though and probably have to handle more than just their w
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by _yosefk 10y ago
If you think a nation's wealth is maximized under certain conditions, isn't the majority better off taxing that maximized wealth than pursuing a different policy?
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by _yosefk 10y ago
What example workload cannot be implemented efficiently if your cores communicate using coherent caches, but can be implemented efficiently if they work in some other way?
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by _yosefk 10y ago
All multi-core Intel chips have cache coherence. Intel might not have incorporated the paper's approach to scaleable cache coherence because they don't have a substrate to put 512 x86 cores on.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
You don't store it in main memory, you store it in the directory, aka snoop filter, or whatever you want to call it. The paper actually estimated the overhead and came up with the number 2% for 512 cores, not that high.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Ouch! Appeal to authority stings. But in response, I pitted mighty Google against Intel and in the first ten hits for "cache coherence scalability paper" I found the one that prompted me to write my original comment: From http:&#
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Interesting that a guy from Intel says cache coherence doesn't scale; I kinda thought it scales pretty well, especially if actual data sharing is the exceptional case that must be made to work correctly, and non-shared data is the rule
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or Instagram) contributes to surveillance of that person. Please don't post any photos there that include me, and I suggest you avoid posting photos of anyone else too." I wish Faceb
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It doesn't ask people to renounce rights, it's just a person telling what the situation is right now in their experience, which is useful information. It's descriptive, not normative. Just like there's nothing wrong with
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I can't recommend treating immature behavior as a reliable signal of status, having seen a lot of immature people with no social, financial or educational capital whatsoever who were simply immature.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
What if you and TFA are both wrong in that the opposite of bigotry and exclusion is completely open borders and that the latter is desirable? What if control over immigration policy is a legitimate thing to seek regardless of "perceive
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Except few Leave voters would agree with his explanations of their vote or want him as their representative, I'd guess. So him talking about failure to listen is a bit funny.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I used to like how overloading lets you call it sort instead of sortRectsByArea but over the years came to the opposite conclusion. Very short and generic names are great for locals or for truly generic functions but generally a function na
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by _yosefk 10y ago
If Americans think this is released by Russia to harm Hillary, maybe they'll side with Hillary, at least more so than if it's released by Wikileaks, thought Hillary and started spreading rumors that the leak is coming from the Rus
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by _yosefk 10y ago
MS could, erm, look up those org charts on linkedin.com for $0 (indeed very useful at times.) What value is added by buying LinkedIn for $26G? How owning LinkedIn is going to add $1-1.5B/year (assuming eventually you want a P/E be

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