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by alquemist 6y ago
Agreed, the idea is interesting and worthy of further exploration. For starters, does it scales beyond MNIST or 'tiny synthetic datasets'?
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by alquemist 6y ago
The title is misleading. The core technique still uses 60,000 images from MNIST, but 'distills' them into 10 images that contain the information from the original 60,000. The 10 'distilled' images look nothing like digit
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by alquemist 6y ago
That is very true, thanks for clarifying. It is one of the main reasons it is hard to build 'good enough' VLIW compiler, though I haven't paid attention to the field in >10 years. OOO = 'out of order' :)
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by alquemist 6y ago
On top of my head: * Apps eventually degenerate in a mess of interconnected components triggering events on each other. Building UIs felt more like writing Verilog than writing functions. Nothing like chasing event ordering bugs through lib
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by alquemist 6y ago
Regarding gotchas, it's bearable. I only have a couple on my short list: == vs === and xs.includes(x) vs x in xs, and only the latter is not reducible to a trivial rule of thumb. TS is helpful in this regard, possibly there are more in
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by alquemist 6y ago
> in Itanium's case at least partially because it was hard to write compilers good enough to exploit its VLIW design This is half true. The other half is that OOO execution does all the pipelining a "good enough" compiler
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by alquemist 6y ago
We are no longer in 2005. Javascript, especially in its Typescript flavor, is a perfectly capable modern language.
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by alquemist 6y ago
From Garmin website, first category (wearables), first item: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/702902#specs : CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®. From Garmin website, featured items: https://buy
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by alquemist 6y ago
top - max value in the group top3 - max 3 values in the group
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by alquemist 6y ago
Nice! Should be easy to do max instead of count. Then top instead of max. Then top3 breaks the model.
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by alquemist 6y ago
Assuming we key a and b by y.d and generalizing b to sets, we are reaching the limits of the relational model: there is no good way to represent multiple sets associated with a given key, we need independent tables to do so. Neither cross p
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by alquemist 6y ago
There are a handful of examples on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages . One example: retrieve (a=count(y.i by y.d where y.str = "ii*" or y.str = "foo"), b=max(count(y
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by alquemist 6y ago
> … The language (SQL) is not very composable. This is a fact that most SQL users are not aware of. The relational algebra that SQL is based on is absolutely composable but SQL is not due to the inherent limitation of the language (as it
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by alquemist 6y ago
Not sure how a new language can help with an ecosystem problem. In the old days, people write your own code and relied on a vendor provided standard lib, for example C++ stdlib, Java platform or Python's batteries included. Since softw
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by alquemist 6y ago
Brainstorm: Could it help to run 'coverage' through the web of dependencies and shake out all the code that is not explicitly exercised by an app test? Is that technically feasible? Is that cost effective?
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by alquemist 6y ago
Not sure what's wrong with the page. It looks slick, polished and expensive. Solid marketing material.
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by alquemist 6y ago
First line of the abstract: "The European Commission is conducting an in-depth investigation of the Google/Fitbit deal.". They are perusing a specific legal angle to investigate Google/Fitbit.
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by alquemist 6y ago
Given how prevalent plastic is, my suspicion is that glass is more expensive than plastic. Single use glass seems like a waste, though I haven't run the numbers. Unless we can get to reusable glass. Living in US and walking the aisles
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by alquemist 6y ago
Even in the best of circumstances, being subjected to the highlights of 100 other people will make your life feel miserable in comparison. Amazing vacation locations at the best time of day, gorgeous food from the best angle, amazing health
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by alquemist 6y ago
Thanks. While I wrote the OP I had 'reusable standardized glass jars' as a possible end goal in mind. I'm heartened to hear this goal is feasible. The question remains on how to move the status quo from 'myriad shape pla
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by alquemist 6y ago
While this article is off base, there is a distinct lack of leadership in demonstrating effective ways to solve the problem. There is way too much plastic used for disposable packaging, from foods to toiletries to the infamous heat sealed p
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by alquemist 6y ago
Similar strategy works via 'run test' in an IDE. Never needed a REPL.
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by alquemist 6y ago
Going further back, the Protestant Reformation was enabled by the spread of the printing press. In its wake, the 30 Years War. Upon utter exhaustion of the parties involved, the Peace of Westphalia set the stage for the modern nation states
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by alquemist 6y ago
--r<TAB>ecursive
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by alquemist 6y ago
We've put old rocks under the electronic microscope. That's how we identified billion year old cyanobacteria fossils. While there is no readily available comprehensive record of who searched for microfossils by looking at what old
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by alquemist 6y ago
Not a big fan of AresDB because of the glaring IO issues. That being said, pushing 'lack of join operator was never a problem' is textbook Sapir–Whorf. 'We've trained our captive users to never ask a question that requir
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by alquemist 6y ago
> And then there’s all that plastic. Studies have shown that increasing amounts of plastic “marine litter” are being deposited on the seafloor everywhere from coastal areas to deep basins, and even in the Arctic. Wind, sun, and waves gri
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by alquemist 6y ago
> Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans? [...] Gavin and I don’t believe the Earth once hosted a 50-million-year-old Paleocene civilization. Betteridge's Law confirmed. We can track down fossils billions of year back by ob
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by alquemist 6y ago
The core observation is that organisms with an ability to model the Universe, even if imprecisely and in a tiny space-time neighborhood, increases the chances of survival. See the ubiqutous living beings with a nervous system. The hypothesi
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by alquemist 6y ago
There is a lot of water out there. * Total ocean volume: 1.3e18 cubic meters, 1.8e21 oil barrels equivalent [1] * Current oil consumption: 35,442,913,090 barrels per year [2] * Oil share of total energy consumption: 34% [3] * Number of year

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