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by andr 7y ago
If you like the author's writing, I highly recommend his newsletter, The Convivial Society with more thoughts and links on the intersection of technology and society. https://tinyletter.com/lmsacasas
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by andr 7y ago
To summarize, it appears that their new chips can do 96x96 dot product in a single cycle (multiplying neural network weights by values), and have hardware for activations (ReLU, softmax, tanh) and pooling (as in convolutional neural network
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by andr 7y ago
Relevant tweet [1]: "Do you know S3 throughput is higher than a SATA 3 controller and almost as much as PCIe 4.0 2x? Depending on the usecase, mounting S3 as a filesystem, not only makes sense, but it saves a LOT of money (and time) as
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by andr 7y ago
Interesting that they chose to compete on Mac, instead of iPad, as they could have easily commanded the majority of the iOS market share. Coda had some of the best support for editing directly on remote servers, and this would fit the iPad
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by andr 7y ago
A quick comparison to Lambda shows that $0.000028 gives you: a) 1 second of Lambda execution at 1728MB RAM 1) 1 second of 1 vCPU + 1.7 GB RAM of Cloud Run execution Both services round up to 100ms per execution. The exact vCPU allocation fo
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Online Event Processing (Martin Kleppmann, et al.)(queue.acm.org)
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by andr 8y ago
I love looking at new languages. People invent really creative stuff. However, my exploration usually ends with "this is great, but there are no libraries for it, so I probably won't use it". If you are building a language,
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by andr 8y ago
On the flipside, Apple has a lot more data on what components fail than we do. They can detect issues before they become a "-gate" and I imagine slight improvements like this one happen fairly often. Which, I'd say, is a good
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by andr 8y ago
The A12X is already comparable to some Intel CPUs in terms of performance. Yet its power and thermal budget is tiny. The Macbook Pro 13" has an 83 Wh battery [1], while the iPad Pro 12.9" only has 36 Wh. What I like to imagine is
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by andr 8y ago
This was a weirdly meandering, clickbaity article, because the only piece of news is that they found this building and talked to a few people inside of it. What is the article advocating for? Is it for Apple to pay $100/hr for data tag
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by andr 8y ago
Also, don't forget that C# had async/await since 2012, 5 years before it was standardized in JavaScript. The only older mainstream (for its time) language to have coroutines is Turbo Pascal 7 in 1992, which was... also designed by
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by andr 8y ago
I can understand that quite a few companies' commercial product is your personal information (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and even news media nowadays). What is scaring me is companies that have a different business model using the same te
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by andr 8y ago
If you scroll up from where the link sends you, you will see a section called “Information We Collect from Registered Devices Equipped with Smart Technology“, which completely negates the premise in the title.
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by andr 8y ago
I had a few unsuccessful back and forths with different Fi agents about an issue, and after a couple of weird remarks, I developed the theory that first level agents get their performance scores penalized every time they escalate an issue.
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by andr 8y ago
Beyond the morning and evening commutes, when there is standing room for the middle part of the commute, CalTrain is usually about 1/5th full during the day time, even when it only runs one train per hour. Something tells me "free
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by andr 8y ago
Sadly some of the predictions where Kurzweil is the most wrong are the ones that depend not so much on technology, but on human society. Life expectancy over 100, the needs of the underclass being met, and most human workers spending their
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by andr 8y ago
Given that 15 minutes later, in the iPad part of the event, they claimed the new iPad is faster than 92% of all notebooks sold in the last year, the writing is on the wall. For me, the next Macbook to be excited about, would be one with an
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by andr 8y ago
It's also disappointing that while Pixel 3 supports USB-PD, which is forward looking, it has no support for older protocols, even conventional 2.4A USB charging. I tried charging one with my car USB port and it the charging rate was lo
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by andr 8y ago
I mean, the risks exist in the sense they are not absolutely zero, but can you seriously compare an average home to a data center in terms of physical security, connectivity, fire suppression, etc.?
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by andr 8y ago
I never understand why people think having your files physically in their homes is somehow more secure than a data center. - You run the risk of hardware failure, which would take days to recover. When your warranty expires, it'd cost
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by andr 8y ago
The impact of this will be much bigger outside of the US, as most countries outside of North America do not have a single Apple Store. In those countries, usually there is a licensed repair provider, but the customer experience can be drast
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by andr 8y ago
This is impressive journalistic work. If you are a fan of such type of open-source intelligence, I highly recommend the Arms Control Wonk podcast and blog, who have done amazing investigations into North Korean missile development ( https:&
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by andr 8y ago
Can somebody explain how does this compare to Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD, Figma, etc.?
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by andr 8y ago
SFMTA has published the detailed feedback[1] and summary ratings[2] for each petition. Although the actual applications are not published, it really looks like Bird did a poor job on paper. For example, most of the companies relied on swipe
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by andr 8y ago
What explains the vast price difference between App Engine standard and flexible environment? In the standard environment, $0.05/hr gives me a 128MB, 600MHz container. Flexible environment is priced at GCE pricing, giving me 3.75GB and
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by andr 8y ago
The Surface RT is probably making a comeback, as several Windows ARM tablets were just released. It was just early to market.
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by andr 8y ago
An interesting aspect in the demise of the Concorde has nothing to do with the Concorde, but how other long haul airplanes changed with time. By the late 90s, you had lay-flat business class seats, in flight entertainment, and even fancier
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by andr 8y ago
This is huge. While WhatsApp is not as big in the US, it is the de facto messaging platform in most of Europe and even Latin America. It uses the Signal encryption protocol. If this fact changes, people deserve to know. It feels like there
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by andr 8y ago
On the positive side, there is a number of algorithmic strategies which are unscalable - they are only profitable with a small amount of money (up to a few millions), and become unprofitable with more assets, because they move the market to
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by andr 9y ago
Had a similar experience where I live. It looks like the algorithm decides you don't need a flight to where you live, just a hotel, so the overall amount ends up cheaper. Switching from Flight + Hotel to Flight Only gave me a more mean

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