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by antome 9y ago
What's even better (for AMD) is that they can now design a single processor, and scale it across their entire lineup from R3(?) to EPYC. This suggests that they could incrementally improve their entire lineup annually, or deliver huge
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by antome 9y ago
Furthermore the Long-finned pilot whale has been shown to have more neurons in the Cerebral cortex than humans. Given the lack of large-scale research in this area, it is not unreasonable to think that several other dolphin species could al
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by antome 9y ago
This is one of the common extentions to Genetic Algorithms. It does not sound as though they are not going to such extremes here, but it is a reasonable concept.
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by antome 9y ago
The are two arguments I see: the first is that if the minimum wage is higher, the cost of living increases, leading to the same problem as before. Of course this assumes the two are perfectly correlated, which is a flawed assumption. The se
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by antome 9y ago
Kiwi here, what happened is moreso that the British accidentally gave the Maori more rights than they anticipated in the translation, and as the country became more progressive in the 20th century, the govt decided to respect those rights.
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by antome 10y ago
After spending some time attempting to emulate wireworld, I think you would need at least a 4x4 rule grid, though at most a 9x6 grid (6x3 to encode a 2-bit 3x3 grid, plus padding just in case). Can you get a "nice" turing-complete
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by antome 10y ago
This idea is at least partially in use with regularisation and dropout. The difference at least with dropout is that the "killed" neurons are then massaged back into the network in order become useful again.
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by antome 10y ago
Does this mean that developers will go as far as maintaining a port of FFMPEG to JavaScript? Being able to decode 10bit videos in pure JS sounds both insane and insanely cool
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by antome 10y ago
Magnitude 7.5 earthquake. For reference, I felt this in Hamilton, a bit under 1,000 KM away. First earthquake I have ever felt. Hamilton never, ever gets earthquakes. Nevertheless, NZ infrastructure is built to withstand this sort of stuff.
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by antome 10y ago
Precisely this. A common piece of advice I hear for people entering a new city for a new job with no one you know around, is to regularly engage in some hobby/activity that brings you in contact with mostly the same people. That could
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by antome 10y ago
As a NZ university student, I see this all around me. As the youngest in an old family, we got what would now be considered a middle-class home on a working-class budget in the early 90s. All the other students I know with working-class bac
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by antome 10y ago
Really cool to see them taking a page out of X264, trying to match the "energy" of the image rather than the "correctness".
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by antome 10y ago
Page contents repeatedly flash in and out of existence for me, running ublock.
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by antome 10y ago
uBlock was maintained by one person, but they wanted to move on to other projects, so they handed the project to someone else. The other person horribly mismanaged the project, and contributed essentially nothing. The original developer dec
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by antome 10y ago
A big part of this I think, is the one-way nature of just about every dictation system. I can talk to someone without having a concrete idea of what I actually want to convey, and figure it out mid-way into the conversation. Dictating to sp
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by antome 10y ago
OSM wiki says "XML variant over 666GB uncompressed, 49.1GB bz2 compressed and 31.1GB PBF at 2016-03-20". Not sure where the 120GB comes from.
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by antome 10y ago
From personal experience, black and white epaper can run at ~20-30hz if you turn off the page refresh system. This usually dramatically cuts down on bit depth and dramatically increases ghosting, however. With page refresh on, you can expec
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by antome 10y ago
As the W3C core styles from the 2000s and even earlier can attest to, good page styling is timeless, and ArXiv can very likely improve its design with no extra bloat. Some like ultramarine and "modernist" really don't hold up
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by antome 10y ago
I for one would love the strength of SPARK with a more newfangled, perhaps rusty syntax. Call it Oxidise.
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by antome 11y ago
Any idea on what the certainty is for these results? 5 Sigma?
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by antome 11y ago
It's more of an optimisation problem. You want inventors to invent a lot of things, so you give them patents. But if you give them too long a patent, they will just invent a few things, then sit on the IP. Nowadays, there should really
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by antome 11y ago
More specifically, asm.js can be seen as WebAssembly alpha, and will exist as a shiv until most browsers can run WebAssembly. Both WebAssembly and asm.js can be compiled through emscripten.
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by antome 11y ago
I recall from some other study, that while "idea" start-ups are basically a lottery, businesses which are working towards a product with apparent benefits, an apparent market, and an apparent R&D road-map actually have an impr
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by antome 11y ago
I was hoping someone would be updating a list of IPs and domains which you could simply block at the router level
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by antome 11y ago
DuckDuckGo really is good enough to use on a daily basis now. One big gripe I still have however, is that there seems to be no way to filter by time. I still have to go to google if I want to find a news article or topic which is recent, or
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by antome 11y ago
While on the topic of cetacean intelligence, the long-finned pilot whale was recently discovered to have more cerebral cortex neurons than even humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n... . I
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by antome 11y ago
You can actually buy 10lb / 5kg bags of rice for $5 in the US. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Long-Grain-Enriched-Ri... That's enough for 50 servings, meaning you could feed yourself for $0.20 a day. O
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by antome 11y ago
Germany made their way out after WWI, but lets just say the results weren't pretty. At least from historical precedent, it seems the best solution is to "cheat" your way out, by massively inflating a currency, then if hyperin
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by antome 11y ago
I think that with architecture design becoming increasingly important in processor performance, and on the heels of Intel-Altera, CPUs or GPUs may gradually add "FPGA-like" aspects, where the configuration of the silicon can be dy
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by antome 11y ago
I always find it interesting how many things can be represented by finite state automata, and related concepts. I wonder what languages/libraries specialise specifically in handling machines of a directed-graph style? I would imagine V

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