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by arcanus 10y ago
^ this. My best cited paper came to me while summiting a 14er in Colorado. Did actually generating the results take long hours and serious work? Of course. But the idea required freeform thought and subconscious mulling.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> That might be true if you're running a pizza joint but it couldn't be farther from the truth building a software company, or making a movie. Or starting a medical practice Or starting a hedge fund Or starting a law firm It mi
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by arcanus 10y ago
Finance in NYC Oil refining and seismology in Houston Biotechnology in Boston The USA absolutely has a series of high tech clusters outside of California that are globally competitive.
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by arcanus 10y ago
"Due to a high number of outliers in the data, the 2015 salary number was revised to better reflect a change in outlier methodology and an adjusted number has been reported this year." This is getting hit on constantly, but still
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by arcanus 10y ago
The Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. Great sci-fi, but also cast science and technology in a way that made me realize it could enable or destroy civilization. Introduced me to the concept that we can approach modeling and predicting human behav
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by arcanus 10y ago
Hmm, in all my correspondence with engineers and mathematicians, we just paste or write latex directly in the email. Knowledge of latex is assumed, and honestly I (and my colleagues) are able to parse thus natively.
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by arcanus 10y ago
In modern times, I've found much the same with jobs and the requirement for a "B.S. in CS" (three magical letter holder here)
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Intel Forms New AI Group Reporting Directly to CEO Brian Krzanich(forbes.com)
14 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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The Battle for Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher from Here(wired.com)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
> It broke down to me figuring out where most of the new medicines are developed and it was something like 98%+ of medicines are developed by universities with public funds. Do you have a reference for this?
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by arcanus 10y ago
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/28/amd-researchers-eye-... AMD Research, the research division of the chip maker, recently took a look at using accelerated processing units (APUs, AMD’s name for processo
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by arcanus 10y ago
Sorry for your loss. > There's something greatly fucked up about our society when we help our dogs die with more dignity than we do ourselves. And I agree! I've said it for years: our animals die more dignified deaths than many
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by arcanus 10y ago
Someone please explain to reporters that the universe isn't zero sum.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Agreed. Came here to say this. Furthermore if psychology had any predictive power at all, a charge such as this might under certain circumstances bear some meaning. Instead, it is rife with 'stories' and tautologies. Numerous mass
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by arcanus 10y ago
> make what they do seem natural and effortless, but whenever I talk to them I discover that they put a lot of thought, effort and practice into molding themselves Absolutely. These are trades that require heavy training and hard word. B
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by arcanus 10y ago
Nervana was acquired by the 800 lbs gorrila of Silicon: intel AMD has announced a major AI initiative, MIopen. My point is that all the big chip players are entering this battle. Going to be tough for any small player to make a dent.
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Women in research: Science remains male-dominated(economist.com)
3 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to attack IBM for trying to patent out of office emails. If they had attempted to use the patent against others, I would be immensely critical. But it strikes me as more likely that the patent was a defense
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by arcanus 10y ago
I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive. Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are
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Naples Opterons Give AMD a Second Chance in Servers(nextplatform.com)
4 points by arcanus 10y ago|1 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
High performance computing is also a competitive space. While it has historically been dominated by x86, next generation architectures, such as ARM or GPUs are expected to be necessary as the systems grow in size.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Yes. In the case of debt, that somebody or something is being financed by the future .
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by arcanus 10y ago
Yep. And nvidia and amd are hurting Intel in terms of servers which are moving in many cases towards GPU for acceleration. Very interesting times in Silicon.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Ack, I really need to pick that one up. Been too busy, but the original was a classic.
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by arcanus 10y ago
>155 million Americans play video games, more than the number who voted in November’s presidential election. And they play them a lot: According to a variety of recent studies, more than 40 percent of Americans play at least three hours
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by arcanus 10y ago
Should be soon. HPCG is a memory bound application so I doubt it runs the system as hot as HPL (high performance linpack)
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by arcanus 10y ago
All good examples (such as excessive importance to deadlines, a big no-no). My question: can they be truly good programmers of they write bad code? Isn't the essential product of a programmer SLOC and functionality via software? And if
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by arcanus 10y ago
I've always had a personal saying to short any story or company that appears on the cover of Time Magazine. The thought being that by the time a movement or company is that mainstream it is oversold. I'm inclined to stick to my he
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by arcanus 10y ago
'In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy
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by arcanus 10y ago
This article isn't really about anything. Furthermore, "The CG kernel figures out the approximation to the smallest eigenvalue of a large sparse matrix"-- that is not really correct. CG is a common iterative method that tickl

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