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by atty 6y ago
I think the author is guilty of exactly what he’s accusing everyone else of. The major car companies are delivering relatively high quality products at scale (we have decent certainty it’s high quality because the presence of many of these
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by atty 6y ago
Unless I’m misunderstanding your point, I don’t think what you want is possible, due to microcode. You give the AMD/Intel/Arm/etc platform some instructions to execute, and then they execute it in ways that are not guaranteed
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by atty 6y ago
That’s not just the LHC - it’s pretty common across high energy physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy, at least. It’s a pretty great fit for the technology. You keep the most recent data on hard drives for analysis, and as new data comes
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by atty 6y ago
Have you used TF 2.0? It’s definitely better in terms of ease of use. Still not as good as Pytorch, in my opinion. Pytorch is still just more... ergonomic, I would say. However, I don’t think the Pytorch ecosystem really matches tensorflow
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by atty 6y ago
I don’t think the ultra book is a meme. I’d consider the MacBook Air to be the single most successful laptop of all time, and for good reason. For many people it’s basically the perfect compromise of size, weight, power and battery life. (A
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by atty 6y ago
I’m 2 years older than you, and I’d say in my friends group, Facebook is still moderately active, with the more social people posting daily still. But it’s also active for my (very large) family, with a lot of my aunts and uncles being on t
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by atty 6y ago
I think there’s two points to address here. 1) it’s rare, if ever, that a CEO, CFO or COO faces jail time for crimes the company committed that are similar or worse compared to jail-able offenses by individuals. So your second point doesn’t
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by atty 6y ago
As others have pointed out, I think your argument is pretty flawed. Consider, for instance, the following... An operating system is useful to avoid boiler plate code, but it seems made for people who don’t have knowledge about how hardware
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by atty 6y ago
As someone who uses this in their day job, I have no problem using loose terminology to describe a well known procedure. Most of the time when I am referring to the act of optimization, it doesn’t matter exactly what method I am using, and
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by atty 6y ago
I’ve lost multiple acquaintances, and my significant other works at a hospital that has been slammed with COVID patients for over 6 months, and she is so burnt out and so tired everyday, and there’s nothing I can do to help her. Your assert
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by atty 6y ago
I think that those can both be correct, and they were just being a little slippery with their language. During the talk they tried pretty hard to focus on saying their compute engine would pick the best hardware to run on... and I suppose i
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by atty 6y ago
From NeurIPS (today, actually), they showed that it works both in graph and eager mode in a short 15 minute talk. However, no discussion about any potential difference in performance.
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by atty 6y ago
I don’t know what people think scientists are doing, but we are not just spreadsheet number crunching. In my PhD I was analyzing petabytes of structured data from particle detectors that required relatively complex algorithms just to recons
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by atty 6y ago
I think one thing that’s very important is that the judicial system needs to be perceived as somewhat “fair” in that the punishment should fit the crime, AND that factors such as race, status, wealth, etc should not bias the outcome. As som
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by atty 6y ago
I believe I saw some estimates that it starts throttling after 8 minutes under load? But I can’t remember the details, unfortunately.
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by atty 6y ago
There was also far more scrutiny of the entire process than there ever has been before, at least in recent memory. It’s possible that an inherently less secure but more vigilantly executed process can be better than a more foolproof method
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by atty 6y ago
Perhaps the method of leaving could have an impact on benefits or the ability to get future high level positions in the government?
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by atty 6y ago
I am a little confused about your point - are you saying that OOP is a strictly worse, or has some inherent irredeemable flaw that is not present in other programming styles? Because that’s a statement that would need a lot of supporting ev
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by atty 6y ago
Disclaimer: I’m a chip design enthusiast and not a professional, but this is how I understand things right now. If you read the anandtech article describing the A14/M1 chips, it seems that the ARM ISA lets Apple do some things that are
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by atty 6y ago
What are HNers planning to do for the holidays? We’re seriously considering not seeing anyone, not even parents, even though my SO has had COVID already (she works at a hospital and contracted it from COVID patients). Stories like this are
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by atty 6y ago
I’m curious, what would you want to differentiate in? As far as I’m concerned, Google achieved an almost perfect search engine maybe 5-10 years ago, before they started pushing their ads harder, hiding the page address, and all these other
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by atty 6y ago
> That VP who delivered your best quarter ever sexually harassed someone, again: Do you sweep it under the rug? No. And the idea that this is a decision at all is frankly pretty disgusting. Some things are more important than having a go
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by atty 6y ago
I don’t think I’m alone as a Brave user when I say that the crypto stuff and some of their default settings aren’t the greatest, but overall still provides a compelling solution to multiple problems. So while it’s not a perfect product, and
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by atty 6y ago
This is one of those articles where a data scientist hobbyist appears to completely ignore the experts of the field, make a few graphs, and think they’ve come to some new insight to an extremely complicated problem. There are people who spe
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by atty 6y ago
Are you confusing the products of a meltdown and spent nuclear fuel? Spent nuclear fuel can be handled very safely, and moved relatively easily. The problem is just that everyone says “not in my backyard” when it comes to long term storage.
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by atty 6y ago
For anyone who doesn’t know, Nintendo last year (or the year before) sent a C&D to a really cool fan made Mario Battle Royale game. Then this year they released a game in a similar vein this year. While it’s their right, Nintendo has a
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by atty 6y ago
I do machine learning work and research, and when I upgrade I will pay the Nvidia “premium” without hesitation for that extra RAM and CUDA. I really wish it wasn’t so one-sided, I’d love to have a choice. Edit: should clarify that I’d reall
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by atty 6y ago
I can’t tell from this - is Wyden also against back doors for the purpose of FBI/law enforcement use?
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by atty 6y ago
I wouldn’t call that an innovation - I’d call that the antithesis of openAI’s supposed mission. Sure, offer an API. But release the code and weights too, so I can inspect it.
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by atty 6y ago
I think anyone who has coded long enough would recognize that OOP, functional, imperative, etc all have their strengths and weaknesses, and all have problem domains they are better suited for. Unfortunately, this sometimes gets lost in the

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