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by aurelian15 8y ago
> Well analog computation being noisey could be the reason we experience things like emotion. Hm, I don't really see why this should be the case. Emotions are a pretty well studied in both animals and humans and are, to put it ver
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Yes, thank you for the clarification, my statement is ambiguous. I meant to say that the theory required to describe a computation on a practical analogue computer (that is noisy) is no different than the theory required to describe the sam
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by aurelian15 8y ago
> Digital computers deal with integers, binary sequences, deterministic logic, algorithms, and time that is idealized into discrete increments. Analog computers deal with real numbers, non-deterministic logic, and continuous function
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by aurelian15 8y ago
The ICU [1] transliterator does this. Here is an example showing how to use it: icu::ErrorCode status; auto t = icu::Transliterator::createInstance("Any-Latin; NFKD", UTRANS_FORWARD, status); t->transliterate(&quo
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by aurelian15 8y ago
I've written my own placeholder image generator based on Delaunay triangulation inspired by this blog-post. The generator produces reasonable placeholder images at about 300 bytes. The overall effect is not as nice as the images produc
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by aurelian15 8y ago
I really like Floyd's algorithm for sampling n elements without duplicates in linear time. https://fermatslibrary.com/s/a-sample-of-brilliance
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by aurelian15 8y ago
AMD actively contributes driver code to the mainline kernel. So with recent Linux kernels, AMD graphics cards and APUs based on the GCN architecture (launched about 2011/2012 if I recall correctly) work out of the box with full 3D acce
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Not really an off-the shelf consumer router, but since you want to install custom firmware anyways, you might want to consider the PC-Engines APU2 board [1]. You can either install any "normal" desktop x86_64 Linux distribution or
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by aurelian15 8y ago
> Your comment is absurd. People in the places you mentioned don’t choose to be without heat or air conditioning because they want to Calm down, parent mentioned Europe as well. For example, from first hand experience, I can confirm that
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Why? 25°C is absolutely fine for working inside, at least for me. A little cooler and I need a sweater and long pants. This summer I've mainly worked at home (no AC, Southern Ontario), because I don't want to bring my winter cloth
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by aurelian15 8y ago
When my previous university built a new eatery, the architects decided to put vertical acoustic "blade" tiles on the ceiling. Those actually fitted the architecture of the entire building quite nicely (see [1, 2] for photos), and
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Damn. How embarrassing! Two major factual mistakes in two sentences while nitpicking at someone else's mistakes on the internet. I of course meant to write h264 ;-)
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by aurelian15 8y ago
You're absolutely right, sorry for getting this wrong. My mistake was to assume that the body that sells you the license is also responsible for the standardisation, but as you described, this is not true.
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Subtitles have (almost) nothing to do with the video codec. AVI, MKV, MP4, etc. are container formats that are used to multiplex multiple streams of media (video, audio, subtitles) into a single stream/file. In contrast, AV1, x264, HEV
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by aurelian15 8y ago
I totally agree with what you said. Currently I'm loading compiled C code with the Python foreign function interface (often not (solely) for performance reasons, but because it just so happens that I already have a C library that solve
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Another major difference to Java is that WASM doesn't come with any library whatsoever (as already implied by some sibling comments). The only interfaces to the outside world are function callbacks and shared memory. Callbacks have to
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Interesting, I learnt something, thank you for mentioning this! This is what Wikipedia has to say about it [1]: The large coal deposits of the Carboniferous may owe their existence primarily to two factors. The first of these is the appear
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by aurelian15 8y ago
If you're interested in decoding Teletext, there is libzvbi [1] which can handle both data embedded in the raw "analogue" VBI stream [2] as well as the corresponding data from MPEG TS's used in DVB. This library also shi
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Tried again this morning after rebooting the computer -- turns out I was low on RAM yesterday evening. After starting Julia a few times to make sure it is cached I get the following results: time julia -e '[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] ^ 2
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by aurelian15 8y ago
My primary issue with Julia is that it has a relatively high latency in a REPL environment. I and many people I know primarily use REPL environments (e.g. Jupyter Lab) for scientific computing, so this is a pretty relevant use-case. For exa
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by aurelian15 8y ago
I was once extremely confused by this black magic. For some reason, the binaries that I cross-compiled for an embedded ARM system ran on the host system! I forgot that I installed Qemu a while ago, and someone at Stack Overflow had to point
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Rushton (1961) concluded that the neural signaling of a typical human myelinated nerve fiber spanning, say, between a finger and the spinal cord cannot employ a continuous representation due to the presence of noise. Despite these seminal
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Student from the lab that originally developed Nengo here. Yes! As far as I know, the company that develops Nengo (ABR) [1] is working on this with Intel [2]. Also see the presentation "Building applications with next generation neurom
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Student from the lab that originally developed Nengo here. You're correct in the assumption that Nengo is ‒ among others ‒ a neuroscience research tool; primarily, because it allows you to build networks of spiking neurons. Apart from
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Neural network video super-resolution demo [video](youtube.com)
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by aurelian15 8y ago
Strangely enough, I often find my self impulsively writing (n & 1) to check for even/odd numbers. It just feels natural to me -- maybe because the first C programs I wrote were for µCs, where this kind of bit-twiddling tends to be
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Chafa: High-quality picture to text for terminal emulators(hpjansson.org)
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by aurelian15 9y ago
Be careful though when compiling your code with -ffinite-math-only (which is part of -ffast-math and -Ofast). The compiler will likely replace your function with a constant expression returning false, since it assumes that NaNs cannot occur
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Show HN: AEQVIPEDIS ‒ C++ library for triangle mesh SVG placeholders(github.com)
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by aurelian15 9y ago
Thanks, my fault. Just pasted the first link Google returned.

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