bigbillheck

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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Right, meaning boy. Which I originally stated as not being a deep topic. So why try to pretend Shonen Jump is this progressive brand for universal audiences. Doing mental gymnastics to twist the meaning of “boy” to mean this inclusive
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Check their post history they're some sort of white supremacist ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39519099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397491 https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> EDIT: That's a paper for a software library, not the CPU's internal implementation. Unless you're seeing something I'm not, it's talking about x87, which hasn't been anything other than 'internal&#x27
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
They switched away from CORDIC at one point: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... (there doesn't seem to actually be a linked article there, just the summary)
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Seems like a terrible idea on latency grounds alone.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Why would you ever use CORDIC if you had any other option?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Not with that attitude.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> The superformula depends of four parameters Looks like six to me: m, n1, n2, n3, a, b.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Being incredibly angry all the time is no way to live your life.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Googlers avoiding chat history Oh, so that's why they keep churning thru chat apps.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Let's go back to 1983 When exactly do you think google was founded?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
The money that gets spent on biometric infrastructure and verification can buy a lot of food.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> How do I make sure that 1000 distinct people do it and it's not just 100 people getting in the line 10 times each? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075KP3J3T/
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I assure you that we all got the allusion that you're making, but given the quote that you're replying to I think that perhaps you personally should not be allowed to own a dog.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
They don't consider themselves to be in community with poor people.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I read it when it was first posted, and skimmed it again just now to be sure, and my conclusion is unchanged: Nyquist has nothing useful to say about sampling profilers. I think the author would agree with me. See, for example, the discu
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
A normal random variate is just a uniform random variate that's gone thru a 1-1 function.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Using semirings (uh, rigs) alone isn't impressive. Do they consider semirings with more algebraic structure attached to them? Wiki says they have R, the two tropical semirings, the 'max-min' semiring, and GF(2). The t
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> so you can’t tell between 2khz, 10khz, and 100khz Only when your sample rate is perfect! Let's say we have a 1GHz system, one instruction per Hz, a signal at 1MHz and we're measuring at 1kHZ. If we're rock-solid at 1kH
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Why don't we have graphs ... in Rust? You might have missed this from the article but: https://docs.rs/petgraph/latest/petgraph/index.html > Because graphs require mutation (respectively break li
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
You're a couple decades too late: https://graphblas.org
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I think it's more like discarding a 20% solution that can't do the last 80%.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I wonder if we're talking about different things. It sounds like one of your concerns is being catastrophically unlucky with the sampling rate: > This is because you run into aliasing with the samples being collected at unhelpful po
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> a simple bounds check may not show up even if it’s responsible for a 20% slowdown because the probability of your sampler hitting it is small when that bounds check takes nanoseconds to execute vs your ms profiler sample rate. Surely f
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> But now, it’s basically, “we want to protest something, we don’t want to show our faces, if the situation gets out of control we’ll be unaccountable”. I wear a mask when out in public and my reasons, which are multiple, include but ar
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> It's just part of life. There are lots of things that used to be "just part of life" that public health and societal-wide behavior changes have entirely or nearly eliminated.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> It's hard to say someone working at Elon's companies are abused; It's not that hard: https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/hotbed-for-racist-behavior-j... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
The whole "Cop City" stuff seems pretty corrupt.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
This is, as they say, an insult to life itself.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> ... she ... My understanding is that Nex Benedict used he/they.

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