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721.
by bjourne 2y ago
But laws shouldn't be set based on how easy they are to avoid. Lots of people drive too fast all the time, yet few argue that we should do away with speed limits. Besides, there is zero empirical evidence that suggests that raising ric
722.
Dancing Plague of 1518(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
Yeah, but the savings are theoretical. You turn a O(n^2) operation into O(nlog n). Sounds great until you realize that n is three on average. To boot, you have to use complex numbers for calculations which are also less numerically stable.
724.
by bjourne 2y ago
Did $CORP also release the im0lementation to make it trivial for others to replicate their work?
725.
Understanding 'Winograd Fast Convolution'(medium.com)
2 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
726.
by bjourne 2y ago
Tl;dr: There's a lot of garbage in the database, but it doesn't matter because a) no one trusts the data, b) no one's falsely getting the money . So they haven't done anything about it because cleaning up millions of PI
727.
by bjourne 2y ago
But in none of those cases, the claimants are registered as 150 years old. E.g., you might as well argue that since tax evasion is a thing, social security fraud probably is too. The conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.
728.
by bjourne 2y ago
Register allocation is a form of value analysis, while managing caches like you suggest is a form of pointer analysis which is 100 times harder. One huge problem is aliasing. It is in general very difficult to tell whether X[i] and Y[j] are
729.
by bjourne 2y ago
A compiler would probably emit shift-and-add by constants. Which may very well be faster than a lea.
730.
by bjourne 2y ago
Could it be related to world-wide inflation and decreasing real wages? Salaries have not kept up, hence people can't afford as powerful hardware as they used to. It also seems that top-of-the-line hardware don't depreciate as fast
731.
by bjourne 2y ago
Didn't Epstein's pedophile island prove once and for all that billionaires are not "better" in any way, shape, or form than mere mortals? They are where they are because of luck and not because of any inherent qualities.
732.
Sharpness-Aware Minimization (2022)(medium.com)
1 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
733.
by bjourne 2y ago
Even if collection is run concurrently it is still the same amount of work.
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by bjourne 2y ago
What I find frightening is how many are willing to take LLM output at face value. An argument is won or lost not on its merits, but by whether the LLM say so. It was bad enough when people took whatever was written on Wikipedia at face valu
735.
by bjourne 2y ago
Deallocating stack-allocated objects is completely free. Allocating in a thread-local buffer maybe can be fast as allocating on the stack, but the allocations still increase the frequency with which the gc has to collect garbage.
736.
by bjourne 2y ago
Wouldn't be very difficult to know a priori whether the object allocated at a callsite is likely to be long-lived? The object has to be allocated before you can make some other object reference it. So when you do, even if you know that
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by bjourne 2y ago
Maybe it is about the safe points? In a conventional generational gc every thread has its own nursery (plus semi-space for copying collection), so you can collect one thread's garbage without stopping any other thread (so data threads
738.
When lazy is good: lazy import(medium.com)
1 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
Great flamebait ;) what makes riscv suitable for teaching is that the ISA is trivial to map to hardware. This is because it is so regular. Students with zero experience can design simple riscv cpus in their first asm course. More experienc
740.
by bjourne 2y ago
While Python has some great linters, I don't know of any in C that can correctly and automatically enforce some coding style. Most of them can only indent correctly, but they can't break up long lines over multiple lines, format a
741.
by bjourne 2y ago
Did you tax money fund any master->main branch renamings?
742.
by bjourne 2y ago
The Cultural Revolution was led by China's smartest students too.
743.
by bjourne 2y ago
The concerns are that US hegemony over the media narrative is crumbling. Young people, "highly-influenced" as you call them, sees that American bombs are dropped on refugees in Gaza and they don't think that is right. So just
744.
by bjourne 2y ago
Cause that is exactly what Trump did last time he was president, right?
745.
by bjourne 2y ago
> If people want their money to be used to help others in need, That argument is nonsense. I bet many or most Americans disagree with how tax money is used. Many probably does not want to pay for the world's (by faaaaar) largest mil
746.
by bjourne 2y ago
> The current system lies on the market of ideas - ie if you publish rubbish a competitor lab will call you out. Does not happen in practice. Unless you're driven by spite, fanaticism towards rigorousness, or just hate their guts th
747.
by bjourne 2y ago
Great, but afaict, it's not a jit. It is using llvm to aot-compile Python code. Decorators are called when their respective functions are compiled, not when they are called.
748.
by bjourne 2y ago
A modern replacement for Logisim Evolution.
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"Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors(dropsitenews.com)
3 points by bjourne 2y ago|1 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
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