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by blt 5y ago
Big if true! Acoustic coupler modems had only existed for a few years when Unix development started, and ARPANET was starting around the same time. It would be an impressive amount of foresight if they predicted that demand for computer net
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by blt 5y ago
I wish there could be a centralized matchmaker service for job-seekers and companies. I guess LinkedIn is kind of like that, but there is not enough employer buy-in. Job-seekers cannot assume that they are being considered for a position ju
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by blt 5y ago
I am always surprised by the amount of skepticism towards deep learning on HN. When I joined the field around 10 years ago, image classification was considered a grand challenge problem (e.g. https://xkcd.com/1425/ ). 5
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by blt 5y ago
Android 12 had the most bizarre UI changes. They made everything so big and spaced-out, it induced scrolling everywhere. Most infuriatingly, the default pull-down menu (with wifi, flashlight, airplane mode, etc.) became tall enough to crowd
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by blt 5y ago
"Non-deterministic tests" usually refers to a test whose output depends on the execution environment in a way that cannot be controlled. For example, a multithreaded test with a race condition, or a test that uses the real-time cl
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by blt 5y ago
Really? Which venues dropped support?
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by blt 5y ago
Numerical simulations and jit-compiled autodiffed float32 operations are not Mathematica's main purpose.
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by blt 5y ago
Interested in this. I like my Ergodox EZ but I wish its maximum tenting was a little more. I also really want to try the nonflat key arrangement. However, labeled keys and unique key shapes seems like a weird combination. Especially with En
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by blt 5y ago
> everything that I have done is being scrutinized by all new team members. It's really hard to deal with that constant barrage of "why did you do it this way" Reading old code with a critical eye is an important part of
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by blt 5y ago
I don't see how this refutes my point.
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by blt 5y ago
That's the point. Most large US cities are not well-designed.
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by blt 5y ago
It's not "a bit of compromise". The crosswalks are further apart - it takes minutes to reach them. (Crossing without a crosswalk is only an option for able-bodied fearless people.) Once you get there, the light cycles are slo
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by blt 5y ago
Absolutely. Failure to report results on a popular benchmark suggests to some reviewers that you have something to hide - even though they might be computationally expensive or tangential to the main point of the work.
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by blt 5y ago
> If we’d used a different chess engine, even a weaker version of the same one — such as Stockfish 12 — it may have found the 2018 World Championship the most accurate in history (assuming both players prepared and trained using Stock
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by blt 5y ago
Maybe I am looking upon the past with rose-colored glasses, but I recall a time when shopping on Amazon was like shopping at a huge Target. A lot of well-known name brands mixed with some no-name stuff. It was a nice relief from the limited
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by blt 5y ago
Yeah, it's been happening for so long that it's easy to forget it wasn't always this way.
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by blt 5y ago
Mastrad silicone spatula. It's such a massive improvement over an old two-piece rubber spatula.
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by blt 5y ago
I entered "kitten" and got typical surreal GAN output with disconnected topology, dozens of eyes, etc. Edit: Looks like it was only trained on landscape images.
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by blt 5y ago
What is the less-engineered alternative to header files?
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by blt 5y ago
Looks like they are responding to https://github.com/intel/scikit-learn-intelex#-acceleration I completely agree. I hope some Intel competitor funds a scikit-learn developer to read this code and extract all the portab
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by blt 5y ago
How does this conflict with the original comment's point?
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by blt 5y ago
What is a REF exercise?
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by blt 5y ago
I once read an article about how access to computing power caused the math cultures of the USA and USSR to diverge after WW2. For example Bellman's dynamic programming vs. Pontryagin's principle for trajectory optimization. Markov
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by blt 5y ago
Sadly the C++20 ranges library does not include any facility to create views by writing Python-like generator loops (coroutine loops with "yield"). Creating new views is about as difficult as creating iterators before - i.e. too d
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by blt 5y ago
This seems like a good thing for system-level packages, but what about those language-level packages? Could Nix replace both dockerfiles (or a list of apt packages) and pip/conda?
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by blt 5y ago
> If the forums weren't there, read the docs, if the docs weren't helpful you could read the source. This experience made me a true believer. Never needed to do it with kernel source code, but with libraries and userspace apps.
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by blt 5y ago
Even in CS papers, I've seen many clunky explanations that would benefit from introducing notation. I think authors are sometimes reluctant to use a mathematical style when there's no theorem in the paper. They shouldn't be.
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by blt 5y ago
So, someone high up in the company is heavily invested in crypto?
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by blt 5y ago
On systems with overcommit, how would the resulting sequence of MMU states be different?
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by blt 5y ago
The article also says: > ... all the capabilities of reversing events can be done instead by reverting to a past snapshot and replaying the event stream. As a result reversal is never absolutely needed for functionality. However it may

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