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by blt 6y ago
Makes sense. Thank you for the thoughtful response. I hope my original comment is not too misleading.
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by blt 6y ago
Thanks for your insight! > This algorithm is only fast with high probability Why is this not mentioned in Theorem 1.1?
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by blt 6y ago
> I suspect that convex optimization has the potential to become a powerful, widely-used technology. I would say it has achieved that status already :) Deep learning is getting more than its share of hype. Convex optimization is a jewel
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by blt 6y ago
I felt the article undersold an important technical detail about this work. Many randomized algorithms have a "with high probability" guarantee, which for linear systems might look like: for any ε > 0 and 0 < δ < 1,
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by blt 6y ago
Please add the (still) to the HN post title. The original version of the paper without (still) in the title is several years old.
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by blt 6y ago
I agree "shouldn't be too hard" should be avoided, but in this case the developers should fix it even if it is hard.
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by blt 6y ago
This seems a little sensationalist to me. The GPU is a general-purpose device optimized for highly parallel workloads. One could just as easily say that a traditional CPU is a special-purpose device optimized for branch-heavy code at the ex
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by blt 6y ago
The problems with the F-35 feel analogous to problems we face in the software industry. At the implementation level, we tend to underestimate the cost of making a system extensible and "future-proof", and underestimate the value o
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by blt 6y ago
This upsets me a lot. I'm in my 30's and I was still allowed to ride bikes around the neighborhood, go to the store for snacks, etc. with my brother. I don't understand how kids can develop a sense of exploration without thes
460.
by blt 6y ago
Most people do not write as economically as possible. I would not read too much into it.
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by blt 6y ago
Runs at about 18fps in Firefox/Ubuntu 20 on a 4k monitor with Titan XP GPU. Seems a little slow for this scene. I would be interested to know what is slowing this down, unfortunately not proficient enough at WebGL profiling to find out
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by blt 6y ago
Given that they were already stuck with the hardware, is it possible that an optimistic approach was a reasonable way to manage the grid? Constantly monitor the status, be ready to shut down parts at any moment, but hope that you won't
463.
by blt 6y ago
Probably MSCKF.
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by blt 6y ago
But aren't most user-visible bugs in games caused by logic errors, not memory errors?
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by blt 6y ago
> The McCarthy era was again a matter of government action through government processes with at least some level of transparency, democratic representation, and accountability. It was not spontaneous mobs of individuals without leaders
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by blt 6y ago
Isn't this par for the course for constructive methods though? I agree that some things that are easy in a classic constraint-based CAD package are a huge burden in OpenSCAD. However, I don't see how signed distance fields would c
467.
by blt 6y ago
out of curiosity, why did you not want to use OpenSCAD?
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by blt 6y ago
IoT programming on the ESP8266 is really fun. The Arduino library ecosystem abstracts away the details of WiFi, HTTP servers, etc. The Arduino IDE abstracts away the details of getting your program onto the microcontroller. You can set up a
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by blt 6y ago
This is hilarious. I could see something similar happening on HN today.
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by blt 6y ago
Much of this applies to other OSes with virtual memory also.
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by blt 6y ago
No. The question isn't "is a cop allowed be annoyed with a youtuber?" or "is this youtuber causing net harm to the public good?". The question is: "can a cop interfere with a youtuber's ability to record a
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by blt 6y ago
This article fails to make a clean problem statement for the general audience. It jumps right into jargon and names from some framework/library. It reads like it was an internal report from a programmer to their team, and someone decid
473.
by blt 6y ago
> we can imagine the complete set of possible things, and from those there will be one that's best. Not necessarily, unless we make some more assumptions about the set of proofs and/or the proof goodness function ;)
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by blt 6y ago
Anyone suggesting that this tactic can be stopped with copyright law is hilariously missing the point. The cops will just find a pro-cop artist and record label to play. The problem here is much deeper.
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by blt 6y ago
Got it. I thought you were comparing to other software tools. I'm a big fan of chalk talks for anything mathematical. I find it hard to stay engaged with slides, even if the presenter uses tricks like revealing one step at a time, anno
476.
by blt 6y ago
Not sure I understand the analogy. What is PowerPoint a dumbed-down version of?
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by blt 6y ago
The Lyft app could measure bumpiness in great detail by using the phone's accelerometer.
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by blt 6y ago
If the author is reading this: please link back to the introduction / part 1 where you explain the overall premise, not just to part 4.
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by blt 6y ago
The percentage waste per circle remains the same, but the absolute amount of waste per can goes up.
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by blt 6y ago
I struggled with Python dependency hell often until I started using Conda. I wish it were faster, but it rarely surprises me.

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