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by blt 8y ago
Seems like mostly changes for production users vs. researchers. Not that there's any particular feature I'm dying for as a researcher (though a deterministic reduce_sum would be nice). Is pytorch more directly pursuing the "f
692.
by blt 8y ago
Sure. The point of those examples is to use familiar operations to help the reader understand how the notation works, and show the generality.
693.
by blt 8y ago
Life is reinforcement learning, the reward signal is dopamine :)
694.
by blt 8y ago
I agree, shipping full audio tracks is somehow too "easy". Also really love C64 SID music and Amiga tracker music.
695.
by blt 8y ago
Same thing happened with desktop PC's around when the Core 2 Duo came out and 1080p lcd displays became standard. The machines can do most of the stuff we want them to do.
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by blt 8y ago
old cities: built dense for walking, because cars didn't exist. new cities: built dense for walking and public transit because private car ownership isn't that common in China 20th century USA cities: built for cars. Sprawl makes
697.
by blt 8y ago
Librem lacks HiDPI. Is there a Linux optimized laptop with HiDPI and a near-apple quality trackpad?
698.
by blt 8y ago
Totally agree. Recently used unique_ptr with a custom deleter is to consume a C library that requires heap allocation with its own alloc/free functions. No destructor!
699.
by blt 8y ago
That's basically how modules would work, at least if you ignore LTCG.
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by blt 8y ago
Doubtful since the ideas behind ray tracing are very mature. Advances in real time ray tracing will take the form "x advancement in offline ray tracing from 30 years ago can now be done in real time."
701.
by blt 8y ago
> started learning C++ in November 2018 > blog post in January 2019 > "learnt" in past tense
702.
by blt 8y ago
Is there a pressing need to replace wood? I think, at least in the USA, most wooden goods are made from cheap soft woods that grow quickly, and can basically be treated as an agricultural commodity. Are trees inefficient at converting light
703.
by blt 8y ago
This specific aphorism is given as advice by some well known MIT public speaking guy. I think people take it too literally and make an outline slide that's like "motivation, problem statement, method, experiments." So useful.
704.
by blt 8y ago
Building strings in C can be painful, but parsing them is not too bad. I suppose security is another big concern, especially with something built explicitly to process user-supplied data.
705.
by blt 8y ago
The title is absurdly reductive. Anyone interested in graphs should be encouraged to learn about shortest paths, max flow, spanning trees, etc. and to identify some of the major np-hard graph problems. "Addition - the one Arithmetic Al
706.
by blt 8y ago
This effect doesn't require knowing anything about hardware...
707.
by blt 8y ago
critical insight, should be reported to the author
708.
by blt 8y ago
Yeah I don't think Costco hotdogs are representative of current food prices. They are unusually cheap
709.
by blt 8y ago
minor suggestion: make it easier to see the table of contents. A survey book leaves uncertain exactly what is included.
710.
by blt 8y ago
Still potentially useful for people who got into programming by some path that doesn't include a CS degree.
711.
by blt 8y ago
Think of it as an "epsilon ohm resistor".
712.
by blt 8y ago
> To avoid getting stuck in local minima, we make sure we use the proper learning rate This sentence is extremely misleading. It implies that gradient descent always reaches a global minimum if the "proper" learning rate is u
713.
by blt 8y ago
I would suggest publishing it if you think it can get accepted at a refereed venue. It's never bad to add an extra paper on your CV as a grad student.
714.
by blt 8y ago
I think a lot of those nerds maybe skipped the dance parties in college, and skipped going to the club as an adult. The experience of being at this kind of event, but where you're the guest of honor instead of an out-of-place spectator
715.
by blt 8y ago
some people start a business for reasons more complicated than making the maximum amount of dollars.
716.
by blt 8y ago
I think this is the In-n-out effect - people who grew up on it see it as a vastly superior version of McDs, Wendy's etc for the same price, and are understandably effusive about this. But visitors expect something profound instead of a
717.
by blt 8y ago
more powerful in the statistical sense? I though non-parametric tests were usually less powerful than those where a certain distribution is assumed.
718.
by blt 8y ago
this code can crash on platforms where unaligned access is not allowed. you need an alignas on public Bar. and of course the catastrophic bugs if the size of opaque is not kept in sync properly. the point is: the module system should be doi
719.
by blt 8y ago
This is true in general, but deep learning with lots of hyperparameters gives an advantage to organizations with clusters that can run a huge hyperparameter search quickly.
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by blt 8y ago
Koh-I-Noor still makes high quality art supplies, btw.

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