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by bmh100 10y ago
So could I use this to conveniently optimize frequently called or inner loop functions?
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by bmh100 10y ago
Please forgive my ignorance, but how would this be useful? I am not familiar with compilers or what having bindings in Python to a compiler would help.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Please change the submission title. It is downright misleading. This test did not "kill off" dark matter. To do so would imply overwhelming evidence against the concept of dark matter as a whole. Instead, this theory, which elimin
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by bmh100 10y ago
One benefit of these incidents at Yahoo! is that they represent salient, clear examples of the cost of poor information security. CIOs and security directors will be able to point to this deal as evidence that poor security can have materia
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by bmh100 10y ago
It adds an additional parameter that influences RNN behavior over time, so I could see it possibly being useful. I would speculate that this could have value for providing slowly-updating subsystem information to real-time control systems.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Oh yes. If we want to put a bigger one on the list, then there's the whole matter of vast quantities of circumstantial data being left out by ANNs (sight, sound, past memories, emotions, arousal, touch sensations, etc.). But lists like
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by bmh100 10y ago
I just don't want you to get the wrong impression. This is a single paper about a technique for adding neurons to ANNs over time, and it is only one of many over the last few decades. The paper does not have the evidence to indicate th
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by bmh100 10y ago
I'll grant you that. It's simple wordiness.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Yes, ANNs are inspired by the brain. Here is a list of properties that ANNs shared with CPUs that are different from brains: * Synchronized activation vs. asynchronous / partially synchronous activation * Digital signals vs. analog sig
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by bmh100 10y ago
However, your statement is actually vague and ambiguous. "Extra neurons"? Input layer? Output layer? Just before a final, fully-connected layer? Somewhere in between? "Everything it already knows"? What does it know? Cha
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by bmh100 10y ago
In a very hand-wavy sense, yes. The same can be said of paths to food by ant colonies. The way that ANNs have been drawn as circles with arrows between them looks like a cartoon version of neurons and synapses, which is the origin of the &q
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by bmh100 10y ago
The author addresses building internal software as monolith vs. microservices, not the use of others' services as part of one's monolith/microservice.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Very good point. I hope programmers would learn to apply this to their own documentation and even to styling code comments.
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by bmh100 10y ago
I have never found comparison to peers' skill levels to be an accurate judge of my own capabilities. If I did, I never would have become a programmer. I started my first job programming without any computer science education. The avera
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by bmh100 10y ago
I see now what you meant. I apologize for my misunderstanding in that to be a general statement. Knowing that, I agree with your statements much more now. From what I can tell, the multi-process architecture in Python would require everythi
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by bmh100 10y ago
You should consider Clojure with its optional typing library. I used Clojure, and later converted a single-threaded application into multi-threaded with dramatic gains. I did not need to plan in advance for parallelization and did not do so
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by bmh100 10y ago
I work in an environment like this. The need for TDD and CI are greatly reduced through the use of modular code design, encapsulating major logic/system units with a uniform API, and coding standards. The emphasis is inherent program q
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by bmh100 10y ago
What do you mean by "relational language"? I'm imagining SQL when you say that, but I guess you have something different in mind. You've piqued my interest.
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by bmh100 10y ago
In the act of perceiving a message, it is impossible to separate the factual content from the presentation. At that moment, subconscious effects have already taken hold. Even conscious thought struggles to counteract that. The only really e
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by bmh100 10y ago
And the differences between F77 and Fortran 2008 are monumental. It's like they're 2 different languages.
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by bmh100 10y ago
What would your HOA pay to automate and how much would it be worth?
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by bmh100 10y ago
Assuming a commercial web application, appropriately sized hardware, and correctly optimized code, when is "footprint" a significant disadvantage? How is "footprint" defined? When are startup times a significant disadvan
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by bmh100 10y ago
Let's look at the full "Creative Canada" proposal [1]. After reading through the full document, the arguments for moving away from advertising seem to focus on financial stability (page 6) [1]: "Depoliticize CBC/Rad
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by bmh100 10y ago
I agree with this. It would be much better to annoy users with constant "time remaining" notifications than to unexpectedly delete everything when the time expires. This would also function as an up-sell promotion, a literally &qu
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by bmh100 10y ago
To use a simple example, one might need to transform an array of statistical samples into p-values. The traditional way would be to 1) create a new array of squared deviations to calculate standard deviation (also using intrinsic MAX) and 2
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by bmh100 10y ago
I run a small business, and for $3,600/year (unbranded), I will easily choose to stay with Inkscape. I understand the importance of branding, so "white label" is a necessity. My use case is to document process flow in systems
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by bmh100 10y ago
A simpler explanation to your experiences may simply be disappointment from having expectations unmet. If you were looking forward to a quiet date night without kids, only for them to suddenly come back home after being gone for just an hou
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by bmh100 10y ago
My intuition is that the existence of adversarial images with barely perceptible differences but a high-confidence misclassification will lead to a new NN architecture for image classification.
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by bmh100 10y ago
The "meta-science" comment is a strange one. By that definition, gravitational waves, Bose-Einstein condensates, Higgs bosons, genes, and dark matter were all "meta-science".
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by bmh100 10y ago
Small question: since this is improving performance on a given machine, isn't this actually an example of vertical scaling, as opposed to horizontal?

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