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by bmh 5y ago
Training a GAN is an interesting approach! But one thing that I'm not sure you're aware of - is that you can get very good results without resorting to this. The trick is basically to get Freetype to render the glyph with hinting
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by bmh 5y ago
Yes indeed. Sub-pixel RGB antialiasing gives you almost 3x resolution on the X coordinate, so hinting the vertical stems is not so noticeable. But because there's no sub-pixel antialiasing on the Y coordinates, the horizontal stems sti
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by bmh 5y ago
Hinting was originally created for fonts that had zero anti-aliasing. On Windows, prior to Cleartype, all fonts were rendered in binary, so it was even more important to have hinting there (eg so that the two stems of an 'H' are e
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by bmh 5y ago
On Ubuntu it's as easy as an `apt upgrade`. Although I pay the fee happily, this does seem wrong. It seems to me that as a software provider you have two choices: 1. Make it a monthly (or whatever) subscription for the latest version (
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by bmh 5y ago
I live in South Africa, where we have periodic rolling blackouts, so we're highly incentivized to insulate ourselves from that. I installed 2kW of panels on my roof myself, and inverter, and batteries, for a total of about $2700. The p
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by bmh 6y ago
Scroll to the very bottom of the page for the best suggested replacement!
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by bmh 6y ago
Every account in the network is a chain of blocks, with each block signed by the private key of that account. So only the owner of the account can add a block to their chain. To send money from A to B, A will add a 'spend' block t
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by bmh 6y ago
B-trees don't need sorted data. The B-tree insertion algorithm performs the sorting for you.
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by bmh 6y ago
How exactly would Stripe branch out to Nigeria? It might be less risky and cheaper to just buy a local team with a proven track record, than trying to transplant yourself into a culture that you know nothing about.
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by bmh 6y ago
The headline should be "CUDA support on WSL2", but that's only mentioned at the bottom of the article. And having all this stuff work out of the box, I can see some people choosing the WSL path over native Linux simply becaus
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by bmh 7y ago
You (probably) should just use PostGIS, because it's the easiest thing to do, everybody understands it, it's eminently google-able, and ubiquitous. Unless you have a specific reason why you can't, just use PostGIS and enjoy y
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by bmh 7y ago
Great icons, thanks! Very similar in style to https://feathericons.com/
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by bmh 7y ago
This is what a Win32 app's source code looks like: https://www.paulgriffiths.net/program/c/srcs/winhellosrc.htm...
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by bmh 7y ago
First, there was Win32. That is still supported, and works reliably. It's a plain C interface, and it works on all versions of Windows. You have to do your own anchoring logic (ie all controls are positioned like HTML 'absolute&#x
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by bmh 7y ago
If this is true, then it's very interesting. I'd love to find a more recent update on this, if there is any. TL;DR: Contracting the virus through your nose might be much worse than through the eyes or stomach. Quote: If the neuroi
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by bmh 7y ago
I'm curious to see if they can apply this to industry-standard tests like ImageNet classification. The workloads that they test on make it hard to quantify the broad applicability of their work.
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by bmh 7y ago
That's true, but it doesn't match their claim of keeping all of the model on the chip. An 18 GB cache is huge for sure, but that's not what they claim.
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by bmh 7y ago
In their whitepaper they claim "with all model parameters in on-chip memory, all of the time", yet that entire 15 kW monster has only 18 GB of memory. Given the memory vs compute numbers that you see in Nvidia cards, this seems st
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Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements(newatlas.com)
164 points by bmh 7y ago|139 comments
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by bmh 7y ago
Excellent article! I'd be really curious to see a treatment of the same topic, but with ADAM.
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by bmh 7y ago
Any chance you'd be willing to share some revenue numbers?
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by bmh 7y ago
It seems like there's an opportunity for a tool to help solve this (ie something other than GitHub issues).
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Creating a stable half-pel image filter(caseymuratori.com)
3 points by bmh 8y ago|0 comments
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by bmh 8y ago
I have a few computers at home. I'd like to access them securely from anywhere in the world. WireGuard makes that easy.
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by bmh 8y ago
This is awesome! In case you're wondering, the latency of _mm_aesenc_si128 on Skylake and above is only 4 clock cycles
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by bmh 8y ago
Indie Hackers. I've learnt SO MUCH from those interviews.
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by bmh 8y ago
A major use of USDT is that you can sell your cryptos when they're high, converting them to USDT, which holds it's value. Then, when the crypto prices drop, you buy in again, and repeat. By keeping it entirely in the crypto space,
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by bmh 8y ago
One other datapoint - I ported flatbush to C++, and I got a 2.6x speedup on the "Insert 1 million boxes" benchmark. C++ port is at https://github.com/IMQS/flatbush
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by bmh 8y ago
This is incredible! The temporal consistency is amazing. Watch the video.
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by bmh 8y ago
You say this is a hard fork, so how do you intend to maintain feature parity with new HTML rendering concepts. eg imagine CSS Grid had not been invented yet?

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