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by catwell 3y ago
WebGPU does not play in the same league as tfjs, it is a successor to WebGL, the technology tfjs is implemented with. There is already a WebGPU backend for tfjs: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tensorflow/tfjs-backe
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by catwell 4y ago
> While PyTorch is obviously the future in the short term Well, that's not obvious for me. The metrics do not support the death of Keras / TF ( https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1614322127460782087 )
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by catwell 4y ago
That depends a lot on what that CV application does and what hardware it runs on. Naive C++ (that runs on CPU) is usually much slower than using Python as glue for libraries that run on GPU.
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by catwell 4y ago
1. Make sure your business model doesn't mean growth will kill you. @armc's first point "Few business problems can't be solved by more sales." is important, but here is a case where it doesn't work (on the cont
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by catwell 5y ago
I wrote a blog post advocating for something like this recently, with an additional push to notify the client when it should poll: https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2022-03-05-push-to-poll.ht... I wasn't aware of this
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by catwell 5y ago
The compile times are part of the reason why scripting languages like Lua are popular in games. In engine code it's fine, but you don't want to wait minutes to see a change while working on higher-level parts of the game. The data
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by catwell 5y ago
This point makes literally no sense to me. He says don't start coding before you fully understand the problem, and then he says the way to explore the problem space is coding (the code-test-improve cycle). By the way I agree with the l
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by catwell 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am French and I had servers (well, my employer did, and I was the admin) in that DC. From the report (not the post): something that really annoyed the firemen is that not only was there no universal electrical cut-off, there
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by catwell 5y ago
I am not blind myself, but I have been using Linux for over 20 years and followed a few blind people who got into it. If your friend wants to go the Linux route, I would suggest to pick a distribution with a blind community and if possible
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by catwell 5y ago
> Yes, there are SQL databases out there that run on the client side or have replication, but not both. Yes, there are. https://zumero.com for instance.
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by catwell 5y ago
This is a slightly simpler (because of unicity) version of bucket sort or counting sort.
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by catwell 5y ago
You probably can and it won't be nearly as bad as what it is on MacOS. You only need a code signing certificate for drivers from Microsoft. You might not even need that if WinFSP provides signed binaries and you don't modify the d
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by catwell 5y ago
Yes, that would be: method = o.method(:my_method) method.call(5) # or method[5], or method.(5) If you really want a "function" that you can call with parens: Kernel.define_method(:method_as_fun, &method)
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by catwell 5y ago
(disclaimer: IANAL) You have basically just given a justification that crash reporting can be conducted based on legitimate interest instead of consent, and as such does not require opt-in. Many people mistakenly believe consent is the only
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by catwell 6y ago
It is super nice seeing Berty on the HN front page. I know the founder, who has done many things before among which initiating the Paris P2P meetup ( https://p2p.paris ), so I've been hearing about it for over a year now. Hop
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by catwell 6y ago
You didn't get the joke. Hint: case matters (and look at that repo :p).
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by catwell 6y ago
The push mechanism, for one. IMAP has one (two actually, IDLE and NOTIFY) but they are not really adapted to the way we use email today (mobile and browser-based apps).
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by catwell 6y ago
> If you have the option of writing an SPA, it's simpler quicker to build this way, and so easy to deploy. It's simpler if you only write the front-end, because it de-couples the work with the back-end. If you are in charge of
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by catwell 6y ago
They didn't start from scratch, Zircon is based on lk which they already used in Android.
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by catwell 6y ago
That also exists in France (and is currently used extensively) but it's very different from reducing salaries.
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by catwell 7y ago
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
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by catwell 7y ago
I am an Arch Linux laptop user. Plain RDS through Remmina works great for Windows machines. When not usable, I found AnyDesk to work fine-ish (but it changes system keyboard settings, which is annoying). I can't use TeamViewer which st
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by catwell 7y ago
This is fine, but it is yet another molecular test. What we need now are serology tests. They are faster, cheaper, easier to execute (blood-based), can detect cured patients, and can scale to the population of a country. Serology tests are
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by catwell 7y ago
https://en.agricool.co is a French startup perfecting its technology to grow fruit (they focus on strawberries) in containers, within cities, using very little water. They raised €25M last year.
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by catwell 7y ago
In software, I am hopeful for applications of homomorphic encryption. It could solve some privacy issues preventing some classes of software from moving to the Cloud. There have been huge efficiency improvements over the last 10 years, ther
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by catwell 7y ago
> it was the SIF clause that allowed them to block the deal Not that I know of. The SIF didn't have any ownership of Dailymotion anymore. Their shares had been bought by Orange. Montebourg just said publicly he wouldn't let Ora
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by catwell 7y ago
Many French startups, probably most of those you know, take State money in their early rounds. The State has a fund (BPI) whose policy it is to co-invest with the major French VCs. They have favorable terms for startups. That being said, in
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by catwell 7y ago
At Uber scale, you probably already have your own SMTP servers used by all your employees, so that's not really a problem. Moreover, email is hard and does require a dedicated team, but the order of magnitude is wrong here. 5 people is
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by catwell 7y ago
Some startups don't fall in those categories, for instance https://www.sqreen.com which recently raised $14M from Greylock.
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by catwell 7y ago
Abstract: In September 2019, voters for the election at the Parliament of the city of Moscow will be allowed to use an internet voting system. The source code of it has been made available for public testing. The encryption used in this sys

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