cottonseed

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by cottonseed 6y ago
It might be useful if you say what you're trying to become an expert in. Ask a vague question, get a vague answer. > always come out frustrated You can't stop there. Yes, a lot of expert knowledge is locked up in the heads of
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by cottonseed 6y ago
> Function composition is always associative. You're still confused. There is no function composition here. op in the example above is just some other function, like +. The associativity of + and function composition are true for
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by cottonseed 6y ago
> The Domain and Codomain for both functions are exactly the same. This is not true. > def List[A].foldLeft[B](z: B)(op: (B, A) => B): B > def List[A].foldRight[B](z: B)(op: (A, B) => B): B Notice the signature of the fold o
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Maybe watch the talk first before commenting? All these questions are answered in the talk.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Google wants to create an open, innovative ecosystem for silicon so it will be easier for them to build accelerators for their workloads to meet the growing demand for compute. TPU is only one example of the kind of accelerators they want
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by cottonseed 6y ago
I don't think so. Tim explains in the talk, designs must be submitted via a public Github repository. I think the whole point is to create an open ecosystem.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Yes, there are lots of open-source RISC-V cores. Tim Edwards of efabless has another talk about creating a RISC-V based ASIC SOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsEcLZc0RO8 based on PicoRV: https://github.com&#x
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by cottonseed 6y ago
efabless already runs the shuttle service that Google and efabless are going to fund here. From the efabless home page: > $70K, 20 WEEKS, 100 SAMPLES Note quite $50K, but close.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I haven't been following this and I appreciated the summary.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
The algorithm, obviously.
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Thanks for the links. I registered but never set up a profile, and if you click the link in the email or [0] above, it forced you to set up a profile before you can configure your privacy settings. Also, after opting out of personal data s
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by cottonseed 6y ago
Nice project! Not a quarantine project, but we've been building data frame abstractions in Python for genetics [1] [2]. We spent a lot of time studying the existing abstractions (pandas, R/dplyr, pyspark, etc.) Desinging a data
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by cottonseed 7y ago
Obligatory comment I have to repost every time rewrites come up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554288
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by cottonseed 7y ago
Here's the first ranking Google turned up: the nature biomedical sciences index: https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2019-bi... Harvard, the top biomedical institution, gets a score of 2,312.65.
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by cottonseed 7y ago
3m seems aggressive to do builds and spin up infrastructure for anything non-trivial. Reading a bit closer, I see the author describes CI as a sanity check, "ensur[ing] the bare minimum" and doesn't consider deploying on ever
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by cottonseed 7y ago
> Keep it short. 3-7 minutes should be max. Who has a 3-7m CI build here?
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by cottonseed 7y ago
I asked this on stackoverflow: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/62190/mathematical-...
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by cottonseed 7y ago
Come work at the Broad Institute and work on open science to understand and improve human health: https://www.broadinstitute.org/about-us . My group isn't hiring right now, but others are: https://www.broad
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by cottonseed 7y ago
I think the Cava ordering menu is amazing: https://cava.com/ . Kudos to whoever designed that.
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by cottonseed 7y ago
Being late isn't a power move, it's just makes you look disorganized and disrespectful. This would have 100% the opposite of your intended effect with me. Real power moves are exercising real power: saying no and being able to ba
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by cottonseed 7y ago
Where have you looked? Glassdoor salaries? Cost of living comparisons between GBA and places you're familiar with? At the end of the day, your salary is whatever you can get. Go apply for some jobs.
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by cottonseed 7y ago
This is perfect. Perma-ban, so sweet. Thanks GraemeL! Too bad search engines aren't using this to improve search results.
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by cottonseed 7y ago
I just wish search engines would let me block sites. There are maybe a dozen SEO land grabs in my domain that are trashing my search results and provide no value.
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by cottonseed 7y ago
When I hear about rewrites, I always think about this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554288
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John Hennessy and David Patterson Turing Award Lecture(youtube.com)
2 points by cottonseed 8y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 8y ago
Was this recorded? I'd like to watch the talk.
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The nextpnr FOSS FPGA place-and-route tool(media.ccc.de)
3 points by cottonseed 8y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 8y ago
23? Ha! No. I went back to school at 34 and got my PhD in pure math from Princeton when I was 40.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
nunez is one of today's luck 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by cottonseed 8y ago
The Developer's Guide to Interviewing has some great ideas: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-interview-as-a-develo...

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