deong

118 ms·

511.
by deong 12y ago
What magical extra CPU, memory, cache, and battery have you introduced into that third run to handle the process of "continuing to learn and improve should the opportunity arise"? Because if you're using the same one that&#x2
512.
by deong 12y ago
But it also doesn't spend any CPU time, memory pressure, cache lines, etc., on trying to adapt to changing profiles.
513.
by deong 12y ago
I can only guess, but I'd say it's a combination of factors. First, the JIT on my quad-core i7 can be pretty intense. I'm more willing to pay the overhead than I am on a device that has a tiny battery and gets hot in my pocke
514.
by deong 12y ago
"You can restore the past JIT-ed code from the cache and do new profile directed optimizations." Sure, but now you're paying for the compilation/runtime analysis stage more than once. If the JIT compiler is actively doin
515.
by deong 12y ago
If you cache everything, you're just doing AoT compilation. But in general, I would say that the performance advantages of JIT have never really materialized outside of a few specific types of code. In theory, there should be room for
516.
by deong 12y ago
It's fine to criticize others for pursuing goals you think are actively harmful. Of course, nothing makes your criticism magically "correct", and everyone is free to have different opinions, but the fact that a design was int
517.
by deong 12y ago
I guess I've been fortunate to have not encountered these particular pathologies. Certainly student evaluations are important, but every chair/dean I've dealt with has known enough to know how to read evaluations to weed out
518.
by deong 12y ago
Presumably what would happen in that case is that the parent company would sell the patent to the shell company, who would then just sell it back as soon as there was any threat that a victim was going to fight it in court. It's still
519.
by deong 12y ago
One downside might be that if the next person (person N+1) doesn't know the system and just edits the HTML and CSS by hand for a few months or years, and then person N+k comes along and runs the generate script, he potentially blows aw
520.
by deong 12y ago
I'd agree that it's silly to assume it to the point of excluding all other possibilities, but would also think it reasonable to think foul play was a likely factor when someone heads home from the pub and is never heard from again
521.
by deong 12y ago
But they did find the child eventually. It's not like they continued to not notice the body for the next three decades.
522.
by deong 12y ago
I live in Iceland now, and while paved roads were not all that common at the time, it's not like they were barely-visible paths through the lava fields either. But yes, in the area the article is talking about, the ground is a patchwor
523.
by deong 12y ago
Had he just succumbed to exposure next to a road, they should have found the body quite quickly.
524.
by deong 12y ago
As of now, there's nothing to worry about. The problem with iPhones occurs because (1) Apple's implementation is apparently crappy, and (2) Apple tries to treat SMS and iMessage as just two identical channels through which a messa
525.
by deong 12y ago
This ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/microsoft-will-no... ) is what I was referring to. Whether Ars Technica is wrong about it, I can't say.
526.
by deong 12y ago
I rather hoped that the rest of the text would have been a clue that I was exaggerating things slightly.
527.
by deong 12y ago
And it's not true that "nothing happened" in that case. Microsoft was publicly beaten up a bit, and then changed their policy to say they will no longer do that.
528.
by deong 12y ago
I used to work in a place that had a mix of Java and C or C++ projects going on, and different groups specializing in each. I always said I preferred dealing with the legacy C code than the new Java code. Function too long? I don't car
529.
by deong 13y ago
That was more of a hypothetical scenario than my actual life -- I'm a researcher working in academia, so in my case, I pretty much do do all the work around what I produce (my university provides support in terms of office space, admin
530.
by deong 13y ago
> They certainly didn't supply the raw material which in programming would be time and effort so they shouldn't have any claim on it. It's this last point where you might well run into legitimate disagreement. What is the
531.
by deong 13y ago
I'm not confusing simple and known; I'm just including both in the decision as to whether something is eligible for patent protection. As the patent office is required to do (the term used in patent law is "non-obvious"
532.
by deong 13y ago
I think the last paragraph there is self-contradictory. Simple things shouldn't be patentable, precisely because the invention doesn't need to be fully disclosed. To take a silly example, let's say I propose a patent on the p
533.
by deong 13y ago
I have a DX in the closet, and even if the screen is big enough, it's still too slow. The other huge problem with the DX or any other e-ink reader so far is the lack of note-taking. I hoped the DX would be good for academic papers, b
534.
by deong 13y ago
> Nobody can make predictions so it's also hard to see where the future is going. People make predictions all the time, many of them pretty good. Did a significant number of people think Color was going to be a smashing success? I&#
535.
by deong 13y ago
And yet no one seems to complain about the Nike fitness bands, devices that collect the same information and have the same access to your phone's always-on network connection -- a device that's made by a company that actually sel
536.
by deong 13y ago
It would be nice if I could fly too, but I'm fat and able to generate shockingly small amounts of lift.
537.
by deong 13y ago
> 2) Display visibility I can't decide whether this is genius or ludicrous, but on your phone, you can ask Google Now "What time is it" and get a spoken-word response. So presumably, you could wear a watch that you have to
538.
by deong 13y ago
> networkx is Python 3 compatible, by the way. So it is. I'm not sure why I couldn't find that six months ago while I was looking. Also, I don't mean to imply that people should be discouraged from using Python 3. Like I s
539.
by deong 13y ago
Pybrain. Apparently it's sort of unmaintained in general, but I was trying to use it for something that I wasn't happy with scikit-learn for, and at the time, I wasn't aware of how long it had been since it had been updated i
540.
by deong 13y ago
I tried very hard to be in the python3 camp. I'm among those who found the changes to be mostly good ones, and I've talked myself into biting the bullet a couple of different times, but it always turns out the same. Last month I g

More ›