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by desertrider12 6y ago
While CEO, Pinchai's and Cook's companies increased in value by 2.7x and 8.6x respectively, so they must be doing a very high quality job at what they were selected for.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Evangelicals are Protestant so they don't really care about Roman Catholic doctrine. Even though they agree on many issues it doesn't mean the Pope would change their minds.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
If you wanted to generate a longer essay by GPT3 but make it really hard to tell, you could just get it started with a 1-2 sentences. Then let it generate N-1 tokens (where N is the window size, I guess 2048), and write a few tokens yoursel
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Apple doesn't directly compete with CUDA, they just want total control of their platforms. Metal does have great performance and tooling. In practice nobody does HPC on macs so there's no demand for linear algebra or graph librari
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Nope. That's mostly on Apple though, as they discourage all APIs that aren't Metal.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
I've never been to wikinews before, but it looks like exactly what I was talking about. They have a prioritized list of articles that need to be reviewed for bias and accuracy, so that's really good.
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by desertrider12 6y ago
The Economist has high quality news. It has a slight free market/neoliberal bias on economic issues, but for politics it's just the facts. Wikipedia is actually a decent free news source too, since articles about current events ge
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by desertrider12 6y ago
Ha, the show Silicon Valley predicted this exactly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txl90NEl92U
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by desertrider12 7y ago
They didn't really go that wrong, Cori and Trinity are still useful machines. But I can say for computational science, programming models have gotten way better in the last few years. Now it's as easy to get a new sparse algorithm
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by desertrider12 7y ago
So that means the planes were intended to be at levels 300 and 290. Is it normal to have only 1000 feet of vertical separation? It seems like the higher plane could easily lose 1000 feet in a few seconds before ATC could tell the lower plan
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by desertrider12 7y ago
Metadata from one person isn't worth anything, but the graph of who's contacting who is very useful. Plus, it's computationally feasible to do that graph analysis on everyone, while listening to every call wouldn't be.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
Sure, but it's a misleading/clickbait title.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
Sure is, but it's an arbitrage opportunity for everyone who wants a ride.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
If one person could rotate the whole thing with a crank, why couldn't the prisoners do the same by holding the bars and pushing on the walls? Anyway, this reminded me of the mechanical fortress from Myst.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
To do star star x = f(y), star x and f(y) each need to be evaluated. You'd think the right-hand side would always be evaluated before the left-hand, but that's not always possible (what should "arr[i] = i++" do? I stole
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by desertrider12 7y ago
I didn't know Erlich Bachmann was on HN
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by desertrider12 7y ago
In many situations yes, and C/C++ compilers miss a lot of opportunities for constant folding/propagation. But still, an infinitely smart compiler can’t prove anything about a value that comes from a file, user input or socket at r
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by desertrider12 7y ago
But if GNOME has no tangible assets to go after, the patent troll won't actually get any reward for this.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
It can absolutely still be useful, and it would make sense for an early stage startup or someone's side project to use it so they're not duplicating work porting it to .NET, Cocoa and Qt or whatever. And sure, having an identical
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by desertrider12 7y ago
I always thought of Electron as a way to kick out a minimum viable product quickly before writing native versions. But nope, I guess give a $16 billion company 4 years and 1600 employees and that's still not feasible.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
I would say the biggest challenge with general AI is that our brains are NOT empty when we’re born, and we have no way to map those connections. We don’t have memories yet, but we’re wired to recognize faces, learn languages and use sensory
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by desertrider12 7y ago
Yep. That reminds me, there's a major piece of OpenMPI called "schizo" that supports "multiple personalities" of runtime environment. I don't know how they got away with that one...
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by desertrider12 7y ago
There are some non-weapons codes like Albany and NaluCFD based on Kokkos and Trilinos that are open source. [1] https://github.com/SNLComputation/Albany [2] https://github.com/NaluCFD/Nalu
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by desertrider12 7y ago
I just googled "PC professor firing" and found these examples right away. What's especially bad is that the departments publicly denounce the person. In [1] a committee of deans said he was "uncivil, illogical and damagi
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by desertrider12 7y ago
In most contexts that's how it is, which is great. But it's going way too far on college campuses, where professors can get crucified on social media and then fired for saying the tiniest "problematic" things.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
Apple kind of did it to OpenCL because they really want people to use Metal. That’s the only example that comes to mind, though.
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by desertrider12 7y ago
Bidirectional without backing up. To turn a train around, you need a closed loop at the end of the line or a triangle (wye).
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by desertrider12 8y ago
If anything goes wrong, gravity drains the molten salt into a storage pool that spreads it out, stopping the reaction and letting it cool and solidify. The lining of the underground pool can be made arbitrarily thick and durable. Contamina
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by desertrider12 8y ago
I thought chrome already did this. Somebody else here pointed out that's impossible in general because even regular GET requests can have side effects. I wonder what it's doing with 1.6 GB of memory then...
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by desertrider12 8y ago
It looks like by default, the GNU libc won't return pages to the OS until 128 KiB are free at the top of the heap segment. The compiler has to make many small allocations, so even if it freed memory at every opportunity I doubt the hea

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