dsharlet

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by dsharlet 11y ago
Fortran doesn't have templates. Frankly, I doubt modules will ever exist for C++, because they seem fundamentally incompatible with templates. To me, people that complain about modules being delayed look like people complaining that th
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That's a really bad way to solve that problem, it relies on other systems following a protocol that they have no reason to even know exists. A much better way to solve it, which is already being done (to some degree of success) is to c
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by dsharlet 11y ago
I don't really buy his argument. Lots of other companies with plenty of resources have been attacking this problem, including Facebook and Baidu. People have been talking about Go AIs for decades. If it was just a matter of throwing a
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by dsharlet 11y ago
> The hardware requirements were stunning (280 GPUs and 1920 CPUs for the largest variant) and were an integral part to how well AlphaGo performed Is that really true? Demis stated that the distributed version of AlphaGo beats a single m
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> I don't want to dismiss the fact that the SDC would've hit a road obstacle, just because in that case the obstacle was a cheap plastic object. I think the point is that if you counted these kinds of incidents in human driver
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by dsharlet 11y ago
The main thing mex does is let you link to the matlab API libraries that are otherwise hard to get. To work around this, I like to just grab the API directly from the calling process via dlsym/GetProcAddress. That way, you can build me
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I think there's a dramatic difference in search 10 years ago compared to now, due to better natural language understanding, which is very much an "AI" technology IMHO. I've had to un-learn my search query habits from the
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by dsharlet 11y ago
This makes sense. I stopped using google shopping a long time ago precisely because it seemed like so many of the results were junk for whatever reason (staleness is a likely reason). "Junk" meaning the search result did not lead
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by dsharlet 11y ago
> [?] QR: Afraid I'm not sure what you're referring to. > [+] Cholesky Decomposition: Trivial to implement How is it that you can judge Cholesky decomposition to be trivial to implement, while being unfamiliar with QR decomp
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> “The stations know they’re buying stolen gas,” Scarince said. “They’re fully aware the fuel is not coming from a legitimate source. There’s never any paperwork with the fuel driver, and these transactions are missing all the elements o
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by dsharlet 11y ago
Can you explain how they are related? My understanding of this is that malicious code was deliberately added to Juniper's software, not that it exploited some existing code that Juniper thought was safe. This could happen regardless of
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This argument is also commonly made in the context of the pool from which companies search for candidates to hire. The problem with both situations (VC/entrepreneurs and employers/employees) is that there's a cost associated
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by dsharlet 11y ago
Seconded, Mindstorms EV3 are great. Check out ev3dev (www.ev3dev.org) if you want more programming options. You can build some serious robots with this setup, but it's still pretty easy to use.
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by dsharlet 11y ago
DSPs generally aren't necessarily that much more powerful than a CPU, their advantages are usually one or more of the following: - Special instructions to help with common DSP tasks (e.g. circular buffers, nice fixed point/roundin
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by dsharlet 11y ago
Delete should just be the delete key... I think there was also an item on the edit menu to delete the selection. I tried to make it behave as standard as possible (the usual windows shortcut keys for cut/copy/paste/delete&#x2
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by dsharlet 11y ago
Can you say what's broken about it? Is there something that prevents you from following the tutorial to build the low pass filter? A lot of people have problems with audio IO (the ecosystem of audio devices, drivers, OSes, etc. unfortu
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by dsharlet 11y ago
Unfortunately, the math required for circuit simulation does not lend itself to parallel implementations, whether it be on a GPU or otherwise. I built LiveSPICE (linked elsewhere in the thread), so I fought a lot with this problem :) A smal
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The LINQ expression compiler also lets you generate expressions at runtime and compile them, it's an amazingly powerful feature: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397951.aspx
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On the other hand, if you've ridden a bike with a diesel vehicle in traffic nearby, you'd swear that the EPA was being far too lenient about emissions.
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How is that related to the parent's point?
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Why do we need a mnemonic or a meme for this? Is understanding distribution really that much harder than memorizing FOIL? At the same time, understanding distribution is so much more powerful because it generalizes to many other uses and la
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FOIL is the worst offender in my experience tutoring people in math. I recall several instances of people being completely stumped when trying to multiply a trinomial and a binomial, because they couldn't figure out how to apply FOIL