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901.
by eggy 6y ago
Why? The common base is 10, and "orders of magnitude" is normally based on 10X between orders here. Ten fingers, decimal system, etc. Don't bring up metric vs. Imperial ;) I work at an engineering firm, and that's how mo
902.
by eggy 6y ago
I like Elixir and tried it out a few years ago. I would learn Erlang if going back now. The trouble with both for me is that if you are not developing to a fault-tolerant specification and need number crunching, the Erlang family of PLs are
903.
by eggy 6y ago
Regardless of the fentanyl and methamphetamine found in his blood, and having hypertension and heart disease, a knee to back of the neck while restrained and not released when the person says they can't breathe is not proper policing.
904.
by eggy 6y ago
I am actually going to choose writemonkey 2.7. Keyboard shortcuts and very bare but capable interface. Version 3 is much more complicated and is like VS Code with a minimal plugin on top.
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Ask HN: Minimal text editor for Windows 10
1 points by eggy 6y ago|3 comments
906.
by eggy 6y ago
If SpaceX doesn't hire him, then Space Force surely has an opening!
907.
by eggy 6y ago
I am sure he also had plenty to teach them! Experience hones your problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
908.
by eggy 6y ago
1024 (2^10) is ~10^3 (I know switching bases!) vs say 10 (10^1), so two orders of magnitude larger in general. A gig 10^9 would be many orders of magnitude. An order of magnitude is generally a jump to the next power of 10. So 10 (10^1) is
909.
by eggy 6y ago
I have found getting certified in a skill like diving or ropework is not the point. It's what skills do you bring to the thing you dove or climbed to fix? Do you know hydraulics, basic electrical work, troubleshooting, etc. Learn those
910.
by eggy 6y ago
As someone who had to write letters for information or ask experts over the phone in the 70s, 80s, and part of the 90s (BBSs in the late 80s to 90s for me), you'd have to have good luck finding the person with the bit of specialized kn
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by eggy 6y ago
Yes, and the book progressed very logically, and with little fluff or handholding. I struggled to work each exercise. I am not a fan of programming books that try and tell a story, or some other gimmick to involve you in learning. I think 6
912.
by eggy 6y ago
I didn't write false or fake news. I wrote we cannot rely on media, left or right, to convey a large percentage of truth. My comment is more one of bias, and if you think bias is mainly a right thing, and very little bias on the left w
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by eggy 6y ago
Real-time object detection is what YOLO does and darknet implements it, but I see where you are going with the edge detection in SOD vs. darknet. You add in OpenCV if you want to use it.
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by eggy 6y ago
Funny, but I took only a few jobs where coding was more than 50% of my day job, but for the most part I've held very eclectic jobs in a predominantly technical or artistic career. I was reading about neural networks and genetic algorit
915.
by eggy 6y ago
This is why I believe it is important to teach our children from first principles; we can no longer rely on media, left or right, to convey a large percentage of truth. I am old enough that the cliche "believe only half of what you rea
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by eggy 6y ago
I so desperately wanted to get in on this novel personal computing thing, and I couldn't afford a computer. In 1976 I bought a book on machine and assembly language programming not knowing a thing from a bookstore on Wall St. somewhere
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by eggy 6y ago
I had, but it is for unixes, and I am primarily on Windows. I have a Linux box, WSL2, and an iMac, but all of my paying work is on Windows. I like them all, and I like Janet a lot!
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by eggy 6y ago
Yes, I have been following darknet for a while now. I haven't tried YOLOv4 yet. Any comments on what SOD brings to the table in comparison to darknet?
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by eggy 6y ago
The site says "The syntax is based on the darknet framework...". What are the differences in capabilities? Not sure yet. I'll have to look more into it, but I was hoping somebody here could tell me if they have experience wit
920.
by eggy 6y ago
I was interested until I saw you have to purchase something to train your own models. I am wondering how this compares to Darknet by Joseph Redmon [1]. You can do most of what I see on the Sod site, and train your own models. It's in C
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by eggy 6y ago
I like it, and I am considering using it as a scripting language. It was clear and easy how to build it for my Windows 10 box, and it is relatively small. I have always like the small Lisps like PicoLisp, but PicoLisp is not Windows friendl
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by eggy 6y ago
I was playing with OpenFrameworks and Kinect years ago, and you could pretty much do this, so I am curious why you would TF.js instead of simple OpenCV or other libraries that don't need to to use ML or DL. Or am I mistaken, and it is
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Game of Life in 1 line of J by Zelayton(reddit.com)
2 points by eggy 6y ago|0 comments
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by eggy 7y ago
You plan on creating Tetris this way, or it is in one of the lessons? I have only created one small application in Forth for work over the years, but I love toying with it. Factor [0] and retroforth [1] are lots of fun. [0] https:/&#
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by eggy 7y ago
I loved his commentary on Co-dfns for APL at 54:38 in the video. I program in J[0], and dabble in Dyalog APL. Aaron Hsu's work on the gpu compiler, he's the implementor of Co-dfns, is nothing short of mind-blowing[1]. His argument
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by eggy 7y ago
Is Phoenix only for the optional operator dashboard? I ask because I have not tried Phoenix. I've played with Elixir since it came out, but only Elixir.
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by eggy 7y ago
Thanks, I'm getting senile! 1986 is 8 years after my first computer. I have used Erlang's venerability in other Erlang postings, but for some reason I guess the open sourcing date stuck in my head.
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by eggy 7y ago
I used to work at an environmental law firm in downtown Manhattan and accounting and other core financial systems were running on a VAX OpenVMS mainframe, and the document creation and storage was on PCs over a Token Ring, Banyan VINES netw
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by eggy 7y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers This proceeded Erlang by 24 years or so. I know it's not the language, and a combination of hardware and software, but they did change the instruction set of the
930.
by eggy 7y ago
Thanks! I only saw Mac and Linux on the installation page. Nice to see the windows binary on the releases page. I have all three systems, but my windows box is my main go to, and my newest and most powerful laptop. I'll try it after wo

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