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by epberry 10y ago
> often only about one bacterium in 10 million will gain a spacer that lets it defend itself. Incredible... The scale and probabilities involved in these processes are mind blowing. In general I liked this article because it posed a few
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by epberry 10y ago
Cool stuff. I found it especially interesting how they removed 30% of writes with new logic to compose some timelines of events in other timelines. It's a thought provoking optimization that calls to mind graph partitioning. For exampl
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by epberry 10y ago
I really like this. It combines my love of tmux and vim with my interest in rust, system software, terminals, and my eternal quest for the fastest, simplest, most cross platform terminal development environment. Great job - looking forward
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by epberry 10y ago
On the contrary this is kind of what I would expect. Brash, rule breaking, efficient... I can't help but think TK's years at RedSwoosh were an essential prerequisite for Uber.
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by epberry 10y ago
I think it's almost impossible to regularly select only papers that will be helpful to your work or thought provoking in your field. The nature of the beast is that you're going to read a lot of irrelevant or simply bad papers so
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by epberry 10y ago
Yeah he averaged about 500 LOC a day for 8 years. Which seems insane. That is a wildly productive programmer.
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by epberry 10y ago
Nailed it. Neural net execution speed is so critical for may production systems and it's very difficult to hit the sweet spot on trade offs but I never hear about these issues in wild.
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by epberry 10y ago
Whoa I didn't know about Benford's Law! That is wild.
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by epberry 10y ago
Yes totally agree. In the end this won't matter because the momentum of the ecosystem is so great at this point but it just baffles the mind that someone would think this is a good idea, especially with the "can't run on 2.7
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by epberry 10y ago
Part of me says that you are correct on all of these points. However I think you went too far on 3. Experimentation does not always follow theory in science. I would argue that many of the great discoveries of physics in the 20th century fo
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by epberry 10y ago
A coworker got the new MBP and didn't realize that he wasn't actually clicking the trackpad for two days. If I didn't know better I also would've been fooled. In my opinion the haptic feedback and the huge trackpad are a
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by epberry 10y ago
Big fan of the negative parent selector for merge commits. Also enjoyed the writeup of the algorithm improvements for the various caches.
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by epberry 10y ago
Wow this is really interesting and might be really helpful for a problem I'm working on now. I'm wondering though, what is the advantage of using a whole new programming language rather than say, a Python library?
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by epberry 10y ago
Here's a few ways I've used tmux: 1. Hierarchical context management. I use different sessions for different projects. One session might have my main development work, one session for a random debugging session for a coworker, one
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by epberry 10y ago
One feature of Python 3 that I found really pleasantly useful recently (thank you SO :) ) was passing generators to the zip() function in a for loop, like: for a, b in zip(generatorA(), generatorB()): In Python 2 you have to import itertool
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by epberry 10y ago
Yeah the cognitive dissonance of startup advice can sometimes be jarring. In this case though I think you could say that fail fast refers to iterating on a product and changing it until people love it. Then the growth starts. The poster chi
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by epberry 10y ago
Is this article seriously asking why Apple didn't put a processor that was publicly announced in September in laptops that consumers could buy one month later? How about asking the author why they didn't write this article on the
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by epberry 10y ago
I don't think these sights should be banned. WSJ and NYT in particular produce excellent journalism and the digital subscriptions are actually quite cheap, even if you're on a budget. If anything we should ban tabloids like Busine
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by epberry 10y ago
Yess thank you, thank you, thank you. I was just signing up for the Azure N Series preview but we're good to go now :).
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by epberry 10y ago
Agreed, semantic has helped two electrical engineers I know ;) throw together a somewhat decent website and demo a few times. It's really nice.
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by epberry 10y ago
This does seem incredibly useful for service oriented architectures. As I understand, it's basically a per application, per machine monitoring library for quickly detecting problems up and down the network stack. However it also does l
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by epberry 10y ago
I think your second question is the biggest thing. If you're developing some groundbreaking technology or doing heavy research you face a bunch of gnarly questions. How to convince investors when the climate favors revenue and customer
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by epberry 10y ago
I would be surprised if Qualcomm only did reference designs after the 820. They were forced to switch to the reference 64 bit ARM design after Apple leapfrogged mobile chipmakers and it really hurt them. They had a lot of trouble with the b
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by epberry 10y ago
I share the pain of this post - except my run-in with 1.12 occurred with Docker for Windows. The shared volumes and host networking were totally nondeterministic. I don't think I had really ever experienced software which seemed to fai
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by epberry 10y ago
Wow this field is moving fast. Just yesterday I was commenting on RCNN which apparently is old news now! Although it appears the same basic architecture is still used. If you're looking for a nice history of object detection leading up
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by epberry 10y ago
Glad to see R-CNN and its follow-on work on the list. We've been using R-CNN for a few weeks now and have seen great results on object detection and localization. A few papers this year have played around with substituting different co
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by epberry 10y ago
Awesome - I think this could be really useful for action recognition. Collecting large video datasets is really challenging and google's robot array is a great way to repeatedly create these kinds of custom datasets.
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by epberry 10y ago
I actually think none of these things are Twitter's biggest problems and that while they are big issues Twitter could gradually, painstakingly fix them through thoughtful policies coupled with careful engineering. Their biggest problem
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by epberry 10y ago
That's a pretty interesting idea... I suppose you would make a guess at first to allocate containers and then adjust over time automatically? But in a monitored environment you're already going to know those stats so actually I&#x
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by epberry 10y ago
I know! This was a horrifying read first thing in the morning - especially this part.

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