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by fizixer 8y ago
With these hi-res images I'm always curious which of the stars actually belong to the galaxy and which ones are "noise", i.e., stars that are from our own galaxy "blurring" the view. I think filtering out "loca
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Yeah, feel free to dive into my past comments. I probably said many years ago that a combo of ML and GOFAI has massive potential, in a wide range of applications.
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by fizixer 8y ago
Please don't introduce new acronyms like UNPHAT when we have something like YAGNI that works just fine (and probably there might be something, a rule of thumb, before Fowler, or Ron Jeffries, or whoever, coined YAGNI). Secondly, extrem
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It's a badly written post. That's what you're missing. In the first example, author didn't even indicate what the loop invariant is in the code, before moving on to a second example.
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Correction: 3Ah or 3000mAh.
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Two options: - Sort by orders. If seller has sold the most, probably a reliable seller. - Buy a handful (or samples) first (you can ask seller that you need samples first), and test their capacity (using e.g., a good charger, I have Zanflar
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You can buy Samsung INR18650-30Q (top of the line) off aliexpress in bulk for about $3 a piece. It's about 11 Wh. You'd need 90 of these batteries to make a 1kWh pack, costing $270. Obviously this does not include casing, assembly
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by fizixer 8y ago
Funny how you singled out Linux, a free/open source OS. Because just a few days ago I read that fonts, as well as UI elements in general, are a complete mess in both Mac and Windows, two paid/closed-source OSes, when you try to us
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Can anyone recommend a good way to install/maintain/remove new software on distros like Debian or Ubuntu LTS? (By 'new' I mean versions newer than the ones available through apt). I never figured out a maintainable schem
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Readable C code generation is the future. Read my previous comments and you'll find I've been advocating this for many years. I mainly advocated Python/C two-language programming, but using F* instead of Python (or Scheme) is
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I'm going by the assumption that, aside from genetic reasons, a circulatory system can in principle be kept in good shape through diet and exercise. I think the first step is to focus on things that we don't have a solution for. H
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Great. But we need to tackle it at multiple levels, specifically prevention and not just treatment. Furthermore, we need to develop a way of sustainable organ and blood availability. The only way I can see this happening is through syntheti
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paper: > [Oumuamua as a fractal] is a hypothesis worth investigating ... tabloid journalists: > NO, 'OUMUAMUA IS NOT AN ALIEN SPACESHIP ... I guess the use of 'Bad Astronomy' tag is apt.
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> I genuinely can't tell if you're passive aggressive and referencing the author of the quote as "pathetic economists", I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I'm not. I'm referring to today's mai
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> Which is also I think a key argument against "AI will replace everything". Thank you for agreeing with me, but I'm sorry I did not make an argument against "AI will replace everything". When 990 of the 1000 pre
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I'm sorry. Allow me to qualify my claim and restate it: It's a complete win for everyone except for the morons in charge, and their so-called expert economic advisers, who think the functioning of the society has to depend upon ev
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Yeah, unfortunately it's fairly easy to rebut this paper. I only had to read the abstract and the first paragraph. The last line of the first paragraph: > ... the more advanced a control system is, so the more crucial may be the con
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Trump signs executive order to spur US investment in artificial intelligence(theverge.com)
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It doesn't look like you're open to any serious criticisms of the two Vs, but the readers of your comment and mine deserve to look at the arguments and make up their own mind. Therefore, I'm linking the pages regarding ration
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Funny I confused it with Unity Biotechnology, which also raised $300M recently and is on the upswing. Would be interesting if both go IPO around the same time and confuse the heck out of everyone: - "Did you hear Unity went IPO?"
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So my guess is that Chisel is one of the many responses to the two horrors that are VHDL and Verliog. Unfortunately, Chisel is built on Scala, and I have no interest in learning Scala. Though I'm intrigued by the claim of using generat
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Maybe a combination of defiance and comic relief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7f9D4KclJw (David Letterman talks about an extortion attempt on him)
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You can take the example of nVidia Titan Xp (GPU that targets ML, scientific computing market) and Google TPUv2. - Titan Xp has single precision power of 12 TeraFlops in boost mode. - A Google TPUv2 device claims a power of 180 TF (consisti
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I don't get fruits. As much as I love them, I don't see why you need somewhat reduced nutrition (compared to vegetables) and way more sugar. Antioxidants have been a failure of nutritional science, in the same vein as the high-gra
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> That is a mighty big prediction to just throw around so easily. Do you have any material to back that claim? It's part opinion and part based on progress. Call it a highly highly educated guess. I divide the issues related to huma
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Thanks for the additional info. And I don't disagree with anything you said. However, for any concerns with computation between 10 and 800 Petaflops, I would consider them "super"-petascale (with below 10 being Petascale, abo
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I thought Z3 is some cousin of the Z80 microprocessor.
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Petascale used to be a buzzword 10 years ago. I think it's outdated for many years now. Case in point. A gaming GPU from a few years ago, GTX 1080 Ti, easily does more than 10 TeraFlops. So you only need 100 such GPUs (about $70k worth
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It does suck. It totally does. Because when you sell VP, you sell VOP (visual-only programming). If you offer a visual interface as an add-on to my favorite programming language, be my guest. I don't have a problem with that and I migh
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I love how Moore's law is a complete marketing gimmick at this point: - Intel not only hasn't released 10nm chips yet, they even stopped publicizing transistor count of their 14nm, the node from five years ago. - Not to mention th

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