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I haven't seen this website before and, after taking a cursory look at this and the previous posts mentioned the article, I'm highly skeptical of the quality of this work: - In the C article he shows that LAPACK can be massively i
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A lot responses challenging your Angular-is-hated claim, but I'd like to challenge your other one. Tensorflow is not necessarily the most loved framework, despite it being in python, and being around for years now. This is in stark con
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I respectfully disagree. Here's is the upper limit to when that will happen (meaning we know for sure it'll happen soon after): - Complete behavioral reverse engineering of biological neurons, and neuronal clusters. - Detailed con
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I'm glad my suspicion about Haskell is confirmed on account of the complete absence of its mention on that page: Haskell is an unfortunate contraption of computer science with the primary goal of looking down upon programmers for not k
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Revision control, in general, turns 2D code into 3D code. Git turns 2D code into 4D code. With great power comes great responsibility. And you have to impose rules on yourself regarding which areas of that power landscape you should explore
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> ... almost as sophisticated equipment for verification as needed for fabrication ... > ... imaging techniques (AFM, STM, etc.) ... with ... tweaking ... I don't see the 'not true' part here. (Also as I responded to
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The link you shared only supports my point: either the claims are false, or they're not verifiable independently. "As yet we don’t have any detailed TEM imaging to look at the transistors or fins in close-up" And that's
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What does even 7nm or 5nm mean at this point? And who verifies the claims made by the manufacturer? You need almost as sophisticated equipment for verification as needed for fabrication. The the fabrciation companies are the only ones that
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It doesn't have any mention of the author(s). The MIT course website lists Mahajan and Abeyaratne as the instructors, but not clear if one, both, or neither are the authors.
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> A visual prank exposes an Achilles’ heel of computer vision systems: Unlike humans, they can’t do a double take. Thanks for giving us ML researchers a TODO. We'll get to work right away.
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Last three 'mastery', 'autonomy', 'purpose' is a straight ripoff of Dan Pink's TED talk (though Dan Pink gave the talk not by claiming it's his ideas, but that it's based on statistics or somethi
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The usage of terms 'initial value' and 'boundary value' is a massive failure of mathematics education. 'Initial' refers to time-like variables, and 'boundary' refers to space-like variables. There is
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Good luck with building codes and dealing with your local government. - https://redd.it/8qo0lh - https://redd.it/8pn8et - https://redd.it/1c1ofk
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Can anyone suggest a 4 GPU build for a non-GPU budget of USD 1500 to 2000 (i.e., not including the cost of the 4 GPUs, which will vary depending on which GPU is chosen)? I will add to this the cost of 4 GPUs (like GTX 1080 Ti or higher).
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Roughly speaking, loneliness and solitude are the negative and positive aspects of 'being alone'. So I guess 'being alone' is a much bigger topic than either loneliness or solitude or both. Second, I'm much more int
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From what I understand, what she's trying to say is that she divides the players into two types, and for one type she never bluffs, and for the other, she bluffs all the time. But she didn't discuss how she figures out if the play
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In which "free" market are you "prohibited" from selling your product directly to customers? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes
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Two points: - What you said is true of any rendering method you use. If you have a complex scene, it'll take more time to render one frame. - What I said about 2018 or 2019 is what nVidia's promotion is all about. See the demos li
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It's a good historical anecdote about making progress in computer graphics, but ray tracing is largely an obsolete method, since 'path tracing', the method that stochastically solves the rendering equation by James Kajiya, ca
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L-theanine does nothing for me, when I take it with coffee. If I have to very charitable, it probably reduces jitters that I otherwise get from coffee-only. But I'm not sure if it's a real effect or a placebo.
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> Yes, billions. Not Millions. Well if they even agreed on millions, that would still be an improvement over the current thinking, i.e., if one type of job is eliminated, a new type of job would magically appear and we'll keep livin
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Last time I spent some time trying to learn mathematical logic I realized that logic texts could benefit from syntax coloring of various languages involved (e.g., metalanguage, object language, logic symbols vs non-logic math symbols, etc,
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> For one, you often start a field with a specific book. If you pour a lot of time into that book, you often feel more attached to it. Then, when trying to evaluate another textbook, it's hard (impossible?) to go through that same e
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I don't care about that. For me this is incomprehensible: Why the eff does Google have billions of lines of code in their repo? I hope they are not counting revisions (e.g., if a single 1 million project has 100 revisions, that's
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> Will the lack of new physics cascade down, or is there enough "stuff" between physics and technology that tech can keep on going. Definitely enough. We're at the dawn of bio and nanotech and haven't even scratched t
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> work religiously ... that's my problem with part time work. If I have to spend even two or three hours on something not related to the research I really want to do, the rest of the day is ruined. I'm the kind of person, who d
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That's a rubbish title. (edit: the original title was 'Computer scientist tells mathematicians how to write proofs') Leslie Lamport is a mathematician by education. And I have a good idea he'd prefer to be called a mathe
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I want to do independent (computational) research. That's pretty much the only thing I want to do. Not employment in industry, not teaching, not funding agency research (where the agency wants you to do only a restricted form of resear
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I've never heard of the term 'individual contributor.' Can anyone clarify? As I understand teams are built from managerial roles and "worker" or technical or engineering roles. If it has to be a three tier system in
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Interesting. Looks like you're trying to do shell piping in python but without the annoying nesting. I have thought of this myself too, both in terms of python and in terms of scheme. For example, for your python function composition e

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