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by fizixer 10y ago
With this field advancing so fast, I guess if we could do something like this, that would be great: Maintain a running list of: - 3-5 most important papers in the last 3 months - 3-5 in the last 1 year (not all in the 3 month list would mak
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by fizixer 10y ago
> We "over-complicate" ISAs for the same reason we're constantly adopting new vocabulary: there is efficiency in specialization. You're making broad generalizations, ironically speaking. If there is anything the artic
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by fizixer 10y ago
> What you're describing is a GPU I would say I'm describing something halfway between a CPU and a GPU. It's not just an ALU, it's a complete microprocessor, with pipelining, caches, etc. The main difference is that t
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by fizixer 10y ago
> larger transistor budget ... because we (the chip designer) are okay with larger footprint per core. > specialized instructions are pretty much free ... only after we have fixed the footprint per core. But if we're willing to v
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by fizixer 10y ago
And therein lies the rub. What is the minimum number of instructions a compiler could make use of to get everything done that it needs? I came across an article that says 'mov is turing complete' [1]. But they had to do some convo
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by fizixer 10y ago
In my experience, in order to maximize the productivity in creative work and still work 40 hours, you have to pick the best 40 hours out of a 168 hour time frame: - If it means you work '13 hours 20 minutes' on Monday Wednesday Fr
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by fizixer 10y ago
> ... chemistry is a leaky abstraction ... Well I second you on that. Even stronger: All of (theoretical) science is a leaky abstraction. When an area is new, people are doing the spherical-cow-approximation willy nilly. After it gets es
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by fizixer 10y ago
Can someone comment on the appeal or utility of a raytracer when path-tracing produces infinitely better results in offline, and real-time path-tracing has started to appear (and will likely be mainstream in a matter of years)? Also, a path
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by fizixer 10y ago
Based on my limited knowledge, SSA form is at a higher level than AST (right?). If yes, would SSA be considered an example of HOAS? Regardless, besides the question posed by OP, I wonder what the relation between SSA and HOAS might be?
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by fizixer 10y ago
Slightly off topic but: As someone out of touch on the topic of DB utilizing apps for a while, what's the update on the ORM impedance mismatch? (I mean the guidelines or best practices).
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by fizixer 10y ago
Article with such a title doesn't have a mention of transhumanism. I'm sorry I don't have time for this.
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by fizixer 10y ago
If you're coming from a MATLAB background, you might find this helpful [0]. When I switched from MATLAB to Python/numpy/scipy, I had to deal with these syntactic annoyances. But now I feel comfortable after using it for many
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by fizixer 10y ago
I'm seriously thinking of looking into MyHDL (myhdl.org). It's a way of specifying spec in python syntax and I think it automatically compiles down to VHDL (and probably more). It's especially good for programmers like me who
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by fizixer 10y ago
I guess what you described goes by a well-known term called 'critical thinking'?
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by fizixer 10y ago
That sounds like reverse justification, i.e., Google's operations probably require X lines of clean code added everyday by 10% of the engineers (so ~5000 instead of ~50,000 engineers), but because of the sheer number of engineers Googl
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by fizixer 10y ago
Why does google have billions of lines of code? This is more of a rhetorical question. As a tech minimalist, the preferrable answer by a long shot would be that, internally, Google is keenly aware of the severe bloat and technical debt of t
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by fizixer 10y ago
But is there any side to your old self that you miss, or was a good thing that is not there any more? E.g., I feel once you get used to 'increased social stimulation' it becomes harder to spend solid chunks of time by yourself doi
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by fizixer 10y ago
Any equivalent options for make?
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by fizixer 10y ago
A much harder (for researchers to devise) but a lot more beneficial form of gamification is 'implicit gamification'. Why do you have to move gamers away from their favorite Battlefield, DoTA, CSGO, LoL, Starcraft, or whatever game
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by fizixer 10y ago
So if a conservative human driver from a peaceful low-traffic part of the country goes to California and drives there, and an aggressive Californian causes the accident between the two cars, the conservative driver is to be blamed? Sounds l
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by fizixer 10y ago
Well if you're up for nitpicking, I wouldn't be surprised if you're able to find 30 problems in my comment rather than 3. I urge you to read it while practising the principle of charity.
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by fizixer 10y ago
To all kinds of philosophers. It might sound pep-talk+patronizing but hear me out: - What is science? natural philosophy! - What is mathematics/computer-science? modern philosophy! The journey from continental to analytic philosophy di
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by fizixer 11y ago
When she was hired I asked (and what I imagined she probably would've asked), what is Yahoo!'s business model, how much fierce is the compeition, and how willing it is to seek other markets (that can serve as low hanging fruit). I
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by fizixer 11y ago
As a javascript-noob, not even jquery? I've heard jquery solved so many headaches.
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by fizixer 11y ago
Just going after the title, "folk aphorisms" are such pseudoscience, it's not even funny. Not that they don't apply, they do. But "many" of the times, not "most", let alone "all of the times&quot
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by fizixer 11y ago
Mind elaborating what's good about FreeBSD compared to Debian/Linux. I've heard such statements before. Btw, I think bloat of linux distros (huge number of similar packages with slight differences have to be installed just be
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by fizixer 11y ago
fight the large stakeholders ... as in resist the selling? she would wanna do that because she might think she can still make Yahoo recover, and if Yahoo is sold, it'll give the impression that she failed as a CEO? Just trying to under
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by fizixer 11y ago
Again you're not making much sense. 'To reconsider getting old and dying as negative' is as close to 'consider philosophies in which old age and dying is not negative' as it can get. Please look at a description of
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by fizixer 11y ago
First to respond to reasoning behind my first line, maybe I should've said "Every time an existential post _like this_ is made." It's pretty clear that one of the points of the website showing the 52x90 grid is to remind
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by fizixer 11y ago
If you believe getting old, and sick, and miserable, and then dying, is good or natural or the way it is supposed to be, then I respectfully disagree with you [0]. [0] https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/13/an-a

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