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by fizixer 12y ago
This is a textbook example of why some economic activities cannot be based on a profit motive. There should be an international drug research agency, to which every country should contribute, and that agency should be responsible for explor
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by fizixer 12y ago
Okay I haven't read the article but I don't need to. I can tell you in pure and simple terms what midlife crisis is: It's the time when we confront, what I like to call, the reality of biology. That it's all downhill fro
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by fizixer 12y ago
More like javascript/web-developer recruiting. The page-source doesn't contain anything other than html/css/js.
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by fizixer 12y ago
Okay I've done some thinking/browsing and I've come up with an approximate way to figure out (edit: relative) Moore's law progress without relying on official transistor count by Intel: 1 - Take this Haswell image (Intel
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by fizixer 12y ago
So here's the transistor count from 2004 and 2014: - 2004: Pentium 4 on 112 mm2 die: 125M transistors [0] - 2014: Core i7 177 mm2 die: 1.4B transistors [1] let's scale the P4 count up to 177 mm2 die so we can make a better compari
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by fizixer 12y ago
Please. This is not relevant almost 12 years later! Moore's law is saturating. Benchmarks numbers are more and more a function of core-count not GHz-count. It's time to embrace the RISC-y tiny speed-demon cores (so you can have th
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by fizixer 12y ago
As a game-development/simulation enthusiast, I'm disappointed at the utter relative lack of interest in computer-generated acoustics (CGA?) compared to computer-generated imagery (CGI). I hope CGA gets attention because there is a
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by fizixer 12y ago
- You're citing a document from 2010, when IBM Watson hadn't beaten humans on Jeopardy, Google driverless car wasn't demonstrated, Boston Dynamics big-dog, atlas hadn't happened, DARPA robotics competition hadn't ha
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by fizixer 12y ago
Can someone explain? I'm a big fan of C and python and I've never used Go. My initial impressions from readings were that Go is a better C. But then I came across a Go person who was lamenting that misunderstanding and that Go is
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by fizixer 12y ago
- See also: suckless.org - An LFS build off kernel.org (the kernel) and github (the rest of userland) would be an interesting experiment.
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by fizixer 12y ago
It seems no one has mentioned the long peaks fiasco yet, which is an important part of understanding OpenGL history and the committee(s) in charge of the standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#Longs_Peak_and_Open
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by fizixer 12y ago
Interesting. I had an idea similar to the first part of your comment, in which 'reinventing-the-wheel', everytime you start to write a new program, is avoided by 'autocompleting your code' based on the vast database of o
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by fizixer 12y ago
12 days late but still: I just realized "Correlation does imply casuation a lot of the times" is a completely meaningless statement that I made (if correlation is not because of causation even some of the times then that's si
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by fizixer 12y ago
And it sure did ignite flame wars and the topic is not openly pursued anymore in scientific circles, regardless of how objective it might be. Luckily we don't have to go there. Technology is going to be the great equalizer, and might e
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by fizixer 12y ago
Thanks for this, exactly what I wanted to see. It has dragged my thinking forward by miles. I should invest time in MPS, embeddr etc.
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by fizixer 12y ago
I feel very strongly about this and have very crude ideas about what I want (e.g., expressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8283025 ). Would love to get in touch with you.
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by fizixer 12y ago
I'm not sure if the article was good or bad. But boy did it make me miss Steve Jobs. (and I don't even use Apple products).
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by fizixer 12y ago
I'm amazed at people preferring living under a lie for the rest of their lives and dying like that than finding out the truth in case it might be bitter. I would trade a supernuclear family for truth any day of the week. Slightly off t
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by fizixer 12y ago
I'm thinking along these line but for C language, and how development experience in it could be enhanced using some combination of smart-editor and llvm. I like to call it semantic C programming. Essentially the simplest use case is th
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by fizixer 12y ago
Disagree with the title. Correlation does imply casuation a lot of the times (especially for simple systems). But not always. Therefore, the caution is not to assume it apriori, but pursue further investigation to confirm or reject it. Even
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by fizixer 12y ago
In case some people are on the fence about the whole idea or have questions: The Anti-Deathist FAQ: http://carcinisation.com/2014/07/13/an-anti-deathist-f-a-q/
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by fizixer 12y ago
> To my mind, the single greatest challenge our species has faced in our brief history on this planet is how we minimize our impact on the finite resources available to us. Despite that this doesn't look the greatest challenge to my
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by fizixer 12y ago
> But in reality, I'm betting on hypervisor-based micro OSes as they way to go. We don't need another "app" format, like what Docker/libcontainer and this proposal are gravitating toward. We already have one, it&
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by fizixer 12y ago
Racket is getting pretty popular. Emacs is built on emacs-lisp. And now this is based on guile. I wonder how different these three lisps/schemes are. I feel lisp enlightenment is long overdue for me. I'm just too busy for the past
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by fizixer 12y ago
I've tried to make a very rough inference based on John Carmack's statement along the lines "at one order of magnitude improvement on today's GPU's we'll start seeing it in real things, and at two orders of mag
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by fizixer 12y ago
In case anyone has about 30-60 minutes and is interested to get a quick glimpse of how easy (I guess meaning free and accessible at the least) it has become to do such graphics: - Download and install Blender 2.71 ( http://blender
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by fizixer 12y ago
Question: Does anyone have updated information about Hinton's 'trillion parameter network' progress ( http://deeplearning.net/2013/05/20/g-hinton-wants-to-train-n... ) from almost a year and a ha