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by fizixer 6y ago
What about service? [0] (related: to serve, to be a servant) (In case you don't see the Google box: Old English (denoting religious devotion or a form of liturgy), from Old French servise or Latin servitium ‘slavery’, from servus ‘slav
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by fizixer 6y ago
I'm starting to understand why HMTI, and OCaml/Haskell et. al., struggle from such obscurity despite its fanboys swearing by it. The problem is that it's a crap technology in both easy mode and hard mode. - easy mode: beginne
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by fizixer 6y ago
Is there a name for these kinds of articles? Serious matters of importance wrapped into Harry-Potteresque story lines Should we call such articles Harry-Potter journalism? There's also related style of articles, very popular in NYTimes
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by fizixer 6y ago
I have this idea where I can work my neck off for 4-6 months (including weekends; essentially eat, sleep, restroom, and work 24x7). And then I need the rest of the year off. I'm not sure how to find this kind of work. Some have advised
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by fizixer 6y ago
In addition, I've realized a big blind-spot in these holy wars is the 'familiarity' aspect: - Users of one platform have gotten used to it, have gotten over, or adapted to some of the pain points, and/or have developed e
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by fizixer 6y ago
Oh I'm creating an even better, faster issue tracker. I'm naming it 'deep learning'.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Am I the only one who is super-annoyed at having to figure out everytime if this is Ampere the company or Ampere the new nVidia line? I mean it's probably not the fault of either, and a huge coincidence we're getting a flurry of n
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by fizixer 6y ago
Sturgeon's law.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Fantastic. When can we install the 1TiB video player/codec/plugin, that'll allow us to stream 4K movies on a 1Mbps connection?
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... PhD prepares you for a life of research ... So you're saying the purpose of getting a PhD is to be an eternal post-doc, or work in a national lab? Because the moment you become a faculty, you stop doing exactly what you were
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by fizixer 6y ago
As an outsider, is this for a 6-month very early angel investing, and is a total offering (meaning that's all you get for 6-months for your startup?) edit: Also I have no idea what a 'post-money safe' is.
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by fizixer 6y ago
At what age would you like to have: - Alzheimer's? - Cancer? - Arthritis?
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by fizixer 6y ago
I moved to a new apartment and noticed my roommates would turn the main floor into a freezer (I live on second floor). I noticed thermostat levels as low as 50 F. A few days later the HVAC stopped working and what do we know, it's beca
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by fizixer 6y ago
Need a comprehensive, up-to-date, yet brief, status of what happened to Perl 6 and where it stands in today's s/w tech.
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by fizixer 6y ago
I see what Sutton said as a "statistical learning and artificial intelligence" researcher in line with what the authors of the physics paper presented as "an application of learning research to computational science and engin
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by fizixer 6y ago
They're not the opposite, and both are correct. Sutton is saying 'over a slightly longer time'. You can wait 20 more years and super-duper-deep-NN-on-steroids, and hardware a million times as big and powerful, would rediscove
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... 'In Five Years' So what does Intel want us to do today, make a circle around a bonfire and sing praises?
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by fizixer 6y ago
Moore's law is dead. First, Intel and the semiconductor consortium started the garbage definition of a technology node about 10 years ago, when pitch levels stopped following Moore's law. Now TSMC and all Intel competitors straigh
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by fizixer 6y ago
https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2017/06/13.htm
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by fizixer 6y ago
A combination of: - sources available freely online - my own thought process and piecing of things together
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by fizixer 6y ago
Oh then you're not going to like what I'm going to say next: - Somewhere between 2015 and 2025, multiple individual groups will have cracked the AGI problem independently. (but 2015 is in the past, which means there are likely gro
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by fizixer 6y ago
As I have said countless times in the past: - Moore's law is dead at the level of the transistor - Architecture, HPC updates will keep coming for many years into the future - AGI has already escaped Moore's law (i.e., development
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by fizixer 6y ago
> Does computing make the world better? - Define computing - Define make - Define world - Define better
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by fizixer 6y ago
In a related story: Koko-the-Economist-Gorilla flings poo at Human-the-technologist and asks "If you so smart how come I can fling at you the mess I created?"
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by fizixer 6y ago
Should we remove slavery from the history books? It's very offensive. Just asking questions.
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... 1m of road costs about 10000 euro ... Too little information. If 1m is length, what is the width? where is the road located? If it's a two-way superwide highway in the middle of a big city, sandwiched between a similarly sized
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by fizixer 6y ago
That's exactly the right way to do it and I've been advocating for this, as well as maximum use of parsing/tranformation/codegen technology (essentially compiler tech) for development productivity, long before LSP was a
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by fizixer 6y ago
As someone not up-to-date with literature, are one-pixel/few-pixels/small-delta attack issues resolved yet?
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by fizixer 6y ago
Procrastination is a symptom and stuff like pomodoro is the band-aid.
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by fizixer 6y ago
- "linear" in "linear algebra" comes from "system of linear equations" - NN can absolutely represent non-linear functions, and they are based on solving system of linear equations. - The non-linear function her

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