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by frankchn 7y ago
Could that lead be maintained? It was a big jump from a BlackBerry to an original iPhone, but is there one from a Pixel 3 to an iPhone XS?
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by frankchn 8y ago
You wrote “The point is with a managed service, none of your problems will be with the service.” What deathanatos wrote sounds awfully like problems with the service to me. I don’t think S3 taking 100+ seconds to respond to a GET request ca
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by frankchn 8y ago
The pace has slowed down somewhat. A 2080 (discounting the DLSS and RTX stuff) is about as fast as a 1080Ti, a 2070 is about as fast as a plain 1080, etc...
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by frankchn 8y ago
Preliminary eyewitness reports are often fairly unreliable, so I won't put much weight into those. In any case, flames and vibrations can be explained by the engines experiencing a compressor stall [1] due to turbulent airflow or the a
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by frankchn 8y ago
As another example, here is the long list of blacklisted drivers and cards in Chrome: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/gpu/config/software_ren...
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by frankchn 8y ago
The authors trained ResNet-50 in 7.3 minutes at 75.3% accuracy. As a comparison, a Google TPUv3 pod with 1024 chips got to 75.2% accuracy with ResNet-50 in 1.8 minutes, and 76.2% accuracy in 2.2 minutes with an optimizer change and distribu
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by frankchn 8y ago
... but power requirements would put a limit to that as well. The RTX 2080 Ti already has a 250W TDP. Putting a couple of those on a single card and you are looking at >1000 W. Cooling and power becomes very hard as we are effectively tr
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by frankchn 8y ago
Ah of course. I assume that is done pre-ADC though, so it is part of the analog circuitry on-board the sensor?
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by frankchn 8y ago
The difference is about 1.1 mph (edit: out of 800 mph) at 30,000 ft compared to ground, so I don't think it matters too much.
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by frankchn 8y ago
> Which big pocket tech companies could do :) Yeah, unfortunately I don't think big tech is that interested. Unless it is a strategic move, even at $1b/year in profit, it is not worth Tim Cook's time to do this ($1b/y
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by frankchn 8y ago
> 100% agreed. But if instead of “shit, I missed this shot” I could have 3 taken before I even pressed the shutter, and one of them is perfect, I'd take it in a blink. Besides all the pie in the sky stuff that I imagine could be don
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by frankchn 8y ago
Do you know what is being done to the data between coming off the sensor and being saved to a RAW file? My impression is that other than dead/hot pixel mapping and some degree of noise reduction, not much else is done (at least in Cano
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by frankchn 8y ago
> What they already do in smartphones, but better. Almost guarantee you’ll never miss a shot (no blinks, blur, bad exposure), better signal processing, etc OK, but that seems to be turning the camera into a point-and-shoot and I am not s
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by frankchn 8y ago
> Better signal processing, amplification, read noise and probably lot more that I can’t even imagine. Yeah, I get that, but I don't think there is an improvement here by sticking a modern smartphone CPU and OS into a camera. Making
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by frankchn 8y ago
Sure, but that is mainly noise reduction and some dead/hot pixel mapping isn't it, and some manufacturers (Sony) do more of that than others (Canon/Nikon). Demosaicing, histogram adjustments, and the final render to JPEG is s
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by frankchn 8y ago
What do you want the fast processor and powerful software to do, though? For instance, I can't imagine trying to cram the Lightroom UI into a 4" screen on the back of my camera is a good experience, especially when I have a 30&quo
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by frankchn 8y ago
> I can operate my Nikons blind folded and single handed. What's the issue, then? The Nikon shooting interface obviously works well for you, and I think that is far more important and used than changing daylight savings settings. &g
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by frankchn 8y ago
> What could the state of the art in demosaic, noise, latitude, color accuracy be with that kind of speed and tools? Do you shoot JPEGs exclusively? I shoot RAW, so the only thing I care about post image capture is being able to preview
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by frankchn 8y ago
> I'm imagining a processor like the one on the iPhone/iPad Pro acting on all those pixels. And a true software platform running on top of it. I think a lot of professionals and prosumers who are still buying interchangeable le
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by frankchn 8y ago
That’s slow in DSLR land. The 1DX Mark II (admittedly a very expensive pro camera) goes from physically switched off to first shot in 0.8 seconds, and from standby to image capture with full autofocus in 0.085 seconds: https://ww
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by frankchn 8y ago
The mass market casual camera today is a smartphone, which comes with what you describe. Canon, Nikon, and others have long decided they can’t and won’t compete with smartphone makers and are increasingly moving up-market to the prosumer an
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by frankchn 8y ago
That, and (more commonly) CAs mis-issuing certificates to malicious actors due to bugs or weak internal controls.
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by frankchn 8y ago
In this case they would just be playing individual notes and scales, so would it be as important?
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by frankchn 8y ago
Yeah, I feel like an acoustic anechoic chamber is a better place for this.
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by frankchn 8y ago
I assume it is similar (but higher quality) to the LCDs in car instrument panels. Very bright, and angled such that sunlight rarely hits them.
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by frankchn 8y ago
I am interested in seeing benchmarks regarding this. I believe this is true for models with truly huge embeddings, but otherwise if your models are even a little compute dense then GPUs are faster.
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by frankchn 8y ago
Maybe a better question to ask is whether the IBM Q System One can do anything faster/better/cheaper than existing classical computers? After all, the Colossus was able to aid in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, where exist
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by frankchn 8y ago
Further, Apple chip design probably doesn't need to respond to market pressure the same way Qualcomm does. If Snapdragons get too expensive, phone manufacturers will switch to Huawei / Samsung / MediaTek, but Apple can absorb
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by frankchn 8y ago
In my experience, like with high availability, each additional 9 requires between double to 10x the resources to achieve.
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by frankchn 8y ago
I don’t think it is the specs or even the real world performance, but rather the unease/sense of compromise you feel spending $450 for an “outdated” phone regardless of the actual user experience. On the other hand, people can spend $5

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