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by gok 6y ago
The California Franchise Tax Board actually spends a lot resources catching people who spend too much time in state and don't claim to live there. It's actually surprisingly hard for would-be tax dodgers to pull off, and the pena
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by gok 6y ago
I'm sure this will be as disruptive to semiconductors as Quaero was to search engines and Cloudwatt was to cloud computing.
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by gok 6y ago
Extremely cool. Reference counting with cycle collection might be an idea whose time has finally come.
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by gok 6y ago
Squeezing 100 people into this thing for a multi-month journey continues to give me pause. It has smaller internal volume than the ISS, which has never had more than 9 people, and it was considered uncomfortably crowded when that happened.
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by gok 6y ago
Whom are you paying that much?
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by gok 6y ago
…by 2050, when it's already expected that their reserves will be exhausted. Oh, and this excludes Greenland, which is still expanding production.
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by gok 6y ago
She wasn't fired over the paper. She was fired because she demanded Google name the employees who gave (anonymous) negative feedback about the paper, and that anyone going forward who gave feedback on her work also be named, or she&#x2
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by gok 6y ago
Both
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by gok 6y ago
Few Americans know that sunlight is a carcinogen. Big Outdoors wants to keep it that way.
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by gok 6y ago
OTOH, we don't really have evidence to show that memory safety is effective in kernels/drivers because no memory safe language has ever been deployed at scale for that purpose.
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AWS Trainium(aws.amazon.com)
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by gok 6y ago
I suspect they never shipped the x86 version because it wasn't competitive. Nvidia's CPUs couldn't keep up with contemporary Arm Cortex parts (probably a good part of the reason they bought them), let alone Intel and AMD stuf
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Uber and Lyft just scored a federal transportation contract(theverge.com)
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Memory Bandwidth in Apple’s M1(starcoder.com)
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by gok 6y ago
Note that the current calculation is also what's used almost everywhere else in the developed world; the US figure was changed to be more comparable to other countries in the 2000s.
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In 1942, a Navy crew vanished from a war blimp over San Francisco(warisboring.com)
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by gok 6y ago
Pretty sure if it’s done ahead of time we can’t really call it “JIT” can we? :)
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Charter-school networks are outperforming traditional public schools(economist.com)
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by gok 6y ago
I mean software-wise?
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by gok 6y ago
It uses Metal, so the AMD GPUs like the ones in the shipping Mac Pro work.
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Vega rocket fails for the second time during launch in the last two years(theverge.com)
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by gok 6y ago
What do you use for AI learning?
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M1 Memory and Performance(blog.metaobject.com)
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by gok 6y ago
Is there a reason R can't use the BLAS/LAPACK implementation that comes with macOS in the Accelerate framework?
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Large-scale multilingual audio visual dubbing(arxiv.org)
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A new skimmer uses WebSockets and a fake credit card form(blogs.akamai.com)
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iPhone 12 Pro Max Preview(blog.halide.cam)
2 points by gok 6y ago|1 comments
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by gok 6y ago
Ugh Vice... I love that they use the image of people celebrating the presidential election to imply that people are dancing in the streets because of some vague ballot initiative about "ensuring access to broadband internet".
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by gok 6y ago
Some de-stemming would make these work a lot better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
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by gok 6y ago
This is more generally the concept of Orthographic depth [1] A recent study attempted to categorize languages and found English and French to be among the most opaque, Finnish and Korean to be the most transparent, and German in the middle.

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