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901.
by gok 7y ago
It's possible they were already planning to make those sales. Executives who can potentially have inside information often need to tell the SEC far ahead of time about sales they intend to make.
902.
by gok 7y ago
That BofA had >$2B/year of IT spending is the real story here.
903.
by gok 7y ago
The problem with carbon footprintting is that it suffers from a variation of the coastline paradox. It's impossible to meaningfully determine the carbon footprint of a t-shirt, for example, because you can also find another level of ex
904.
by gok 7y ago
It gives content producers leverage with device manufacturers.
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LG Chem sees electric vehicles accounting for 15% of all car sales in 2024(reuters.com)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
906.
by gok 7y ago
A lot of machine learning (e.g. NCE) requires fast PRNG also, often running on GPUs that don't have crypto primitives like many CPUs do.
907.
by gok 7y ago
For deep learning, scientific computing, basically all other GPGPU stuff, it's all (>95%) CUDA. Vulkan is essentially unused.
908.
by gok 7y ago
On a Virgin Australia flight they had a little "bar" area which was basically just an open standing area where you could chat with other passengers...next to an open liquor cabinet. The booze was probably not great for jetlag but
909.
by gok 7y ago
The diagnostic improvements are great. Unfortunately many of these examples show how serious of a mistake it was to require explicit numeric conversions all over the place.
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Golden Rice, the Genetically Modified Superfood That Almost Saved Millions(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
911.
by gok 7y ago
> how a model feels for a user in the real world is something you can't really get by just testing against switchboard Fair but statistical systems are also extremely susceptible to placebo. I would be curious what a test set shows.
912.
by gok 7y ago
There are dozens of alternatives. However, tax prep software needs to be certified for correctness, and that's expensive and onerous. This is made harder due to the many many different tax jurisdictions in the US.
913.
by gok 7y ago
The goal of making a large, publicly available training corpus for ASR is incredibly admirable, but this approach is problematic. People speak entirely differently when reading from a script. Models trained on read speech (like LibriSpeech)
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AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
915.
by gok 7y ago
The issue isn't unions per se, it's that there's overt collusion between the unions and the government officials who are supposed to be controlling costs. The United States has the unique situation where those government offi
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by gok 7y ago
> Bar owner Chris Westerbeek described how a man had come in, ordered five beers and drunk them. "Then I had a chat with him and he revealed he had run away and needed help... " Man has got his priorities straight.
917.
by gok 7y ago
Especially annoying since this article is really a retelling of another article [1], which is itself a retelling of a forum thread [2]. [1] https://insideevs.com/news/376037/tesla-mcu-emmc-memory-issu... [2] http
918.
by gok 7y ago
> Companies that offer stock options are generally rare Missed opportunity, given that capital gains in Switzerland are tax-free. On that note, the tax rate in the bar chart is for corporate taxes, not personal taxes. Swiss taxes are low
919.
by gok 7y ago
Traditional auto manufacturers are mostly approaching EVs the same way old mobile phone makers approached smartphones. They remain convinced that ICE cars (dumbphones) and hybrids (featurephones) will remain relevant indefinitely, even when
920.
by gok 7y ago
That hardware has software that works on modern Linux kernels?
921.
by gok 7y ago
Certain method calls (retain, release...) get compiled to special C functions that bypass obj_msgSend if the receiver has the default implementation.
922.
by gok 7y ago
Generally impractical for real-world ObjC, which has around 100,000 method names. Apple ObjC used to have a simplified version of this which used a vtable for the most frequent 16 selectors. It wasn't considered profitable after suffic
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Google San Jose HQ Plans Expanded(cnbc.com)
13 points by gok 7y ago|1 comments
924.
Generalizing the inverse FFT off the unit circle(nature.com)
3 points by gok 7y ago|1 comments
925.
by gok 7y ago
The math in this article is much more correct than Leonhardt’s but they're both kind of missing the real issue. Yes, income taxes are very progressive, but that's going to need to change if we want to raise a meaningful amount of
926.
by gok 7y ago
There's no confusion about what most mainlanders think about the protesters. Most protests in the US are also unpopular. The confusion is why the party is so insecure about their position that they need to lash out in seemingly childis
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A 14-Year-Old Designer Became Part of Apple's Splashy New Gaming Service(vice.com)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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PyPy's New JSON Parser(morepypy.blogspot.com)
192 points by gok 7y ago|58 comments
929.
by gok 7y ago
On 32 cores? Doesn't seem like particularly great scaling.
930.
by gok 7y ago
The claim is that the thing you invested in doesn't magically double in value. It goes up in value because of other post-tax economic activity. If you went to a roulette table at a casino, put $5K on black and it hit, you'd owe ta

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