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by hacker_9 9y ago
What an incredibly pointless edit.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
VSC streamlines the data it needs to load, doing the least amount possible in hot paths as far as I know. They also multi-thread on startup so it is perceived as being quicker to boot up.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Yes. The difficulty is that the more joints there are, the more possible solutions there can be.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Unreal and Unity ship with their own default PBR shaders and settings. So if the developer doesn't modify them, the lighting can make games look similar. Unreal's lighting reflections is generally considered very good though.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Ctrl+F for the word 'fix' highlights 540 locations. Great they take the time to fix reported errors, but I wonder what their testing strategy is in the first place that led to this many problems being in the official release.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I agree and I think the whole self driving push should be incremental anyway: 1. To begin with it is only used on motorways/highways as they are long straight roads, where the AI can take over the boring part and the driver can be left
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I knew nothing of ARKit until a few days ago when it started popping up on my twitter feed like mad. I have to say the tech literally sells itself because of the eye candy [1]. It finally feels like we are living in the future. [1] https:&
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The concurrent GC in the latest .Net still requires pausing (though the time is less), because the heap still requires compacting, and no code can run while that operation happens. Invoking the GC constantly on a frame by frame basis can qu
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Pros: 1. The GC provides a huge time-saving net over a ton of possible memory errors. Not to mention the code is so much easier to read when you aren't having to deal with memory on every line. 2. The debugging experience is brilliant
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by hacker_9 9y ago
> and expected of functional languages Clojure uses dynamic typing, yet it is still considered a functional language. I agree though that the combination of features results in a better experience when using functional primitives, but no
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Wiki sums up the term well enough: "In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm — a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs — that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematica
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Technically it's still the programmer who made all the decisions, at least with the current state of NNs. True decision making is philosophically up there with the 'what is consciousness' problem. When the blame game is playe
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by hacker_9 9y ago
You talk like the project is over, there is still a lot to learn and we aren't going to figure out everything immediately. A simulation provides an amazing test bed for ideas though; now you can see it working, you can pause it, change
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Birds only have to carry themselves though, so it's an unfair comparison.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
They allowed the connectome to control a lego robot [1] and it showed some signs of working around obstacles (robot backs up when it encounters a wall). Sounds simple, but now we can say that only 300 neurons are needed to be able to react
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Hey we fully mapped a worm's ~300 neurons [1], now we just need to keep scaling up until we get to the billions that the human brain is made up of. [1] http://www.openworm.org/
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Quite a good write up I thought, especially interesting about the OpenWorm project and their successfully funded Kickstarter [1] [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-dig...
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Microsoft owns 90% of the market, there is simply more people to complain.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Imagination doesn't seem learnt to me. Instead learning new concepts adds to the toolbox so to speak.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I agree, and there has already been one fatality from when a Tesla system failed to classify a lorry that was in the way. What we have is really a great advancement of mimicking the sensory organs (eyes, ears), but we still haven't fig
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Can't tell if this piece is genuine or not; ads taking up most of the space on the screen to the left and right; ads every 5 paragraphs; a video ad; constant moving of the article text as ads load.. ads popping in and out as I scroll..
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by hacker_9 9y ago
That's the kind of HQ video that gets you that sort of funding.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Is that TDD? Looks like automated tests run after each commit.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Used this the other day! Had to track down a visual bug that was introduced in the last 20 commits, but with binary search I could narrow down on the problem a commit at a time and so only had to look at 4 in total.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The Steam Hardware Stats [1] also show the following abysmal market share: Windows 96.24% OSX 2.95% Linux 0.72% If you aren't Windows in the PC gaming space, you really don't have a leg to stand on when
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by hacker_9 9y ago
My build process.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
> OpenGL has less friction here I've never thought this, in fact I find the OpenGL API makes things harder to understand because of it's basically massive hidden state machine that it has going on. For beginners I agree to reco
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Sound definitely adds a lot to the viewing experience. Take this awesome biomechanical whale for instance that someone showed me the other day: > https://sketchfab.com/models/daaaf76c7d9e45618b5da7bf8f08e03...
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by hacker_9 9y ago
> it seems fairly polished from the video Reminder: This is a Microsoft marketing video, they are never like the actual product. See Kinect and Hololens teasers for more.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Indeed, the hype train is always miles ahead of reality.

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