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by hughperkins 10y ago
Wow, nervana, and now movidius. Intel are eating a lot of non nvidia machine learning hardware. Theyre also really into opencl, half the talks at this years international workshop on opencl were from intel http://www.iwocl.org&#x
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by hughperkins 10y ago
in england, ten cops would pin you down. same in china. which country are you thinking of that youd somehow end up dead by resisting arrest?
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by hughperkins 10y ago
its possible to be experienced and not say no you know? the opposite is also true... the trick really is not saying yes or no, but understanding what your boss really wants, and offering a realistic way forward to achieve that.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
this is really old, and intel sponsored. so intel research states that gpus are 2.5 times faster, nvidia says two orders of magnitude faster. presumably the truth is somewhere in between. in any case, it depends on the problem you are tryin
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by hughperkins 10y ago
have you actually tried writing highly optimizer cuda? its really hard . nothing is "for free". a lot of the caching (not all) has to be hand coded. you can see how much attention to detail scott gray puts into his kernels eg
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by hughperkins 10y ago
1. arrange a 1:1 skype call with anyone and everyone on the team who might be either interested in what you are creating or to whom you might be able to contribute something useful. 2. try to find someone who clearly understands the needs o
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by hughperkins 10y ago
its possible to use force without killing someone you know.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
i thought solar cells are dirt cheap, because China can produce them at very low cost?
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by hughperkins 10y ago
its actually harder to read, in my opinion, since the % character is often used for formatting,eg '%s' % somevar. personally, i dislike such spammy prs. it adds nothing to my code, and its not like accepting the pr is going to att
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by hughperkins 10y ago
on a related note, i went into a brick and mortar shop to buy earphones the other day. turns out they wont let you try them, for various reasons. in the end, i looked on the internet for reviews, and bought some headphones on amazon instead
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by hughperkins 10y ago
its probably fair to say that both can be used: cellphones for indoor and outdoor tracking, airborne video for outdoor tracking.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
seen this? https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09304 awesome generated images, from imagenet
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by hughperkins 10y ago
thats ok, we got rid of all our competiton now :P now, every british person has to buy our goods! we are saved! :D :P
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by hughperkins 10y ago
i guess the data presented might not say not having a cofounder is better; but they perhaps at least show that its not obligatory. i reckon not having a co founder might be quite lonely though.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
i guess if we are hacking wifi, we probably know approximately which continent they are in. but even if they are typing say pinyin, theres a spacebar between each word, and three characters per word, seems like an obvious heuristic?
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by hughperkins 10y ago
i imagine people tap things like "the" quite regularly. its a simple transposition cypher.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
yeah, calling it less may have been fun at the time, but its poor ui design. if you call a method 'add_one', having it multiply by three might be what you intend, but its not very intuitive.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Chemistry is pretty fudgy, dirty, hazy; and your dna doesnt have ECC.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Im not sure i understand why this is a big deal. As the guy said, it was designed to send a message. As far as drugs, youd have to be insane to do drugs in china. The laws on drugs are really harsh. As for the reason, presumably the organiz
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by hughperkins 10y ago
They are. Not sure that changes my point much? The user database/registration are entirely separate. There is no lockin being circumvented by virtue of both being tencent.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Well, there's an opportunity. Five years ago, everyone in China used to use qq, which is kind of like Chinese Facebook: everything public. Then wechat came out, and now I never use qq any more, I mean, noone does.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
It's not as good as Chinese wechat though, because it's really spammy: you click on like, everyone can see. On wechat you only see photos, likes, comments, from your direct friends. It is much more private. Once you've tried
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by hughperkins 10y ago
To be fair, when I was a kid, we didn't have internet. We only had library, and computer journals, the paper kind. Nowadays, for research papers, read arxiv. For news read hackernews. For learning stuff, Google, stack overflow. Ficti
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by hughperkins 10y ago
I dont know about "substantial" but ultra-violet does technically cause damage. You can see this in posters left in particularly sunny shop windows for extended periods of time.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Not really. No more than Counter Strike let people decide for themselves how many points they deserve... In our freetime, we play games in systems that decide our worth for us. I see no reason why work should be any different. In a mana
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by hughperkins 10y ago
The problem is that, unlike exams and stuff, where lots of effort went into studying how long each question should take a 'typical' person, in actual work, the problem hasn't actually been solved before, at least not by the c
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Every so often I see something insightful, and surprising, and this is one of them :)
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by hughperkins 10y ago
In practice, a lot of library developers/maintainers read this list, or know someone who does.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Well, recently we are creating machines to build crank turning machines.
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by hughperkins 10y ago
Not really. Computers let us create any virtual environment we want, fulfill all of our fantasies. so what do we use it for? Play cs: simulate approximately tribal warfare, and hunting for food. Genetically this is what millions of years of

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