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by j1vms 10y ago
The transformation to GPU-ready would not be as trivial and effectively redundant as pruning the data of course. It would be produce a secondary data structure, like an index on a column, though in this case of course destined to be proces
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For some reason I am surprised that anyone would want to ship the data whole and as is, to the GPU. Wouldn't it make more sense to use a representative, transformed "GPU-ready" data set, both much smaller in size & desig
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Though I'm probably wrong, it'd be nice to consider the key phrase in that sentence is "...before (they) seriously considered the technology". While automakers and others have been testing the technology for years, Goog
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Actually, two ants have escaped the pit by climbing out. One was only but a child ant. The other, much later, had its back broken before being thrown into the pit. That ant eventually healed and it too amassed the willpower to climb out.
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Another important thing to note is that the story of the first microprocessors is one that was largely galvanized and thus dominated by US military investment in the 60s. This bankrolled research in those days, getting ICs out of small-&#x
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On the contrary, I always find it refreshing to see companies use each others existing tech - particularly, when they don't have anything new/worthwhile to offer end-users (in this case, a dev audience) other than introducing an u
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> the methods of analyzing such topics are incredibly, mind-achingly rigorous. > philosophy, at its core, involves highly critical thinking. > Ned Hall, a professor and philosophy department chair at Harvard University (...) descri
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by j1vms 10y ago
Less click-baiting title could be: Does Bill Nye's comments about philosophy show his ignorance on the subject?
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SIMT: parallelism in NVIDIA GPUs (2011)(yosefk.com)
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> At 25, I grew up in one of the last unadulterated times to be young in our history. (...) I wonder how long until true childhood adventure is lost for good Perhaps whenever something is lost, something else has been gained. And this
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To be fair, the HN discussion was mostly focused on the lack of substantial details or an actual research paper to back up that claim. Google would probably need to show that only DeepMind, or an equivalent device, would have been presentl
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by j1vms 10y ago
Some choice excerpts from Williamson's wikipedia entry [0], and that of Raw Power (The Stooges' Bowie-produced third LP in 1973) [1]: - Immediately following his graduation from Cal Poly Pomona, Williamson moved to Silicon Valle
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James Williamson: Stooges guitarist and IEEE/ANSI-awarded engineer (2015)(ansi.org)
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> Example: every bridge in Europe is 'pre-prepared' for demolition (..) the plans are already done. A combat engineer need only draw the plan for the database and execute one of the options. You would think. But in reality, th
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And on a related note, "better than humans", "comparable to human intelligence", and phrases like these since the early days of AI have always been a red herring. Not the least because these phrases do not imply what we
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by j1vms 10y ago
ARM's IP (intellectual property) consists of designs (that is, layouts) of ARM CPUs, SoCs, etc. It would very likely not include semiconductor manufacturing processes to achieve a final implementation of said design, though I may be
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by j1vms 10y ago
Fascinating. Still reading through and processing this paper. "Mathematicians are those humans who advance human understanding of mathematics." I would submit that there are mathematicians (great ones indeed) who did not seek to
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by j1vms 10y ago
All reasonable responses in this thread to GP, but parent hits the nail on the head. For non-hobbyist problems where you really need a microcontroller, it is selected by spec (in terms of performance, operational predictability, physical&#x
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by j1vms 10y ago
I don't mind the downvotes, but more interested to know why if anyone cares to comment? I should have specified that by desktop/mobile, I do mean desktop/laptop essentially (and, not smartphone CPUs). And, I am talking abou
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> Seems like they are being optimized to be better at vector math, and games just happen to highly use these pieces of HW. It may in fact be that desktop/mobile CPUs are being optimized for their contemporary benchmark suites, thus
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I'd say Google at least wants self driving car legislation, and could later go as far as saying they might need it too. (...where "might need" > want >>> like). The company has very closely aligned its image
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I am of the mindset that risk profile is entirely a subjective concept when it comes to what actual living people do in the real world. What a person knows about their situation or for that matter, someone else's, is the only real fac
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by j1vms 10y ago
Reading through the comment tree, I'd say general consensus is that, in the case of a long distance underwater cable, link encryption is technically feasible. However, while technically feasible (so as to protect metadata, who's t
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by j1vms 10y ago
The best part of this is that buddy spent first 15 seconds of the video explaining the system improvements they made before getting to what was essentially "by the way we had 70% unrecoverable data loss". haha!
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Realtime GPU Audio (2013)(queue.acm.org)
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Which is amusing if you consider that a very long-distance, underwater cable which would be difficult to physically monitor (e.g. with cameras), would make a perfect use case for link encryption (at just above the physical layer). I do not
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by j1vms 10y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, the article is indeed dated Oct. 2015. See the URL and/or do a search in Google News.
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Which, as I understand it, means that in 2015, Intel was probably at least two orders of magnitude more profitable than ARM Holdings. GP could still be right about margins, but as a shareholder, Intel would bave been much more preferable
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To go a bit further, everything as one perceives it is necessarily in one's mind (or nervous system, to be precise). One consciously or unconsciously determines that something is happening outside of their mind, which makes that det
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by j1vms 10y ago
Excellent book. The chapter on cardinality gives a well-written, clear treatment of this important concept (e.g. # of elements in countably vs. uncountably infinite sets).

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