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PageCloud (2015)(pagecloud.com)
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Just be sure to love the shit out of most of what you do, otherwise what you're doing just isn't sustainable for you. There are only a very, very few exceptions to this. Edit: also, it's almost never good on you, to blame ot
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Ask HN: For what kinds of workloads are HNers using machine learning?
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With a lot of human culture revolving around eating meals communally, including as family, or to facilitate diplomacy or business relations and as official decorum itself, and this indeed for millenia I suppose, it wouldn't be a stretc
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If Ethereum or something like it were to succeed, it would end up taking the form of low-level plumbing for financial products or other stuff which will simply say: "built on the Ethereum trustless/blockchain system". And as
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The article confirms that "AlphaGo was powered by TPUs in the matches against Go world champion, Lee Sedol, enabling it to "think" much faster and look farther ahead between moves."
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I wouldn't be surprised if Google is looking to build (or done so already) a highly dense and parallel analog computer with limited precision ADC/DACs. I mean that's simplifying things quite a bit, but it would probably map
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360° video interview at the parent link (also works with mobile phone VR headsets - though didn't try it) is surprisingly pleasant, effective and amusing too. For example, when they are in the car, it's nice to be able to look el
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Like I said "to be determined" is what I understand, however they appear initially to be employing a real-world company avatar: DAO.Link, based in Switzerland. [0] [0] http://www.coindesk.com/the-dao-just-raised-50
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I think the key thing to emphasize as well is that "The DAO" is just a program which now has clearly defined rules for managing its assets in the form of cryptocurrency. When it interacts with the real world, it will do so by tra
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One of the many interesting things about this project is that it's a reminder how people often take for granted the miniaturization of these things (the micro- part in microprocessor). Had we not got the realized size down into the su
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Agreed, would seem to make sense too, however it would increase power consumption and heat, so might "age" the whole circuit a bit faster than keeping the voltage (and thus clock speed) down. Mind you, he could just pop in replac
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Had to look that up again to be sure - no, instead what I'm suggesting is the number of possible states of neurons is infinite, and not countably infinite (implied by a cardinality of aleph-null). I suggest the number of possible state
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Tesla is really great, but there exists a "take" on Edison that makes him also not so bad. Here, listen to Linus talk about him a bit: https://youtu.be/o8NPllzkFhE?t=17m24s Linus: "I'm more of an Ediso
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"This rule implies that 2, 17, and the number of possible human life experiences are all equally distant from infinity." [0] Thanks for the link. I do have trouble with the above statement, and what follows it, as I would think t
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My apologies - important revision to the above comment: This famous M.S. thesis was submitted by Shannon at MIT in August 1937, not at the University of Michigan as per the parent comment. Shannon had completed dual bachelor's degrees
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But is it a development in the crypto field, requiring someone super talented in crypto? From my understanding (though no deeper than what's in the Bitcoin whitepaper), the central new idea (and it is indeed a significant contribution
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What about: Condition G: Wright is not Satoshi, does/does not know who the real Satoshi is, but is trying to motivate/encourage/force Satoshi (for reasons unknown) to come forward by Wright making the strongest claim (not at
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I'm not so sure the bitcoin required a cryptography genius. I would say it has more to do with the elegant way of dealing with the Byzantine Generals problem, applied to evolving a distributed ledger from purely untrusted parties. I w
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Interesting read. Here's a link to "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits", Claude Shannon's M.S. 1937 thesis at UMich: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 This thesis paper
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> Problem with monopolies is that they lag behind on innovation. With an arguable rare exception being AT&T from the early 20th century up until about ~1980 perhaps, nurturing within it the renowed Bell Labs and its predecessor(s).
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Here's another great one - and ballpark calculations point to it being likely true: "..the number of atoms in a grapefruit is about equal to the number of blueberries you would need to fill up the entire sphere of planet Earth.&qu
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> sending badly-timed signals to the specific part of the asic I would imagine that sort of thing would be very expensive to do correctly, unless you are only talking about feeding badly-timed signals at the asic pins.
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For all the good SpaceX is doing (and it is great indeed), has Musk taken steps to prevent his company from turning into essentially the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in say 50 or 100 years from now? A question made partly in jest of course.
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Can someone here comment on why creating & maintaining a solid local desktop email client is such a costly, moving target, such that it has required an organization the size of Mozilla to pursue it and get it "nearly" right?
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This story is short, sweet and presented very nicely with the picture and diagrams. Thanks for posting it for us. > We should first awake the curiosity and teach just enough to help them solve a simple problem. You should consider submi
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As indicated in the paper, patches (currently for kernel 4.1) are here: https://github.com/jplozi/wastedcores
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Thanks for the response, I asked it out of genuine interest in how we discover new ideas, sometimes ignore or are unable to see their importance, adopt them and then share them. Even forget those ideas and perhaps have to re-discover them
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Do you remember what aspects of Calculus didn't click for you at first, that is when it was presented to you initially as pure mathematics? For example, was it the "idea" of a limit, or just not knowing at first why anyone (
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I agree. Last time I looked at why they were designing it be Chrome-only, it appeared to be due to a reliance on Google Cloud Messaging (GCM, [1]). This could be due to one or both of the following factors: a) they wanted to re-use as eas

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