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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's obviously possible to find niche cases where the standard containers are not good enough. But the remaining 9999 cases out of 10000 are more interesting. I also had one of those, in an application that created and deleted a large
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I've been using std::vector with arrays that take up to tens of gigabytes for ~15 years without any real issues. Once the size of the allocation exceeds a few megabytes, any reasonable allocator is going to use an anonymous memory map
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Most Oxford Nanopore basecallers use DL these days. And if you want a high quality de novo assembly, DL based methods are often used for error correction and final polishing. There are a lot of differences between the cutting-edge methods t
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I used to think like that. Then C++11 arrived, and I realized I could get effectively the same performance with containers and move semantics, while spending less effort on writing and debugging the code. If you need an array for your custo
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Non-trivial data structures are often just a bunch of arrays/maps with additional semantics. You may consider implementing/using unchecked versions of basic operations for a little bit of additional performance. If you implement (
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by jltsiren 2y ago
There is a lot of variation in how PhD studies work. In some places, you are just a faceless candidate applying to a department, which discourages you from contacting the faculty before you are admitted. In other places, you must convince a
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by jltsiren 2y ago
> It also proved that deep learning models are a valid approach to bioinformatics A lot of bioinformatics tools using deep learning appeared around 2017-2018. But rather than being big breakthroughs like AlphaFold, most of them were just
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Maybe "Senior Research Scientist" sounds more respectable among the intended audience. A research scientist is usually an independent researcher rather than someone working in another person's team, while "senior" i
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Humans have a place in high-end weapon systems until there is a locally running AGI in the system. An actual near-peer war never works the way people expected, and fancy new weapon systems tend to underperform initially. In the absence of a
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The name of the country seems to be the equivalent of either "United States" or "United States of America" in pretty much every language I can read. "America" is an informal name people usually understand, much
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And in some countries, mobile data is cheap and available almost everywhere. Many people don't connect their phones to a WiFi in their daily life. Which may then become a huge security issue, as the phone may not download software upda
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The actual recommendation is Core i7-14700F or Ryzen 9 5950X. At least I understand it means the expected multicore performance rather than core count. Also, I don't think gaming-optimized CPUs are that important. As far as I know, it&
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It had depth, but no tactical combat. A stack is an operational unit. Tactics deals with what the individual units within the stack do once the fighting starts. Civ 7 is supposed to introduce commanders, which are effectively stacks for mov
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by jltsiren 2y ago
1UPT added tactical combat to the game. Before Civ 5, the lowest level of warfare was operational. If you got your units close to the enemy, they were in position to fight. You didn't have to worry much about battlefield formations, te
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by jltsiren 2y ago
And around 10% of the market has a GPU that meets the same tier of requirements for Civ 7. The people who buy a high-end GPU often also buy a high-end CPU, because it's possible.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Making decisions is easier in a small country, but beyond that, most things are easier in a large country. You benefit from economies of scale, you have access to things that are not yet generally available, and the people responsible for i
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by jltsiren 2y ago
What do you think about the tax deductibility of charitable donations then? To me, it seems to be the worst of both worlds. You are still using tax money to fund some activity, but instead of having public control with checks and balances,
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by jltsiren 2y ago
This is not an either-or question. Let the public decide, and you get popular art. Let the rich people decide, and you get whatever art the elites value. And also have some public funding, and you get the kind of art experts and some politi
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That is a very short list of particularly notable lost items. European museums had hundreds of millions of items in their collections, and many of them were lost. The number of documented pieces of art and artifacts lost in WW2 is in millio
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by jltsiren 2y ago
And in some cases, the items were lost because they were put in museums. Europe was not exactly a stable place in the 20th century. Many things were destroyed in the wars, and many items were stolen from museums by conquerors, individual so
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I kind of prefer that the entity that sells a consumer something is responsible for the good or service. If I book an Uber, I buy the service from Uber. If I order something from Amazon, I buy it from Amazon. There may be subcontractors and
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Institutions, as legal entities, are created by government regulations. In the absence of such regulations, all organizations would be based on voluntary contracts between private individuals. And the people forming the organization, regard
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The US target in the Kyoto Protocol was a 7% reduction from the 1990 baseline in 2008-2012. That target has still not been reached, because the emissions continued growing until the mid-2000s.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
There is another term for moving the goalposts: ruling out a hypothesis. Science is, especially in the Popperian sense, all about moving the goalposts. One plausible hypothesis is that fixed neural networks cannot be general intelligences,
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by jltsiren 2y ago
A weighted average can be very different from the unweighted average. In our current society, children can benefit from the wealth and social connections of their parents. That gives the needs of some people additional weight in the market
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That argument would require regular socialization and redistribution of all wealth. The market does not prioritize what the society needs, because individual needs are weighted by wealth and income. In a Western society, everyone's nee
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Citation counts are not very useful. They vary too much between fields and topics. I've seen people finish PhDs with ~20k citations, because they got involved in highly visible projects. And even if they stopped publishing new papers,
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The cases that would require more diligence from the insurance company are the kind of research that should be encouraged. Breakthroughs are more likely to happen when people take risks and try something fundamentally new, instead of adheri
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by jltsiren 2y ago
> The research might be novel, but the procedures for research and publication are very similar. This is wrong. Some time ago, I completed the checklists for publishing a paper in a somewhat prestigious multidisciplinary journal. Large p
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I think it would be better to have separate grants for replication studies. If something becomes a mandatory administrative burden, people will see it as low-prestige work and try to avoid it. And the kind of people who are good at novel re

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