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by joefourier 9y ago
Why is privacy an upper class value? It may not be one of your values, as evidenced by your choice of email provider, but it has nothing to do with class, or dismissing your own needs. You can be poor and refuse to hand over your data to bi
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If you believe that aging and death is a natural part of life that we should passively accept and are thus opposed to the work done by the SENS Foundation, I encourage you to read the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant by Nick Bostrom: https:&#x2F
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Compare the rate and causes of death of people aged 18-35 to people age 70+. How many 18 year olds die of dementia, heart disease, Parkinson's, even the flu, compared to those aged 70 and up? By curing or even just slowing down aging,
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How much you're spending on a meal is not necessarily related to the quality of the food. You can have a Michelin-starred meal for just $2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Soya_Sauce_Chicken_R... I've
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If you have a dedicated home theatre in your house with a projector, sound system, blocked windows, noiseproofing and plushy seats, and treat it just like you would going to the movies - mute phones, have the kids sit quietly (or be out of
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With a refrigerator sized device that they have been unable to miniaturize, and a glass-sized product that is not really any better than Hololens or Meta.
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Perhaps "IT company" or a similar term is more appropriate, then? Why is it that software and Internet companies have reserved the term "tech" to themselves, so much that their culture has infused the term itself?
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What definition of "tech company" doesn't already include a modern car company? A modern car is a vastly more complex piece of engineering than most "tech" companies' software, and even low-end ones contain doz
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For video games maybe, but for high-performance computing, Vega is incredible bang-for-buck especially in FP16, where a $500 Vega 64 gives you 25+ TFLOPs while a $6000 Quadro with GP100 gives you 20 TFLOPS (other NVidia cards do FP16 at 1&#
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by joefourier 9y ago
General-purpose programming on the GPU has many use cases apart from deep learning, e.g. image processing, computer vision, offline rendering and other high performance computing applications. OpenCL allows you to have a single code-base wo
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by joefourier 9y ago
I still use OpenCL on the daily, it allows me to program for both NVidia and AMD GPUS simultaneously with the minimum amount of pain. And you can still use it for mobile GPUs and specialized chips like the Myriad. Do you have another open,
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by joefourier 9y ago
Notice how almost all news of Bitcoin now are about its price. Bitcoin used to be exciting in both technical and economical aspects, but has now become just a store of value entirely driven by speculation. Other technically superior cryptoc
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Lack of an iPhone IX might have confused some. And plenty of people pronounced "OS X" as the letter "x", and in that case there was an actual Mac OS 9 to justify the jump from 9 to 10.
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How does ML help in that regard? I don't understand exactly what you're saying by "ML software". How does the regular user specify what he wants? By writing it in plain English with all its ambiguities, turning the &quot
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What leads you to believe that in 10 years, we will have developed general artificial intelligence? Current machine learning algorithms are very good at deriving heuristics to solve narrow problems with well-defined, testable goal-functions
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What do you mean by that? That machine learning will be able to distill vague, shifting requirements from non-technical businesspeople into functional software within 10 or so years? Or that all software development jobs will involve machin
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Isn't alchemy a important part of learning about the history of science, as taught in elementary/secondary schools? It is one of the precursors of chemistry after all. I also recall learning it in history in the context of gunpowd
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by joefourier 9y ago
> Real-time video is significantly different than still-frames. It's why video compression uses completely different algorithms than jpeg compression, for example. That's not quite true, mainstream video codecs are all based
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Estonia takes an interesting approach - profits are only taxed when they are taken out as dividends. There is thus essentially no corporate tax, as companies can accumulate profit and not have it taxed until it is distributed to shareholder
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What would differentiate a real justification from a "made up one"? Point, purpose, justification, etc. are by definition human concepts; without humans, things just are .
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http://www.kguttag.com/2016/11/20/magic-leap-separating-magi... Magic Leap is certainly capable of releasing a dev kit, but it will not feature most of the technologies present in their prototypes. Yes, AR an
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It makes little sense to say that AR will render VR pointless. They have fundamentally different purposes - AR (as stated in the name) adds your existing reality, while VR replaces it entirely. If you're playing a game, AR would put a
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Perhaps this is related to the more theoretical nature of math and physics? With computer programming especially, you can immediately apply the concepts you learn and get instant feedback and satisfaction from seeing simple programs actuall
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Perhaps the reason many students require the imposition of an authority is because the educational system does not encourage the development of self-learning skills? From the first year of elementary school onward, students are explicitly t
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That is one of the point the article argues against: thinking a college education is required to be highly skilled is confusing cause and effect. Especially for programming, the most important skills are acquired either through self-study o
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What's the alternative to rationalism and materialism? How can good science be practiced without rational reasoning and physical (i.e. material) evidence?
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In general, programmers (and similar individuals) do not have the best experiences during elementary and high school. Why wouldn't you want to get to the stage where you have freedom to make your own decisions, to control how you spend
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Toy problems? GPGPU is widely used in real-world applications such as image processing, compression, computer graphics, physical simulations, cryptography and machine learning, which are all embarrassingly parallel. With regards to programm
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Using Bitcoin strictly as an intermediate to transfer between two US dollar accounts is not the most typical usecase. The fees and waiting times are due to the US dollar transfers and the companies involved. There is however, valid criticis