johndough

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by johndough 8y ago
There once was an issue on github about supporting video in READMEs, but an employee said that they had no plans to do so, which resulted in lots of drama and many "thumbs down". Unfortunately, I can't find the issue anymore,
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by johndough 8y ago
I'd argue that at least Ebay falls into that category. Lots of scams are being pulled there, e.g. fake Nvidia GPUs with hacked firmware to appear as higher end models, or power banks and batteries which claim to have 10 to 100 times mo
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by johndough 8y ago
Why should the government go through the ISPs if they can get the unencrypted data from facebook.
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by johndough 9y ago
You'll probably hit memory limits if you go much beyond 512x512-sized holes. Additionally, computation times grow quickly with higher resolution and you already need a high end GPU for this resolution to get a reasonably interactive re
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by johndough 9y ago
I think the argument is Kleenex = javascript and "Kleenex Dispenser" = "HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Snippet Editor": https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8d0bg2/oracle_o...
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by johndough 9y ago
They use VGG-19 pretrained weights which are derived from ImageNet which consists of mostly copyrighted images. It is currently untested whether this is a legal problem or not.
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by johndough 9y ago
The users will feel ripped off after they have seen the video, in which case it is already too late.
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by johndough 9y ago
YouTube absolutely has not solved this issue. Personally, I feel like it has gotten worse in the recent past. Here's a small compilation of fake thumbnails which took me less than a minute to collect: https://imgur.com/
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by johndough 9y ago
(To prevent confusion I should mention that I am only talking about JS in the browser.) WebGL without compute shaders it anything but general compute. There have been some attempts at shoehorning matrix multiplication and other functions re
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by johndough 9y ago
About 5 years ago, SIMD.js has been announced, was implemented and then scrapped in favor of SIMD in WebAssembly, which does not exist until today. It has been announced, but I would not hold my breath for it. Presumably we'll only get
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by johndough 9y ago
Unfortunately it is impossible to implement efficient numeric libraries in JavaScript due to the lack of SIMD and GPGPU.
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by johndough 9y ago
Since you appear to be an actual person working at amazon and there doesn't seem to be a way to report mass scams, I would appreciate if you could delete all items with the keywords "18650" and "9800" or "9900&
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by johndough 9y ago
> The OpenGL compute shader feature is not needed for doing GPU compute but it is needed for doing GPU compute efficiently for many workloads.
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by johndough 9y ago
Mozilla won't support WebCL in favor of compute shaders, but that announcement has been over 4 years ago and there still is no general compute in browsers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147
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by johndough 9y ago
I also thought about augmenting this algorithm with the semantic information output of a neural network, but couldn't come up with a good way to generate training data for semantic segmentation which wouldn't distort objects. For
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by johndough 9y ago
GMP is very well optimized and implemented in assembly. There's no way that a JavaScript implementation can get anywhere close to that performance since JavaScript doesn't even have support for 64 bit integers. WebAssembly might b
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by johndough 9y ago
The WebGL example is measuring how long it takes to send the rendering request to the GPU, not the actual computation time. The correct way to measure GPU execution time is to use timer queries.
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by johndough 9y ago
They skipped the step where, after trying for days due to server overload, you have to verify your coinbase account with a webcam photo of your id which will then get rejected for unknown reasons.
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by johndough 9y ago
Presumably the neural network was trained on a dataset where all planes had two wings, so it will predict planes with two wings.
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by johndough 9y ago
If the non-existence of the internet did not stop this, I am not convinced that censoring the internet will.
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by johndough 9y ago
This seems to be broken for keyboards without QWERTY layout (about half of Europe) because math mode can not be entered with the '\'-key.
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by johndough 9y ago
If all you need is an image of colored Voronoi regions (and no actual graph structures), there are faster algorithms, for example based on http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S62.12/docs/Meijster_distance... which
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by johndough 10y ago
Minor nitpick: When hovering over the slide buttons, the mouse changes to a hand symbol which indicates that dragging should be possible, but it is not. Maybe if it acts like a checkbox, it should look like a checkbox?
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by johndough 10y ago
Python is Turing Complete, so yes.
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by johndough 10y ago
Does anyone know how long it takes per image? The only piece of information I could find was that the run script uses 8 GPUs, which suggests that it takes a while.
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by johndough 10y ago
It is not easy to pull of impressive things with an API that is lagging 10 years behind what is available on desktop while fighting all kinds of browser idiosyncrasies. We've got those super powerful processors that can be one or two o
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by johndough 10y ago
I would be interested into some more details. Disclaimer: I am not a drug lord.