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by jpfr 5y ago
Hot rolling is a good example. For the last 30 years neural networks have been used to control the process. There’s a nice NeurIPS paper from 1991 [1]. And even with the non-deep networks from back in the day, people felt compelled to inclu
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by jpfr 5y ago
No it won’t transform manufacturing. Deep RL in physical systems is a pipe dream. Deep RL is one of the most data hungry methods. And in physical systems you don’t get enough samples. There are loads of data. But no manager of a shopfloor l
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by jpfr 5y ago
There were only 9 years between the 1998 Comdex and the iPhone release in 2007. Of the 23 years we have had iPhones for 14 years... Time perception is sometimes strange.
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by jpfr 5y ago
RISC-V really shines when the op-compression extension and macro-op fusion are taken into account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542963 Many of the early critiques of RISC-V have not considered that. And many point
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by jpfr 5y ago
It has become a rite of passage. You have effectively made it as an AI researcher if Schmidhuber decides that your breakthrough is actually derivative work of an idea he published 30 years ago. The crazy thing is ... he is not entirely wron
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by jpfr 6y ago
> he was also not very kind to walter pitts and possibly contributed to his suicide Wiener's wife told him a lie about Pitts. She invented an indecency involving Wiender's daugher. Both Wiener and Pitts never found out the trut
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by jpfr 6y ago
Easy, you only have to add a handful of „battery included“ packages to the default system image. That however means that some packages get a preferred status in the Julia ecosystem.
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by jpfr 6y ago
I have high hopes for the zz language. Especially the fact that it outputs C code. So interop is seamless. https://github.com/zetzit/zz For any systems language, interop with C is the litmus test. With that in mind, th
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by jpfr 6y ago
Tough luck. Using 0-indexing would have lost Matlab users to the Julia community. So they consciously decided to rather lose you. :-) I got used to switching between 0/1-indexing. The only place it actually hurts is when using modulo t
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by jpfr 6y ago
There is branch for elisp support in guile. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?h=wip-elisp It works in principle but is slow due to some impedance mismatches that have to be bridged. Especially,
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by jpfr 6y ago
This uses openCypher for queries, which is about to become an ISO Standard. In the mid-term the query language will be on equal footing with SQL. http://www.opencypher.org/articles/2019/09/12/SQL-and-now-
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by jpfr 6y ago
If you wrote the story as fiction, most non-tech readers would find it boring. Somebody who is really interested in tech, driven and works all day, every day. For the tech-savvy readers there's a lot of stuff pg did that is not directl
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by jpfr 6y ago
The situation the author describes is one of the reasons why we cannot (yet) get rid of Elsevier and the other scientific publishers. They are no longer needed for the dissemination of new research. But they are the keeper of the archive. W
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by jpfr 6y ago
Its even worse. In many cases blockchains still require a central authority that controls the write access to the system. A blockchain / distributed ledger can be easily flooded with spam. The only way around that is to make access exp
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by jpfr 6y ago
That is pretty readable C... for developers from that particular community. The ngn/k implementation of the k language [1] is even more terse. [1] https://git.sr.ht/~ngn/k/tree
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by jpfr 6y ago
Fabrice Bellard, who is quite famous on HN for his open source work, has founded a company for his own 5G implementation. And they are EU-based. [1] I'm under the impression his work is closer to the "radio protocol" than the
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by jpfr 6y ago
Yes. Beamer LaTeX with the Metropolis theme and Fira Sans as the main font.
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by jpfr 6y ago
I teach a graduate course in optimization methods for machine learning and engineering [1,2]. Julia is just perfect for teaching numerical algorithms. First, it removes the typical numpy syntax boilerplate. Due to its conciseness, Julia has
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by jpfr 6y ago
He knows too much about the topic to be bullshitting. Also, he does not pretend to have better answers than anyone else. But IMHO Lex tries too hard getting deep/philosophical answers from his guests. And some guests clearly are not in
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by jpfr 6y ago
I hope calling him a “con” wasn’t intentional. He speaks French after all...
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by jpfr 6y ago
Looking at a small number of weather stations is "evidence by anecdote" and completely unsound. You introduce bias by your selection of measurements. Plus a large portion of the earth is scantly inhabited with no weather stations
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by jpfr 6y ago
Have the dominant TCP implementations of today discovered the same solution or is there still dormant potential to increase bandwidth?
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by jpfr 6y ago
I still have my files from 20 years ago. I don't have my "media libraries" from 20 years ago. As soon as a tool tries to move my files into an internal representatation I cannot control, I delete the tool.
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by jpfr 6y ago
From the last slides, they are turning VLC into another iTunes. Too bad. I liked having a player that emphasized playing "files" instead of loading everything into some opaque "media library" first. Let's see how lo
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by jpfr 6y ago
Emacs has a lot of cruft on the code-level. The worst part is the lack of separation between "backend" and "frontend". There is support for many different "frontend" architectures: Win32/MacOS/Gtk&#x2
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by jpfr 6y ago
He still wants Emacs to become a general-purpose word processor. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel&#
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by jpfr 6y ago
Nice! I was wondering before whether Eliza, the 17th century spy girl from Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle", was inspired by historical examples. It seems that was the case.
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by jpfr 6y ago
That looks really promising. But development seems to have completely stopped earlier this year. Anybody knows what's going on there?
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by jpfr 6y ago
Usually you move the computation to the location of the data and not the other way around. That's the basic premise of Hadoop/Spark and many similar big data tools. GAIA-X self-descriptions give visibility on whether your data is
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by jpfr 6y ago
To be clear, this is not a new cloud-hyperscaler. Rather, different providers can offer services and (compute) nodes with different levels of certification / geographic location. So a government agency / hospital / critical-I

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