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by kbob 8y ago
1 petaFlO/sec × day = 86400 petaFlO = 8.64e19 FlO.
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by kbob 8y ago
"RTFM" used to be a valid critique, and it's my immediate response to this article. But maybe I'm wrong. The M keeps getting bigger, and our reading time keeps getting more fractured. Maybe it's okay to just throw
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by kbob 8y ago
If it was in the third person, it would be a perfect William Gibson paragraph. In fact, I scrolled to the top to check that it wasn't Gibson. (You may or may not take Gibson seriously as an author. I generally do.)
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by kbob 8y ago
You have to redesign the whole car to make room for underfloor batteries. EVs based on existing platforms have to work within the platform's constraints. The Chevy Bolt is a clean-sheet design and is also a "skateboard".
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by kbob 8y ago
Or pay them to be coal sequesterers.
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by kbob 8y ago
It's an open question whether that's more readable than the already legal results = [b for b in (f(a) for a in input_data) if b]
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by kbob 8y ago
I am not an ML guy, so I'm asking from a position of ignorance. (-: But what's going on when some of the implementations of a standard algorithm don't converge, and different hardware has different accuracy rates on the same
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by kbob 8y ago
DC was founded and laid out about a century before the automobile was invented. I don't think you can say it was designed for cars.
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by kbob 8y ago
After I cringed at the name, I thought you must mean the people who develop the sharpest AI minds. If so, that would be clever. But yeah, a different name would be better.
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by kbob 9y ago
I spent a long time wondering why it was multiplying by octal 1 as well. I'm not sure whether code like this should be critiqued for readability, but "0L" (uppercase) would have worked better.
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by kbob 9y ago
I saw the same crap running uBlock Origin.
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by kbob 9y ago
What's the solution? I abandoned a woodworking project last month because I doubted the finished cabinet would be worthy of the wood. So how do you move past that block?
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by kbob 9y ago
s/instead of/as well as/
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by kbob 9y ago
Mac filesystems case-fold by default, so the script could be invoked as cd, CD, Cd, or CD. Only the lowercase cd is shadowed by the builtin.
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by kbob 9y ago
Can someone explain what a "norm" is in this context? > The learned word vector norms across times grow with word frequency, and can be viewed as a time series for detecting trending concepts with more robustness than word freq
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by kbob 9y ago
I don't know about PDP-10s. DEC's PDP-11 operating systems used a character set called RAD-50, short for radix (octal) 50, for filenames and various other purposes. The (decimal) 40 characters were A-Z, 0-9, and four punctuation
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by kbob 9y ago
Jung's IC Op Amp Cookbook comes to mind, though that might be more basic than you want.
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by kbob 9y ago
Heck if I know. Atom seems to have mindshare.
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by kbob 9y ago
Emacs has a different way of doing just about everything than the rest of the desktop environment. Kill ring vs clipboard. Emacs windows/frames vs GUI tabs/windows. Subshells vs ⌘Tab to Terminal. C-X C-C vs ⌘Q. Actually, all
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by kbob 9y ago
Dogs' hearing extends to 45 KHz. Cats hear up to 79 KHz. How do all these ultrasonic audio systems affect them? Do they cause pain? Do they damage the animals' hearing? I won't (knowingly) use ultrasonic audio systems unt
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by kbob 9y ago
Two questions: Do I get my youth back? I've been programming for 40 years and have easily logged 100K hours learning. I don't have the lifespan to do that again, so I'd just try to gain some superficial understanding that c
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by kbob 9y ago
Is there any human activity that doesn't have an Urban Dictionary term disparaging it?
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by kbob 9y ago
Ritchie is the person who made the decision to make curlies optional in C. That's strong evidence he wouldn't add extraneous curlies to his code.
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by kbob 9y ago
This is what I came to say. Here is a working example that builds an array of function pointers at program initialization time. https://github.com/kbob/schetoo/blob/master/prim.h#L215 This also works ac
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by kbob 9y ago
If you want results rather than a learning experience, consider upgrading to a Teensy 3.2 and Teensy Audio Adapter. The Teensy (ARM Cortex M4) has the power and I/O to produce quality audio. It still uses the Arduino IDE and APIs, an
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by kbob 9y ago
The paper's findings are more nuanced than the title. 1) The Mill's specializer (effectively a compiler code generator) did have a bug that emitted code susceptible to a Spectre-like attack. The specializer has been fixed. (Fort
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by kbob 9y ago
I want an eight pound MacBook. (3.6 kg) That's enough for an honest 12 hours' battery life, a CPU+chipset that supports 32 GB of RAM, full-travel, full sized keys, a chassis thick enough to support all the ports, and an escape key
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by kbob 9y ago
I stopped using Facebook years ago. But I still live in a world with Brexit and Trump. What did I do wrong?
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by kbob 9y ago
I came here to say the same thing. Moonlight has a complex harmonic structure which is completely hidden by the repetitive arpeggio and tiny interval changes. Seeing it on the circle of fifths would make it much clearer. While listening,
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by kbob 9y ago
Philip Coppens wrote the web page, not the _Report_.

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