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by kbwt 8y ago
> And the author's solution is to replace that one line with this: Which does not do what the author wants it to do. volatile auto device_registers_ptr = reinterpret_cast<DeviceSetup*>(DeviceControlAddress); 'dec
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AI researchers allege that machine learning is alchemy(sciencemag.org)
4 points by kbwt 8y ago|2 comments
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by kbwt 8y ago
IMO this document pushes for some seriously misguided legislation due to sensationalist characterization of the technology by the media. Consider for example: > 59. f) creating a specific legal status for robots in the long run, so that
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EU report recommending new Civil Law Rules on Robotics(europarl.europa.eu)
1 points by kbwt 8y ago|1 comments
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by kbwt 9y ago
It's really not that unlikely. I had the same experience, I've been doing a lot of hobby programming before uni. Most of what we learned I was already quite familiar with from either experience or reading books. Pretty much all of
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by kbwt 9y ago
On the other hand, if we assume that every pixel is covered by a constant number of triangles and a typical scene doesn't push more triangles than there are pixels, rasterization suddenly looks a lot more like O(pixels) or O(1) per pix
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by kbwt 9y ago
> The AI will learn https://xkcd.com/1838/
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by kbwt 9y ago
In addition to what the other commenters said, I believe it is also the name of their web server executable which includes the core Google search code. Written mostly in C++ but also ships with some Python scripts and protobuf linking it to
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by kbwt 9y ago
This paper shows pretty good results from essentially throwing a RNN at it: [1] http://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications/...
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by kbwt 9y ago
Reminds me of this picture entitled Life of a game programmer : https://i.imgur.com/sBih7ol.jpg
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by kbwt 9y ago
You can also visualize the meaning of d/dx x^n = n x^(n-1) geometrically: There are n faces being extruded which contribute a volume of x^(n-1) dx each.
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by kbwt 9y ago
Not OP but... output_type do_something(buffer_view input);
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by kbwt 9y ago
> AI is being overused double-checks URL bar to make sure he is still on HN Downvote me all you want but I think the tech sector is currently suffering a veritable Machine Learning craze.
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by kbwt 9y ago
Warning: This site breaks your navigation and spews modals at you even with uBlock Origin.
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by kbwt 9y ago
My Informatik degree piece of paper has both German and English text, but the English says "Informatics" rather than "Computer Science".
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by kbwt 9y ago
> The law is very specific about the fact that it permits the title "Ingenieur" only to graduates of technical or natural scientific fields At least in the case of BW, Computer Science is clearly listed as one of the possible f
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by kbwt 9y ago
> Master of Informatics Let me guess, your degree was actually in Computer Science and is "mistranslated" as Informatics by your University? Informatics degrees[1] actually exist in the US and are different from Computer Scienc
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by kbwt 9y ago
> computer scientist and programmer [...] are not even considered proper engineers here That is plain incorrect. Even though the exact details vary by state, pretty much anyone with a Bachelor's in Computer Science is an allowed to
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by kbwt 9y ago
Right, the latter part of your comment describes exactly why Germany has been exporting its skilled Software Engineers for the past few decades. The question is, when will the circumstances change and how long will it take to reverse the da
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by kbwt 9y ago
But doesn't Germany have a rather weak software industry? If it comes to competing on software, I am not sure if they will be able to attract top talent.
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by kbwt 9y ago
> people at XYZ who left to Google and 50% of them returning back after ~1 year If only it were possible to access the data Linkedin has on employee flows. You could get an idea on which companies are actually enjoyable places to work at
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Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts(arstechnica.com)
481 points by kbwt 9y ago|414 comments
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by kbwt 9y ago
>DE's pathing system's findPath() function was speeded up by approx 3-4x faster vs. Age1's How would that make any impact at all given that the game ran just fine on 1997 hardware?
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by kbwt 9y ago
So China pays much better than Western Europe? Is this actually true?
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by kbwt 9y ago
Signal is also problematic.
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by kbwt 9y ago
League of Legends chat is also XMPP.
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by kbwt 9y ago
> It does, however, take a little longer to fully grok how lazy code evaluates I doubt it would take anywhere near as long if students were told from the get-go that the only thing triggering evaluation is the destructuring as it happens
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by kbwt 9y ago
None of which are exclusive to low level languages. They're just easier to recognize and point at.
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by kbwt 9y ago
There is software which is already so optimized at the algorithm level, you have to use a low level language to fully exploit the hardware. For example with video games; if you can cram more/better content or achieve higher simulation
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by kbwt 9y ago
If you consider performance as a correctness issue, then functional and/or garbage collected languages have a very high incidence of bugs.

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