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by kevinnk 10y ago
$500 vs ~$1100 for the Intel part.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> Outliers are defined as 3 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution I kind of agree with your overall point, but that definition is wildly incorrect.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
I'd encourage you to read this[1] article as it seems you are confused about what the phrase "probably carcinogenic" means in the context of the IARC report. In particular, the report does not assess risk which is what you
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Your first point does not seem obvious to me. GMOs generally have a) significantly higher yields and b) smaller variation in yields than traditional products. That means far less land needs to be used for agriculture than otherwise. Conside
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Avoiding Roundup Ready seeds because of "harmful herbicide" (presumably glyphosate) is like avoiding using microwaves for cooking. Sure, there is some minute amount of risk involved, but it's hard to believe that someone who
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by kevinnk 10y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but in case anyone was wondering why Wozniak's prediction was incorrect, it turns out that lithography could be used for features well below the wavelength of light. In fact, we're still using 193nm lig
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Yep, I worked on one :) My personal belief is that time spent learning Chisel would probably be better spent learning MyHDL, but I will concede that I could be completely wrong; I just thought it might be worth it to add a counterweight to
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by kevinnk 10y ago
I'll take the contrarian point of view and say that it's probably not worth it to invest a lot of time into Chisel at the moment. There's a lot of pain points around things outside of the "application logic" like cl
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Not to keep arguing a dead point, but the word I cared about was "causes" not "show". The study shows pretty definitively ("proves") that a correlation exists. It does not show that hormonal birth control caus
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by kevinnk 10y ago
To be clear, I'm not denying the possibility that hormonal birth control can cause depression or that many women experience problems while on it (I've heard similar complaints to what you're describing). What I'm comment
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by kevinnk 10y ago
What about function types? That alone gets you to "tree" complexity.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
That study showed a "link" (i.e. correlation) between hormonal contraception and first diagnosis of depression or use of antidepressants. That's not the same as showing the pill causes depression! Even the study authors exp
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> The point is that the language uses a set of the same operators with the same precedence and associativity both in declarations and in normal expressions. Using the same precedence and associativity in declarations and normal expressio
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> The syntax of the language is also designed to help the compiler writer and not the user – think of "declarations mirror use", the irrelevance of the order of type specifiers, etc. Err, I would agree with the statement that t
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by kevinnk 10y ago
That's easily Googlable. No such increase exists. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/USA_annu...
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Obergefell v. Hodges, United States v. Windsor, Lawrence v. Texas
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U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years(wsj.com)
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Can you expand on your experience? Is there just not enough coverage or is it something else that makes it mediocre? Where are you located? I was thinking of switching from Verizon (bay area) and would be interested to hear from someone who
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by kevinnk 10y ago
What if Gates bought the chickens he gives away from local breeders?
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by kevinnk 10y ago
This type of comment is really unproductive. Not only does it not answer the question, it dismisses it with an air of superiority. I happen to know Python, Java, Lisp, OCaml, Haskell, and Prolog, and wouldn't use anything other than C+
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Not everyone here dislikes C++. C++ is a good language for some things, and a bad language for others. In particular, C++ is not a good fit for web development and an especially bad fit for the type of web applications that the majority of
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Those boats are presumably sending a signal that allows them to be tracked. When we "lose" a plane, it stops sending its tracking signal.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
I doubt FP hardware size is the limiting factor in their implementation (it's not in GPUs and definitely not in high perf CPUs). More likely they came up with higher level architectural tricks that let them specialize for machine learn
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> Why do GCC/clang not have: __builtin_addition_would_overflow(a, b) Both GCC and Clang have __builtin_add_overflow, which as far as I can tell do exactly what you're proposing.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Perhaps someone who has a better grasp of the standard can correct me, but as far as I can tell, your interpretation is correct and the given example is not undefined behavior. From 6.5.2.1 (Array Subscripting) of the C11 draft: "A pos
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> If you can separate the population into "definitely diabetic", "definitely not diabetic", and "needs more testing" quickly and cheaply, that's a win. That's the fundamental problem. It turns out
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by kevinnk 10y ago
The 538 article actually makes a lot of sense and is a pretty decent introduction to a common public health issue. > Their assertion that tests === diagnostics that map 1:1 to a disease was baseless. Tests don't answer the question
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by kevinnk 10y ago
Suppose you spend 30% of your pre-tax income on housing. A 125k income then supports a $3125/month payment, which works out to about a ~660k house. That's enough to buy the median house in every state in the country and all but 4.
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by kevinnk 10y ago
What would you consider "significant"? There's been a number of terrorist attacks post 9/11 and I'd consider at least a couple pretty significant (San Bernardino, Fort Hood, Boston Marathon, Charleston Church). Ther
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by kevinnk 10y ago
> Of course, Michigan roads are infamous for being terrible -- this might be the reason. This is a bit of a tangent, but Michigan actually has fairly high construction standards for roads. However, it also has one of the highest truck we

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