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by klodolph 4y ago
You can think of "fused multiply-add" as an instruction that does two things at once, but I think of FMA more as a single operation these days. There's a critical difference in floating-point, where the result of FMA can be r
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by klodolph 4y ago
Is this the irrationality measure? https://mathworld.wolfram.com/IrrationalityMeasure.html I don't think the value for pi is known. The value for e is 2, which is the same value for e.g. sqrt 2.
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by klodolph 4y ago
Are you talking about Liouville numbers? Liouville numbers are numbers which can be "best approximated by rational numbers" in a certain sense. A number x is a Liouville number if for every integer n>0, there exist integers (p,
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by klodolph 4y ago
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiContinuedFraction.html > The simple continued fraction for pi is given by [3; 7, 15, 1, 292, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 14, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, ...] (OEIS A001203). > The very large term 292
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by klodolph 4y ago
Any major product at Google has an on-call team with offices in multiple time zones. Typically, two engineers from different time zones will be on-call at any given time—they switch back and forth between primary and secondary, so nobody is
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by klodolph 4y ago
Also a sucker for this kind of advertising. Advertising used to have a lot more copy. I have a book full of this stuff from Taschen called, appropriately, “The Copy Book.”
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by klodolph 4y ago
Various parts of the standard are marked as OPTIONAL, so you do not need to support them to have a compliant implementation. This includes, at the moment, any kind of Unicode. You may be aware that C and C++ are still used in legacy environ
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by klodolph 4y ago
I have to assume that you realize that this is all subjective. What you are describing sounds like the subjective experience of what you feel when you work in the traditional establishment. You feel unstimulated, but that's a product o
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by klodolph 4y ago
What is the problem with "not fun" and "not interesting"? Why would I want an org chart to be fun or interesting? Usually, my goal is for anything "fun" and "interesting" to be either a direct respons
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by klodolph 4y ago
I do think legibility is actually very helpful, especially as organizations grow in size. I'm wondering why you are saying that legibility isn't healthy in and of itself. Say, for example, I am working on a task and I need somethi
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by klodolph 4y ago
HL-3 would never make as much revenue as all those hats they made for Team Fortress 2.
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by klodolph 4y ago
> My guess is no and there is still a hierarchy, however obscure. This is my suspicion as well, and my experience with "flat" organizations. Hierarchy and power dynamics are phenomena that occur in organizations. If you do not
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by klodolph 4y ago
There's a Japanese smartphone layout which is really fast. It's based on the number pad. There are 9 base consonants (K S T N H M Y R W) and 5 vowels (A I U E O), and every syllable is either vowel or consonant + vowel. Digits 0-9
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by klodolph 4y ago
It's 315/88. Chosen to be a half-integer multiple of the line rate. The line rate was also adjusted so that the audio subcarrier is a multiple of the line rate. The audio subcarrier is 4.5 MHz. So it's really 4.5 MHz, multipl
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by klodolph 4y ago
The time code is always incrementing by one frame at the given frame rate. For any of the NTSC-derived framerates, there are then two ways of incrementing. You can increment as if the frame rate is integral--so after 30 frames at 29.97 fps,
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by klodolph 4y ago
It may be easier to prove that your multiplier synthesis algorithm is correct.
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by klodolph 4y ago
My home receiver came with a microphone. You plug it in and the receiver blasts noise through the speakers, and comes up with EQ to compensate automatically. This wasn’t an expensive receiver, either. If you want a more scientific approach,
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by klodolph 4y ago
No. Color perception is relative. Basically, what you are doing is adding a cast to the image. This cast cancels out with the cast that the backlights give. When you add two complementary color casts to each other, you end up with neutral g
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by klodolph 4y ago
Note that for really, really fast multiplication, you throw all sorts of synthesis techniques at the problem. The space (of possible multiplier implementations) is large, and people have been grinding away at the problem for a long time (no
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by klodolph 4y ago
How are you giving these additional, more specific tests? I would think that your acceptance rates would start dropping once you get past five rounds or so. My personal experience is that people new to interviewing are the ones who think th
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by klodolph 4y ago
I start each project with a README, and then slowly add stuff. Very few of my projects existing templates closely enough that I feel like I could get away with using a scaffolding tool. When I first used create-react-app, I spent a half day
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by klodolph 4y ago
> Actual senior developers get near-real-time feedback from the rest of the organization, and if their interpretation of a request is off, they get multiple attempts to satisfy the request. Junior developers get near-real-time feedback f
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by klodolph 4y ago
Part of the difference between a junior and a senior role is that people in a senior role are expected to fill in missing details independently, without detailed directions. If you only test people on their ability to follow detailed direct
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by klodolph 4y ago
I think the idea is that while you still pay $60 for the game, you don’t pay $400 for the console.
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by klodolph 4y ago
It sounds like you're definitely misunderstanding what I'm saying. Linked thread is x86, an architecture with unusually rich addressing modes. People make compilers for all sorts of languages and architectures. The fact that in SO
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by klodolph 4y ago
> A compiler can generate the same code either way by shifting by 1 at compile time. Shifting what by 1? Array address aren't always known at compile time. Neither are array indexes. I don't see how this could be done at compil
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by klodolph 4y ago
We've seen a lot of "drift" of different languages towards zero-based indexing, probably because it lets the compiler generate slightly simpler code. For the same reason, we've seen architectures "drift" toward
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by klodolph 4y ago
Regarding tables--I just don't want to deal with tables any more. You get some extra flexibility, but the cost is just too damn steep--it's like going to a restaurant and getting escorted to the kitchen so you can design your own
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by klodolph 4y ago
just drive your optics hard enough, you'll see back-EMF /s
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by klodolph 4y ago
I think modem transformers might have a similar problem of limited bandwidth--they may be rated from 300 Hz, but they are also rated to 3.4 kHz or something similar. Modems were mass-manufactured, and transformers tend to be expensive, so

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