kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
Apples to oranges. The two APIs aren’t comparable, and being forced to use OpenCL is a hindrance itself. But unfortunately it has “Open” in the name so it must be better than that proprietary single vendor CUDA nonsense... /s
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by kobeya 9y ago
I work in heavily optimized compute, and it does matter there. We write assembly that is supported by one architecture only (for now), and frontier Intel chips are easier to come by. So our code runs on Intel’s processor extensions a genera
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by kobeya 9y ago
Seriously, stay away from my kids' school...
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by kobeya 9y ago
Companies have had days in court and presidents have been set, even if the name of the defendant was not Apple. This isn't some crazy scheme that Apple's accountants cooked up. Even when the dutch sandwich was new, it was still bu
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by kobeya 9y ago
Treat income of any foreign company wholly owned or with substantially similar ownership structure of a domestic company as taxable income for that domestic company. I don't think this is a good idea; I'm just demonstrating that i
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by kobeya 9y ago
Not very relevant to OCaml though.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Because “Unicode” on windows is UTF-16, which no one except windows supports these days.
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by kobeya 9y ago
What he means is that we only really have intuition for 1, 2, and 2.5D visuals, but many areas of mathematics don’t map into low dimensions very well, or do but lose essential properties in the process. Building a low dimensional projection
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by kobeya 9y ago
It's useful because it's useless. Different definitions of "useful" at play there. Proof of work is by design unable to do anything other than provide a probabilistic proof of energy expenditure, but such proofs are them
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by kobeya 9y ago
Did you read the article? It's about how to make AI programs experience and act on curiosity.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It makes evolutionary selection be due to internal social/tribal pressures rather than a predator-prey interspecies relationship.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You ever met one? Had a conversation? Assessed it’s working memory, capacity for abstract thoughts and manly layered thinking? There is a lot we don’t know. The fact that Neanderthal buries their dead with some sort of symbolism, cared for
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by kobeya 9y ago
Alternatively: "how human beings rose from the lesser hominids in 70,000 B.C.E." There's a serious theory it was this bottleneck where humans were confined to environments without natural preditors (seaside cliffs like those
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by kobeya 9y ago
Family contracts are a huge savings over individual pay as you go plans.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think he meant $100/mo.
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by kobeya 9y ago
There was an article on HN some months back where hey followed up with one of the main body mod professional to do this work. He reported that most of his business now is people requesting them taken out, and that new installs have precipit
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by kobeya 9y ago
You should check out /r/vandwellers sometime.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Europe may have strong laws regarding privacy. Those laws don’t apply to government requests. That’s a difference.
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by kobeya 9y ago
How did you do this without changing your email address?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Salaries in the range of $200k/yr, plus benefits, is not big bucks?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes. Most people who have done the magnet in the finger rate the experience as "meh, wouldn't do again."
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by kobeya 9y ago
Ring of fire eclipses, which is what this one was, are very different. The sky doesn't get dark. The temperature doesn't drop. Birds don't go crazy.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The Egyptians wrote their military chronicles before they left, foretelling their victories. It's very well possible they said they were going to win and didn't.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That's why you would use an off-chain solution like lightning payment channels with sub-cent transaction fees. Transactions are faster than credit cards too.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That's not going to work given that it is still CC on the back end -- per-tx fees will eat you alive at the $1/tx level.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Has anyone made any real progress in solving this problem? Bitcoin micro-transactions via lightning: http://lightning.network
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by kobeya 9y ago
What does that have to do with Simplicity?
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by kobeya 9y ago
The important word there was “every”.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The paper seems to address this. It notes that some loop constructs could be made available but it would make the resource consumption estimation unnecessarily conservative. Note that you can do things like unroll a loop entirely and build
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is fundamentally different from Solidity.

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