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by kyzyl 12y ago
I would amend you statement by saying that more experienced developers are generally proficient at writing at a higher level of abstraction, but are more importantly also better at choosing the correct level of abstraction for the job.
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by kyzyl 12y ago
Yeah, me too. I don't quite get the appeal of the tags living in the file name. Yes, it means that there isn't any need to maintain a database, but it also means that a) things become very unpleasant if I want to use anything but
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yeah I see. If you're essentially doing a multi-round elimination test based on your custom keywords, you might be able to reduce your noise a bit by preprocessing the 'phrase' stream with something like tf-idf (it looks like
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Naive bayes seems like it would get clobbered on this task... unless maybe you're taking a more simplified approach than I'm imagining. How's it working out for you?
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yeah, the SoC boards a nice. So much of what you want to do on an FPGA these days requires the use of a processor anyhow, you might as well have an actual hard block instead of a NIOSII or whatever. We use DE1's at my company as the FP
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I don't think he was suggesting that developing a general process cpu that is competitive with Intel's offering costs only 10k. He said that getting your ASIC design, i.e. application-specific integrated circuit, etched into sil
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I'd second the DE2 suggestion. It's a cheap, but pretty versatile board. It has lots of companion demos and tutorials, as well as a ton of resources online from other starters asking "How the heck do I do <task> on my D
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I've been hearing nothing but stories about i. people getting sick and ii. the rift "completely fooling" people's senses. I had the opportunity to try the dev kit out over the holidays and I was really excited, but after
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by kyzyl 13y ago
They would have to repair us so heavily and so frequently that they would basically just be growing new humans, one piece at a time. I'd put my money on maturation tanks. Humans are finite and fragile, and will always lose to thermod
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Beat me to the punch ;-)
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Sorry I didn't check back here for a couple days. > There is always a resistor in series with the LED Sure, almost always. But there are many different voltage level, forward drop, forward current combinations for a given applicatio
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by kyzyl 13y ago
If you have the LED hooked up in parallel with the chip, then you can't really do any fancy indication things like blink the LED, change colour (voltage level) etc. It's possible that the engineers wanted to maintain that flexibi
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Gotta pay the bills somehow. I hear most military pensions don't quite cut it.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yes, thank you. I like to distill things a bit: 1. There is science, and there is data. Science has data, and is a thing you can do. Data is just data. "Data Science" as a description of an activity is like saying "Words Writ
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by kyzyl 13y ago
> I think a great many of astronomers were in fact "data scientists" I think the data component is a feature of applied physics in general. Physics problems have had a tendency to be extremely data driven, because when you&#x27
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Domino, a workbench for data scientists.(dominoup.com)
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Erm... depends where you are :-)
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Has anybody here used conda[1] for anything significant/serious yet? I've been using it in passing for my side and small projects but I'm still not convinced I want to go whole hog yet. Regardless, my experience with it so fa
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I was wondering when you were going to pop up here. Ersatz has a lot of potential, but as it stands now it's more or less a web UI for ensembling the pre-implemented models (correct me if I'm wrong). So if you don't want an a
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by kyzyl 13y ago
And an ethical engineer would design those weapons so that they don't blow up in a soldier's magazine or a submarine missile tube. It's about adhering to a code of ethics, not undertaking some Hippocratic oath. In most places
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yup, I didn't mean to belittle Hebel. I actually just meant that the lack of features is likely why I hadn't heard of it. From the looks of things it's on a nice path. You philisophy about what Hebel should be sound similar
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Equivocating taking the engineer's oath with being a 'good robot' is childish, at best. I could also call it ignorant, or perhaps on its to criminal (if somebody truly believes that and puts it into practice). The engineer&
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by kyzyl 13y ago
> Keep it legal, do good work. Go home and play with the kids. Tell that to the people whose kids got blown up at a wedding by a Hellfire missile that was guided by your TwitterTerroristLocator.so
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by kyzyl 13y ago
No. How to be a responsible engineer who doesn't get people killed. There are situations in life that require one to grow the fuck up, and being a professional engineer is one of them.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Hm. And here I was thinking I'd seen most of the accelerated deep learning implementations. Although this one seems a touch incomplete as far as features go. There are some other for those not aware: [1] [Python] pylearn2 by the Lisa L
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I see a lot of folks here talking about college education in economic terms. So, sure, the evidence is certainly mounting that we've mucked something up: tuition is stupidly high, graduation rates are low, people are dogging their way
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by kyzyl 13y ago
There are some practical limits to voltage conversion if you want to keep that high efficiency. Probably most important is that your switching frequency shouldn't be as high as it is in most small devices (because high freq. allows you
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Well they're pretty limited in what they can do. Most things you'd plug a USB cable into are not thing you'd want to plug higher voltages into, so that would require device-side voltage conversion which is wasteful in energy,
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Very, very nice job. Your page is a great is example of sane, simple and functional data visualization. I've been sifting through these papers trying to prioritize by to relevance to my work so that I can get them into mendeley and dig
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Imagine if somebody built a social networking site where you could have one group of contacts, but sandbox them into their separate circles of function/relation. Such a website would surely eat all others for breakfast. ;-)

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