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by ladberg 6y ago
Pretty much any decent off the shelf algorithm is faster than deep learning if you allow it the same accuracy loss.
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by ladberg 6y ago
Doctor Who is also wrong about magic and time travel existing, but it's a fantasy show so it doesn't matter.
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by ladberg 6y ago
I've had nearly the same experience! I was working on a project for a robotics class and my team could not figure out why our object tracking went from 30fps to ~5fps seemingly randomly. It turns out the USB3 cable wasn't fully pl
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by ladberg 6y ago
You're totally right! I haven't seen those since I was a kid and forgot them.
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by ladberg 6y ago
Would you mind explaining the qualities? I don't see how pasteurization or homogenization would change the percentage of cream or mineral content. I've never tasted it so I can't speak to flavor, and you're right about b
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by ladberg 6y ago
In the US I've never seen it in a non-refrigerated section, so I bet they just refrigerate the UHT milk even if it isn't needed to keep it all in one place and not freak people out.
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by ladberg 6y ago
That would be more efficient, but GPUs were banned to level the playing field between extremely rich and slightly less extremely rich teams. Of course, the people who made that rule probably just looked at the cost of a GPU vs the cost of a
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by ladberg 6y ago
I believe most sensors are already available to web apps, but a big burden for games would be storing assets on the user's phone as something like Fortnite takes a few gigabytes even on iOS with lower resolution textures.
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by ladberg 6y ago
Is anyone else annoyed by the amount of built in magic character strings in bash? There are times where I know a task is possible in a bash script but make it in Python (with no dependencies required and compatible with 2 and 3) because it&
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by ladberg 6y ago
Yep I totally agree with you on that, I was just commenting on the free pizza thing :)
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by ladberg 6y ago
As someone who doesn't play Factorio, what basic building blocks is this made from? Are there programmable objects or is it built from logic gates? To make a Minecraft analogy that more people might understand, is it closer to redstone
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by ladberg 6y ago
I'd bet most companies are incredibly happy to get an otherwise uninterested art student to listen to their presentation for $1 worth of pizza.
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by ladberg 6y ago
In spaghetti sort I think you place your hand at the top and remove the first piece to touch it. That takes it from O(n) to O(1) to remove a single piece. Of course, your hand is then a magical device that can do a reduction in constant tim
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by ladberg 6y ago
It looks like it has a separate input and output which is nice, and it also lists the possible options so you don't have to type and guess :)
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by ladberg 6y ago
Not everyone has enough
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by ladberg 6y ago
The problem is that we don't know if the "conservative probabilities" are actually conservative. There is only a single planet in the Goldilocks zone that we for sure contains or doesn't contain life. Imagine if someon
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by ladberg 6y ago
Haven't they been doing this for a while? I remember a few years ago the server grade GPU was the same as a Titan but unlocked low precision units for a few thousand dollars extra.
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by ladberg 6y ago
I think "crypto" can mean cryptography or cryptocurrency depending on context. Every cryptocurrency I've seen has a Dark Forest, even if it's not as bad as Ethereum. For example, if you create a private key using somethi
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by ladberg 6y ago
I love that they're continuing the Dark Forest analogy! Makes me also realize I never want to dip my toe in crypto like that. It's like an amateur going up to an entirely unregulated wall street and expecting to earn some quick ca
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by ladberg 6y ago
> subjects that working devs basically never use, like calculus, Java, and recursion I don't know about you, but I've used all of those in real software. Additionally, I'm happy teaching myself skills needed for programmin
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by ladberg 6y ago
That sucks. As a (recent) alumnus I was always proud of the fact that no one at my school was a legacy admit or bought their way in. Both of my parents went to Cal, which at an Ivy might guarantee admission but in my case didn't affect
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by ladberg 6y ago
That sounds like it breaks all incremental builds (correct me if I'm wrong) for relatively little benefit (skipping linking? less header parsing?). Are there scenarios where unity builds are faster than incremental builds? Or is the in
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by ladberg 6y ago
Jan 1st is still way earlier than any other country could feasibly do it.
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by ladberg 6y ago
And Nvidia's GPUs now include the same type of hardware that TPUs have, so there's no reason to believe that TPUs will win out over GPUs.
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by ladberg 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24266369
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by ladberg 6y ago
Maybe this should be the link in the tweet instead of the tweet itself? [1] I don't really get the point of using blockchain for a sovereign currency because the whole point is to be decentralized, and if you're centralizing it th
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by ladberg 6y ago
It was made just to test the camera sensor without any lenses, just a pinhole. That means that the photo blurs relative to the size of the pinhole, which probably wasn't that small.
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by ladberg 6y ago
Knowing that the stock price will increase is never something a company can promise its workers. Elon calling Robert Reich a moron because the stock price happened to increase while he cut workers' pay is disingenuous. It could have
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by ladberg 6y ago
FYI, this requires profile data to do the splitting. Yet another reason to do PGO!
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Why FTL implies time travel (2016)(physicsmatt.com)
12 points by ladberg 6y ago|5 comments

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