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by magoghm 5y ago
I tested it on my M1 Mac and it reached 46.78 Gigaflops, which is quite amazing for a CPU running at 3.2 GHz. Isn't that like an average of 14.6 floating point operations per clock cycle?
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Apple custom chip guru jumps ship to rejoin Intel(theregister.com)
2 points by magoghm 5y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 5y ago
What I love about Unix is that you can talk about pipes blocked by dead children spawned by daemons, and it actually makes sense.
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by magoghm 5y ago
Limited? The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM.
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by magoghm 5y ago
I had very low expectations for this TV show, so when I saw the first episode I felt it was better than what I had expected. But when I tried to watch the second episode, it was so bad that I couldn't even bring myself to finish it (I
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Simulated AI creatures demonstrate how mind and body evolve and succeed together(techcrunch.com)
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Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price(tomshardware.com)
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by magoghm 5y ago
I recently discovered that the most popular tool used by scientists who do research using agent based modeling is based on Logo: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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Novel imaging method reveals surprising arrangement of DNA in the cell's nucleus(phys.org)
2 points by magoghm 5y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 5y ago
And also in Ruby.
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Man Photographed as Baby on ‘Nevermind’ Cover Sues Nirvana for Child Pornography(yahoo.com)
4 points by magoghm 5y ago|3 comments
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Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head(vice.com)
26 points by magoghm 5y ago|1 comments
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Nvidia’s ARM-Powered Linux RTX Demo Is a Warning Shot to x86, Microsoft(extremetech.com)
16 points by magoghm 5y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 5y ago
amazon.co.jp is now working again for me also.
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by magoghm 5y ago
Indeed, amazon.co.uk product pages seem to be working.
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by magoghm 5y ago
It isn't only Amazon.com, they are also down for amazon.com.mx and amazon.co.jp (the other two Amazon stores I use frequently).
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Andrew Ng Launches a Campaign for Data-Centric AI(forbes.com)
1 points by magoghm 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientists create a lifelike material that has metabolism and can self-reproduce(bigthink.com)
12 points by magoghm 6y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 6y ago
“ The intrinsic value of a US dollar comes from the fact that the US government is saying that these specific pieces of paper and metal are special.” <—— the US government is not inside the pieces of paper, so it is an entity outside of
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by magoghm 6y ago
The IRS asking for taxes to be payed in dollars is one of the factors that gives value to those paper dollars, but it is not intrinsic to those pieces of paper it is an extrinsic factor.
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Single-celled slime mold with no nervous system that remembers food locations(phys.org)
1 points by magoghm 6y ago|0 comments
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Free Open Source GPU Under Development for RISC-V(tomshardware.com)
4 points by magoghm 6y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 6y ago
Some day we are going to discover how to apply all research results like this one, and we'll end up with the healthiest mice ever :)
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A Redditor is squeezing entire movies onto a single floppy disk(engadget.com)
5 points by magoghm 6y ago|0 comments
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A simple rule drives the evolution of useless complexity(phys.org)
1 points by magoghm 6y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 6y ago
Actually what you need to recognize are expressions, and expressions with short variable names are much easier to recognize. For example, if I write: theDependentVariable = theCoefficient * theIndependentVariable + theIntercept it is
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A Brief Compendium of When Buttons Ruled the Earth(messynessychic.com)
1 points by magoghm 6y ago|1 comments
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by magoghm 6y ago
I learned to use vi because it was the only full screen editor available in the Unix machines I was using in 1983. At that time, I occasionally still used ed for simple edits because I didn't want to wait for vi to startup :)
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by magoghm 6y ago
Sterilized by radiation sounds much more risky to me. You don't know what else was changed by the radiation. With gene editing at least you know what you changed.
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Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last(sciencemag.org)
2 points by magoghm 6y ago|0 comments

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