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by mdda 12y ago
The patent was drafted very generally, but seems to focus on the volume (rather than elasticity) of the internal components. OTOH, it would be great if it were even more generally drafted, since its priority date is in 1995. 1995+17 = 201
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by mdda 12y ago
There are some good TLDRs here. But the actual article includes a link to a UI with the actual ImageNet decision task created by the author. You can compete against the winning ConvNet too..
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by mdda 12y ago
Willow Garage somehow pulling the rug from under Unbounded Robotics is a backwards move for this industry, which has always struggled to get decent forward momentum (being innovative electro-mechanical hardware, looking for early adopters,
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by mdda 12y ago
And Scala [5] (with a Spark-specific fork too, iSpark [6]) [5] https://github.com/mattpap/IScala [6] https://github.com/tribbloid/ISpark
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by mdda 12y ago
Just like when a startup bases their existence on (say) the Facebook API, becoming part of Microsoft's ecosystem has a lot of benefits : But there are significant downside risks. I think it's already telling that you're inter
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by mdda 12y ago
That seems like something that should be on the website...
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by mdda 12y ago
IMO, this is a great deck for IBM (better than many of the tech presentations by companies pitching for enterprise business): (a) Showing interesting non-proprietary technology, which everyone can play with; (b) Well thought out demos, whic
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by mdda 12y ago
It's unclear how the 'wait multiple cycles' is such a deal-breaker. Even when using a GPU (in the standard way) there are cycles that get used in processing the different stages of a computation. But, more significantly, th
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by mdda 12y ago
But over a specific time-period, doesn't spike-and-fire integrate signals, so that effectively you're operating with real-valued quantities? Isn't this the brain's way of using digital signals (more robust, lower power)
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by mdda 12y ago
For the control input via UART are you connecting a USB->UART interface to the phone, and then talking MAVlink to the ArduPilot (essentially like [1])? Or are you going lower level and talking multichannel RC control signals, which woul
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by mdda 12y ago
At the recent show in Asia, Nvidia was keen to promote the video input side of these smaller GPU chips - with particular reference to self-driving cars. In their vision, each car is going to need approx. 8 cameras, and each of these is goi
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by mdda 12y ago
192 cores is right. It's now Nvidia's smallest 'slab', with the workstation/server class chips having multiples of that.
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by mdda 12y ago
But isn't being seen as an Apple 'clone' a huge win for the company? In China, Xiaomi is distinguishing themselves from their competitors by being consistently associated in the same sentence as Apple, whereas the others are
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by mdda 12y ago
With due respect, "I had to turn on my VPN to read this article and post this comment" is overstating. I understand that you may feel like you should only read/post with the aid of a VPN : However, having lived in the US f
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by mdda 12y ago
You're overstating : I'm sitting in Holland Village (Singapore) reading HN just fine.
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by mdda 12y ago
Another benefit of flipping a coin is that if, after the choice is made (e.g. the coin comes up heads), you instinctively regret it not having been tails : then you know what you wanted in your heart. Since your brain had no better answer
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by mdda 12y ago
Except for medical technology : without it, the cave-man would have far fewer years of expected life-span to enjoy sitting by the fire with his family. And many of those years would be filled with ill-health, etc.
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by mdda 12y ago
But once the Engineering component has been hammered down as much as server costs were in the previous generation ('Sun pizza boxes with Oracle' turned into AWS on OSS), what's the next largest expense line? If the next most
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by mdda 12y ago
Yes to the more reasonable px/performance of a desktop/server Linux backend for HPC. OTOH, if you were doing OpenCL instead of CUDA, the i5 would happily run that as an OpenCL target (albeit more slowly), so that you could do com
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by mdda 12y ago
This was a surprisingly relevant story for me - I'm just decompressing after a "Marine Hackathon" held over the weekend in Singapore [1]. It was an all-too-brief glimpse into the vast container transshipment business, and th
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by mdda 12y ago
Where did the footnotes go?
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by mdda 12y ago
I've heard that often in 'blind' peer reviews, the feedback will often be : "Paper would be improved by including reference to the work of XYZ" - essentially creating additional citations for author XYZ (who may, co
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by mdda 12y ago
If you read the sentence you quoted, you'll see that you agree with it : It says that Democratic elites (even those that are more concerned with social and cultural issues) don't really care about an issue until it affects their o
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by mdda 12y ago
Another anecdote : The Kick-Off GoLang Meetup was held in Singapore last night. There was a large Chinese contingent in comparison to other meetups (turnout 20-30, majority Chinese. SingaporeJS turnout 100-150, much more mixed crowd : Whe
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by mdda 12y ago
Here's an "elementary" proof : If n is prime>3 then it's definitely odd. n^2-1 = (n+1).(n-1) But n is odd, so (n+1) and (n-1) are both even. So overall, we have a factor of 4. But, since one of those two is 2 differe
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by mdda 12y ago
Maybe the VIC-20 was quirky, but the Pet used PEEKs and POKEs. Oh, the memories (32Kb fully loaded)
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by mdda 12y ago
As a guess, this paper is appearing here not only because it's cool, but also the "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" course (by Martin Odersky) has just re-started on Coursera. He mentioned GPU-related DSLs in his O
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by mdda 12y ago
It takes me back too... In 1990(?) I worked as a summer intern in the Cambridge UK offices of Perihelion, who were the UK designers/distributors (or something) for the Atari Transputer Workstation. We (the interns) spent the summer
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by mdda 12y ago
Perhaps you should over-write them with garbage before doing this. Simply deallocating them (or assigning them to new objects) could leave them hanging around in memory until something else overwrites the same memory space.
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by mdda 13y ago
I completely agree : But many people (including, possibly the original creator) would feel differently if (a) they chose not to take the advice, and everything remains the same ("I don't need that money"); and (b) someone els

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