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by moconnor 11y ago
Fortran is widely used for scientific computing and in high performance computing some knowledge of assembly language is useful in making use of vector instructions - compiler auto-vectorisation still needs a lot of help. Fortran and assemb
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by moconnor 11y ago
I'm impressed - this is the first system I've read about from a startup that actually sounds as if it is architected to be fast. Targeting I/O and memory bottlenecks as the only acceptable limits is exactly what you should do
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by moconnor 11y ago
I had a tour of AMD's Dresden fab several years ago, it was literally a building inside a building, with the inner building mounted on shock absorbers to isolate it from vibrations. IIRC the manufacturing chain was entirely automated -
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by moconnor 11y ago
Currently supercomputers are used to do these things, because you can't do them on a mobile phone or desktop. The "supercomputer in your pocket" discussion is somewhat disingenuous - an iPhone6 from 2014 wouldn't eve
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by moconnor 12y ago
This reads as a fairly direct attack on the idea of that many core architectures such as the Intel Xeon Phi (which does exactly that: replaces 8 powerful Xeon cores with 60+ slower ones per socket) will ever become the norm on the client si
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by moconnor 12y ago
If you don't have advertising cookies set then you're either a robot or a potentially unprofitable human user from Google's point of view. Both would be best avoided. As others have noted here, that's not the goal here a
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by moconnor 12y ago
This is true; it's also true that Things Work here. Processes, equipment, social organizations. To get your fishing permit you will need to provide all the right bits of paper and stamps, no exceptions. The flip side of this is that
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by moconnor 12y ago
I think a motoring review of an electric car that doesn't feel the need to mention range or recharging problems marks a significant shift in public perception of EVs.
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by moconnor 12y ago
As a counterpoint from civilized Germany, after the birth of a child both parents are granted 14 months paid leave (at 2/3 salary up to ~$3k/mo) to split between them. Usually the mother takes 12 and the father 2 concurrently. The
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by moconnor 12y ago
As far as I can see this "story" is simply a rewriting of Frank Jacbob's blog, which is referred to but rather unsportingly not linked to: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/643-agloe-the-paper-town-st...
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by moconnor 12y ago
This. Our UK office has hired and relocated two developers from Spain over the past year or so. EU employment law makes it easy to move to a new country and work there and low-cost flights make it cheap to visit home.
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by moconnor 12y ago
"I bought a low-cost vacuum pump and constructed a makeshift degassing chamber. After the makeshift chamber imploded, I constructed a better one and started to wear eye protection, too." A nice taste of the gentle humour waiting f
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by moconnor 12y ago
codingbinary: your account has been hellbanned for several years and most people never see your comments; looking through your comment history I can't see why.
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by moconnor 12y ago
I grew up in the UK and have lived in Germany for almost ten years. When compared to the UK each of those points is broadly true.
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by moconnor 12y ago
Also it's extremely difficult to fire a German machinist; labour laws are employee-friendly in Germany and unions are strong. Many companies reduce working hours in difficult times rather than laying off workers.
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Investment Fund that invests into Domains(artmarcovici.com)
1 points by moconnor 12y ago|0 comments
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by moconnor 12y ago
NCD as a distance measure can be used for kNN and in this case actually was used for hierarchical clustering in the form of the unrooted binary tree. As for how NCD compares to euclidian, manhattan distances and so on - it's interestin
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by moconnor 12y ago
It's a particular problem with NCD because you don't always know what the compressor is measuring. At least with the L2 distance on a vector you know that those points were close to each other for a well-defined definition of &#x2
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by moconnor 12y ago
Sure, here's the AI after a change introduced a pretty severe bug: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lqclj3toywnh8ak/losing.svg?dl=1 In this case looking at the replays for the most similar win/loss runs (15 and
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by moconnor 12y ago
Some more details: * I used the complearn package from http://complearn.org/ - it hasn't been updated in a while and needed a few minor changes to compile on Ubuntu 14; drop me a line if you'd like the patch. * Si
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Machine Learning Teaches Me How to Write Better AI(yieldthought.com)
24 points by moconnor 12y ago|7 comments
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by moconnor 12y ago
The English text is 97 ASCII encoded bytes. Compressed with zlib: 86 bytes. Compressed with lzma: 98 bytes. The Ithkuil representation is just 30 UTF-8 encoded bytes. Compressed with zlib: 39 bytes. Compressed with lzma: 47 bytes. (Measured
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by moconnor 12y ago
Germany was referred to the EU court of justice for non-compliance with the advertising ban: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/0... Germany also unsuccessfully tried to disarm the ban itse
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by moconnor 12y ago
The source is also its own clue; just search for the error message and read the source around it. That's a strategy that works with many error messages in many programs, not just in this game.
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by moconnor 12y ago
I was delighted to run across this today. I've seen Linux in Javascript before, but this is an impressively fast implementation. A few of the highlights: * Framebuffer (and SCUMMVM: Monkey Island runs) * C compiler * Graphical browser
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Jor1k: OpenRISC OR1K JavaScript Emulator Running Linux With Network Support(s-macke.github.io)
2 points by moconnor 12y ago|1 comments
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by moconnor 12y ago
Although if you like or have code suitable for a multicore architecture you would get better performance from a Xeon Phi or the forthcoming Knight's Landing from Intel, both of which run x86_64 Linux. Between ARM, OpenPower and Intel&#
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by moconnor 12y ago
Bilingual speaker here: the German translation produced was very poor quality compared to the English one; the German speaker was enunciating excessively clearly, sitting in a sound studio and sticking to short, simple phrases with clear gr
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by moconnor 12y ago
This is an interesting insight into the dangers of ill-chosen metrics. It could only happen in a system in which the police were expected to produce (and were in various ways rewarded for) convictions instead of e.g. a maximally accurate pr
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by moconnor 12y ago
I think Joel Spolsky mentioned something about "the ycombinator kids" in one of his blogs many, many years ago. Can't find a link to it but that's where I first heard the name and investigated.

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