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The simplest approach would be ... The nationalised mortgage firms that guarantee the bonds ... should be forced to raise their capital buffers and increase their fees Raising capital requirements seems like a minor tweak, a band-aid cure
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This crashed my NVIDIA driver.
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> The Apollo program fixed for inflation is something like $130 billion. That's buys you a lot of talent, testing, etc. $130 billion was the total Apollo program budget. For the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) software in question, &
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>computer languages (C++ especially, but also systems built in C) are too complex for the average mind I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but have you looked at the source code [1] of the Apollo Guidance computer [2]? This software wa
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Quantopian submarine [1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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It must have been quite painstaking to hand-code this neural network into WebGL shaders. It could have been easier if the browser vendors would just implement the WebCL standard. This seems like a throwback to the pre-CUDA "GPGPU"
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Would he also argue that physics is "not everywhere" since we are not all elite physicists?
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Fascinating interview! I had just learned about Lonnie Johnson yesterday! I was reading up on the Lingo programming language[1] and found out that it was invented by a Jamaican computer scientist named John H. Thompson [2], which led me to
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From a recent Harvard Business Review article: "What do investors make of teams that split the equity equally? Our data suggest that they are less than thrilled. Even after statistically controlling for a lot of factors, our data still
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by n00b101 10y ago
Could it be related to Pearson PLC selling off its 50% equity stake in The Economist Group in Aug 2015 for £469m?
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> Which GPUs they offer and how much, nobody knows. They might not offer GPUs at all. It may be that Google is planning to build a cloud using their own proprietary "Tensor Processing Unit" chip designed for TensorFlow ( https:
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Thanks. I was glossing over the details. The point I was trying to emphasize is that the Azure instance gives you the whole K80 board (i.e. two GK210 processors), unlike the AWS G2 instance which effectively gives you a virtualized half of
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Not sure about the exact pricing shown here, but it looks like Azure blows AWS GPU pricing out of the water. Comparing specs: AWS g2.2xlarge: * DRAM: 15GB * GPU processor: 1xGK104 * 1536 CUDA cores * 2.29Tflops/s peak s
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> Apple is using one of AMD’s "Polaris" graphics chips Huge disappointment. MacBook Pro used to have NVIDIA GPUs and was an excellent CUDA development environment. They switched to AMD around 2012. I suspect the change was more
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How does this contrast with recursive descent parser?
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It's not SRAM, but Kights Landing has 16GB of "MCDRAM" which is high bandwidth 3D-stacked DRAM. 400+GB/s throughput but latency is similar to conventional DRAM.
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>Make way for the 64-bit 128-core 1024gb RAM 8cm^2 SoC This is already happening? Intel Xeon Knights Landing already has an enormous 6.83cm^2 die size. It has 72 "cores," each of which has a 512-bit vector processor. In some se
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> saying stuff more like "We choose to go to the moon" So ... building space missile technology for a cold war arms race?
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Or perhaps a return to discrete sound cards?
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> Diagrams suck And yet anytime two or more programmers get together to talk about what they are creating, they start drawing diagrams on whiteboards.
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Related Trivia: The 8th largest conglomerate in South Korea, the "Lotte Group," is named after a character in Goethe's _The Sorrows of Young Werther_ [1] If you ever stay at the Lotte hotel in Seoul, instead of finding a Gide
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I did not have a good experience with boost::variant ... Compile times increased drastically, compiler error messages became enormous and garbled with templates, syntax was onerous in places (e.g. "make_recursive_variant"), and id
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I know someone who left a finance job in NYC to move to London. Was fired in his first week; the trading desk he had joined was abruptly closed down. I guess senior management kept the plans secret from the line managers who kept on hiring
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http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
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FORTRAN disallows pointer aliasing, which allows the compiler to perform certain instruction re-ordering optimizations. As far as I know this helps more with instruction level parallelism, as opposed to auto-vectorization. C99 introduced th
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Now check what the website prominently linked to looks like: WWW.GEICO.COM The insurance industry is currently in a fever pitch over "Digital Business," "IoT," "Wearables," "Disruption," "Millenn
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I think "commodity exchange" would be the correct term, as opposed to "stock exchange." Trading commodities on an exchange definitely makes sense. Indeed, all legal commodities are traded on exchanges. It also makes sens
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> Now I'm off to start a new venture as a solo entrepreneur. The only truly successful technical leader is the founder, and that feels right. My last day at my day job is June 30th. :) Hey I'm off to start a new venture as a so
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> I like to throw in market estimation ... questions FYI, this is known as a Fermi problem, named after the famous physicist Enrico Fermi. The classic Fermi problem is, "How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?" [1] [1] ht
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> until we stop using triangle meshes Is this a realistic possibility? What would we use instead?

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