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by nynx 4y ago
It is great that Hare has tagged unions and non-nullable types, but polymorphism has been a huge part of language advancement.
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by nynx 4y ago
Even in the embedded world, it’s becoming less justifiable to use C when your platform supports rust.
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by nynx 4y ago
It’s unfortunate that people are trying to revive a better version of the past, when the world has moved on and the past ultimately really wasn’t that great. C is a terrible language for building things in the modern world. Not including th
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by nynx 4y ago
This is great–hope it pans out and makes it to market quickly.
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by nynx 4y ago
What app is that? The zoom chat window?
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by nynx 4y ago
Academia is not blameless in restricting access to research.
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by nynx 4y ago
Rust structs have non-C layouts. You can optionally specifiy that a struct should be laid out in the same way that C does it.
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Avalanche Energy – Fusion power you can hold in your hands(avalanche.energy)
46 points by nynx 4y ago|49 comments
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by nynx 5y ago
I’d make a blog and post about my experiments.
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by nynx 5y ago
Thankfully, the price of PV has dropped by far more than a half over the past ten years.
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Modern ML is incredibly inefficient(sophant.substack.com)
1 points by nynx 5y ago|0 comments
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by nynx 5y ago
Yeah, there are ~100B neurons, ~1Q synapses, but how much compute is the brain actually using over time? Some quick googling gives this: - Generation of an action potential seems to use ~2.5×10^−7 J [0] - The brain consumes around 20W durin
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by nynx 5y ago
Yeah, this implies backpropagation is deeply suboptimal.
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by nynx 5y ago
I don't claim to be an expert, but I actually do undergraduate neuromorphic computing research. So, I don't know much, but I do know a little about what I'm talking about.
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by nynx 5y ago
Point taken, I do agree with you that it’s probably best to stay on topic in these kinds of posts.
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by nynx 5y ago
I’m certainly not discounting the results and I don’t see anything wrong with suggesting what I think would generally be a good path to look at in the future.
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by nynx 5y ago
They require roughly the same amount of storage as modern ANN networks except that "neurons/synapses" may have some additional state that needs to be stored. Compared to the compute they require in relation to the compute nee
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by nynx 5y ago
This is super impressive. Transformers have consistently done better than almost anyone thought. I still hold the opinion that we’re going to need to move to spiking neuron (SNN) models in the future to keep growing the networks. Spiking ne
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by nynx 5y ago
Yeah, too broad. Licenses and copyright are a net negative in my view, but patents are far worse.
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by nynx 5y ago
I agree that was the original intention, but these days (and possibly the entire time) it just slows innovation by preventing people from using technologies.
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by nynx 5y ago
Software is a lot less important than patents. Patents should not be allowed or should expire in a year.
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by nynx 5y ago
Who cares? Intellectual property frankly makes no sense if you don’t worship money.
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by nynx 5y ago
The difference between 1bar and vacuum (effectively mars pressure) frankly isn’t that much. Inflatable habitats are completely within reason.
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by nynx 5y ago
When people are starving and have nothing left to lose, change happens.
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by nynx 5y ago
Only 10ish years? This is incredible news.
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by nynx 5y ago
Is your plan to open-source this or open-source its core in the future?
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by nynx 5y ago
Machine learning models are much more complicated than perceptrons now.
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by nynx 5y ago
Unfortunately, I cannot.
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by nynx 5y ago
There are some new chip manufacturing technique coming down the pipeline, which will lead to prices dropping and likely "wafer-scale" will get to the mainstream.
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by nynx 5y ago
I'm a senior in university now, but it did really feel like this when I was in high-school. And it still feels like this in university, though I'm now much more capable of reasoning of whether it's true or if I just feel that

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