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by oivey 6y ago
> Take your example, and imagine that it is Facebook the gatekeeper of the unique store? Key point: Apple isn’t Facebook, and Apple has made it a key of their marketing that they are protecting their user’s privacy. This isn’t a fact tha
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by oivey 6y ago
With multiple app stores Apple will lose some ability to force app vendors to follow good privacy practices. For example, if Facebook violates Apple’s privacy policy now they can’t be on iOS. In a world of multiple stores Facebook can just
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by oivey 6y ago
Are they talking about going fabless? I thought they’ve only discussed making some parts at TSMC, not all of them. They’re not on the first iteration at this point. They’ve been on 14 nm since 2014. 10 nm and to a lesser extent 7 nm is fail
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by oivey 6y ago
So you’re getting more for less by eating out more often and not tipping? And you’re also saving more than ever? I mean, that’s cool, but I hope you don’t think you’re being altruistic.
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by oivey 6y ago
Maybe. The amount of work to make a taxi service is much, much smaller than that to make a self driving car. I could see Waymo entering lots of industries like that to capture easy profits.
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by oivey 6y ago
Generally speaking, the tests were writing the code in the notebook and looking at the results. At least most of the stuff I use notebooks for is either one off or difficult to test. One off stuff might be some exploratory analysis or glue
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by oivey 6y ago
I suspect that the goal is really to ensure that cars on the lot are properly charged. When I was looking into a PHEV a few years back, everyone online was complaining the cars were never, ever charged. That had to hurt sales since PHEVs ge
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by oivey 6y ago
No, in my experience, you are wrong. Becoming an industrial researcher trades some independence for money, steady project funding, and the opportunity to more directly impact the world. In return your employer gets first or sole access to y
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by oivey 6y ago
I would be absolutely furious if a manager blocked my work from being published. Even a manager who has worked as a researcher, in my experience, significantly lacks the expertise to be making such judgments. A research manager’s job is to
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by oivey 6y ago
I don’t know that taxpayers “thought” about the cost of the space program and decided to give up on it. It could be true, but that’s not how I’ve seen politics work. I think it more had to do with the fact that we beat the USSR and the USSR
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by oivey 6y ago
People want something like a persistent REPL, and for whatever reason most IDEs have either not supported this or supported it badly.
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by oivey 6y ago
I don’t disagree with your pessimism, but at the same time 9 years is an eternity to just install electrical infrastructure. Hopefully laws like this will put a fire under people’s asses.
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by oivey 6y ago
This article falls well short of providing “the” reason. It presents a hypothesis and then supports it with a single data point. I also don’t see how indirect polling is going to put Nate Silver out of business. You will still need models t
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by oivey 6y ago
At least addressing #1, I think people underestimate the fact that renting property is a business. If making your mortgage is contingent on both income from your job and your business, that’s a pretty risky position to be in. I’m not sure i
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by oivey 6y ago
Even the battery comparison is generous because improvements in battery tech actually have made it out of the lab and into consumer products. Further, a lab battery actually functions as a battery, whereas a cure for fake mouse Alzheimer’s
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by oivey 6y ago
It’s a precompilation hit, but it requires some compilation every time. Thinking about Julia like you might think about incremental C++ builds isn’t exactly right. A somewhat useful analogy though is that Julia is kind of like C++ template
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by oivey 6y ago
I write crazy algorithms all the time, but I guess I have a more research oriented role. Ultimately someone has to write the crazy stuff you want to glue together, and the more productive those people are the sooner you can have those libra
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by oivey 6y ago
I just tried it, and it took 13 seconds to load and plot some random numbers. It could be better but it’s an acceptable trade off for my usage. Not as good as Python in this regard, but much better than Matlab.
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by oivey 6y ago
As opposed to being trapped in the C++ CUDA API? Julia isn’t that much harder to learn than Python. Does anyone really think the hard part of say, deep learning, is in learning Python or PyTorch?
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by oivey 6y ago
There are very real pain points in Python, too. Developers tend to internalize these pain points to the extent that they’re completely blind to them, and that limits innovation. Not all interesting and fast algorithms can be vectorized. The
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by oivey 6y ago
There’s been rumors of this, but it’s not confirmed. A big percentage of the cost of the 3090 (and 3080) is the GDDR6X. A 3080 with 20GB of GDDR6X will still be really expensive, so it’s unclear to me that they will actually release somethi
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by oivey 6y ago
That’s a promising project. Evil integration is a key feature for me, but once that is supported that will be a killer package.
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by oivey 6y ago
I’ve recently switched to VS Code, and the driving issue for me was really related to the popularity of the editor. Some combination of the LSP server and the chain of emacs packages to interface with that server were constantly broken. I c
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by oivey 6y ago
Almost all of that 1% is not developing greener technology, and it’ll be nearly impossible for tech alone to close the emissions gap between poor and rich. If we want to fix the pollution problem it has to start with the wealthy reducing co
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by oivey 6y ago
Sure, that’s probably the most major reason. Having an app store that requires apps to meet certain quality standards, respect privacy, and not contain malware is part of why people are willing to pay a premium for iPhones. It goes without
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by oivey 6y ago
Doesn’t most mobile app revenue come from iOS? That’s not an accident, and a lot of it arguably has to do with the walled garden.
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Rand wrote fiction, not even anything purporting to be history.
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Targeting platform specifics both for features and performance is in large part the point of writing C. Backwards compatibility is also a big C feature, and it’s hard to see how forcing the language into a runtime like this wouldn’t be brea
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by oivey 6y ago
Part of the story here, too, is that relatively few Americans make up the populations of top graduate programs. An undergraduate degree or less might be sufficient to build a great advertising business, but it's unlikely to be enough t
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Is it higher? He resigned as CEO of Uber due to a flurry of scandals, including the Levandowski one. Do people really separate Uber’s shady business practices from his leadership? I’d be surprised if investors do, although they may just not

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