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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
Why would a bayesian model be better than, say, astrology in pricing that?
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
If a committee can produce the Cyberiad, books should always be written by committees.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> There is a Scotland that the found an 81.4% reduction in cavities. Do you have a reference?
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> We used Lotus Notes for email My condolences.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Is this a parody? > Beyond problems at the border, the current Secretary for Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - has said that he will send those with ADHD to camps. Source: Futurism. What he actually said: > "I’m
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Like Billy G selling DOS before he owned it DOS actually existed. It just had a different owner.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Controlled by a quantum computer, obviously.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
You can, but a patent is still limited to around 20 years. How can a 1972 invention be still be patented in 2004?
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Note how similar this is to the pulse oximeter, which was invented in Japan in 1972 and patented in the US in 2004. How could an invention from 1972, which I assume was publically disclosed around that time, be patented in 2004? Were t
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> It’ll provide mesmerizing computational properties Maybe, one day, or never. In the mean time, it will generate a lot of hot and humid hype.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand. I've taken multiple numerical analysis courses, including at the graduate level. The only thing I've learnt was: be afraid, very afraid.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
This industry is cyclical. People forget that because this cycle was so long and so deep. UC Berkeley produces more CS graduates than it ever did. So does every university, and every bootcamp. The market cannot grow forever. And things that
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
From Zuckerberg's messages, it appears that an important motivation for buying Instagram was to limit the competition facing Facebook. Thanks Obama for enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act: > SECTION 1. Every contract, combination in
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Barclays tells customers to contact food banks as IT disruption enters third day(news.sky.com)
6 points by oldgradstudent 2y ago|0 comments
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Just curious, do they have a migration plan? Have they started new designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL?
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
I'm pretty sure they're going to say they don't regret it at all. Either because it's true, or because they are too invested in it. When I've started doing FPGA consulting a few years ago I've started using Chi
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
No is a good first approximation. There is a little bit of industry usage, with the biggest user being SiFive - the founders come from the UC Berkeley group that developed Chisel. Also, VexRiscv has some industry presence.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Cool project, I played with it a bit a few hours ago. A small bug report: if you have both a still image and a video in the timeline, the video does not play in the preview.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
He and his research group developed several highly influential tools for logic synthesis and verification, including Espresso, MIS, SIS, MVSIS, VIS, and ABC. These tools were released under permissive licenses, and widely adopted across the
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Robert K. Brayton, pioneer in logic synthesis and formal verification, has died(eecs.berkeley.edu)
5 points by oldgradstudent 2y ago|2 comments
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
As a work of art, sure. But as books containing information, printing presses produced superior products.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Usually, though, errors are corrected and every every printing has fewer errors than the previous one.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
There's a big difference. Printing presses produce superior products. A mediocre audiobook is certainly better than no audiobook at all, but it is an inferior product to a well produced audiobook.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> But, yeah, let's call it joint Russian-Ukrainian to shift the blame towards Russians. No, I mentioned it because a joint Russian-Ukrainian exercise is unthinkable now.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
In 2001 we also had Siberian Airlines flight 1812 from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was shot down by Ukrainian S-200 during a joint Russian/Ukrainian exercise! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
Havana syndrome can have a far less charitable explanation. There is no objective test for Havana syndrome, but being diagnosed with it grants significant financial and non-financial benefits.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> There are massive proprietary datasets out there which people avoid using for training due to copyright concerns. The main legal concern is their unwillingness to pay to access these datasets.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Oh yes, Zapata Computing, the best funded company in quantum algorithms just went under this year. It's kinda hard to make money by developing algorithms for imaginary magic computers.
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by oldgradstudent 2y ago
> Also, what is the relationship, if any, between quantum computing and AI? Are these technologies complementary? AI is quite good in producing the meaningless drivel needed for quantum computing related press releases.
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Updates Spark Uproar: Google's AlphaChip "updates" reignite criticisms(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by oldgradstudent 2y ago|0 comments

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