omikun

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by omikun 3y ago
I like where you're going with this! I think a stronger argument is that animals can survive so well by ONLY predicting just a few seconds in to the future for the most part. If you own a cat you'll realize most of them don't
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by omikun 3y ago
A single precision flop is in the order of pJ. [1] A transistor would be much less. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09206.pdf
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by omikun 3y ago
If the weight is zero it doesn’t need to exist
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by omikun 3y ago
Did you mean intermediated?
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by omikun 3y ago
I don't have any examples but I would love it if spreadsheet programs would use this for generating plots. It's pretty much impossible to plot anything with more than 100k data points in anything I've tried.
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by omikun 3y ago
Because it makes it easier for people to disassemble stolen iphones and sell the parts if they can be reused.
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by omikun 3y ago
>> a future in which capital concentrates even further into the hands of a few technological elite who make their money off of flouting existing laws and the labor of thousands I think this is the central issue and is not limited to j
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by omikun 3y ago
I don’t think making less immersive games is some how more important than more immersive ones. The more important problems aren’t gated by lack of talent but lack of money and or political will. Throwing talent at it (if you could) doesn’t
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by omikun 3y ago
To keep things in perspective we should compare fatalities per person trips or person miles. Total deaths doesn't mean as much when a lot more people travel by car.
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by omikun 3y ago
The "hotness" were also scientists
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by omikun 3y ago
No offense but this sounds like it was written by GPT. /s not /s Just covering my bases. I really can't tell anymore.
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by omikun 3y ago
Plants are going to get less sun and how would that impact the global ecology and economy? Would we need to grow more plants to make up the difference? Would this disrupt ecological balance in areas all over the earth? There’s a lot more to
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by omikun 4y ago
Social interaction is addictive in the way food is addictive. A lot of the draw of social media/games/drugs is an attempt to fill the hole left by a lack of social interaction. Indeed, take away social media and people will hang o
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by omikun 4y ago
The first computer I used was a Pentium Pro 233mhz and I remembered how fast things were moving every year for at least a decade before it slowed to irrelevance. The M1 was long time coming. I remember back in 2013 when the iPhone 5S came o
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by omikun 5y ago
It's not like this is some new fancy technology no one could do before. There has never been any technical barriers to scanning your phone for insert-reason as part of the OS. The slippery slope argument could be made from the first sm
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by omikun 5y ago
How could it have been reworded to avoid the "fedora-tipping" connotation? I'm being sincere here since I also appreciate book recommendations and I get probably half my book recommendations from HN.
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by omikun 6y ago
I'm concerned about the drop in mobility too. But stepping back for a bit, imagine mobility stayed the same, what would that mean? Would that mean everyone earns roughly the same after a few generations? Or would it mean the income ine
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by omikun 6y ago
Looks pretty good against Intel's new Xe Max: https://gfxbench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&did1=907542... It's not the 4-6x in raw graphics improvement advertised but at 10W vs Xe Max's 25W for just t
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by omikun 6y ago
That's interesting considering the M1 is 2.6 TFLOPS.
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by omikun 6y ago
Sure let's compare. Let's see how fast a 3090 is on 10W.
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by omikun 6y ago
Sounds like IBM is not wasting area and power on out of order scheduling to find independent instructions within one thread. If you're running a lot of threads anyway, you get more independent instructions to work with for free!
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by omikun 6y ago
Apple licenses the isa only. They implement their own micro architecture.
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by omikun 6y ago
That's assuming 6 bytes per vertex, 3 vertices per triangle? Most assets use triangle strips, which averages closer to 1 vertex per triangle. They also said the souce mesh is in billions of triangles, but their Nanite pairs that down t
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by omikun 7y ago
Say it's 1% and doubles every 3 days, that's 7 doublings away from over capacity or 21 days or 3 weeks time. Keep in mind bed to patient distribution is non uniform so we'll see shortage before then. Lockdowns take 12 days or
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by omikun 7y ago
I have a first gen pro with the pencil 1 and find it better than an Intuos 3. I wasn't aware the later Intuos got much better, but I have not gone back to Photoshop/Wacom after getting the pencil. The comfort, form factor, and eas
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by omikun 7y ago
Selective memory? Google made this thing called Android. What was Microsoft doing?
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by omikun 7y ago
I was going to agree with you since hobby, for me, is more of a solitary activity. But then I do know several people at work who would say soccer or basketball is their hobby, something they play regularly and look forward to doing. Althoug
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by omikun 7y ago
To play devil's advocate, why would Intel spend money to allow their competitor to leverage speedups from their compiler?
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by omikun 7y ago
Sure, that works for adding something without a lot of connections. But if you are tasked to add a feature that has many hooks into a complex system (plus additional unforseen hooks that you won't realize is needed until you implement
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by omikun 8y ago
Your eyes become less sensitive to flickering in low light. That's how movie theaters could work at 24fps. That's not to say no one can be bothered by it. But it's much less likely to bother anyone. I have sensitive eyes and

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