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by sannee 9y ago
Why would you need a "real" phone for UI testing? Android has a very good emulator available.
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by sannee 9y ago
The math necessary for ML/AI (statistics/vector calculus) is mostly taught at undergrad level though isn't it? So most engineers should already have it covered.
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by sannee 9y ago
On the other hand, they paid the opportunity cost of not spending their time learning something that could be actually used to improve their living situation (electrical/mechanical engineering comes to mind).
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by sannee 9y ago
> But if so-called ML experts don't even know undergraduate computer science To be fair, Machine learning seems more closely related to applied mathematics - statistics/optimization than to computer science.
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by sannee 9y ago
That's surely some attempt at humour, I mean, noone can be _this_ insane right?
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by sannee 9y ago
If you spend as much time learning Python as you spent learning english, it would likely be much more understandable than english. On the other hand, maybe there is some upper limit as to how well can humans internalize programming concepts
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by sannee 9y ago
Of course there is a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1838/
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by sannee 9y ago
The STM32L0x1 series has just a bit more at 0.9 uW (stop mode + RTC), but it gets you a full microcontroller. I am unsure if we have enough of an energy budget to get us some display (e-ink likely) (and the MCU also needs some extra energy
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by sannee 9y ago
> I don't understand why we should try to make somebody choose a subject they didn't choose to do. If they didn't choose to do a subject because, for example, they had their high school teacher(s) tell them that he "d
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by sannee 9y ago
> If you don't study computer science now you will likely be in the same boat 30 years from now with illiterate folks of today. "Studying computer science" and "using a computer" are worlds apart. And the distanc
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by sannee 9y ago
Okay then, let's assume you are doing something more cutting edge. Like speculative execution involving memory prefetching. What are "industry best practices" for that? There are like 3 companies which do this competitively a
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by sannee 9y ago
Assume you build a product using TLS as the underlying encryption layer. Unfortunately, few months later, some bored mathematician figures out how to completely break AES and ECDH. Should you be held accountable for choosing "weak&quot
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by sannee 9y ago
It's very well documented that writing outside array boundaries in C can cause undefined behavior (leading to arbitrary code execution no less!), yet Adobe isn't exactly sued for every buffer overflow in Flash.
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by sannee 9y ago
> I failed exams so many times only because of that vocal reproduction of learned theory that required word for word knowledge. That sounds odd for college-level math courses (note that I am just a first year engineering undergrad and th
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by sannee 9y ago
> Once again: compared to other STEM fields, women participate less in CS than any other field except physics. Hm, are these US statistics? Cursory look at our electrical engineering (european post-communist country) study programme list
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by sannee 9y ago
> penchant for math is randomly distributed among all people Fields medals are not awarded based on "penchant for math" though. And it surely isn't exactly fault of the prize committee that there aren't very many fema
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by sannee 9y ago
> It seems dangerous to rely on a for-profit host Unfortunately, "non-profit" hosts are somewhat in a short supply.
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by sannee 9y ago
> it removes some of the «magical» aura modern compilers have in the eyes of the class. Reading compiler output after adding -O3 seems to add magical aura in my case :)
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by sannee 9y ago
> he would definitely lose to LAPACK on big problems, purely because of using Cramer's rule. More importantly though, the code would probably take ages (as in, "age of the universe" ages) to compile, as Cramer's rule
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by sannee 9y ago
What bothers me more is the fact that the article seems to compare LAPACKs function for solving any-sized systems of equations with a specialized function for solving 5x5 systems. I mean, it's neat trick and all, but the comparison wit
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by sannee 9y ago
> the lethal dosage is equivalent to about 20 pills. It's really hard to accidentally eat 20 pills, especially when the usual does is about 4 per day...
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by sannee 9y ago
> The bigger problem is with placing fine components on the board. It's just slow and irritating. I will position the component in its location and then slowly bring it down until it touches the paste. Have you tried not using solde
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by sannee 9y ago
Note that Intel is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, which means they donate >=500k$ per year.
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by sannee 9y ago
A random google link says that you would need hundreds of plants per person to get sufficient oxygen production [1]. And during night, the plants would just produce CO2, which would presumably get accumulated, making the whole situation wor
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by sannee 9y ago
As MySQL uses a custom binary protocol, it should be fine. On the other hand, anything using a line-based protocol is in danger. https://bouk.co/blog/hacking-developers/ So, if you have, say, telnet bound to local
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by sannee 9y ago
> If open source folks can write an OS without much funding, then they can design a CPU Large open source projects tend to have significant amount of funding - think about Chrome, OpenJDK, the Linux Kernel...
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by sannee 9y ago
I don't think that tri-state logic is used in ICs anymore (?). EDIT: http://vswww.kaist.ac.kr/ENGLISH/old_lecture/ee878-2002/lect... It probably does not imply that the chip is indestructible through mic
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by sannee 9y ago
> Just to save a buck? Exactly, FE listings tend to be cheaper > What's the stated rational from seller for this I think that "bitcoins dropped in price by 30% since two seconds ago" was at least one of the reasons.
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by sannee 9y ago
I mean, sure, it's not exactly in good taste, but noone really uses multi-user desktop setups these days...
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by sannee 9y ago
Maybe because he/she isn't a dick? :)

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