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by sgillen 8y ago
Honest question. What has stopped people from creating a standard with no undefined behavior? Is such a thing impossible? Have people done it?
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by sgillen 8y ago
It seems openAI is getting less and less open. I would like to see the source too, although I think maybe we've been a bit spoiled in the past expecting them to share all their source with us. They have a lot of incentives not to. Keep
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by sgillen 8y ago
I actually usually like preview but for very large files (1000+ pages) and for some form fillables I’ve had a lot of issues. Unfortunately those are two situations I run into a lot!
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by sgillen 8y ago
I really don’t like most pdf viewers. Adobe acrobat and preview are the two I go between and I don’t really love either.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Feedforward neural networks are not turing complete but recurrent neural networks are.
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by sgillen 8y ago
No but in dynamic languages just making the array before hand can greatly increase efficiency.
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by sgillen 8y ago
>> that becomes king of the planet earth and replaces the dying sun
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by sgillen 8y ago
Spoilers!
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by sgillen 8y ago
The book of the new sun is probably my favorite series bar none. Wolfe will be remembered as one of the greats I think. Very sad to see him go.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Specialization. We're already seeing specialized processors take over niches of compute (Googles TPU, bitcoin ASICs, GPUs etc etc). I think we'll see this trend accelerate.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I also think python is going to be around for a long long time. It has become the runaway favorite in the AI/ML space, and that space seems to be here to stay. Even bigger for its staying power is the fact that I see it more and more a
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think job prospects for most engineering majors is still very good even if they don't want to do dev work.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think they are saying that china needs to plan for more and more people moving into its cities. The buildings are empty now but maybe that's better than having a housing shortage in 15 years.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. I do not have any reason to believe men are any more resilient to harassment than women are.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Why? Do you see it as a way to fool people into working harder against their own best interests? I think there are people who genuinely love their job and I think that's OK.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think it really just depends on charger availability. Probably could not perform that same trip if you lived in the midwest.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Me too. I keep trying different things (notion, bear, Evernote etc etc) and always find myself coming back to emacs.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Do you think getting a PhD is worth it if you already plan on going into industry?
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think that asking really simple fizz buzz style questions in this context is probably fine. The whole point I think is to screen out candidates who can't do these sorts of assignments in ~5-20 minutes or whatever. With a take home as
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by sgillen 8y ago
Must have been pretty dramatic if they suddenly canceled all flights rather than winding down the company. The article doesn't exactly make that clear.
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by sgillen 8y ago
This is very cool and looks like it could be extremely useful. Maybe worth trying to integrate into rostopic echo itself, I.E. by passing an extra flag or something. Might be worth going that route with ROS2 since I see roshow2 is still in
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by sgillen 8y ago
Scanlime (firmware, hardware hacks) EEVBlog (electronics) Ave (more mechanical) Really looking for more software oriented channels though!
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by sgillen 8y ago
Can you speak at all as to what skills are in most demand for robotics? It’s such a broad field it’s hard to know what to focus on in order to be marketable. Do you think your education matters? Do people want to see a masters/PhD or i
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by sgillen 8y ago
Why do you avoid mutexes and locks? Are they just hard to make bug free when you start scaling them up?
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by sgillen 8y ago
With regards to refactoring I’ve never had a problem using pycharm for refactoring python. But that is literally the only tool I can say that for.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Still feels dirty though doesn't it? Would never want to rely on this fact..
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think it is largely a matter of volume, Not just the volume of robots sold but also of the sensors and actuators that go into them. It's also a matter of market, no one is really selling robots in this price range to consumers, it&#x
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by sgillen 8y ago
Even if something seems obvious to you it’s still best to verify it rigorously. From a cynical point of view a bullying boss might be able to extract more working hours out of employees, or get them to upsell products at places like Best Bu
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by sgillen 8y ago
They also left out ls and cd, might have been considered too basic.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Is there a real advantage to using awk over python for most tasks? Or is just a little faster/more convenient if you already know it?

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