singhrac

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   by singhrac 6y ago

   The best solution is to use the O(log n) time exponentiation of a matrix, which is fast enough to be constant.
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   > Perhaps it's fixable via education and platform-specific guidelines. I think this is right, but I also think it should be clear to everyone (i.e. in the first tutorial) that not using a Link widget will make this work wrong for al
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   I think a lot of people will compare React (Native) and Flutter in this thread, and as someone who has had a positive experience with Flutter, I will say that by far the biggest benefits were that (a) there's one way to set up a projec
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   I love the fact that they haven't changed styles in a decade. It really does bring me back to high school.
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   Honestly, while this horrible code is mildly offensive to me, I'm pretty impressed by this person's persistence. It's one thing to identify a bug in a compiled program, but it's another to patch it without fully understa
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   I see what you mean, but iPhone says are something like 150x that. If privacy concerns weaken even 1%, that wouldn't be worth it. Maybe that's unlikely, I'm not sure.
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   I've used Blender to build models for simulations and generated image/video data for training deep segmentation and image models, but it's all science related. Nothing that would help a software developer - I think that'
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   Another implementation of a similar idea (but taking the form of CLI utilities rather than a library) is https://github.com/deshaw/pyflyby . I think philosophically it’s better - the result is good quality Python code.
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   by singhrac 6y ago

   Don’t forget that Trump’s Tulsa rally killed Herman Cain.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    Actually, the researcher who works on this is a pioneer in the field of “example based programming”, which is pretty cool stuff. But it does occasionally produce garbage when given garbage (what did you expect February to map to?). In the s
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    While I'm also optimistic on Samsung's ability to execute some version of this plan, those things can't be parallelized. You can't set up a complex water delivery mechanism until after the building is completed and the c
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    For those who read the title and didn’t understand what “positioned” meant - it means some analyst is armchair quarterbacking what Tim Cook should do. It doesn’t mean anything. Though I think if they did it, they would make their own coin.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    Well, a point in mypyc’s favor is that the above code is still syntactically valid Python code.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I'm going to be honest, after writing some programs in Go a few years ago, I was hoping for something nicer by now. I know writing Go is good because it's boring, but all this boilerplate just feels like reading Java in 2005.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I sympathize with your viewpoint, having experienced McDonald's in India. My guess is that it doesn't pay to experiment and build a food culture - all the big companies can do is wait for a local success and then try to import it.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    My disagreement with your comment is based on the words “veggie patties”, which I don’t think really capture what’s going on with “fake meat”. These are not boca burgers, mushroom burgers, or black bean burger (which I eat a lot of), but so
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I'm afraid I don't understand your comment. I think you're trying to say that it wasn't just racism that caused the war on drugs (and in particular on marijuana). But I do think the quote in the parent comment makes it p
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    People Are Worried About Payment for Order Flow(bloomberg.com)

    15 points by singhrac 6y ago|0 comments
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I’ve thought a lot about this and one theory I’d like to propose is that there’s people who see software as “on their side” and those who see it as “not on their side”. I’ve had friends with no programming knowledge love Vimium because it h
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    Just as significant for HFT is that speed of light through air is significantly higher (3/2) than speed of light through glass.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I read the title and thought CNN stood for convnet, and thought - didn't we see these in 2014?
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I agree with you, and I don't want my comment to be read as an indictment of academia exactly - we couldn't live without it, it has huge returns on investment, etc. It's worth reading 10 bad papers to find 1 with a kernel of
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I can second this. Working in industry, the bar is quite high for rigor. The general attitude of industrial researchers is to be very very skeptical of academia, since a lot of things just don't reproduce (cherry-picked data, p-hacking
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    This is too aggressive a take. Yes, TSMC is 50% of all EUV production right now. But it's only 50%. Samsung has huge resources and is on track to build a 3nm process by 2022/2023, which is not very far behind TSMC (though I don&#x
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I think it's a moot question, since they're not comparable here. Laptops have inherent thermal limitations (not just power) that don't allow something like the Threadripper to be workable. If you wanted a fair comparison you&
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    Not medical advice, but I enjoyed reading https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... , actually just in general all of the "much more than you wanted to know" posts are great.
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    I think this is a slightly different point from the other responses, but this not true: if I am seriously optimizing something I need ssh access to the same chip. I don't run my production profiles on my laptop - why would I expect t
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    VLC now runs natively on M1 Macs(theverge.com)

    1 points by singhrac 6y ago|0 comments
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    Are gaming enthusiasts a small market (in dollar terms)? I think the move is probably somewhat reasonable in terms of cutting costs, but I wonder why they didn't just license the technology to someone with experience selling to gamers
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    by singhrac 6y ago

    > If they're using a dynamically typed language to do monetary calculations, it's not going to be ideal. I think this is an inaccurate take. No one in finance is doing accounting or model estimation using Python's floats;