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by slacka 13y ago
As someone with a strong background in Biology who took several AI classes at an Ivy League school, I found many of my CS professors models oversimplified neurons to absurd levels. Teaching CS students to use perceptron that can't even chan
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by slacka 13y ago
Why? I hope the reason for this post was just to show off his CSS skills and not to suggest that Logos be made this way. It's the wrong tool for the job. Not to mention terrible browser interoperability. As many others have pointed out, the
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by slacka 13y ago
It's a sad day. His many contributions to the open source and the gaming communities will live on, like his work on VBjin-OVR, a Virtual Boy Emulator. http://code.google.com/p/vbjin-ovr/source/browse/oculus/Comm...
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by slacka 13y ago
Problem with BSD license? We are discussing two separate issues here 1) Ability to unlock or root your device to run any OS 2) Having access to an open App Ecosystem. The GNU license doesn't help with either of this issues. There are plent
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by slacka 13y ago
>"3D printing an interesting field is that's it's in its infancy" Infancy? We had 3D printers in the 80s along with 1Mhz processors powering home built computer kits. Yet, 30 years later those CPUs are running at 3000Mhz with multiple c
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by slacka 13y ago
The Perl language has evolved over the years. Could it be "fixed", so that a future version could be parsed?
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by slacka 13y ago
I don't know about Russian, but when I lived in China, I discovered that the Chinese expect PCs to have malware. From my tailor to our factories, every machine I used was infected. Opening a new web page on someone else’s PC always started
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by slacka 13y ago
I grew up in an area that frequently had thunderstorms. I witnessed many strikes in my yard, including my house while I was in it, and investigated many in my neighborhood. Much of what the OP said was bullshit. If it were true, the lightni
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by slacka 13y ago
The thing a lot of people don't get about 3D printing is that it has been around since the early 80s. And unlike semiconductors which follow Moore's Law, not much has changed in the past 30 years except some of the earlier patents have expi
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by slacka 13y ago
With completely different abstractions, "similar performance" makes much more sense than "similar hardware". Thanks
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by slacka 13y ago
> "Developers are going to have a great time this generation thanks to how similar the hardware is (identical in many cases)." Sure the hardware will be similar, but what use is that if the APIs to access the hardware are totally differ
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by slacka 13y ago
If you had RTFA, you'd know that by "get along" the author really meant, share/synchronize data between your Android device and PC. TL;DR Before Android 3.0, you could just plug your device in and use USB Mass Storage. After Android 3.0, to
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by slacka 13y ago
Sorry guys, but I don't buy your defeatist arguments for one second. Sure using traditional tools, you may be right. However, all we have to do is look at the brain with its 100 trillion Connections (axioms) or a CPU with its billions of tr
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Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Linux OS Model In The Cloud? (2012)(highscalability.com)
7 points by slacka 13y ago|2 comments
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by slacka 13y ago
I just fired up Firefox and did a help->about firefox. Guess what? I'm still on version 17! Despite all their claims about the silent auto-update feature, it doesn't work if you are running as a limited normal user account. https://b
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by slacka 13y ago
Me too. You view all of the eleven lithographs here: http://www.slideshare.net/sotos1/pablo-picasso-bulls-111
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by slacka 13y ago
Yes, but without working drivers for my system, what good is user space binary compatibility? MS has maintained compatibly for their drivers, something kernel developers seem to careless about. Which was exactly the point of the original po
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by slacka 13y ago
> In the time since that comment was written (just under 5 years), Linux replaced most graphics drivers with ones based on in-kernel modesetting and the DRI2 interface. This was done without breaking applications. So, the assertion that
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by slacka 13y ago
Why is it that I can run my Radeon x1900 under Windows 7/8 with Windows Vista drivers? Runs StarCraft2 and a bunch of newer FPS games just fine. Linux on the other hand is a disaster. The kernel devs are so determined to break binary compat
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by slacka 13y ago
I have a high DPI monitor and need to zoom the text to 150% to make it readable. But on that website the text gets zoomed into the right margin in Chrome and off the screen in FF. Works fine on my iPhone. Something wrong with the CSS?
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The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge(extremetech.com)
1 points by slacka 13y ago|0 comments
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by slacka 13y ago
For watching movies or listening to music, the Linux audio system is fine, but ALSA and PulseAudio introduce unacceptable latency for game devs. For example the WINE developers are having major issues with PulseAudio's latency[1] There are
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by slacka 13y ago
While working as an Engineer for over 2 years within walking distance to Huaqiangbei, I discovered there's a dark side to the SEG market that a tour guide is not going to point out. This is also where much of the grey market and fake ICs en
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by slacka 13y ago
This literally took me less than 5 minutes to setup. The defaults are perfect for those with a free AWS setup. Below are the default settings from the included torrc file. # Start Tor as a bridge. # Run obfsproxy # Never send or receive mor
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Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor(arstechnica.com)
1 points by slacka 13y ago|0 comments
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by slacka 14y ago
Could and real or kerbal rocket scientists here explain why SpaceX isn't doing something like the curiosity rover landing? Sure there's 3 extra steps, deploy parachute, cut parachute, and evasive maneuver, but the fuel saving would massive.
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by slacka 14y ago
For people that want to test out the download attribute, instead of just reading about it, you try a demo here on your browser: http://davidwalsh.name/demo/html5-download.php Also, as GavinB suggested for big .pdf and .jpg files, I would
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by slacka 14y ago
This is huge for the fields of AI and Neuroscience. I would gladly donate my brain( preferably when I'm done with it) to give neuroscientists a map of the human brain. This map would be a great first step to creating strong AI.
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by slacka 14y ago
Thank you for correcting me, I should have said "properly multithreaded or multiprocessing browser like IE or Chrome". Since a properly designed multithreaded applications shouldn't suffer from UI non-responsiveness as badly as FF does. Of
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by slacka 14y ago
>"Mozilla has truly hit its stride in recent years" Sure the Memshrink project was a great success. It's the reason I have switched from Chrome back to FF on my netbook. However, on my desktops and home Chrome remains default. Mozilla h

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