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by smaddox 10y ago
Okay, fine, logic and SRAM cell density are still shrinking (at Intel). Now are you happy? Just read the report.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Logic cell density is still increasing approximately exponentially [1]. [1] https://newsroom.intel.com/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/sites...
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by smaddox 10y ago
Hackaday.com
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by smaddox 10y ago
And yet, the companies that still exist from that time still have major (typically non-manufacturing) presence in SV.
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by smaddox 10y ago
I find it remarkable that their simulations exhibit sparse encoding. Is this a know property of artificial neural networks based on spike-time dependant plasticity? I can imagine how it might emerge in this particular implementation from th
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by smaddox 10y ago
There's good reason to believe that different parts of the brain are quasi-specialized to particular applications. In a sense, this applies to particular software artificial neural networks (ANN) as well, particularly if the various hy
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by smaddox 10y ago
$5K wouldn't cover a single photomask, unless you're talking VERY OLD process. Maybe there are direct-write (laser or ebeam) litho foundries... I don't know.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Is that a serious question? Because most software development is now done in high level languages. With the proper abstractions, there's no need to debug the high level code at the assembly level; you just need to debug the abstraction
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by smaddox 10y ago
It's certainly not realistic to make everything immutable, but it's still worthwhile to move global state into some monadic encapsulation to make your code more testable and composable. This might not be an option on embedded syst
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by smaddox 10y ago
Dynamic scoping can easily be included when desired in the form of a key-value store. I can't think of any advantage to having it built into the language itself. I guess you could argue standardization, but most modern languages provid
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by smaddox 10y ago
Or you could have an actual moderation system a la Slashdot, instead of reddit-style voting. Though to be fair, voting here does seem to be be used as more of a moderation mechanism than an agree/disagree button.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Thanks for this, I was unfamiliar with this option. It sounds quite enticing. I also found this article by the founder informative: http://www.parallax.com/propeller/qna/Default.htm#HomeTopics...
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by smaddox 10y ago
I thought the same thing, until I saw it was on nautil.us
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by smaddox 10y ago
It's not. At least, not as long as the "passion between the sexes" remains unbalanced by birth control. Even if it does become balanced, there are finite resources.
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by smaddox 10y ago
I'm not sure he was the first, but Feynman talks about computers being really fast but dopey filers in one of his lectures for laymen.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Yes, those are the laws. The theorems are more interesting from a maintaining-software perspective, though. Yes, all higher-order strict languages can be embedded in a monadic model. However, there's an important practical difference b
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by smaddox 10y ago
I'm not claiming it is end-to-end, nor did I expect it to be, but perhaps some people would assume that. I thought you were claiming they don't use encryption at all.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Based on my (admittedly limited) understanding of the human condition, it seems like it would be more accurate to say "WhatsApp say they use end-to-end encryption and they have a strong financial incentive to be _lying_."
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by smaddox 10y ago
20 bits > 1,000,000
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by smaddox 10y ago
I would argue no... there's nothing inevitable about technology. Doubly so for quantum computing. Others will likely disagree.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Good analogy; and quite accurate. It's not just the number of bits that affects signal to noise ratio, though... It's also the complexity of the calculation; more gate operations and longer storage in memory leads to more quantum
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by smaddox 10y ago
Found that hard to believe, so I googled it. Not positive this is a trustworthy source, but it sounds like Dropbox does use encryption for files at rest and in motion: https://www.virtru.com/blog/dropbox-encryption&#x2F
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by smaddox 10y ago
I understand what a Monad is. My point is that high-quality OOP code typically adheres to the rules of Monads. I didn't say Monads were objects. I simply talked through the most common properties and operations of OOP code, in order to
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by smaddox 10y ago
But isn't typical high-quality OOP code essentially Monadic code? State is encapsulated in an object and transformed by method calls. Method calls can be chained, and state can be encapsulated and extracted using constructors and acces
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by smaddox 10y ago
Yeah, just like mortgage lending prior to 2008 was "capped" by the availability of quality debtors.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Have you seen Reid Gower's Sagan Series? http://saganseries.com It similarly combines HD cinematography with Carl Sagan's narration. It's not CG like this, but the overall quality is extremely high (at least after
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by smaddox 10y ago
I would argue it's a sort of (nonrandom) proxy sample in the sense that they're sampling a fraction of the people actually programming on the weekend.
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by smaddox 10y ago
I just tried Laverna, and I want to love it because simple markdown+Dropbox sync+encryption is exactly what I want, but it's buggy as hell. I can't type a single sentence without it erasing a period, or jumping back to a state con
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by smaddox 10y ago
Touché.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Obviously the answer is no, but the average reader likely doesn't know which minerals are elements and which are molecules. The statement seems redundant to you and I, but it is a key fact and likely not obvious to anyone with minimal

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