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by socmag 9y ago
I really find it difficult as well, and I think it is a lot to do with the nomenclature that surrounds the field. Sometimes I feel it's almost kept obtuse on purpose. The way I think about is to think of it is if "Design Patterns
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by socmag 9y ago
According to Sir Googalot.... Europe includes 51 independent states. Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey are the transcontinental countries, partially located in both Europe and Asia. Armenia and Cyprus politically are consid
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by socmag 9y ago
Fantastic job, congrats and Happy Easter, it was very nice following along. A lot of people were rooting for you. Someone get this man a chocolate egg, he deserves it!
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by socmag 9y ago
I upvoted. Looks like you genuinely felt it is out of the scope of a lot of novices (which it well might be at least for a weekend project), and you genuinely were looking for tips. Just look for projects that would make yourself or others
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by socmag 9y ago
Looking forward to that, it will be a very nice data set
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by socmag 9y ago
I like what you are doing a lot. It doesn't matter that it isn't a one to one comparison, the point is you are taking on the challenge and enjoying it. Probably actually you are learning some stuff along the way as well. It would
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by socmag 9y ago
Yes I agree that a lot of stack space goes unused right now, that is for sure, but the nice thing about the stack it is definitely thread/core local, and if you did have fast-stack capability we would definitely use it. What I was thin
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by socmag 9y ago
/s? FTFY Maybe you weren't joking. That's the even more scary thing. Personally I like to hop on my bicycle and meet real people in the real world. I don't even know what to think about VR at this point. :/
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by socmag 9y ago
One thing I'd love to see is to have enough L1 data cache per core for a modest amount of stack space. Not so critical on GPU's but would make a huge difference for CPU's and languages that can take benefit. Give me a meg or
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by socmag 9y ago
Oh nice articles
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by socmag 9y ago
> Not if your application is dragging two and a half invasive runtimes around. Cheers to that :/
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by socmag 9y ago
Really great article and comments :) Just as a point of reference, I currently see around 1.25 - 1.5 op/cycle on carefully crafted highly parallel lock-free, stall-free code... say running on 8 threads. Code that has 0.01% branch misp
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by socmag 9y ago
Early in my career in the 90's I worked for BZW working on derivative hedging for financial swaps. Things were pretty hectic and it was a pretty small team. We were using SQL Server at best and Excel spreadsheets as information feeds a
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by socmag 9y ago
All numbers are ultimately "probabilistic" in calculations. Sure you can state them as a "fact", but that undermines quantum theory itself and the Universe. If you want to do the math right you really need to consider te
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by socmag 10y ago
I've stopped now, but it may be worth pausing to reflect on the toxicity and the little social experiment this became in human nature. Have a good day.
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by socmag 10y ago
I'm taking screen shots just FYI.
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by socmag 10y ago
Which one is that?
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by socmag 10y ago
Sounds awesome. Anything geospatial would be superb. Disease transmission for example.
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by socmag 10y ago
Thanks for posting this because this has been getting out of hand recently, and it's very good to see some sanity. There is an opportunity to do some very cool things with Rust and I think most people would love to see a "better t
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by socmag 10y ago
I think this is a very objective and in-depth article on the matter. "Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die" https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ Not sure why certain members
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by socmag 10y ago
Hey, there is a great cartoon about that here! https://rwer.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-scientific-illusio...
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes it is a quite a niche and strange query technique but looked cute Interesting tid-bit, one Mr. Sergey Brin published this in 1995 "Near Neighbor Search in Large Metric Spaces" http://www.vldb.org/conf/1995
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by socmag 10y ago
oh bummer, it was working six months ago... Wayback machine to the rescue! https://web.archive.org/web/20160629190654/http://stevehanov...
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by socmag 10y ago
Quite. This road seems a much bigger existential risk than any AI holocaust scenario I can imagine. It's very scary stuff and everyone in the field seems to be brimming with glee at how easy it all is. Just consider that the very munda
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by socmag 10y ago
My manager dropped a bomb on me about 20 years ago as a young engineer and had me be a liaison with some of the people doing research on the Pi calculus. Still somewhat shaken to this day by that very first meeting, it really didn't go
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by socmag 10y ago
DARPA are doing a heck of a lot with CRISPR, and as you can imagine for both defense and offence angles. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-military-prep... This whole video is great btw, where Arati Prabha
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by socmag 10y ago
Yes interesting stuff. Seems similar in nature to "Vantage Point" trees. http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=130
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by socmag 10y ago
"The global economy means nothing to me when I can't get a job." Yeah I'll buy that, but the global economy is what gave you the computer that you are using to type that message on and it makes your groceries cheaper whe
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by socmag 10y ago
There is no doubt that there is inequality and that inequality is accelerating, especially in the US and West. What's the global picture look like? I mean we do want our fellow humans to do well too, right? Maybe not spending so many
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by socmag 10y ago
Again, I get where you are coming from, but then there is this: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hU7LNS3S3F0/UgQM8LZeTuI/A... It shows Shanghai in 1987 vs 2013 From a humanist angle, those buildings are outrageo

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