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Arenas aren't "cutting edge CS research," theyre used widely in latency-sensitive applications like gaming. This article [1] describes how to implement one for a game engine. Basic versions are easy to understand and provid
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In the Bay Area KFJC (Foothills College/Los Altos) and KZSC (UC Santa Cruz) are also both quite good at playing music many listeners wouldnt otherwise discover. You can't get them in SF proper, but great for tuning in when you&#x
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Bootstrap, private equity, angel/friends+family investment
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There are multiple possible funding models for technology companies. VC is not the only way for “having money.”
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Medium comes to mind, who quickly gained popularity but then introduced user-hostile features when they realized they needed to tighten their business model. Evernote is a similar example. Even Facebook/Instagram/Google before the
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If you could take the money you were going to pay in rent (or at least the difference of mortgage-minus-rent) and instead put it in an index fund, this would be a meaningful comparison.
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Julius Smith @ Stanford has a couple of great free books online: Introduction to Digital Filters with Audio Applications https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/ Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform http
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arXiv link for more context: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04643 and blog posting with audio examples: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp
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Nobody knew the 737 MAX was lower quality until it started falling out of the sky. I think we can agree that an ideal system wouldn't require people to die horrifically in the process of price discovery.
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The vote for the CA bill was effectively along partisan lines and national opposition to tax filing reform receives significant financial/political support from Grover Norquist.
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Academia could do a much better job clarifying expectations for prospective PhD students, for instance what percentage of a department's graduates go to research universities, to teaching colleges, to industry, etc. But there might be
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A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed Digital San Francisco(citylab.com)
3 points by ssalazar 7y ago|0 comments
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Agreed- a lot of the issues people bring up with node-based programming have promising solutions, its just a matter of exploring the space and finding successful implementations. As far as timeline, I also think the digital audio workstatio
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From a creative perspective the modular/node-based way of thinking has always been a niche, having seen many attempts such as this to place it into a broader model of creativity (including my own [1]). Its telling that the enduring mu
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Most problems solved with technology are like this, stringing together the right libraries with a thin layer of business logic. However many startups or research-oriented technology development will require some part of your stack to be rei
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Ugh. So the next step is to make legislate against flagrantly inserting specious waivers of rights in employment contracts to prevent this sort of thing.
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If it wasn't for California's strong environmental restrictions there would be no coastline for Khosla to appreciate from his private property, or rather it would be a much different landscape. Everyone else plays by these same ru
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Rightly or not, Thiel is conflating communism and totalitarianism- China is indisputably a leader in using AI to perpetuate the latter.
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Eligibility for federal aid, just like every national mandate for collegiate education?
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> The built-in integer types in C++ (int, unsigned, long long, etc.) are mostly unusable Weird. Ive been programming in C/C++ professionally for over a decade and have been using built-in integer types mostly without issue. Might w
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All of those compiler families have separate C and C++ compilers. They’re saying to use g++ to compile your .c’s instead of gcc.
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Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT over Epstein Comments(vice.com)
38 points by ssalazar 7y ago|6 comments
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> I see the meritocracy working perfectly here, on average the richest students had the best training and equipment, and as such developed into the best musicians Theres a lot wrong with this analysis, one point being that the "best
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MIT’s Media Lab Hid Its Ties to Jeffrey Epstein(nytimes.com)
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Sure, but how does any of that resonate with the general public? "Apple is using Facebook's front-end code library" isnt exactly a gripping headline or tweet. You can read the source code to either; its not as if theyre sec
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Is there still patent uncertainty around React (or Angular)? Otherwise, Im not sure why anyone outside HN would care about the optics of which front-end library was used.
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> The amount of languages, libraries and APIs we have to regularly deal with Is this because this Web programming innately needs lots of tools, etc. to work, or because the modern programming ecosystem (including stack overflow) has allo
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> Aside from backwards incompatibility Isn't Perl 6 already backwards incompatible? > module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups >> names converted to lowercase internally Converting names to lowerca
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> An organization(in this case, a for-profit company) created to deliver products and services to consumers and advertisers playing politics on the world stage is laughable at best, and downright irresponsible at worst. Google is one of
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> One could presume youtube has an extreme ideological agenda and has developed its algorithms in service to that agenda Their agenda is "more time spent watching" = "more revenue" but theyve happened to induce a heal

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