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MIT: Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing(news.mit.edu)
3 points by stmw 8y ago|3 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
This is interesting work, of course, and highly valuable ot existing Ruby codebases & organizations. But I do wonder if the interest in this among current Ruby shops suggests to anyone that choosing a different language/runtime for
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MIT uses brain-inspired technique for recognizing partially obscured objects(news.mit.edu)
1 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Do the startup if their technologists are good -- you will learn at 10x the rate. That compounds and will put you years ahead of those that pick the Google option.
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MIT's Muriel Médard on the world-altering rise of 5G(news.mit.edu)
3 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | Rust Engineer | Sr Front End Engiener | Fulltime | ONSITE We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of
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by stmw 8y ago
We use Rust extensively for much higher-level (platform & apps) level stuff, and it works very well for that, too. There is a learning curve, of course, and language preferences may legitimately vary -- but I don't think Rust is ju
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by stmw 8y ago
I actually wouldn't expect Go to be considerably better in memory footprint (or other things) than "embedded" Java in embedded environments. Once you accept the idea of having GC, it puts some constraints on things. Of course
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MIT: 3Q: A bold mission to touch the sun(news.mit.edu)
1 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Sure, it doesn't prove a point, but the headline does show the level of growth Rust is enjoying... It's not that different than "game X on Linux" in the early days, or "ML in Python".
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by stmw 8y ago
Plus it has the danger of sounding too much like "cretin"
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by stmw 8y ago
This is the best, most concise explanation of the key EE trade-offs in this kind of stuff I've read - optimizing around different corners of the performance envelope. I'm not sure I'd want one of these, but I am happy it exis
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by stmw 8y ago
Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | Rust Engineer | Fulltime | ONSITE We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medi
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MIT Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation(news.mit.edu)
1 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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Kirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale(news.mit.edu)
1 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | Rust Engineer | Fulltime | ONSITE We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medi
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by stmw 8y ago
Well, the statistical trouble is that if some ER treatment costs $100K and has a 50% chance of saving someone's life (and prolonging it by 15 years), or else not making a difference, the end result is that 50% of spending takes place i
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by stmw 8y ago
I think it comes from Netflix originally ( https://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/netflix-shares-their-corp... ) and is meant to indicate to applicants an engineering culture where high-performing yet horribly difficu
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by stmw 8y ago
Indeed, it's great to see Microsoft both using Rust and open sourcing some of the work. As a major user of Rust at our startup (aside: we're hiring Rust engineers), it's great to see it gaining mainstream momentum month-by-mo
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by stmw 8y ago
You are right that there is certainly a lot of luck involved, but there are many things you can do to improve your odds. Interestingly, the kind of factors that matter are often counter-intuitive to engineers, so engineers are probably disa
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MIT Study debunks notion large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care(news.mit.edu)
23 points by stmw 8y ago|3 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Many Microsoft apps were developed in various forms of "pcode" since before Javascript or Java even exists, it's a well established part of the Microsoft way. The fact that the latest iteration involves javascript is interest
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Apple IIe ROM Hacking(planemo.org)
2 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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System for drone surveillance: How violence is boxed(techxplore.com)
1 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Isn't this was Pachyderm was supposed to do?
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The Future of Clippy (Rust's Linter)(manishearth.github.io)
3 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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MIT CSAIL hardware graph accelerator device(news.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 8y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 8y ago
Especially timely as Spectre/Meltdown mitigations put indirect calls and branch predictions under more performance pressure -- nice reminder of how these things work.
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by stmw 8y ago
Impressive and interesting, but it is really a great example of how in larger production systems, Garbage Collection turns into "manual memory management" akin to that required to manage malloc() and free() correctly -- little per
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by stmw 8y ago
I am not sure that's necessarily true as long as the FPGA has access to the CPU bus - as it seems to here - as opposed to hanging off a slower peripheral bus - as a lot of other FPGA experiments/cards have done in the past. If you

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