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by svantana 10y ago
Yes however to be truly lossless, each sample amplitude would need infinite precision, which is not physically possible to record. Also real world sounds are not bandlimited.
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by svantana 10y ago
Is it just me or has there been a proliferation of "strategic startups" lately? They never intend to turn a profit but rather seek to become a pawn in the larger game between e.g. Google and Apple. Of course, in a winner-take-all
573.
by svantana 10y ago
There used to be a concept of "AI completeness" which meant that some problems could only be solved by True AI, which would also be able to solve all other human-level problems. Doug Hofstadter writes in Gödel-Escher-Bach that he
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by svantana 10y ago
To me, the obvious endgame is a 3D reconstruction of the image from the perspective of your eyes, so the screen becomes a "virtual window". I tried to pitch this to Skype a few years back, it felt like a no-brainer given that they
575.
by svantana 10y ago
IMHO this comment is much better than the original blog post, well done!
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by svantana 10y ago
That's not how (modern) science works. The null hypothesis is that there is no causal relationship between masturbation and (ailment of choice). Until such a link has been proven, there is no reason to believe it exists.
577.
by svantana 10y ago
I have never heard of PVS Studio before, but some of the issues it caught were quite impressive. That said, their website doesn't exactly instill confidence in them as a vendor of software. Among other things, the buy link leads to an
578.
by svantana 10y ago
If this was the main reason, then surely it would only be a matter of negotiation on salary? Out of experience I can tell you that this is not the case, most companies won't even discuss it. I have asked for half time at a half dozen p
579.
by svantana 10y ago
I like the idea, but I get wary at the thought of getting home at 3 AM (perhaps with company) and finding out that the bed extruding mechanism has failed... It seems the robotic part is a bit overkill, couldn't it just as well be mecha
580.
by svantana 10y ago
Related: I have noted over the years that incandescents with dimmer switches basically never burn out, and those with normal switches tend to break during the first second of being switched on. That's led me to the following thought: w
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by svantana 10y ago
Exactly. Scaling a housing business means building more houses, not adding more stories to the one house you're building. And since the marginal cost of software is so low, it naturally tends to a winner-take-all market, which is an in
582.
by svantana 10y ago
I have a similar approach: don't sit down at the computer until you know what you're going to do. It works well because sitting at the computer "feels like work" and is also a source of distractions. A lot of times I end
583.
by svantana 10y ago
If you slow it to the minimum, you can see how it fills the triangles pixel per pixel. That, along with depth testing and the iteration over triangles, could possibly be called the "core algorithm"?
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by svantana 10y ago
It does make sense because what you're really paying for is the land the house sits on, at least in or near the major cities. It's a zero sum game because "God's not making any more land" (Tony Soprano). The obvious
585.
by svantana 10y ago
Your arithmetic is in the ballpark -- the article says this machine has 40k processors. But, firstly, these are double precision numbers, I believe that lowers nvidia performance substantially. Furthermore, scaling is not as trivial as putt
586.
by svantana 10y ago
Interestingly, another research team published slightly better results across the board on the same data sets, on the same day [1]. Also, both teams are Canadian, I believe. [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02245
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by svantana 10y ago
That was the whole point, that convoluted source code can hide inefficiencies like this.
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by svantana 10y ago
That's actually a cool application of VR/AR that I haven't heard of before -- having your GUIs on a 'virtual steadicam', which should (in theory) have a similar effect to looking out the window, while allowing peopl
589.
by svantana 10y ago
Money in bank accounts is not like acorns, it's more like having other squirrels owe you acorns. I don't see why that is such a big deal. People working 60 hour weeks has less to do with the Cayman islands than with those people n
590.
by svantana 10y ago
If you had to get permission, these millions of sound-alike tracks wouldn't exist. There's a compulsory license for cover songs, but the question becomes: is it still a cover if a machine does it? Or does it infringe the recording
591.
by svantana 10y ago
This article alludes to, but never actually brings up, something much more interesting than the project in question: How can copyright coexist with human-level automatic analysis and synthesis of works of art? For example, Spotify is floode
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by svantana 10y ago
I think the reason why people worry about cell phones and not other radio equipment is that they are transmitting very close to the body. Remember, EM intensity falls off as 1/r^2 so proximity makes a big difference.
593.
by svantana 10y ago
Actually, it would be even worse if it was run on gamma-corrected (proportional to light intensity) pixels. The sRGB space is designed to approximate human perception, which is only advantageous for this application.
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by svantana 11y ago
This is reminiscent of the dichotomy of well structured software versus copy protection/cracking -- software development thrives in clear organization and separation of concerns, but so does cracking (i.e. having a single function take
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by svantana 11y ago
Is the part about him legally changing his name really true? All the sources say so, but surely there are laws and regulations around name changes in the US. I have a hard time imagining the IRS having him down as the symbol. Also, changi
596.
by svantana 11y ago
Do you also prefer "standard" lengths of decimal numbers, and if so, what are those? On a related note, I once had the weirdest bug in a C program that I couldn't figure out. It turns out that I had stylized an array of integ
597.
by svantana 11y ago
I thought this would be about something like giving the Hutter Prize [1] a go using character RNNs [2]. Instead, it's a somewhat confused "gentle introduction" to neural nets (which there are plenty of already, of higher qual
598.
by svantana 11y ago
In the short term, yes, but long term, deficits will put an upward pressure on tax revenue, so you'll end up paying more in the end (than you would have if other people paid more taxes).
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by svantana 11y ago
It's opt in. In a radio segment the other day they said 6k people have volunteered. Which makes it very much non-random, but still, cute concept.
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by svantana 11y ago
Re:1 You don't care whether it's a placebo?!? We should get in touch, I have some expensive sugar pills to sell you that will do wonders for your ailment of choice.

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