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by sxp 10y ago
The 40% number isn't very informative. The report has multiple notes about it: ODI analyzed data from crashes of Tesla Model S and Model X vehicles involving airbag deployments that occurred while operating in, or within 15 seconds of
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I Had One Night to Invent Interstellar Travel – Stephen Wolfram(backchannel.com)
2 points by sxp 10y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 10y ago
It's strange that they're using a 2012 i7-3820 instead of a modern i7. They're also missing price when comparing a ~$300 i7, 2x $700 Xeons, a $650 GTX 1080, and a $4k K80.
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by sxp 10y ago
For single GPU setups, you could use an external GPU setup such as http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-core instead of using a large PC meant for high-end GPUs. Or you could use a dedicated ultra small form factor mac
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by sxp 10y ago
High quality anti-aliased lines aren't a bottleneck in video games, but they're very important in CAD applications, so enterprise customers paid a large premium for Quadro cards with CAD-specific functionality. The specific list o
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by sxp 10y ago
Thanks for the info. The tl;dr is "It's fantastic to see that I've been able to use a machine that costs 1/10th of the one used in the 8 x Tesla K80s benchmark but still have queries running within 33% of the previous pe
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by sxp 10y ago
One of the big data points missing from this article is the price. Unless you need features specific to the high end cards such as unlocked 64bit or 16bit performance or antialiased lines, the consumer cards have much higher performancep do
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by sxp 10y ago
From https://developers.google.com/vr/daydream/dev-kit-setup "Caution: The 6P's thermal performance is not representative of the consumer Daydream-ready devices that will be launching later this year. In
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Brexit Buoys California Independence Movement(newsweek.com)
18 points by sxp 10y ago|17 comments
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Microsoft’s racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown(theguardian.com)
1 points by sxp 11y ago|1 comments
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Livestream of DeepMind vs. Lee Sedol Match(gaming.youtube.com)
17 points by sxp 11y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 11y ago
If you want to learn more, the best raytracing book is http://www.pbrt.org/ which goes into immense details about various techniques and won an Academy Award. The renderer described in the book is also available online: ht
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by sxp 11y ago
There is also a second stream of just the telemetry without the hosted conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkz_lclGXNg
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Livestream of SpaceX's attempt to land on a barge(youtube.com)
1 points by sxp 11y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 11y ago
This is a fun game in theory, but it's hard to write complex code which makes it frustrating in practice. The JS code is sent to the server and executed before actually running on the client. This makes debugging issues difficult. Comb
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Magic Leap Demo [video](youtube.com)
6 points by sxp 11y ago|0 comments
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How copyright is killing your favorite memes(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by sxp 11y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 11y ago
The price for a custom build with these specs is ~$8k: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NP4MNG Spending that money on an EC2 GPU instance would be a better use of money unless you really need a local workstation.
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The Frenzy About High-Tech Talent(nybooks.com)
1 points by sxp 11y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 11y ago
The reddit post and comments has much more useful info: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...
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by sxp 11y ago
You need a 4+ dimensional image to capture the various reflections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field
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Nitrogen-Infused Coffee(mentalfloss.com)
1 points by sxp 11y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 12y ago
What happened to the site? http://blog.frite-camembert.net/got-leak.html Now shows a generic 404 and http://blog.frite-camembert.net/ shows a github 404. Was the information DMCA'd?
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NASA's LEAPTech X-plane Will Fly with 18 Electric Motors and Tiny Wings(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by sxp 12y ago|0 comments
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This is the secret lab where Apple has been learning about personal fitness(theverge.com)
4 points by sxp 12y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 12y ago
And the linked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgOmiStJ04
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by sxp 12y ago
The segregation between common and priority stock can be painful. I learned about it the hard way after I left the startup and paid money to exercise the vested options. When the company was acquired, all the common stock was worthless (but
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by sxp 12y ago
There is a similar story about Larry Page when Gmail was being developed: Before Google launched Gmail in 2004, its creator, Paul Buchheit, brought it to Page’s open cubicle office for a review. As Buchheit called the program up o
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Google shares plans for new campus using lightweight, moveable structures(9to5google.com)
1 points by sxp 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?(ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
9 points by sxp 12y ago|7 comments

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