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by tntn 8y ago
> This is actually one of the dangers of AI: it might introduce all kinds of weird biases that we're not even aware of until the effect has already been felt. This isn't a danger of AI in the future, it's a danger of googl
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by tntn 8y ago
Or assume you aren't an outlier and can do it in 0.5-3 hours.
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by tntn 8y ago
I've always wondered what the "secret" in the title refers to. This is pretty common knowledge among people who are from here, is it only secret from the people rushing in to work at FAANG?
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by tntn 8y ago
I stopped using Linux when I realized that it could run on SPARC.
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by tntn 8y ago
I didn't write the README.
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by tntn 8y ago
It's c++ without the "object-oriented features," so that could be fairly simple.
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by tntn 8y ago
> What happened He died, and most people tend to talk only about good stuff out of respect immediately afterward. You don't see people getting up and criticizing the deceased at funerals.
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by tntn 8y ago
Probably flagged by people worn out from musk frenzy.
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by tntn 8y ago
I mean, 'JohnJamesRambo did say sometimes .
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by tntn 8y ago
This is what happens when someone with a clear idea of a lumped element model slams into someone with a clear idea of Maxwell's equations.
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by tntn 8y ago
I don't understand how this is any different from believing in God.
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by tntn 8y ago
I should have grown out of it by now, but I still dream of a Star Trek future, and I've developed a guideline (mostly in jest) for how I think about systems. It goes something like this: if the starship Enterprise turns out to run Linu
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by tntn 8y ago
In the scenario described in the article, where was the bad engineering? It seems to me that the developers of each component (Chrome, OS, other processes) did things that, while perhaps not perfect, are quite reasonable, and definitely not
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by tntn 8y ago
I'm a big fan of epistemological interpretations of QM. Everything becomes far less mysterious when it is a theory of knowledge, IMO. Wavefunction collapse? No wonder it collapsed: it represents your knowledge and you just observed the
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by tntn 8y ago
How is this any different than Tesla?
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by tntn 8y ago
Parallelism is a thing.
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by tntn 8y ago
> power efficiency I don't know about their marketing, but Volta has pretty impressive perf/watt. Loads of the systems in the Green500 have NVIDIA GPUs.
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by tntn 8y ago
Most resources I've seen refer to the whole class of methods that involve tracing rays as "raytracing," and use "path tracing" to refer to the special case of raytracing with a Monte Carlo integrator. I'm not s
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Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU(nasdaq.com)
316 points by tntn 8y ago|189 comments
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by tntn 8y ago
Profiling code. If you have a hotspot that takes 99% of the time and optimize it until your whole program is twice as fast, now that hotspot takes 98% of the time.
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by tntn 8y ago
I'm curious what beliefs you have in mind that you notice are typically not thought about. (Not that I think they don't exist, I'm just curious what specifically you have in mind). The LDS church has an interesting tiered con
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by tntn 8y ago
I used to ride the bus all the time in Utah valley. Then they tore up all the roads to build lanes for this project, and all the bus schedules went to pot. That's when I stopped riding the bus as often. I'm not sure whether tearin
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by tntn 8y ago
> It goes towards relief for families that are struggling financially. Sort of a technicality, but that money doesn't come from the 10% tithe. It comes from what is called "fast offerings" that is a separate offering assoc
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by tntn 8y ago
> caused by mountains to the east and the west And very lax emissions regulations and oil refineries in the middle of everything.
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by tntn 8y ago
> plus some that may be attributed to Mormon values: the highest rate of antidepressant use of any state, I won't dispute this, but I will mention some interesting hypotheses that indicate rates of depression are highly correlated w
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by tntn 8y ago
I think that would fall under "major distraction for everyone working at Tesla."
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by tntn 8y ago
That's not really how the history of atomic bombs went down. Szilàrd imagined the destructive power of chain reactions around 1932, nuclear fission was discovered in 1938, and soon after the Manhattan project was started with the clear
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by tntn 8y ago
Why is activitypub implemented over HTTP? Why not just TCP?
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by tntn 8y ago
Quick recap: Article: "there's a labor shortage" 'crooked-v: "So pay them more" 'rhexs: "No need," because there is plenty of cheap labor. Something here doesn't add up.
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by tntn 8y ago
Yes. It demonstrates that their claims have been complete BS.

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