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by utopcell 10y ago
Aligned float updates are atomic in all architectures that matter. Also, unsynchronized parameter updates for SGD have actually been studied in [1], where it was shown that they don't affect performance. In the limit, performance would
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by utopcell 10y ago
True, you could definitely emulate it by shuffling the input, but that's not what is being done unfortunately.
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by utopcell 10y ago
I agree. It is beautiful to see zero dependencies on a tool that is so popular. Even random numbers are generated with custom code ! Performance takes a big hit however: gensim is ~3X faster, mainly because it uses BLAS primitives in C.
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by utopcell 10y ago
100M words/sec is quite impressive, although this approach does not seem to be able to handle very large dictionaries. If the authors are reading this, it'd be nice to see the actual accuracy on the google analogy dataset (the pap
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by utopcell 10y ago
The opposite is actually true. If you train on the big dataset that is produced by demo-train-big-model-v1.sh (which includes news corpora from 2012 & 2013, the 1BN word dataset from statmt, the UMBC web corpus and the whole wikipedia)
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by utopcell 10y ago
Having upper ceilings in charging is a big deal for me. For this I prefer https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
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by utopcell 10y ago
As a Stanford EE PhD grad, I always found the ordering between Stanford Math PhDs and the rest of us to be total, with the possible exception of some CS theorists. I did find theory CS courses 'easy' as well, but I'm sure you
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by utopcell 10y ago
"Coupon can't be redeemed any more times." Seems like the offer has expired.
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by utopcell 10y ago
I believe the benchmark was related to web browsing.
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by utopcell 10y ago
Black being actually black (ie no light being emitted vs pixels hiding the display's backlight) feels great for terminal work, but I do not think that OLED is yet worth the overall battery life hit. For instance, Anandtech [1] reports
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by utopcell 10y ago
Charging a 3Ah battery in 1 minute would need 180A @ 3.7V (not 18A), or 666W. USB power delivery can provide 100W (5A @ 20V.) I think I'd be happy if I was able to charge a 11.1Wh battery in < 7 minutes.
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by utopcell 10y ago
That would be great news if the Microsoft c++ compiler was also part of it. Microsoft has added some amazing, in terms of performance, extensions to c++ lately, like coroutines support, that are not yet part of GCC or clang.
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by utopcell 10y ago
*aphantasia (from phantasia, the greek word for fantasy, literally meaning "lack of imagination") Very interesting posts, thank you for sharing.
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by utopcell 10y ago
you might call AdaDelta quasi-Newton: the inspiration for it comes from Newton's method.
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by utopcell 10y ago
it seems that it wasn't forwarding that caused an issue, but rather its interaction with another new feature. For sure, Yahoo deserves more trust than what this article is giving it.
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by utopcell 10y ago
c.h.i.p. is probably not that great of a name, but 'getchip' always returns the relevant information for me. I do like the "white-label" implications of this name: If one builds a product using chip, that fact would be h
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by utopcell 10y ago
I wonder if it is possible, for small lenses, to laser-cut a piece of acrylic to get the convexity in one dimension then flip it 90 degrees and cut a second time to finish the job. That would still be in the DIY spirit, albeit no longer a 3
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by utopcell 10y ago
this war will move to the users if Facebook decides to pull out of the country altogether. This is a very interesting case to follow: If Brazil 'wins', this might be the first case where a government says "I don't like E
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by utopcell 10y ago
as a Stanford alum, I can tell you that undergrads don't teach classes at Stanford. At most she was a TA or was allowed to give a lecture. Outstanding grads are sometimes given the opportunity to teach whole undergrad courses, but only
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by utopcell 10y ago
taught CS ? I doubt that's accurate. At most she was a TA for some course.
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by utopcell 10y ago
I doubt in this future AOL grows faster than Yahoo however.
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by utopcell 10y ago
It is deeply sad that there's even a chance that Yahoo will be sold for ~$5BN to Verizon, which bough AOL for $4.4BN, especially considering that AOL has 0.9% of the US web search traffic while Yahoo still has more than 10% and amazing
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by utopcell 10y ago
is it fair to assume that all other messaging apps operating in Brazil that have not been blocked have cooperated with the government and installed backdoors ? does anyone have more information on this ?
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by utopcell 10y ago
what exactly is the argument here ? That it is OK for a government to be revengeful on a non-cooperative opponent ?
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by utopcell 10y ago
elaborate
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by utopcell 10y ago
This is a well-written article, but I find this criticism of URLs a bit exaggerated. We needed to reach an agreement on URL structure and there is little point in changing that now. Hardly anyone would abandon English for the unambiguous Lo
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by utopcell 10y ago
on a related note, this has passed by HN in the past and it is still fascinating to watch: http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/
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by utopcell 10y ago
By this probabilistic reasoning, we shouldn't bother searching for "meaningful" polynomial time algorithms because they are practically non-existent in the sea of all exponential time algorithms. If anything, this argument sh
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by utopcell 10y ago
dancing links are awesome.
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by utopcell 10y ago
I may disagree with you on the value of N-queens as a case study in this particular case, but your general statement is definitely fair: You never know where inspiration may come from. Many years back, my PhD advisor told me the following s

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