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by varelse 12y ago
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action." - Auric Goldfinger
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by varelse 12y ago
We've created a national infrastructure that IMO nearly requires driving to be a civil right. That sucks. But I really don't have an answer to this problem when proposals to address this are either voted down or end up ridiculou
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by varelse 12y ago
Bluntly, it's a great processor on paper, but for the most part, its performance falls severely short of its paper specs. While I was really looking forward to Intel shipping a competitive processor to NVIDIA's GPUs, reality disap
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by varelse 12y ago
I have seen this situation before. It seems to be a particular fail mode for the typical tech company hiring filter. A lot of people, some of my co-workers included, screen for a very particular sort of cookie. When they don't get e
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by varelse 12y ago
When I was in college and grad school, I noticed that students who couldn't hack Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Statistics were also the ones struggling with science courses. In my undergrad years, this came to a
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by varelse 12y ago
Ambitious, creative, but also kind of a jerk IMO who occasionally makes authoritarian but sloppy observations about low-level tech. You're not the only one he rubs the wrong way. Not that this is any way an obstacle as long as he succ
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by varelse 12y ago
Exactly this... If I am friends with someone, I want their feed unless I explicitly turn it off. But then I remember that I am not the customer, I am the product. For I don't think the problem is that my less garrulous friends aren&#x
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by varelse 12y ago
IMO there is every incentive for employees to compare salaries (except at startups where total compensation is directly proportional to how much risk you took to get there). Everything below is about 1000+ or so employee well-established c
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by varelse 12y ago
Kim Kardashian. No really. Assuming you're a hyper-evolved super-intelligent post-singularity being, I predict that nothing is going to make you feel better about your surprisingly boring extra-dimensional existence than watching the p
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by varelse 12y ago
Pretty much any GPU workload will quickly collide with Amdahl's Law w/r to spreading the work across multiple GPUs in short order. That's because 13 GB/s interconnect (P2P transfers) can only take one so far w/r to
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by varelse 12y ago
IMO if the US were willing to throw money at science like it's willing to throw it at the military and entitlements, it would generate a pile of junk science and enough occasional gems to more than pay for it in the long-term, somethin
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by varelse 12y ago
bioinformatics and machine learning
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by varelse 12y ago
Grad school cost me close to ~$100M... My bad... No I am not exaggerating. I would have been #3 at a very successful tech company had I chosen it over grad school and that's about half what #1 and #2 are worth these days. That said,
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by varelse 12y ago
I think that the multiple 32-way SIMD units on GPUs demonstrates there's plenty of room for widening on CPUs before we hit diminishing returns. The question in my mind is how much more like a GPU should CPUs become and Xeon Phi demons
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by varelse 12y ago
But think of the EPIC Nerf Wars this will allow!
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by varelse 12y ago
I have yet to work in an open floor plan that was without barking dogs, nerf guns, loud meetings, and the occasional R/C helicopter. I work from home 75% now. When I'm in the office, I get next to nothing done.
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by varelse 12y ago
And that's the insidious rot in every open floor plan I've experienced. Once you've put everyone in an open space, step two is to keep packing them in tighter and tighter until they start quitting because that's the onl
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by varelse 12y ago
Sure, and what I'm saying is that resenting professionals like tech workers is like a guy with a single slice of bread resenting any guy who manages to get two slices of bread whilst completely ignoring that the root problem is another
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by varelse 12y ago
Let's try this another way: The entire national household wealth of the United States is 83.7 trillion dollars this year, source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth This makes us the richest nation on th
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by varelse 12y ago
No, I don't. I think these are the ones that work the hardest* and because of that they'll be the last to sink into the muck created by the top 0.01% and up as they freely fund elections, buy politicians, and write their own laws.
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by varelse 12y ago
"SF Developers are by most definitions filthy rich." So you're implying that it's unfair for a highly skilled SF developer making 2-3x the median wage across all professions (having dedicated years to decades of their li
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by varelse 12y ago
Lost me at "Where once a robust middle-class thrived, there exists only the super-rich and the extreme poor." Yes, that's exactly what it's like here. Either you live in a 10,000 SF+ megamansion or you're on the st
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by varelse 12y ago
"I am all for people getting paid for their content, but your argument is like saying libraries should be outlawed." I suspect if you set up a privately owned library and lent out bestsellers, that's exactly what would happen
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by varelse 12y ago
That makes about as much sense to me as the Vatican saying it's OK to employ the rhythm method as contraception technique but don't you dare put on a condom! Sigh...
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by varelse 12y ago
Content being broadcast on ostensibly publicly owned airwaves (not that the "public" ever seemingly gets any say in this). While I agree with your point that they didn't own the content, making it illegal to provide a servic
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by varelse 12y ago
I would have been a geek deeply into street magic and Star Trek without computers. I suspect that would have gone precisely nowhere. Pre-computers, the other kids already couldn't handle my vocabulary and my tendency to question the l
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by varelse 12y ago
I'll take an uninformed off the cuff vote over the abstention of a depressed slacktivist any day, but maybe that's just me. If voters are voting ignorantly, then let the politicians spend more time informing them rather than sling
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by varelse 12y ago
Well... Not really... They split the MNIST data set and trained on disparate halves. Which is to say I wouldn't generalize from two networks trained on far less than 10x their parameter counts all the way to all neural networks i
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by varelse 12y ago
Whenever I see "If X isn't working for you then you're doing it wrong" I remind the person who said it that they really ought to consider that there are no silver bullets/holy grails. If daily standups work for you
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by varelse 12y ago
Yes, he's wrong. I do quite well working remotely and every offer I've received for which I'd have to work in a $%^&ing open office (because open office good, cubicle bad plus mandatory daily Jar Jar meeting at no additi

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