vincetogo

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by vincetogo 12y ago
I suspect that the augmentation of human intelligence through tech is something we're more likely to get to before full-on AI. Assuming it's unaffordable for most of us, I'm much more concerned about a caste of super-intellig
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by vincetogo 12y ago
A more accurate title might be something along the lines of "Optimizing Bottlenecks Improves Performance".
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by vincetogo 12y ago
It's not okay to be lazy. But it's wise to prioritize architecture over performance until you have numbers to show you where you should put necessary optimizations. In my experience, optimized code is almost always harder to work
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by vincetogo 12y ago
Shouldn't that be radioactivity? Light is a form of radiation, and I'm pretty sure that webcams can already measure that.
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by vincetogo 12y ago
You're right, the syntax is the main thing I've heard complaints about. I find that really bizarre though. I've been working in C++ longer than Objective-C, and more than Objective-C, but I don't find anything offensive
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by vincetogo 12y ago
I really don't get where the hate for Objective-C is coming from. Objective-C is definitely showing its age and I'm glad to see a new language that improves on it, but I really don't understand why the author's slagging
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by vincetogo 12y ago
I really don't see this being the case. Any competently designed graphics engine has an abstraction layer between the app's graphics routines end the platform's graphics API. While it's not trivial, another API shouldn&#
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by vincetogo 12y ago
Did Apple deprecate OpenGL on iOS? If not you should still be able to work with it if it does what you need.
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by vincetogo 12y ago
It's not too hard to write a graphic engine that abstracts out the graphics API, but it would have to be done in a language other than Swift...
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by vincetogo 12y ago
Steve Jobs was a white, male billionaire. Of course he wouldn't be in jail.
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by vincetogo 13y ago
This guy is putting on his white overcoat and trying to look like a scientist, but he doesn't actually cite any real research in favour of his claim, and instead uses anecdotal evidence ("Usually, once the original condition is fo
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by vincetogo 13y ago
It shows up in more complex queries: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass%2Ftau+mass
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by vincetogo 13y ago
My favourite Alpha goof is it interpreting the Planck mass as Max Planck's weight.
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by vincetogo 13y ago
"Too many notes, Mozart!"