wishawa

9 ms·

61.
by wishawa 5y ago
Traditional anti-trust methods would only go so far with big techs because while monopolies in the past are driven by economies of scale (and lobbying and other illegal stuffs, of course), big techs’ monopolies are mainly driven by strong p
62.
by wishawa 5y ago
Maybe each thread could have a mapping storing the number of references held (in that thread) for each object? This way only the atomic refcount has to be in the object header. Also I don’t think there would be an owning thread at all with
63.
by wishawa 5y ago
I think yours is a much cleaner design. In the original plan, if the owning thread just set the special bit, but before that set is propagated, another thread drops the shared refcount to zero, the object would never be released, would it?
64.
by wishawa 5y ago
That is true. The research is good. But the headline, the article itself, and especially this comment by the author > Our apologies for not making this clear. The photovoltaic effect was increased by 1000 times compared to previous outpu
65.
by wishawa 5y ago
I did a quick Google for the Power Conversion Efficiency of Barium Titanate based solar cells and they are currently mostly in single-digit percentages [1]. A thousandfold increase would be over 1000%. Unless I'm missing something impo
66.
by wishawa 5y ago
Another important question is is it really a magic face they found, or just a magic image of a random face? If they managed to build an adversarial GANs that work on the object rather than a digital image of one that would be interesting en
67.
by wishawa 5y ago
They're beating facial recognition systems, not facial authentication systems.
68.
by wishawa 5y ago
> unsurprisingly many of them are in China and India Of the ten plants just one is in China and two are in India. South Korea, having three, might be a better target here. I agree that Germany should set an example. The German plant is 4
69.
by wishawa 5y ago
The phrases are proven/believed to correlate with Cognitive Distortions, but that is when they are used in conversations, or diaries, or maybe short writings. Not in books, which are very different from those things. Doctors don't