wladimir

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by wladimir 15y ago
I still remember that as well. They wanted to get rid of the whole "file" concept, as in a single isolated opaque blob of data. They thought it is an outdated concept in today's interconnected age. Although there is some truth in that, pers
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by wladimir 15y ago
Frankly, the code contains all the information you need to do this already, so perhaps we just need a source-code übereditor that marks it up so that you can see the dataflow. Yes please! I'd love an uber-editor in which I can visualize t
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by wladimir 15y ago
Not really strange. I generally don't report security vulnerabilities either when I find them. Sure, if it's a simple process to file an issue, or I know a knowledgeable person in charge of the system, I'll do it. But otherwise I simply don
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by wladimir 15y ago
Have you looked at Theano ( http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ ) ? It is a Python-based JIT for GPUs. Using Python you can build the computation pipeline symbolically, and the formulas are automatically converted to GPU code and sch
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by wladimir 15y ago
Understanding the underlying processes doesn't mean that you understand everything that is possible with them on a higher level (both the low-level and high-level processes). If you want to compare it with computer programming, understandin
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by wladimir 15y ago
From the article: - Ease of expressing constructs arising in problems. - Suggestivity. - Ability to subordinate detail. - Economy - Amenability to formal proofs. I think it would be very useful to improve notation for programming languages
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by wladimir 15y ago
I agree. It's sometimes a pity that even with full unicode support nowadays we still resort to 'ASCII art' to express syntax in programming languages, reducing legibility. This is not so much a problem of US keyboards, because code editors
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by wladimir 15y ago
Don't forget that organic bacteria/virii/fungus can also be extremely deadly. Even artificial ones. But yes, it'd be more like biological threat than "grey goo scenario". What if they "eat" electronic devices and other human artifacts inste
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by wladimir 15y ago
Theano is also very interesting in regard of array computing, I've used it for very fast convolutional-neural-network training on GPU, but it can do many things (automatic symbolic differentiation, code generation, etc): http://deeplearnin
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by wladimir 15y ago
Well, yes. The ideal situation would be to decentralize everything. Tor-like over networks could play a role in that. But my main point is that so much is hosted on US-based (or US-owned) "cloud servers". And so much relies on US-based serv
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by wladimir 15y ago
Amen. But it will probably take a full-scale war to make people (and nations) aware of the security implications of armed remote-controlled robots. Some of them we can only guess at. Future war: nations will hack each other's drones and use
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by wladimir 15y ago
It does look like the US becomes scarier every day. More and more extrajudicial powers, secret laws, restrictions on speech, unwarranted searches/wiretaps and so on. Their "war on freedom" is very successful. As I've said before, the intern
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes. That's exactly what android does. So as long as there is no kernel (or set-uid OS) exploit, applications run with perfect separation.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Right, it is a good reason for leaving all US services, just singling out gmail would be unfair. Too bad so many major ones are hosted in the US (or at least by US companies). We really need a less centralized internet... Otherwise, when th
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by wladimir 15y ago
pypy doesn't support gevent/eventlet, as far as I know. :( Not yet, indeed. But according to their site they do have a stackless version: "PyPy can be configured to run in stackless mode, providing micro-threads for massive concurrency".
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by wladimir 15y ago
It would start with heads of state and rich people with enemies. But I expect all of us will be surrounded by swarms of friendly robots some day, both to help us with tasks and for security (some kind of artificial immune system?). As usual
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by wladimir 15y ago
When there are more and more nations with drones, it will be harder to trace them back to some nation-state. And with technology-only attacks there is no longer necessarily a nation-state with army behind it at all. Just an organization wi
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by wladimir 15y ago
How can you say that in general? Dirty tricks do happen. It is naive to assume everything is squeaky clean. I also think it is disingenuous to use the word conspiracy here, as if he made some tinfoil hat statement.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Sure... I didn't say that it would happen automatically, just that it could be done. Everything done on the web is convoluted. Btw: why would you have to watch resize events? Changing the size of the browser window (even rotating the screen
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by wladimir 15y ago
Virtualbox works fine for me. Though I only use it to run Windows XP so I'm probably not a demanding customer, but calling it garbage is kind of over-the top. It's very useful for me for running some windows-only software that refuses to w
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes it's sad how in software development, the most straightforward ways to do something (just specify cm) are usually broken. It's always exception built on exception, different per platform, different per browser. I guess to do it correctl
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, I'm sorry I downvoted you too before I realized you were making a joke (no way to undo it, though I upvoted this post to make up for it). I guess it wasn't over-the-top enough, there are people that would mean that seriously, and defe
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by wladimir 15y ago
Now, if we could provide bitmap assets that could be zoomed in the same way The most common way (used for icons) is to provide multiple bitmaps and load the right one depending on screen DPI. You can do this on your site too. And there's
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by wladimir 15y ago
Why "16 pixels"? Wouldn't scaling fonts based in cm/inch make more sense to be resolution independent, especially important on mobile devices?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Pretty cool. From that page they even provide instructions for Linux and Mac: http://functional-variations.net/crossplatform/ . So the F# "source drop" is licensed under the Apache2 license? I guess I should give them the benefit of the d
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by wladimir 15y ago
It seems that Microsoft is doing extremely interesting fundamental CS research (especially into automated verification/program correctness/security) these days. I'm enthusiastic about it, though I somehow fear the end result will at most be
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by wladimir 15y ago
In a way it is a failure of the system, in that it is much easier to simply post the vulnerability on your blog or a full-disclosure mailing list than 'officially' report it. This could potentially cost them large amounts of money. Why woul
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think the image is more supposed to show how harsh and unyielding Eve Online can be. The game offers many ways in which the players can work together or screw each other. It's not for the faint hearted :-) The penalties for dying are high
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by wladimir 15y ago
In all the examples, the OS libraries handle the actual busywork involved in communicating with the GPU, choosing shaders, and such. The interface, and thus the ease of development is the same.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I don't really care about this. The Steve Jobs news is big anyway. If something needs to be changed to the system it's to fix the annoyingly short "session expiration".

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