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by xigency 10y ago
Evidence that this is the most accurate parser is here; the previous approach mentioned is a March 2016 paper, "Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks," http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06042 "On
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by xigency 10y ago
Or go on beating that dead horse.
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by xigency 10y ago
Well, we have WebGL but we don't have WebGLU. It's shitty. That's what I'm saying. And the worst part about it is that the shaders have to be stored as strings. It's not as if it's possible to write shaders in
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by xigency 10y ago
There was a class action lawsuit filed just a few months after an upgrade was released: http://mashable.com/2015/12/31/iphone-4s-ios-9-lawsuit/#l.Zf... Edit: I'm not sure if this has been fixed with
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by xigency 10y ago
Disappointed not to see Pikii!
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by xigency 10y ago
You're lucky El Capitan works for you. Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. (And I'm sure it's the same with iPads.) At le
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by xigency 10y ago
It's a stretch to say that GLSL shaders are broken, since they are functional and every OpenGL application uses them, but it's hard to say that they are implemented in a logical way as they are now, especially at a topical glance.
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by xigency 10y ago
You're skirting around the issue. The original comment was - "When writing my first OpenGL code, I was stunned by the amount of boilerplate required." Your response was - "the amount of boilerplate required ... is minima
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by xigency 10y ago
"Eh, I don't think I want a common programming model across CPUs and GPUs. They are fundamentally different machines, and I don't think it makes sense to try to lump them together." Well, except for APU's, which I t
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by xigency 10y ago
My argument is not to keep the interfaces and functionality of the OLD pipeline, but to maintain a reasonable, fixed-function shader that is a default out-of-the-box. The most general purpose fragment/vertex shader for drawing a triang
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by xigency 10y ago
Writing a fixed function shader is to learning graphics programming what writing a Makefile is to learning C++. I'm not saying it's not important, or not important in the long run, but what introductory programming book would star
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by xigency 10y ago
Yes, I'm aware of how both immediate mode and vertex arrays work in OpenGL. The problem, and this is even getting away from what the article addresses, is that a green developer approaching the application must learn an entirely new la
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by xigency 10y ago
I might not be as qualified to talk about this since I am not actually working on the leading edge, but I know from past experience that development hasn't been pleasant.
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by xigency 10y ago
It seems unlikely that any of this will change, because control is in the hands of a relatively few powerful organizations who honestly have no interest in making life easier for software engineers working on graphics programming; and those
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by xigency 10y ago
And yet you've just described a decent amount of boilerplate. The fact that future iterations of OpenGL and OpenGL ES have nuked the fixed function pipeline is sort of annoying. I'm not saying there should be more codepaths in the
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by xigency 10y ago
This whole thing feels subtly racist.
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by xigency 10y ago
Apparently, it ends in Brazil when a court shuts down WhatsApp (for 72 hours).
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by xigency 10y ago
The public exponent in an RSA key doesn't have to be prime, only relatively prime to the totient of the product of the two primes.
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by xigency 10y ago
That's what I mean. I would rather see transaction records decentralized.
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by xigency 10y ago
The block-chain is a centralized record of all transactions ever. Just because there are many, many copies of it doesn't negate this. A digital cash system with 20 independent banks and offline transactions could arguably be more dec
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by xigency 10y ago
Well, whether or not you agree, there is some newness. The Okamoto-Ohta scheme might seem like handing out gift card codes to people as payment to you, but there are interesting mathematical properties to it that move responsibility further
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by xigency 10y ago
Well, ideally there would be a scheme where the authority facilitating transactions (with timestamps in this case) wouldn't be provided identifying information.
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by xigency 10y ago
> Citing a paper from the early 1990s on digital currency is like citing a paper on physics from the 1800s in a technical discussion about GPS. Like Maxwell's equations? Anyway, for (b) security it claims to be secure by providing a
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by xigency 10y ago
That's true. I really wanted to talk about alternate digital currencies so I started by attacking Bitcoin's big blockchain and huge power burden. I recognize each 'transaction' holds several payments. I find the growing
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by xigency 10y ago
Digital implies something that is based in information, which doesn't imply a computer network. I won't pretend to be an expert, and I might have been living under a rock concerning Bitcoin, as it is not something I use. The artic
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by xigency 10y ago
No, I'm saying the authority would provide resources to enable transactions, not an authority that controls transactions, which is actually what the distributed network of miners does in the case of Bitcoin. In this case, the authority
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by xigency 10y ago
Digital cash doesn't have a scratch-off layer. It has information associated with its minting and mechanisms to be used in spending and transactions. > ... perfectly happy to use state endorsed currencies. Unless what you are lookin
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by xigency 10y ago
> Take that away and you aren't left with anything that wasn't already done long ago And that is exactly my point. There are very interesting ideas in digital currencies/digital cash that have no representation in Bitcoin
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by xigency 10y ago
Yes, but that isn't the entire purpose of digital currency. It is just a part of Bitcoin.
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by xigency 10y ago
Except environmentally, you need to look at the energy footprint of Western Union compared to the network of Bitcoin miners, not the price of electricity or amount of coins awarded.

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