6ren

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by 6ren 13y ago
Love the serendipity moral; loved surviving the vicissitudes. The story reads well. There's a lacuna between Codentical and Parallel X : 1. people willing to pay for it; 2. a spark went off; 3. "validate before you build&quot
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by 6ren 13y ago
(not parent) Yes, since highend GPUs have 1,000's of cores, it makes sense (though I wouldn't expect one GPU core to be faster than one CPU core.) Please, could you quote the CPU and GPU for which you got that 350x speedup? A
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Tesla three step Master Plan(teslamotors.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Search engines have zero switching costs, so mainstream PR is a key competitive advantage for Google (not engineer PR). Their massive capital investment in server farms (esp. for google suggest) is another. 20% time was a long-term strate
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by 6ren 13y ago
Please cite examples of technologies that kids embraced and did not become successful.
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Fossils are the nodes; dung are the arcs(nautil.us)
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PrimeSense Capri 3D mobile applications(engadget.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Looks small enough http://www.primesense.com/solutions/3d-sensor/ (see "embedded" photo at bottom). Apple can probably help miniaturize it further; also process shrinks. New input devices open new possib
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Ed Catmull interview (Pres. Pixar and Disney Animation Studios)(scottberkun.com)
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A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas [Pixar's Catmull, HBR](hbr.org)
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Debate beats brainstorming(neilperkin.typepad.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Weirdly, I'm getting about double the framerate on the second, more complex demo (with volumetric light beams).
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by 6ren 13y ago
1. reasoning from first principles is a really cool, powerful and awfully difficult. Most importantly, it forces you to consider what the question actually is (see Douglas Adams). 2. the BOM cost is an interesting perspective, but is a te
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by 6ren 13y ago
Not sure if this salacious writeup, image and title are really helping them, but publicity is publicity I guess. At least the site doesn't present itself as a hook-up/prostitution service. http://www.easynest.com/
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by 6ren 13y ago
http://jsfiddle.net/hYfN3/197/ elm.onkeydown = function(evt) { evt = evt || window.event; var keyCode = evt.keyCode || evt.which; if (keyCode == '13') { var next
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The scale of Ringworld [video](youtube.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
I don't think there are any laptops comparable to the Acer C720 performance (Haswell) at a comparable price. It benchmarks at about half a 2013 Macbook Air (also Haswell). That said, I'd whack ubuntu on it, and love it as a netboo
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by 6ren 13y ago
Your edit is much clearer than "you know it when you see it" (Justice Stewart), which pretty much represents giving up on any formal definition. I like your suggestion of detecting trolls by whether they actually transmitted/
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by 6ren 13y ago
I'm not clear which two "groups" you mean, or that they'd divide. There is a class divide for human "breeding", with expressions like "marrying below" etc. But more importantly, people marry people
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by 6ren 13y ago
It clutters the code. Tests are a form of documentation, but too much in the code, like too many comments, obscures. Higher level unit tests (acceptance tests) can be quite long, especially if there's a lot of setup - unlike their exa
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by 6ren 13y ago
They don't seem to account for non-socioeconomic factors like genetics and nurturing. I'm not saying aristocrats are a master race, just that if your ancestors won competitions, you may have inherited whatever genetic factors help
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by 6ren 13y ago
True. I think this is what's bugging me: drawing a lit version implies information about 3D shape; in particular, the artist has to reason/see in 3D. So, in a sense, it is a new method of entering 3D information, that works especi
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by 6ren 13y ago
My thought was that you'll often light from a typical angle, and use familiar (or even stylized) techniques for that specific angle. To put it in extreme terms, you might only know how to draw with that lighting. For unusual lighting (
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by 6ren 13y ago
Don't you have to be incredibly skilled to draw lighting from different directions? I'm thinking "yes" - but artists are incredibly skilled. The free version will do everything the hobbyist version can do, but withou
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$100 audio controlled and governed photolithographic 3D printer [video](youtube.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
They are having more accidents than other electric cars (3 vs 0), and it certainly seems that having four times as much battery power, and lining the base with them, is the problem. There's nice spin you could put on this, which is lik
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by 6ren 13y ago
It makes a lot of sense to just a build a piece of it first — but that piece needs to be representative. You can’t just hack something together.” He calls this prototype a “publishable first playable,” A better explanation of MV
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by 6ren 13y ago
I'm seeing a pattern, a cycle between hubris and humility. When Nintendo ruled, Sony broke in by courting game developers. Then, they became arrogant, and made the best hardware they could, they was difficult to use. Thus, Microsoft wo
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by 6ren 13y ago
Now you have three problems. (But along with relational algebra, they are among the few abstractions that work really well)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Counterpoint: he notes our techniques are based on writing, but it goes deeper: our symbolic writing (including mathematical notation) is based on speech, for which we have dedicated linguistic structures in our brains, much as we have a v

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