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by exged 6y ago
Just wondering, what makes NN-512 superior to Intel's oneAPI DNN library?
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by exged 6y ago
Almost everything has at least an 8-bit MCU now. 32-bit MCUs are also extremely common now, and even simple ones like the ARM Cortex-M0 are competitive with a 286/386 (albeit with less memory / no MMU). A rather surprising number
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by exged 6y ago
Aside from very simple use cases, you'd probably struggle to render 800x480 or 1024x768 frames on an MCU. At 1024x768 especially, the pixel rate (47 MP/s at 60Hz) and framebuffer size (2.3MB at 24bpp) are just too big even for lar
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by exged 6y ago
Ehh, not really. I've used both Macs (old 15" rMBP, 12" Macbook, M1 Macbook Air) and Thinkpads (T450s, X1C G7, T14 AMD) and Lenovo just frequently drops the ball on things like display, speakers, touchpad and battery life. Ap
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by exged 6y ago
Garbage trucks should be possible. They are heavy but no heavier than a semi truck, with a tiny fraction of the range (150 miles vs 500+). Plus, low speed city driving is much more efficient than highway driving with an EV drivetrain.
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by exged 6y ago
I get that all else being equal, it's better to put everything in RAM, but what point is it just poor software design? 1TB of RAM is nothing to sneeze at. Is there really such a great need for sub-100us read latencies that commodity NV
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by exged 6y ago
The shortage is actually a direct outcome of Intel's problems. Historically Intel had by far the highest capacity for leading edge fabrication processes - just for their own CPU production. It didn't make sense for companies like
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by exged 6y ago
It's not just some gold coins, it's also the matter of $12.7 million invested in his research endeavor. If you raised $12.7 million to start a company like Theranos you'd also be looking at a steep prison sentence for securit
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by exged 6y ago
Some other studies [1] have shown that N95 valved masks are as effective at filtering exhaled droplets as unvalved cotton masks, and considerably more effective than improvised things like bandannas and neck gaiters. It makes some sense - t
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by exged 6y ago
Reticle limited on Samsung 8nm means plenty of room is available on TSMC 5nm. Also, GDDR does not have appreciably higher latencies than DDR memory when measured in nanoseconds. It's just more expensive than DDR and much more limited i
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by exged 6y ago
If you have some time, you can MITM the 802.1x auth packets [1] and use a less crappy router. I run this with a VyOS router and the same 5268ac that you have, but it works with things like Ubiquiti routers too. The only catch is you need th
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by exged 6y ago
I'd expect most things to work and have native versions by next year, with the notable exceptions of virtualization software and package managers like Homebrew. Virtualization software likely will never be fixed if you expect an x86 gu
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by exged 6y ago
Minor nit, but what you're describing is loss of color depth. Gamut is how saturated the colors get, which doesn't change much in this scenario.
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by exged 6y ago
FB generates around $2 million in annual revenue and $600k in net income per employee (not just engineers). If the only thing you consider is value generated by each employee, then FB should be paying far more. Maybe 400k for a new grad and
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by exged 6y ago
Below average for someone joining as a new E5 employee, especially if stock refreshers and equity appreciation is taken into account.
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by exged 6y ago
That's true, but it really depends a lot on the kind of software you're writing. If you're Google or Facebook and make fractions of a cent per pageview despite doing an enormous amount of computation then optimizing your code
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by exged 6y ago
EEMBC is a very poor benchmark for anything but very small embedded workloads (the datasets generally fit in a desktop CPU's L1 cache), but Micro Magic's claims are even more ludicrous. To quote the person in the article (Andy Hua
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by exged 6y ago
The market is efficient in the sense that it aggregates all knowledge between market participants. Nevertheless, no one actually has a crystal ball to predict events far in the future. Tesla's valuation and volatility can both be expla
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by exged 6y ago
It's "just" 4 GPUs and 64 CPU cores. Nvidia has a flavor of Linux for it, but it's basically just Ubuntu with Nvidia drivers and tools. You can rent a machine pretty similar to this on AWS (P3 instances) for about $12&#x
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by exged 6y ago
That seems pretty likely. Most (non-software) engineering disciplines have a ton of Windows-only GUI software.
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by exged 6y ago
There aren't any free PCIe lanes on the SoC, so even if they added a bridge chip for a SATA / M.2 SSD it would have to be connected over USB. Besides, the device is $70. A $10 32GB eMMC chip would be a far more reasonable ask at t
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by exged 6y ago
If you want to upgrade you might as well just buy a regular RPi4 and plug in your own keyboard.
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by exged 6y ago
To be fair, it's not uncommon for a ML researcher / engineer to use tens (~$10/hr on cloud, $100k from Nvidia) or even hundreds (~$100/hr on cloud, $1M from Nvidia) of GPUs to speed up their iteration time. If there was
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by exged 6y ago
Totally agree that most PCs have terrible analog sound quality, often plagued with EMI noise and other distortions. I still find BT to be a pain on Linux and Windows (unlike Mac / iOS, where Apple has really figured out the experience)
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by exged 6y ago
Mozilla is already irrelevant. Firefox market share on desktop is already lower than Safari [1] and continues to decline. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
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by exged 6y ago
Turing Pi is mostly useful for educational purposes. For anything performance critical, a cheap 8-core x86 box will run circles around 7 Raspberry Pis in pretty much every way, no matter how they are networked.
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by exged 6y ago
The "lite" versions don't have eMMC, so you would be free to put an SD card slot or similar on the carrier board.
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by exged 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the biggest CA income tax deduction available to most people is the mortgage interest and property tax deductions. So yes, you can deduct a lot of your state taxes - provided you're spending even more
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by exged 6y ago
Taxes and rent are still bigger. For a senior FAANG engineer making $400k a year, CA income taxes are nearly $40k/year, and rent on a house is perhaps another $60k/year (alternatively, ~$100k/year for a mortgage). All other b
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by exged 6y ago
Yes, the ESP32 uses a ton of power relative to most MCUs (external flash comes at a cost!) and has relatively poor peripherals, documentation and tooling. But it's cheap and not bad if you need WiFi or Bluetooth. Most non-networked pro

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