general_ai

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by general_ai 10y ago
No, you're not going to be a "dinosaur". 99% of extremely well compensated software engineering jobs do not involve ML. Using top large companies as a proxy of what things are going to be like in the world at large 3 years fr
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by general_ai 10y ago
TF is in a fortunate position of having several UIs at this point. It's a lower level framework with a lot of power. If you don't need all that power, Keras or TFLearn or Slim are pretty great. If you do, it's there for you.
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by general_ai 10y ago
It's just that we haven't seen people protesting in the streets for some reason. Hmmm, I wonder why that is. Dropping 100k bombs, killing 2200 people with drones, and toppling several governments sure seems like a bigger deal to m
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by general_ai 10y ago
The way I see it, TF is about to pull _way_ ahead thanks to XLA JIT/AOT. All of a sudden you get the ability to fuse things at a much more granular level, which could reduce memory bandwidth requirements by a lot. Frameworks like Torch
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by general_ai 10y ago
It just blows my mind that Soviet Venera landers were sending digital (!) images back from the surface of Venus in early 80s. This would be a heck of an achievement even today some 35 years later.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Have your lawyer review it. $200 at most.
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by general_ai 10y ago
You only need basic knowledge of physics to see why a high performance car without large radiators would overheat when expending a ton of energy per unit of time. Sadly a lot of people here lack it.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Because if you drive a Tesla hard, battery overheats and it shuts down. Plus once you run out of battery (even if it doesn't overheat) you need several hours to recharge it. Plus Tesla is only "high performance" in a straight
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by general_ai 10y ago
If I'm working with a paper (i.e. running experiments, writing code) then my workstation. If I'm just reading a paper, then iPad Pro.
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by general_ai 10y ago
They don't use Docker outside Cloud, true, but their container technology is the same as what Docker uses: cgroups. Brought to you by a couple of Google dudes a decade ago.
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by general_ai 10y ago
You're thinking about it incorrectly. Docker is not a VM. Docker is more like a chroot and a set of additional capability restrictions on top. Basically there are several things that are namespaced in Linux. Processes, network, users,
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by general_ai 10y ago
The real news here is that HuffPo agrees with Trump. I thought their editorial policy was to interpret everything Trump says in the most low-IQ and paranoid way possible. Someone needs to call them and ask if everything is OK.
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by general_ai 10y ago
There's security and there's safety. Linux desktop may well be less secure, meaning that it could be successfully attacked by an experienced attacker. At the same time it's far less likely to be attacked, so it's safer,
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by general_ai 10y ago
As a person who's looking to hire people, I'm signaling them the opposite. We use C++ with only a few maximally boring dependencies. And even in C++ we stick to C plus smart pointers, and a very occasional class where it makes sen
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by general_ai 10y ago
But that's just Windows. What you can get a Google is a full test run over _everything_ that your change affects. This lets you ensure that an obscure change in behavior will not break others, including products built using your librar
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by general_ai 10y ago
Says there it uses sqlite.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Be that as it may, it's a relatively obscure and quickly changing language, that _ends up calling into C_ anyway.
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by general_ai 10y ago
> designed for embedding Yet implemented in Rust. Why? If you want adoption, the best way to design something "for embedding" is to write it in C.
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by general_ai 10y ago
And I guess we should just forget about Forest Brothers and stuff, amirite?
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by general_ai 10y ago
Whatever is already public. You can watch a video about Piper and some other systems on YouTube, and read about other things from Google's own blogs, papers, etc.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Dunno how it is now, but years ago it'd take them a _few weeks_ to just propagate commits into the stable branch through a series of elaborate branch integrations, so yeah, you couldn't change something and test it on a whim. Plus
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by general_ai 10y ago
+1. I know some insiders at MS and their build/test/deployment story is universally very crappy. Things barely work, held together by curse words and duct tape. Googlers like to joke internally that Google looks like a race car fr
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by general_ai 10y ago
I know. :-)
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by general_ai 10y ago
> perforce model is far inferior to git's That's just, like, your opinion, man. There are other bits of infra that integrate with it quite nicely, and would integrate with something like Git quite poorly. One of those things is
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by general_ai 10y ago
Because very few people have a need to support a billion-LOC monorepo on which 30K engineers make tens of thousands of commits daily. That's where this system shines. For smaller projects, Git+Bazel (open source, non-distributed versio
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by general_ai 10y ago
Google is far more advanced than this. They have one giant monorepo (Piper) that's backed by Bigtable (or at least it was, when I was there). Piper was mostly created in response to Perforce's inability to scale and be fault toler
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by general_ai 10y ago
I wonder if they're still using Google AppEngine, or have moved to something lower level. GAE resolved a lot of its scalability and isolation issues thanks to Snapchat. In a way, Snapchat was to GAE what Hotmail was to Windows NT back
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by general_ai 10y ago
As far as I can tell from available news, no one "struggled" worth a damn to create a safe environment. In fact the opposite seems to be true: police was ordered to stand down, inviting the situation to get out of control.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Fake news. Antifa thug was shot by a man whose identity or political affiliation hasn't been disclosed, in self defense. How do we know it was in self defense? UW police said so, after releasing him.
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by general_ai 10y ago
That wasn't a protest. That was a riot. Let's call a spade a spade for once. I dont't expect much from Jeff Bezos's personal blog, but here on HN standards should be higher.

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