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by mmf 3y ago
Also known for woodgears.ca Matthias is an international treasure. Any googlers around please help him. If you get a chance check out his recounting of RIM rise and fall. Edit: it seems he got it back :)
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by mmf 5y ago
I think the main reason they did not expose lower level semantics is that the wanted a drop in replacement for hdds. The second is liability: unfettered access ti arbitrary location erases (and writes) can let you kill (wear out) a flash de
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by mmf 7y ago
“Eutectic alloys are also notable because they often have the lowest melting point”. Isn’t the very definition of eutectic the mix proportion that has _the lowest_ melting point?
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by mmf 8y ago
Optical computation will never become relevant at scale. There are fundamental reasons for this: first, particle size. A photon at usable wavelengths is extremely large, much larger of any modern electron based _devices_ This makes it imoss
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by mmf 10y ago
If you feel that something is trivial and potentially wasting other people's time by means of wasting pixels, I think it's fine to speak up. (Explaining why something is trivial may not be that effective, in general). I was clearl
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by mmf 10y ago
Ok, I guess I could have provided more info. Do this if you own a bicycle: hold it by the saddle perfectly straight, front of the bike forward. Make it lean on the left (no forward movement). Look at the handle, it steers left. When you&#x2
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by mmf 10y ago
How complex can it be? If you have a bare minimum background in basic physics and control theory, and a bicycle in your hands, the qualitative reasons for balance and stability will jump at you in under 10 minutes...
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by mmf 10y ago
I absolutely agree, all those negative comments sound like rants from grumpy old guys. I have worked in HPC distributed storage and the problems the CoreOS people are trying to solve is a valid and present one: deploying flexible distribute
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by mmf 10y ago
That's great news but: 900MBps != 5GB/3sec. Plus last time I checked (2 years ago) write power for flash was about 10W/GBps and growing over time. So I expect these speeds not to be sustainable for extended periods of time.
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by mmf 10y ago
This effectively makes forgetting one's password a crime with a lifetime jail sentence... Not bad, not bad
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by mmf 10y ago
And will they share the data they collect so that everybody has a shot at making discoveries?
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by mmf 10y ago
Little known implies that if you ask 100 randomly selected people if they know if it exists, what it is and what it does, a small number, say less than 10 or so (little) will know. Did you take your educated guess at that fraction?
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by mmf 10y ago
I do not think he was implying that he did not fit because he's old. He implied that he did not fit because he's mature...
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by mmf 11y ago
At this stage of things, I think it's more forward looking to open source trained models. Not only they are beginning to be the real core of future building blocks (see, e.g., trained word2vec vectors) but also the contain the real com
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by mmf 11y ago
I don't know why you're being down voted. The fact that the human won, makes it now so much more interesting! It surely is the best outcome possible both for human go players and Google as well (having won the first 3 already).
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by mmf 11y ago
On the spot. I love wood and I'm a woodworker but I have yet to see a convincing way of treating wood that is exposed to weather.
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by mmf 11y ago
Finally a post on Concept Insights :) I work on this project, feel free to ask anything.
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by mmf 11y ago
No they cannot, and you cannot either :)
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by mmf 11y ago
I think you missed the point. He said that the starting idea was not important, and made examples of actually important starting ideas (page rank). His point is that the execution mattered way more, given that the idea was not really mind b
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by mmf 11y ago
IMO once all barriers (psychological and not) to quick and easy small online payments are gone, ads will not be useful anymore to content providers. A click through rate of 1/1000 will be easily compensated by a rate of donation of 1&#
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by mmf 11y ago
Awesome: "fed to cattle or schoolchildren". :-)
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by mmf 11y ago
I read it as meaning that it should be a superconductor. Why they do not mention it, I don't understand...
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by mmf 11y ago
It's W/GBps, or if you prefer simplifying J/GB. I like the former better, power and bandwidth are handier in real life computer science.
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by mmf 11y ago
A few corrections: -refresh period is more like 32-64ms -refreshing is way (way) cheaper than streaming data out since you refresh an entire word line, and you do not pay io cost, which is a significant fraction of the cost of accessing dra
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by mmf 11y ago
Here: BS: "going into production this year" Possibly not BS: "going into production this year at 2x nam technology node with a y Gb part" Many nvm memory technologies, including mram and PCM have been "in production
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by mmf 11y ago
There are many ways of suggesting that a technology is ready when it's not. I have not seen anything published with 2x nm and a cell size that is anywhere near 4F2 to 8F2 (on a decently large array)... Re the latency caveat I was sugge
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by mmf 11y ago
As I did not have the numbers fresh in memory (apparently I needed a refresh ;) ) I googled for dram data sheet and got the first ddr3 PDF (Hynix). Quick, and very dirty math suggests that -refresh power is on the order of milliwats per G
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by mmf 11y ago
Not shits and giggles, it's access to the array: subarray and word line decoding plus sense amp time. Find me a technology that does not need all these and I'll bow to you (and invest in your startup :D).
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by mmf 11y ago
I did research in the field from 2008 to 2013. The claims are always the same: faster than flash, denser than dram, lower power than both. Here's how to spot BS: first, the density claims are immaterial until they prove yield at a tech
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by mmf 11y ago
It's so easy to forget that your salary is not everybody's salary. In Italy (a first world country afaik) a post doc makes a grand total of about 30 euros per day. An assistant professor probably around 45, which is similar to the

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