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by neptvn 6d ago
It's a nice article that basically (rage)baits the readers before they realize the author actually disagrees with the premise of coding being solved. So here goes, my higher-level rant on "solving" something with AI. I strong
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by neptvn 2mo ago
So the article seems to pose more questions than it answers. I was expecting some observations from the plastic-free lab they built, and at least some evidence of the comparative impact vs. other labs that use plastic to study blood and oth
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by neptvn 3mo ago
Sure, but that's a non-sequitur. Sight and hearing are the most important human senses that practically inform consciousness in the sense of where we live, and what we can do. The other 3 (touch, smell and taste) are at best secondar
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Orchestrating computer vision with Elixir at V7(elixir-lang.org)
4 points by neptvn 6y ago|0 comments
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An Introduction to Codemods: Refactoring JavaScript with JavaScript(reaktor.com)
12 points by neptvn 7y ago|1 comments
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by neptvn 7y ago
Wolfram might be a genius, but I personally find his writing and lectures extremely dull. The only thing he seems to write is how everything is "computational", and how we need to embrace his idea that computing is what the whole
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by neptvn 7y ago
Is `hashbrown::HashMap` now completely ported/identical with `std::collections::HashMap`? I just compared their performance (on yesterday's beta channel) on a hashmap with over 200k keys and didn't notice any relevant speedup
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Modern C++ Won't Save Us(alexgaynor.net)
326 points by neptvn 7y ago|388 comments
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Why Are Robotics Companies Dying?(forbes.com)
4 points by neptvn 8y ago|0 comments
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by neptvn 8y ago
Can you describe the mess Atlas creates?
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by neptvn 8y ago
Are your clients based globally or solely in Germany? I would look into Stripe Atlas in any case. https://stripe.com/atlas
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by neptvn 8y ago
Congrats to the Rust team and all contributors! Awesome work! Is the non-lexical lifetime improvements work locked to a particular release yet? Also, now that the async/await RFC has been merged, is its implementation in nightly or sta
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MNIST training: Showdown between JavaScript and WebAssembly(ai.danruta.co.uk)
76 points by neptvn 9y ago|30 comments
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by neptvn 9y ago
> Apart from the fact that nobody wants to risk having false positives, there’s a simple argument as old as machine learning itself: whatever a human can do, a machine can be taught to do. Humans have no problem correctly interpreting ad
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VR book [pdf](vr.cs.uiuc.edu)
4 points by neptvn 10y ago|0 comments
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Polymer 2.0 RC is here(polymer-project.org)
3 points by neptvn 10y ago|0 comments
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Polymaths, bumblebees and the 'expert' myth (2012)(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by neptvn 11y ago|0 comments
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ROS – Robot Operating System(ros.org)
2 points by neptvn 11y ago|0 comments
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Einstein for Everyone(pitt.edu)
2 points by neptvn 14y ago|0 comments