paulhilbert

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by paulhilbert 2y ago
No, I would argue that from the three main ingredients - training data, model source code and weights - weights are the furthest away from something akin to source code. They're more like obfuscated binaries. When it comes to fine-tuni
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by paulhilbert 2y ago
That is an orthogonal discussion. I need masonry layouts a lot and tend to be on the "we don't need another display class" side in this debate. But that's unrelated to my "rant".
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by paulhilbert 2y ago
I mean the actual point of the article is to ask everyone, not just "well-known" examples. So it seems there were some reasonably forces in the discussion that align with my stance without the unnecessarily antagonistic (and rheto
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by paulhilbert 2y ago
Again: when did "well-known websites use this" become the motivating factor behind standard design? The blink tag was used by well-known website and it's universally recognized as a bad decision.
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by paulhilbert 2y ago
Where is the connection to "well-known websites"?
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by paulhilbert 2y ago
I totally get that. But for me there is a fundamental difference between "big enough need" and "well known websites need this". How are potentially thousands of niche websites less of an argument than "instagram and
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by paulhilbert 2y ago
"Others are questioning whether or not this kind of layout is needed on the web at all — they aren’t sure that well-known websites will use it." Would it instead be possible to exclude anyone with that attitude from a discussion a
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by paulhilbert 3y ago
"Flox began its life during the deployment of Nix at the D. E. Shaw group, where it quickly proved invaluable by making Nix easier for newcomers". Is that the line you are referring to? Sounds like the opposite of what you suggest
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by paulhilbert 7y ago
Not at all. In fact I would call doing that the most German thing you can do.
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by paulhilbert 7y ago
"Having a few hundred consumer GPUs or a few dozen "datacenter" GPUs should be within the reach of any University department" That was funny - however not even close to reality. I have to work on a GTX 1080 (not TI)...
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by paulhilbert 7y ago
Try pressing esc every few seconds for 8-12hrs a day like a vim developer does and you'll know.
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by paulhilbert 7y ago
Seems like something there should be a 99pi episode about (maybe there is?)...
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by paulhilbert 7y ago
Is there any way I can see the name of attached files?
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
This exactly - complete recountability and the fact that there actually are independent volunteers recounting are the only assurances of a transparent, legitimate voting system. Black boxes (and computer systems by their nature are black bo
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
Obligatory 99% invisible reference: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/oyster-tecture/
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
AFAIK current state-of-the-art in pathtracing are still metropolis light transport methods. Seems like current research is mostly focussed on denoising - which makes sense, since a good denoising provides a valuable shortcut for quicker res
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
I wonder why this gets downvoted - seems pretty reasonable to me...
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
So this is basically misusing the compiler as an impractial script interpreter?
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
Too bad Linux still has no proper mouse support... I would be glad if even the games that are Linux native would be playable...
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
Are you criticizing the naming of the television show? If so I don't think the makers (can) read HN comments...
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
Compared to vue, qt and all its reincarnations are a nightmare to work with.
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
No one claimed it is...
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
Actually C++ these days is moving more towards strong typing and immutability - imho the exact opposite of JavaScript...
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
No, I would never argue for C++. The reason being mostly its toolsets (constantly changing, instable and often incoherent). I just don't think readability is an argument - and I am as sick of (pointless) arguments against C++'s re
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
So goto spaghetti is understandable? And dropping those isn't an argument since proper C++ usage also implies agreeing on a proper subset of the language to use. Modern C++ with sane restrictions is way more easy to understand. Especia
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
Yes. I work in CS in the field of Computer Graphics and (by association) Computer Vision and Robotics. Our top conferences and journals are by ACM. However there are a few journals by Elsevier and IEEE which are relevant. I do not have (leg
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by paulhilbert 8y ago
I read this quite often and frankly do not understand it. How is Elsevier worse than ACM, IEEE or Springer? I found them to be equally intolerable but still Elsevier gets routinely picked as the prime example...
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by paulhilbert 9y ago
Having seen the state-of-the-art in action ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00730 ) I find the results pretty disappointing. Is there anything I miss?
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by paulhilbert 9y ago
Yeah - that is a "moderate" on the Torvalds scale...
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by paulhilbert 9y ago
There are tabs. To open links in new tabs hold instead of tap. Couldn't find out how to open an "empty tab" though...

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