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by phrh8 8y ago
Not sure it would happen that way out of choice, but the role can get unexpectedly thrust upon someone, experienced or not (Think startups, desperate to make ends meet with a handful of inexperienced engineers...or even at medium sized comp
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by phrh8 8y ago
What future work can we see here? Is this sort of approach really pushing the state of the art or is it just an attempt squeeze another few percent out of brotli at the expense of more CPU. My understanding is the main novel idea here is sp
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by phrh8 8y ago
How does DivANS compare to state of the art compression algorithms? Is Brotli widely acknowledged as the state of the art or you just compare to it because it is fast? My understanding is Zstd was designed to be fast, not necessarily effici
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by phrh8 9y ago
I think the global reach is the problem here: kind of like how phonebooks, public records intended for the interest of the local population get scraped and sold to ad businesses and credit bureaus. I'm pretty sure that some of the cont
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by phrh8 9y ago
These platforms have hyper-optimized their products to show as much stuff as possible that people will engage with (share, click), so that they also engage with ads and stay active. The problem is there is often some time when there is no n
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by phrh8 9y ago
Science can't tell you if something is "natural" or good/bad. Science merely tells you what is/what we observe. (with some probability of being wrong, and subject to bias, etc). Whether something is good/bad is
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by phrh8 9y ago
What usually happens with these phones is they have something like 8GB or even 16GB, but they are poorly paritioned. It could be something like 5-6GB for /system (the OS) and they somehow only leave 2GB for the /data partition. I&
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by phrh8 9y ago
Wow, that video deserves more views than it has. Really interesting and relevant for a two year old talk.
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by phrh8 10y ago
I won't pretend to know about or have any background in medicine, but based on a cursory reading of the article, it seems to be a term for applying the Scientific method to medicine. The idea that we only started doing this 50 years ag