std_badalloc

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by std_badalloc 5y ago
As someone who did cross platform development for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone way back when, Windows Phone did actually have the superior dev experience by far (talking about WinPhone 7+ here). It wasn't free, but neither was iPh
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
PyTorch is the most impressive piece of software engineering that I know of. So yeah, it's a nice interface for writing fast numerical code. And for zero effort you can change between running on CPUs, GPUs and TPUs. There's some c
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
It's the same in Norway, and it seems completely indefensible. 1) It's the opposite of progressive taxation, since the tax deduction is higher the larger your mortgage is (and there's no deduction if you don't have a mor
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
I've seen studies where they tracked wild Norwegian salmon, and found that 90% died before spawning. As far as I understood it, this was interpreted as "natural death", but it's the same figure as the one in the article.
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
The difference is presumably the digital contract, that is written in a programming language that only a handful of people on earth can understand, where a programming error can make your money disappear, such that you have no recourse in t
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
I think it was with the seq2seq paper of Sutskever, Vinyals and Le in 2014: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215 People were doing a mix of learning from data and hand engineered solutions before this, but this was the firs
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
> Isn't DRM... Completely fucking pointless? > All it does is infringe on our rights to be able to do what we want on our own devices. No, but this is exactly the point of DRM and the legal protections around circumventing it. It
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
I don't think the example here is the best. There's a case to be made for extracting pure functions and organizing them like this, but I don't think this code makes it. The benefit of pure functions IMO is primarily in that t
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
Yeah, but ResNet does not have sparse matrices, so how could it use them? Post ReLU activations may be sparse, but I don't think that helps when used with a non-sparse Conv2d.
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by std_badalloc 6y ago
First I've heard of this. What is the software situation like on a device like this? I assume no comptability with Android, so apps have to be developed specifically targeting their OS?