wmeddie

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by wmeddie 3y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a sci-fi rendition of this concept. It means that an advanced enough alien species could come to a planet, from orbit disable all nuclear weapons and power plants, then start their invasion. Not as c
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by wmeddie 3y ago
I think you can argue that the pervasive use of notebooks is close enough for learning at least, but it's not as good for real development. The edit-and-continue features in Visual Studio for C# (and similar feature in Java) is the cl
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by wmeddie 3y ago
Exactly. This is the case for my children.
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by wmeddie 3y ago
Definitely read https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... if you haven't yet. Then think about what are the requirements your system needs when it comes to names. Does the app nee
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by wmeddie 3y ago
Yes, people really need to know that unless you are using the browser plugin, you really shouldn't ask it questions like this. (A good rule of thumb I think is if you can't expect a random person on the street to get the question
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by wmeddie 5y ago
All good questions. 1) It is a custom instruction set, you can rean the ISA guide over at https://www.hpc.nec/documentation 2) The main difference in simple terms is that AVX instructions have a fixed vector length (4, 8, 1
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by wmeddie 5y ago
I am currently working with these. Anything you'd like to know more about?
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by wmeddie 7y ago
One thing this article doesn't cover which was a big part of this decision was nuclear waste. Nobody wants nuclear waste sites in their prefectures. There was a plan to use breeder reactors, but that hasn't gone anywhere, and th
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by wmeddie 7y ago
As someone slightly involved in the Deeplearning4J[1] project it always surprises me that more people don't consider this option. [1]: https://github.com/eclipse/deeplearning4j
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by wmeddie 7y ago
Brings back memories. My first VPS back in 2003 used UML and it worked great. You could also run it inside Windows as well. Could even get GUI apps running by running Xming on your Windows desktop using CoLinux ( http://www.col
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by wmeddie 7y ago
I also agree that this estimate is way off, but I think the idea is to think of the total energy use of the phone when you include the energy used by the servers that provide the services you use in apps. That is much harder to measure. L
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by wmeddie 7y ago
Systems like Erlang/OTP, Akka, Orbit and Orleans/Service Fabric are built on an actor model where domain objects of the system (e.g. Users, Accounts, Invoices, etc.) exist within the cluster and have a an address so they are like
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by wmeddie 7y ago
This is pretty great. Only I wish it only showed when I clicked on the desktop (Since Finder does nothing else with the TouchBar) or swipe up from the bottom. Parallels actually does this same thing (minus swiping) for the task bar in Win
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by wmeddie 7y ago
Aquamacs ( http://aquamacs.org ) get's it tabs from somewhere...
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by wmeddie 8y ago
Is there a guide for getting neanderthal running with MKL on Windows? I tried my best but I'm not smart enough to get passed the require statement.
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by wmeddie 9y ago
Skymind's SKIL does this. (I work on the team.) You don't have to send it your data though, you can just install it inside your system and have it connect to the data source or stream to train models (optionally doing hyper-parame
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by wmeddie 10y ago
More capacity and with one less display to drive. It should definitely last significantly longer.
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by wmeddie 10y ago
I know English, Spanish and Japanese. I started studying Japanese in college and I live and work in Japan now. Structured lessons were fundamental in becoming fluent but when I was here I sang a ton of Karaoke whenever I could. It really
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Estimote Mirror: Video enabled beacon(blog.estimote.com)
2 points by wmeddie 10y ago|0 comments
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by wmeddie 10y ago
VR headsets that are attached to big PCs are very much a solo-thing at the moment. I can understand wanting to play a multi-player game like Halo while visiting a friend's house. I got my Oculus Rift a few weeks ago and absolutely lov
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by wmeddie 11y ago
Entity Framework. Microsoft's high-level ORM for .Net.
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by wmeddie 11y ago
Except AppCode.
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Nvidia announces 8 TFLOP board for self-driving cars(techcrunch.com)
4 points by wmeddie 11y ago|0 comments
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by wmeddie 11y ago
Angular is very similar to the MVVM style of GUI programming that's popular in Microsoft's XAML-based libraries (e.g. WPF, Silverlight, WinRT and now UWP). Which I think is interesting because that's where they ended up. Mode
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by wmeddie 13y ago
For anyone wondering how Chinese/Japanese/Korean input works interms of DOM events check out the W3C's working draft of the IME API [ http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ime-api-20130815/ ]. Specificall
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by wmeddie 13y ago
A quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha shows that it would be 292,000,000 L Which would fill 116 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
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by wmeddie 15y ago
It's a little known fact that you can easily make these kind of keyboard shortcuts globally by making a Service. Here's how to make a global service that reloads the browser: 1. Open Automator 2. Select Service 3. Search for run Ap
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by wmeddie 15y ago
He said he was at 17,000 viewer hours. I'm not sure what plan he's using but if it was the professional one that'd be 17,000 * $0.27 = $4590!
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by wmeddie 16y ago
True, but the reactors aren't full of light water anymore, they are pumping sea water into them.
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by wmeddie 16y ago
"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" By Peter Drucker Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306152 In Japan the book “What if the Female Manager of a High-School Baseball Team read Drucker’s ‘Management’" (By Iwasaki Na

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