airesQ

vor 4 Stundendiscuss

Jacobian conjecture disproved? Doesn't even make it to the list.

> How surreal is it that we are not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types of capability improvements?

Agree

airesQ

vor 11 Monatendiscuss

Is IntelliJ "bad"? Aren't the reactions here overly negative?

This means the company is funded, development will continue, zed will continue to improve. An IntelliJ style license (for example) is an acceptable trade-off from my point-of-view

airesQ

vor 12 Monatendiscuss

There's a slower and arguably better version of Pärt's "De Profundis":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twzmflIdYmw

airesQ

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Incredible work.

So much depth; initially I thought it's "just" a 3d model. The animations are amazing.

airesQ

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

The new entrants would be on the design side. If Intel no longer holds the keys to best fab-tech in the world then all bets are off.

(I'm assuming that Intel doesn't allow competitors to use their fabs; and that Intel does indeed have the best fab-tech at the moment; maybe I'm wrong.)

airesQ

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Is it just me or the competition on the CPU market is about to get really interesting? My understanding is that if Intel loses the edge on fab-tech then the door is open for all kinds of new entrants. (I could be wrong though.)

Who knows, perhaps even Intel will use TSMC's process at some point.

airesQ

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

I feel like there is a big audience for fish with bash support.

This could be a nice project; lets call it "shark".

airesQ

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Their papers[1] are also quite good.

[1] - https://research.fb.com/publications/

airesQ

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Perhaps Huawei will buy them. (speculating here)

airesQ

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

This will foment a lot of anger.

It does look to me that the US is really at its best here in applying the rule of law, and following the contract it had with ZTE to the letter.

But others will find it hard to believe, especially with Trump at the helm.

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Lack of cash is not one of Apple's problems. If they wanted to invest more in the US they could.

Most of the money will probably just sit still in a wide variety of investments (bonds and other stuff; Apple is one of the biggest players in these markets); the rest will go into dividends and share buybacks. A symbolic percentage might go into R&D and Trump will tweet about it.

(I might be wrong, but that is what I expect.)

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Worked on my system.

(Set cache_hit_threshold to the default value of 80, my cpu is an Intel i7-6700k.)

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Given Intel's dominance of the server market does this mean that datacenter computational capacity will see an overnight ~5% drop?

Is there enough spare capacity to cope with this? Will spot-instance prices go up? Will I need more instances of a given type to run the same workload?

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Couldn't the algorithm give its judgement before the video goes live?

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Calling Avago "virtually unknown" might have been too dismissive from my part.

But lets consider 2013. Avago had a revenue of $2.5bn, respectable, but that's not much when compared with Qualcomm's $24.9bn, less than Broadcom's $8.3bn, NXP's $4.8bn, and Freescale's $4.1bn.

In fact it seems that at least when it came to revenues, Avago was the smallest company on that list.

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

What a crazy turn of events. After all this M&A activity, Avago, a virtually unknown company, might end up owning Broadcom, Qualcomm, NXP and Freescale.

How is this even possible? Who is financing these guys?

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

In vscode is it possible to use alt+backspace to delete a word till the next '_' (underscore) or '-'(dash)? (ctrl-backspace works, but that deletes the whole word.)

This is something I do all the time in atom, and miss quite a bit when using vscode (for typescript).

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Love Python, but gosh, the lack of type checking. It might not seem like a problem with small applications, but it makes navigation and refactoring of large codebases much harder than it needs to be.

Yes there are type annotations, but they are just that at the moment, annotations. There isn't, as far as I know, a good type checker, or IDE that makes good use of them.

Ironically, an extended version of this transpiler could potentially be used to convert annotated python to Typescript. And poof! Proper type-checking in Python.

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

WiFi doesn't have an easy life either:

- It needs to work on unlicensed spectrum, which means that it has to play well with all manner of devices that contend for this spectrum (e.g. other WiFi devices, Bluetooth, IEEE802.15.4). In practice this means that it cannot do much beyond CSMA/CA (i.e. the 'listen before talking' thing). CSMA/CA is a terrible contention mechanism for high density scenarios, and before long much of the air-time is taken by collisions. LTE does not have this problem, it works on licensed spectrum, as such, an LTE base station can just divide the time/spectrum blocks and allocate them to the various contending devices as it pleases (as it owns the spectrum), making almost optimal use of the spectrum that is available to it. 802.11ax will improve on this a bit (e.g. it will have OFDMA, which reduces the collision domain; it will allow the AP do to some coordination, via 'trigger' frames)

- Wifi has a lot of luggage; IEEE 801.11ax will be backward compatible with tens of billions of devices going all the way to IEEE 802.11b, which came out in 1999.

- Costumers don't like spending all that much money on Wifi. This cost-pressure means that we don't have as many people looking into WiFi as we should (people writing drivers; people debugging problems; radio engineers; investment in testing equipment).

- MIMO (introduced in 802.11n), downstream MU-MIMO (introduced in 802.11ac), and upstream MU-MIMO (to be introduced in 802.11ax) are all technically impressive, but also very hard to implement well. (But we are now starting to see the benefits of this, particularly the 802.11ac wave2 devices.)

Anyway, I have high hopes for WiFi, well beyond a billion WiFi chips are sold every year, and it is getting better all the time.

airesQ

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

It seems that we have deep learning applied to MRI:

  A deep-learning algorithm that primarily uses surface area
  information from magnetic resonance imaging of the brain of 
  6–12-month-old individuals predicted the diagnosis of autism  
  in individual high-risk children at 24 months (with a 
  positive  predictive value of 81% and a sensitivity of 88%).

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