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GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video]

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11 maanden geledendiscuss

Never thought I'd say it but I really miss UCS-2.

vorig jaardiscuss

Funnily enough, I don't consider the iPhone 12/13 mini miniature at all. Granted, my hands are quite small even for someone of my height (5'7"), but remember those times people made fun of the iPhone 5 and of how gigantic it felt compared to 4S? I don't think human hands have grown that much since then. And I still believe the 1st generation SE is the best smartphone Apple has ever released: a rectangular screen, no camera bumps, a fingerprint sensor (that is still faster than Face ID), a mini jack, light, affordable, etc.

vorig jaardiscuss

If I may ask, what's your absolute favorite ISA? Is it ARM64 or something less common/practical?

vorig jaardiscuss

Not really a question, but please do not deprecate mini_auto_complete! It is one of the most useful (despite being hidden/undocumented) features of ST to me.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

"[...] we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we're now facing, and I take responsibility for that."

And yet I don't see anything about him stepping down. I never do.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

The iPhone SE 2016 remains to be the best smartphone Apple has ever released. This year, my wife made me replace it with a 13 mini, and it feels nothing but a downgrade: too large, too heavy, camera bumps, no headphone jack, no touch ID, atrocious PWM, etc.

Sure, I understand people have different needs from mine and appreciate they have a choice, but it saddens me that I don't anymore, and all I want is a modern (read: not discontinued), compact device that can do what a 10-year-old smartphone could do and gets out the way.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

  Location: Japan (comfortable with a 4-hour overlap with PT)
  Remote: only
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: distributed systems, database engines, knowledge graphs, search engines, recommendation systems, large language models, AI accelerators, compilers
  Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/39kmk5q4iii3hw9kelbhf/resume.pdf?rlkey=lud04lbyo4jjxy91zwivtgjbk&dl=0
  Email: [email protected]

Hi! I am a tech lead with 15 years of industry experience, ex-Google, ex-my own startup. I specialize in information retrieval and (somewhat ML-oriented) systems engineering. I can do pretty much anything from front-end to hardware design but really shine in mentoring and data science research (live experiments, human evals, product metrics etc.) I will help you build great engineering culture, state-of-the-art technology, and happy teams.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I don’t have kids yet but I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot. I personally don’t consider a no screen policy a very good idea, especially in the Information Age. After all, the technology is not a problem here. Instead, I’m building an intranet with an in-house search engine and a video streaming service which I’m going to populate with Wikipedia articles, my fairly decent collection of non-fiction books, some of world best fiction, movies, music etc. Besides that, no internet access for minors in my house. My fight is not with profanity or obscenity but with tasteless garbage like all that clickbaity ad-filled batshit YouTube is pushing onto me.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Hardkernel folks make some pretty amazing products. My home server is built on top of Odroid-HC2 coupled with a 3.5” HDD, and I feel that was some of the best $70 I ever spent. The whole thing is tiny, fanless, and it only consumes 2 Wh on average. I only wish it had hardware video encoding capabilities.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

If you want to understand how a NES emulator works, I highly recommend javidx9’s videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOv9FMX8xJHqMvSGB_9G9nZZ... I personally got more joy watching that series than out of HBO shows.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Your comment upsets and disappoints me. In large part because it's true: at my previous workplace, I was casually told that CME is a polite fiction and all employees are expected to exceed expectations.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I see a million use cases: no-code data scraping, analytics, feeds, notifications etc. Just think of the web as a giant database with URLs as table names and CSS selectors as column names. I started to work on it about half a year ago after I got tired of writing Python scripts every time I needed to join subsets of various online databases.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm working full-time on exactly that, hope to launch soon.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I've been using my iPhone SE since 2016 and man do I wish there was something to switch to by now. I don't think I can stand PWM on newer OLED iPhones (that includes 12/13 mini) and I will dearly miss the headphone jack. If there were a modern (un-Googled) Android phone like the 1st-gen iPhone SE, I'd be ready to spend $800 on it, I don't even care about cameras, fingerprint sensors, or NFC.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Thanks a lot everyone for your recommendations, really appreciate them!

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Tom's really mastered his skill of casual misleading, he adds these "wait, what?" moments to every video. A more notorious example will be his explanation of how optical reflection works, check out his "30 Weird Chess Algorithms" (https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA) around 10:20.

Edit: spelling.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Can anyone recommend other hidden gems like Tom's channel? I've been following him for years and still have not seen a merrier hacker. George Hotz's livestreams (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzFUMGbVxlQs5s-LNAyKgcq5S...) were as good perhaps, but the format is quite different, and he doesn't do them anymore.