ted_dunning

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Comment · 2 days ago
Because you're poor and need to hunt squirrels to get protein into your diet?

Or because you have a history of being in that position and feel like it is important to pass the knowledge on?

Comment · 2 days ago
The Go community has not been very welcoming for embedded applications, for sure.

That might be changing (slightly) because of the Tamago work on NOOS.

Comment · 2 days ago
Embedded systems benefit substantially from decreased GC, especially in the context of non-relocating collectors (as with Go) in machines without memory management units. The problem is not the overhead, it is the effect of memory fragmentation.

The OP article here is nice because it allows selective enforcement of allocation free code. If you have code that has some discipline about heap allocation such as having all small allocations then you are OK on the fragmentation front.

Comment · 14 days ago
Don't forget the Boring Company. And Hyperloop. And Zip2.
Comment · 14 days ago
Suck comes standard.
Comment · 14 days ago
The image of a chain reaction of RRs popping up like popcorn when another appears to be about to land on it pretty hilarious, though.
Comment · 14 days ago
Nitrogen, actually.
Comment · 15 days ago
In business terms they did the first part and will fail on the second.
Comment · 15 days ago
Best summary:

| ... cybertruck of sports cars ...

Comment · 19 days ago
There are open references to usage by

ECMWF ASML Pumas JPMorgan Chase

and many other companies.

I use it routinely, but it isn't a company standard where I work.

Comment · 22 days ago
This is a definite integral. The specific endpoints might allow substantial simplifications that obscure the anti-derivative in question.

This is similar to the way that $\int_{-\infty}^\infty exp(-x^2) dx = \sqrt \pi$. The answer is a constant that doesn't give you any information about the function erf(x).

Comment · 23 days ago
Depends on the click-through license that linked to the terms of service that you agreed to as part of buying the machine.
Comment · 23 days ago
Counter evidence:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00042

It is true that block-headed quantization of everything doesn't work. But, as I am sure will read, if you remove the spiky parts of the parameter values, the residue can be dramatically quantized and compressed while retaining performance.

This is a multi-modal sort of compression where you use different techniques for different phenomena. Simply compression all of the weights, each in isolation, ignores the benefits of compressing them collectively.

Comment · 23 days ago
A non-carbon containing fuel that is almost entirely created by burning fossil fuels is effectively the same (and often worse) than just using the fossil fuels directly.

Biodiesel or biomethane looks at first glance to escape this, but it has serious other costs.

Comment · 23 days ago
After 1974 is when they decided to not award it posthumously. In 1962 that rule was still in the future.

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