wowzer
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Comment · 9 years ago
Looks solid!
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks. Looks pretty perfect.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'd love to know what "super fast" means. Are we talking about ETL jobs that would take hours? We run our batch file processing jobs in Python. It's not the fastest. But in a world where we can bring up more instances/containers to help process the work faster, I'd love to know how much faster COBOL is at these jobs that it'd be interesting to consider against the alternatives.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks for the info. The Carbon looks really good, so it's good to know someone's already successfully put Linux on it without issues. Two questions: have you tried hooking up two monitors to it and if you connect an external monitor to the laptop and then close the lid do things work as expected?
Comment · 10 years ago
Looks pretty awesome.
Comment · 10 years ago
I've tried that and it just feels incomplete. The VM competes for resources with the host machine. And then it's a bit awkward where the focus of the mouse is. When you run Linux natively you can get fancy with window/tiling managers (I really want to play with i3). Life is just better when things are simpler.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
While what the AlphaGo team has accomplished is nothing short of amazing, I'm not sure if everyone's thinking about this in the right context. While playing there's a "super computer" behind the scenes with these specs 1,920 CPUs and 280 GPUs [0]. Then consider all the machines used to train this neural net. I'd say Sedol's brain is pretty freaking powerful. Also, with that much computing power I would expect AlphaGo to win with the right team and the right approach to solving the problem. It would be very interesting to change the rules and limit the processing power of the computer playing a human.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
This is the first I've heard of Falcon. Have you used it for a "real" project? It'd be interesting to know the tradeoffs when considering it against something like Django Rest Framework. Looking at the benchmark figures on the Falcon site, it's sad that Python 3 underperforms Python 2. I wish Python 3 had the slightest performance win, it'd be an easier sell. Hate to shift the topic to Python 2/3 talks, but I've wanted to switch for a while now, and it's still not the simplest sell.
Comment · 11 years ago
While time will tell if we ever actually see this drones in action, imagine how cool it must be for the people working on this project. They get to go to work each day playing with some really fancy model airplanes. Plus, this is Amazon pushing yet another aspect of technology forward. They may overwork their employees, but cool things are coming out of those offices.