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One day we'll have biological networks of the size that can compete with today's biggest artificial neural networks, capable of running things like, well, ChatGPT. Then the philosophical questions will run even deeper....
Kind of reminds me of the X11 logo....
This is fantastic. Great work. Works well on my iPad but no ‘face’ just a blank screen. Crashes on my M1 Mac Air. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help debug.
In UK it's 100 quid now I think.
DT990 pro headphones all the way for my audio productions. Unfortunately a lack of sound-proofing possibilities has meant that monitors aren't really an option I can personally consider. Love the headphones though.. fellow audio professionals are often surprised when they hear what I've been able to mix on them.
To try and be less of an asshole frankly...
I was due to be in a meeting and was super anxious about it due to having to report out on some stuff I'd been working on. That morning, before the meeting, my dad texted me with the line "there is fear in all of them". Had a profound impact on me and reminded me that we are all human and are all prone to worrying about stuff.
Oh God.. I got as far as reading SAS statistical software. I briefly got my hands dirty with that a little over ten years ago and remember thinking at the time how it was the ugliest most bug ridden heap of shit I'd ever had the misfortune of using.
Fortunately my time using it was on the order of a week or so.. it doesn't at all surprise me that the bug described was only (recently?) discovered.
The vendor of that product (I can't remember who that is) clearly had a serious quality control problem ten or so years ago -- purely going on SAS -- and it sounds like they still do...
A fondness for this language led me to develop (for fun) my own take on POP11 a few years back. Its kind of ‘POP11 with braces’ (since it uses braces for block and function scope, etc.) —
https://github.com/benhj/arrow if anyone is interested.. A lot slower though due to its recursive tree interpreter and no way near as powerful.. one day I might try and implement a byte code compiler / vm for it..
I’m a guitarist and I can’t understand either.
Posted by
dr_j_ on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:59AM
from the self-post dept.
...I do it because it's my job, not because I am trying to make you happy. Don't get me wrong, it is good to be appreciated but thanking me in this way puts you in a position of authority that you may not actually have.Conversely, I won't thank you for simply doing your job, unless it was part of some truly kind action for which I am likely to be genuinely grateful. I might compliment you on...
So assign random values to connection weights and then ‘spin’ those weights to a combination of other random values that hopefully perform a bit more favourably.. isn’t this just random search?
Is this satire? Looks like an advert for a toilet cleaner.
But how does it reverse? That’s what I’d like to know!
I think a lot of beginners would be put off by the verbosity of this.
It’s just a web browser. I mean it’s just a web browser. What is there to be so excited about? Really..?
How is this different to Strava?
As a runner, this is relatively useless without a GPS. Include that and sign me up in a heartbeat.
I stopped reading this when it became evident that the author was just promoting a library he’d written. I might have been a tiny bit more interested if I were a Rust developer.
As a professional C++ developer, I’m always amazed when I see something like this implemented in bash. Cos why the fuck not indeed! Good stuff.
Given the standard RFC, the two initial slashes as in scheme:// are critical in any URL when you need to be able to distinguish between the authority and path component, as in scheme://authority/path as in
http://server/file.txt. Otherwise it would be impossible to know when the server part finished and the path part began (since the authority or server part is always between the second and third slashes). Given the article, I think we’re very lucky to have ended up with this design. But I suppose we could have also arrived at a syntax where the path begins with the second slash (e.g. scheme:/server/path). In fact scheme:/path is valid syntax and is simply the contracted URL form of scheme:///path so at least by today’s RFC definition, scheme:/server/path wouldn’t work since in this contracted form, the path begins with the very first slash and that ‘server’ bit wouldn’t be a server at all but also part of the path.
Thankfully not, I’m terrible with a soldering iron. 13 inch mid 2010 MBP, model number 7.1, I think.
I heard the latest MBPs have soldered ram. Horrible and one of the reasons why I’m not thinking of buying one (besides them being rather pricey!).
Patched Catalina at least runs flawlessly on my mid 2010 MBP (7.1). (Note also, upgraded to 16GB ram — officially unsupported — and 500GB SSD). The machine absolutely flies. Using it for home recording and as my daily development (C++ mostly) driver.
Posted by
dr_j_ on Sunday March 01, 2020 @06:20AM
from the show-hn dept.
I guess one might say that the syntax is basically the parse tree, more or less?
Why is that? What’s special about lisp?
These examples blow my attempt at an interpreted programming language (thousands of lines over multiple source files) out of the water.. so impressive.
I wonder could the generated faces now be used to actually do further training? Even from scratch for other, similar GANs? Doing so might remove any privacy concerns about real world data being used to train these things (going forward)