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Re:George Hotz against the institutions on Sunday March 20, 2022 @08:14AM (#30742012)
I'm probably one of the people you've talked to. For all his flaws, and there are many, I would give a lot for any team I've been part of since to have someone even half as good as him.
Re:Jitsi Meet Security and Privacy on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:25PM (#22781218)
Comcast advertises very clearly that unlimited is an additional $50/m: https://dataplan.xfinity.com/unlimited/
In the UK there are several 2-3 hour train routes that are routinely standing room only. It's not a big deal.
Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:23PM (#21364564)
You can choose to enable e2e on Messenger
If you're worried about that Messenger supports end-to-end encryption, just hit the "Go to Secret Conversation" button.
Re:How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:49PM (#20186125)
What are you talking about? The United States is one of the only countries in the world where it's possible to walk into a store and walk out with an unlimited prepaid sim, and the only others have a much higher population density.
> I personally do not believe that depth generated purely from deep learning can be used as input to photogrammetry anytime soon.

6d.ai uses depthnets in its mobile photogrammetry pipeline. demo: https://twitter.com/mattmiesnieks/status/1106722396889702406

Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:18PM (#16073195)
Intel chips don't support LPDDR4
Re:Real name policies and ruling the world on Sunday June 18, 2017 @02:25PM (#14582047)
> I've seen no statements from Facebook about how the data is used, how it is stored, and how long it is retained.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1723057061256937

Re:Tesla Autopilot on Saturday June 17, 2017 @08:34AM (#14575622)
self-driving minivans with human safety drivers
Re:Google Earth Redesigned on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:56AM (#14137760)
Why do you think that? There's been way more bugs in V8 over the years than the NaCl core sandbox.
Re:Google Earth Redesigned on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:47AM (#14137713)
It's ActiveX, but completely secure and open source. Sounds like a good idea.

Regardless, it's pretty much already been killed. Too bad it's taken 8 years for a web standard (WebAssembly) to match it.

Re:Google Earth Redesigned on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:31AM (#14137636)
Because it uses PNaCl
Planes and trains still have human pilots because they're very cheap in comparison to operational costs.
Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent on Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:04PM (#13082971)
It links agains the Adreno-GSL, part of the GPU driver, not the GNU Scientific library.
Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:55PM (#13075811)
> but if you're going down the highway and the AI decides to suddenly swing the wheel far right as quickly as possible, no human being would have reaction time good enough to recover without crashing

"The EPS controller in the car limits the torque to a very small amount, so regardless of the message, the controller cannot jerk the wheel" [1]

[1] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/SAFETY.md

Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:48PM (#13075428)
> It seems incredible that this is the source code for the $999 product originally destined to be available this year.

It's not

Re:Cars are getting weird on Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:10PM (#11919632)
You are exactly describing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
Heh, this 'feature' was the intended solution of a CTF challenge 3 months ago: https://github.com/ctfs/write-ups-2015/tree/master/9447-ctf-...
First release was ~2006

It's a tragedy that it has been almost a decade and it's still just as effective -_-

Re:Confession of a C0dez Kid (2001) on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:59AM (#10572879)
It's been on textfiles.com since 2001
Re:Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism on Thursday November 05, 2015 @08:23AM (#10513123)
But it sounds like your model isn't a general graph? DAG and tree isomorphism is in P (and pretty straightforward), and so is tree edit distance...
Re:Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @02:48PM (#10509103)
Why is general graph isomorphism needed for that?
Re:Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @02:00AM (#10456522)
Amusingly, this complete hack using the aesenc instruction claims 0.08 cycles per byte on haswell: https://github.com/gamozolabs/falkhash
> As a related note, the best predictor of university physics scores is high school English scores.

That's pretty counter-intuitive. Can you give a source?

Re:What Ever Happened to Google Books? on Saturday September 12, 2015 @06:40AM (#10207764)
Shout out to the Internet Archive, a non-profit close to what the author describes. Unfortunately it turns out book scanning is expensive and rights-holders still don't like it.

https://archive.org/details/texts&tab=about

Re:Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:55PM (#10189252)
Is there any incentive to host nodes?
Re:Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project on Saturday September 05, 2015 @05:23PM (#10176075)
The actual graphics core has only elementary differences from the retail chips [1]. The differences were mainly in integration (merging in a northbridge, tweaks for UMA, ...)

1. https://github.com/espes/xqemu/blob/xbox/hw/xbox/nv2a.c#L708

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