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Re:Run Chrome apps in Electron on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:45AM (#12380920)
Waiting for the USB API to be implemented
Re:The Rust Platform on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:26PM (#12182091)
Any roadmap for Rust 2.0?
Re:Get Started with Google's Opens Source Deep Learning on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:19AM (#10538308)
Backend is C++. Means it's easier to integrate with existing applications. Looks easier than Caffe. I can't use Theano because I need to be able to compile to a native application.
Re:Bisecting Floating Point Numbers on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:59AM (#10537967)
Great post!

It may interest you that William Kahan has written quite extensively on the pitfalls of iterative algorithms on floating point numbers; his discussion of Muller's pathological recurrence on pp. 14+ of this paper seems particularly relevant.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf

Re:Bisecting Floating Point Numbers on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:53AM (#10537953)
Good! Instead of (x1 + x2)/2, it is better to do x1 + (x2 - x1)/2 [source:kdbuo]
Re:ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI Tutorials on Saturday October 06, 2012 @11:31AM (#4620755)
It's good to see Microsoft investing time and resource to recognize community contributions. They should open similar platforms for Mobile, Azure, SQL and Windows Developers too. www.windowsclient.net used to be a good resource for Windows App programmers, but it's been abandoned
Re:Facebook acquires Instagram on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:03AM (#3822188)
Looks like this acquisition was in their business plan.
Re:The Qt Project is live on Saturday October 22, 2011 @02:50AM (#3143028)
equinox put it very well - My interpretation of things: Since Nokia is now (or starting next week) a Windows 7 outfit, we're no longer investing resources in this. So, we'll make it open source and hope that the community will sustain it. This is sad.