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> If the West ever returns to the idea of democratic society where everyone should have access to education, housing and good working conditions. Where we run our countries, our infrastructure and invest in scientific progress together. And where we believe that running businesses in line with the values of society is better. Then they would want democracy as well.

In that matter, don't you think it's the financial status that pushes all the ideas back? There is a fundamental tradeoff between resources spent on individuals vs total resources.

Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging on Monday January 28, 2019 @12:34PM (#19019291)
See ATC'13 How to Run POSIX Apps in a Minimal Picoprocess (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-h...). I would say it's a POSIX emulator OS.
Re:Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:55PM (#18499840)
I used to (and still do) listen to Chaconne and Goldberg variations all day when I was writing papers. Praise Bach!
Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#18443746)
Really cool project! It reminds me of TockOS from SOSP'17 which is also written in Rust but designed for extremely resource-constrained devices.
Re:Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:23PM (#18331019)
The project name is GOLD
Re:Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:47PM (#18312225)
Well my first thought on this is multitaskers have reduced their RAM size and I'm completely lost.
Re:One Windows Kernel on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:45PM (#18312217)
C'mon. Not even your own Drawbridge project is supported in Windows...
Re:Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:13PM (#18203438)
Never thought I'd see this on here...There is no need for all the complications like IF, etc. This game is only about your caloric deficient and surplus.
Re:Raytracing a Black Hole on Saturday September 15, 2018 @08:36PM (#17996764)
I so love this kind of behind the scene story
Re:What Is Systems Programming, Really? on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:56AM (#17960869)
IDK about systems programming, but one thing I do know: Systems researchers = ^[AI researchers]
Re:The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:42PM (#17767435)
Of course it's about Gernot Heiser's verified ukernel...
Re:Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:32PM (#17767335)
Expand a little then it becomes the probabilistic graphical model.
Re:Tariffs China imposes on every country on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:57AM (#17575493)
Your numerous citations and that point 2) you made form an embarassing contrast but it's adorable though.
Re:Spiffy: Enabling File-System Aware Storage Applications on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:10PM (#17533038)
Very neat work. I understand about ext-family and those fs that have a clear boundary of the data/metadata block -- they can be annotated and identified later. Then how about NTFS where metadata and data can mix in one block? Is there any potential challenge or same approach can still apply?
Re:How to scale a distributed system [pdf] on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:41PM (#17532967)
Another quick hint: always make things work first then profile and optimize it. This happens when my colleagues were building a stream processing engine that scales up. At first, they start with all those fancy fine-grained locks but it turns out the final result just does not scale at all. They have to retreat to the version with some big locks and then figure out what was happening and how to solve it.
Re:‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:03PM (#17524678)
Correct -- you should at least try and then make a fair judgment of yourself. However, that judgment is still hard to make.
Re:‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:38PM (#17524438)
"Anyone can do anything" is a big lie -- people just find it hard to admit themselves are just as normal as anybody else.
Re:Learn how to design large-scale systems on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:23PM (#17524299)
Why not have a scale-up system?
Pure trash
Welcome to Purdue then
Re:OpenAI Five on Monday June 25, 2018 @01:53PM (#17394285)
What are other killer applications of deep learning rather than CV and gameplaying?
It's good to know even vegans know how to scam people for money
Re:Getting Started in Natural Language Processing on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:31PM (#17279794)
You clearly did not see that was sarcastic.
Re:Norman - World's first psychopath AI on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:39PM (#17267842)
It may have interesting impacts on the psychological study to help understand what caused the offset of understanding of mentally ill people. But the whole psychopath AI title is undoubtedly a buzzword.
Re:Getting Started in Natural Language Processing on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:25PM (#17267688)
Lol for sure any NN-based approach can claim to outperform traditional ways while half of CVPR paper results cannot be reproduced.
Re:Getting Started in Natural Language Processing on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:11PM (#17267524)
That's how NLP can be a dead end by putting your faith on NN.
I'm doing research so I'm working on interesting technical problems everyday :^)
skynet in action
Re:Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:27AM (#17196546)
I agree with what you said because everyone knows it's massive. All I wonder is how massive, quantitatively.
Re:Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:29AM (#17188458)
lol I'm well informed on this topic but thanks anyway. Maybe I didn't make myself clear in my previous post. I was questioning the motivation -- Is there any existing profiling work that shows a significant amount of time has been spent on context switches in this particular workloads and how much you can save by adopting this approach.

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