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Re:GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:01AM (#25455162)
Can run wine on windows finally?
Misleading title is misleading...

CPython rounds float values by converting them to string and then back

Re:Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:19AM (#20282902)
Is PyOxidizer going to make it any harder to 'decompile' one of these Python executables? Of course, once you have the bytecode it's easy to recover the source code, but I wonder if something could be built into this tool to make it ever-so-slightly more difficult.

Nuitka has the potential to solve this issue, but it seems not ready yet.

Anyone know if/how Dropbox does it?

Re:Octahedral Impostors on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:34AM (#16762983)
'octahedral' could mean it has the same symmetries as an octahedron, not necessarily that it's an octahedron.
Re:Vectorized Production Path Tracing on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:56AM (#16115291)
Believe it or not, performance.. Embree holds up against Nvidia GPUs and Optix, at least it did in 2014 (see: https://embree.github.io/data/siggraph2014_embree_paper.pdf)
Re:Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances on Thursday October 26, 2017 @05:25AM (#15557465)
Why Ireland and not the UK? I can imagine a lot of startups/banks in London could use this... Brexit fears?
Re:Songbird: Spatial Audio Encoding on the Web on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:23AM (#15034756)
Worth mentioning that this is just a box-shaped room. How many early reflections are calculated?
Re:Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:04PM (#14596958)
Yes but they are limited in size and in precision to FP16, which is not sufficient for most applications, especially scientific computing... What this person is asking I think is: Can you actually think of another concrete application?
Re:DeepLearning10: The 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPU Monster on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:51PM (#14510152)
Can confirm that. Have this box (with 8 K80s) and we measured 90dB next to the box..
Re:AAC Licensors on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:33AM (#14374048)
There's something I've always wondered about.. what do you do if you upload your journal submission to arxiv but it's later rejected? That possibility has always been a deterrent to submitting to arxiv for me. Seems to me this discussion assumes arxiv uploads will be accepted to some journal eventually..
Re:GPUs for Google Cloud Platform on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:58PM (#12963102)
Re:NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series on Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:42AM (#11649210)
No word on double-precision performance? Could replace the Titan Z and Titan (black) as a good CUDA-application card..
Re:Korean Fan Death on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:17AM (#8740872)
Yes, we should. If the general statement about fans is not true, then the general statement about how South Koreans believe in fan death loses validity. The author didn't do their research.
Re:Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing on Saturday November 08, 2014 @12:17PM (#8577479)
for anyone experiencing issues with arxiv.org, mirror: http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/1411.1607
Re:Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing on Saturday November 08, 2014 @12:12PM (#8577465)
is it just me or is arxiv.org down? HN effect?
Re:FFTs and Optical Lenses on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:00AM (#7809460)
Not to the mention the fact that the FFT is an algorithm to compute the DFT. So calling the Fourier transform an FFT is even more of a misnomer.
Re:Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass on Sunday February 23, 2014 @08:47AM (#7285872)
If anyone is interested in brass physical modelling, there are some neat sound examples here: http://www.ness-music.eu/target-systems/brass-instruments