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I have a much better idea: how about you acquire some critical thinking skills instead? It'll serve you well in the long run.

https://www.google.com/search?q=70+cents+on+the+dollar+myth&... Plenty of reputable sources right on the first page of results. I can't treat people with respect if they lack criti…

He's got a point though. The 70 cents on the dollar thing has been debunked pretty thoroughly by now, and yet people just keep mindlessly parroting it. Maybe arguing about it is no…

No, you're not going to be a "dinosaur". 99% of extremely well compensated software engineering jobs do not involve ML. Using top large companies as a proxy of what things are goin…

TF is in a fortunate position of having several UIs at this point. It's a lower level framework with a lot of power. If you don't need all that power, Keras or TFLearn or Slim are …

It's just that we haven't seen people protesting in the streets for some reason. Hmmm, I wonder why that is. Dropping 100k bombs, killing 2200 people with drones, and toppling seve…

The way I see it, TF is about to pull _way_ ahead thanks to XLA JIT/AOT. All of a sudden you get the ability to fuse things at a much more granular level, which could reduce memory…

It just blows my mind that Soviet Venera landers were sending digital (!) images back from the surface of Venus in early 80s. This would be a heck of an achievement even today some…

Have your lawyer review it. $200 at most.

You only need basic knowledge of physics to see why a high performance car without large radiators would overheat when expending a ton of energy per unit of time. Sadly a lot of pe…

Because if you drive a Tesla hard, battery overheats and it shuts down. Plus once you run out of battery (even if it doesn't overheat) you need several hours to recharge it. Plus T…

If I'm working with a paper (i.e. running experiments, writing code) then my workstation. If I'm just reading a paper, then iPad Pro.

They don't use Docker outside Cloud, true, but their container technology is the same as what Docker uses: cgroups. Brought to you by a couple of Google dudes a decade ago.

You're thinking about it incorrectly. Docker is not a VM. Docker is more like a chroot and a set of additional capability restrictions on top. Basically there are several things th…

The real news here is that HuffPo agrees with Trump. I thought their editorial policy was to interpret everything Trump says in the most low-IQ and paranoid way possible. Someone n…

There's security and there's safety. Linux desktop may well be less secure, meaning that it could be successfully attacked by an experienced attacker. At the same time it's far les…

As a person who's looking to hire people, I'm signaling them the opposite. We use C++ with only a few maximally boring dependencies. And even in C++ we stick to C plus smart pointe…

But that's just Windows. What you can get a Google is a full test run over _everything_ that your change affects. This lets you ensure that an obscure change in behavior will not b…

Says there it uses sqlite.

Be that as it may, it's a relatively obscure and quickly changing language, that _ends up calling into C_ anyway.

> designed for embedding Yet implemented in Rust. Why? If you want adoption, the best way to design something "for embedding" is to write it in C.

And I guess we should just forget about Forest Brothers and stuff, amirite?

Whatever is already public. You can watch a video about Piper and some other systems on YouTube, and read about other things from Google's own blogs, papers, etc.

Dunno how it is now, but years ago it'd take them a _few weeks_ to just propagate commits into the stable branch through a series of elaborate branch integrations, so yeah, you cou…