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Four Main Roles of Government: 1. Keep a rule of law 2. Maintain a stable & competitive economy 3. Turn taxes into public services (defense, roads, etc) 4. Lie

I got a hold of my old copy of the book and wanted to share an excerpt from the first page: > Searching memory might be compared to throwing the beam of a strong light, from your h…

I can think of one great example of this. Charles Lindbergh won the Pulitzer prize in 1954 for his Spirit of St. Louis autobiography. He worked on it for 15 years and refused to us…

When you look back on the history of communism, you sure do see a lot of red flags.

Isn't it just the bloodflow within the brain that we're observing? We'll never be able to read a mind based on fMRI-style data any more than we'll be able to judge the ongoings of …

Thanks for the clarification! It's always a pleasure to get a direct response from the first author on something as awesome as this. I'm definitely subscribing to the llvm-dev list…

Cool interpretation! I like that concept. But grandparent was definitely trying to deconstruct the word "meaningless", getting a little existential in the process.

Thanks for the link! Pretty exciting stuff. Can anyone comment on the following quote: The list below shows some of the more important optimizations for GPUs... A few of them have …

I was wondering about this too, the way they plugged old K80's at the end for non-deep-learning applications. Either they're clever about keeping multiple product lines alive (more…

Only users with enough karma can see downvote buttons. I'm not there yet, either.

I highly doubt that Nvidia dropped the ball this hard with Pascal. A much more obvious and sensible conclusion is that Nvidia is currently developing their next chip, called Volta.…

I'd trust McDonald's buns and meat to contain LESS preservatives and other bizarre compounds than a pack of burger bread and patties that I'd pick up at my local grocery store. The…

Humans have arbitrary morals in much the same way that wolves have arbitrary instincts to pack-hunt; many preceding generations have survived thanks to that particular characterist…

The point you make about hiring ordinary people is an important one. The timeless, old essay "Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men"[1] makes a lot of great arguments to this end. The mea…

This is terribly subjective, but I've always had the impression that the Ancient Greeks had a much higher instance of over-the-top brilliant minds than any of our modern societies …

I like this idea the best, but I think revision numbers are conventionally prefixed with a dash; 13.01-24 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pac... (i can nev…