Um, no, if Nvidia didn't want that, they wouldn't give the Titans full double-precision performance in the first place. I'm thinking that aside from getting a few sales from overenthusiastic gamers, their main motivation for marketing this as a gaming card is so their compute customers don't stop buying Teslas.
Yeah, this isn't Haswell-E just yet. As far as I know, that will build upon Devil's Canyon and go up to 8 cores on a single chip, with HyperThreading of course. It should also come with a new platform, chipset and socket to support DDR4 and SATAe. Personally, that's the jump I'm really looking forward to: Intel's first 8-core desktop chip.
Self-driving cars would open up an entire new kind of public transportation. Instead of having large buses which are only ever used at capacity for very small time slots and which must follow pre-planned routes that are almost invariably inefficient for the users of said buses, you could have extremely granular transit where people could just enter their desired destination and time, and they'd get processed into the network of self-driving cars for the most efficient route possible. Minimal time lost, minimal fuel usage (if the car's not used, it just parks instead of looping like a bus), almost-ideal saturation, precise start and end points.
As it is now, I'm taking the bus and it's taking between 25 and 75% longer than by car. Moreover, I still have to drive to the bus stop because it's much too far to walk and connections are hilariously bad (think adding an hour for what's a 5 minutes ride because of mismatched departure times). Public transportation based on self-driving cars would mean I'd be able not to own a car at all while being nearly as fast as if I had one. You'd see a much faster adoption if public transit worked that way.
That's quite simple to answer though... Are the children being harmed or stifled in their choice to pursue the career they want? If so, we should definitely help them. The situations the GP describes are completely inexcusable. A child shouldn't be the target of ridicule or physical harm for wanting to be good at school. If the Asians make their children work harder by beating them, put a stop to it. If they repeatedly force them down a path that makes them unhappy, put a stop to it. If they're just fostering a culture of excellence, regardless of the subject, then I don't see a reason to do anything.
There's a point where one needs to acknowledge that some cultures are much worse off than others.
And that last paragraph is why, I think, most people completely ignore or forget Asians in the whole cultural debate. They're often lumped into the "American white" demographic despite being neither, which is quite amusing.
Yep, and back then, most people didn't even own a car, let alone build one themselves. This isn't about whether 3D printed guns will ever be viable, it's about whether they're of any use for normal people now. Hint: they aren't, and trying to make one yourself can be dangerous.
But thanks for supporting that argument with your comparison!
Chances are that, in an autonomous car, you wouldn't be fast enough to override it when shit happens. Do you honestly believe you'll be ready and aware in a split second when you've been reading or talking or whatever for hours? The wheel is an artifact which doesn't make sense in an autonomous vehicle.
Just like everyone else who posted something similar to this, you're missing the point: you are not the target market. The people that HP's thinking of when they designed this tablet don't know Cube (I don't either and I'm far from the target market). They don't know Allwinner. They don't know stores like PandaWill or DX. They want to get a cheap tablet at Walmart or Best Buy that comes from a brand they recognize.
That would be all nice and good if the providers had fiber rolled out at Google's speeds and prices in dense urban areas. Hint: they haven't. The fact they have to support other areas doesn't affect their ability to provide a competitive service to Google's own offering in the same or similar areas.
Ignoring the typical Slashdot cynicism (and often lack of understanding disguised as such), this is actually pretty damn neat! Quantum mechanics and quantum computing using the gates model aren't intuitive, especially not for people without a physics background, so this could really help learning the fundamentals of quantum computing. Being able to visualize the state of the qubits at each step of the process as something other than a big formula is a pretty big deal.
As it is right now, QC is pretty much just taught using pen and paper, but I think this deserves some attention too. I don't think many people in the classroom understood what the hell Shor's algorithm was doing when the prof presented it (I know I didn't), but perhaps with a more interactive demo it'd be a bit easier to grasp. Grover's algorithm would also be extremely cool to watch unfold, I think.
Isn't it ironic that a consumer graphics card can simulate more qubits than most actual quantum computers have right now?
Check out Spec Ops: The Line. It may not be perfect, and it's third person, but it's the sort of story you could be doing in an FPS, instead of another hoo-ah Call of Duty.
It's only an id tech game even. It's by MachineGames, who're basically a bunch of ex-Starbreeze developers. Now, Starbreeze did a few good games like The Darkness and both Riddick games, but they also made less than impressive stuff like Syndicate, so it's a bit of a mixed bag.
Even if Carmack were still at id (and he was for the vast majority of this game's development cycle, remember), he probably would've had little involvement. Not that I feel like it matters, though. Carmack is an amazing programmer and engine developer, but he's not very good at designing games from that tech (as can be seen by the fairly middling output id has had since shortly after its early days).
What continuously surprises me is that those people don't seem to realize that, if they want to keep their current habits, they only have to move to the US! If you want a paranoid, right-wing, discriminatory and constantly foaming at the mouth state, the US is basically the place to be. You even get nationwide surveillance free of charge!
If you think you're such a great programmer that you're never ever going to write bugs into the programs you write, you've probably never written anything larger than a few thousand lines, and you've probably never debugged what you wrote in the first place.
Hint: outside of Hello World, bugs will happen. Debuggers are a great way of determining what the bug is so you can get on with fixing it, instead of acting like the hot programmer who doesn't need them but instead wastes an entire day combing through his code looking for that one error. Deciding that you're "above" some subset of tools available to you is childish at best.
Nah, that'd also punish people who legitimately forgot their ticket or something along those lines. The much better idea is to increase repeat offender fines. If the first fine's only like $50, but the fifth is more like $500, those fare dodgers would very quickly go broke while normal people wouldn't be affected.
Wait, speech is money now? I don't think anyone opposes lobbyists going to the politicians and talking them into doing what they want. It's giving money to the politicians as an incentive (obviously without saying that that's the case too openly *cough*) that's outright bribery and is illegal in most sane, developed countries.
AMD arguably still is pretty competitive... for the price. Having to append those words to anything about AMD is what they hate, though. They can compete in the low-mid end by undercutting Intel (and even then their CPUs are usually more power hungry), but as soon as you get closer to the high end AMD's just left in the dust except for those rather rare use cases which don't need much FPU performance but can run in massively parallel systems, where their 8-core CPUs shine.
And I find that a lack of understanding of mathematics and logic (this is college level mathematics for CS we're talking about, so rather basic in the grand scheme of things) quite heavily correlates with an inability to structure code in a logical and mathematically sound way. Funny how that works, right?
It's not that CS is less desirable and especially not less prestigious, it's that we had grossly inflated head counts in CS for a long time because degrees like software engineering didn't exist. Now that they do, the people who want to program and engineer code can go there, and they'll find that what they do is much more in line with what they expected to be doing. CS is reserved for a much more theoretical perspective, and I don't see that as making it the lesser discipline, quite the contrary in fact. It does however mean that a CS degree won't automatically net you a job at a big software company, since the skills learned in CS are at best parallel to what they require.
A good CS student will however be able to adapt quite easily and can even outperform a comparable SE student because of their better theoretical knowledge.
With the immense amount of coverage every Tesla-related fire has had, I wonder how much of a storm the first hydrogen car explosion will cause. Unlike electric cars with relatively stable battery chemistries, hydrogen is extremely volatile. Good luck using that in an ICE without seeing it go boom at the first occasion.
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Um, no, if Nvidia didn't want that, they wouldn't give the Titans full double-precision performance in the first place. I'm thinking that aside from getting a few sales from overenthusiastic gamers, their main motivation for marketing this as a gaming card is so their compute customers don't stop buying Teslas.
My bank even has an online system for sending a travel notice. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case for many other banks, look it up!
Yeah, this isn't Haswell-E just yet. As far as I know, that will build upon Devil's Canyon and go up to 8 cores on a single chip, with HyperThreading of course. It should also come with a new platform, chipset and socket to support DDR4 and SATAe. Personally, that's the jump I'm really looking forward to: Intel's first 8-core desktop chip.
This.
Self-driving cars would open up an entire new kind of public transportation. Instead of having large buses which are only ever used at capacity for very small time slots and which must follow pre-planned routes that are almost invariably inefficient for the users of said buses, you could have extremely granular transit where people could just enter their desired destination and time, and they'd get processed into the network of self-driving cars for the most efficient route possible. Minimal time lost, minimal fuel usage (if the car's not used, it just parks instead of looping like a bus), almost-ideal saturation, precise start and end points.
As it is now, I'm taking the bus and it's taking between 25 and 75% longer than by car. Moreover, I still have to drive to the bus stop because it's much too far to walk and connections are hilariously bad (think adding an hour for what's a 5 minutes ride because of mismatched departure times). Public transportation based on self-driving cars would mean I'd be able not to own a car at all while being nearly as fast as if I had one. You'd see a much faster adoption if public transit worked that way.
That's quite simple to answer though... Are the children being harmed or stifled in their choice to pursue the career they want? If so, we should definitely help them. The situations the GP describes are completely inexcusable. A child shouldn't be the target of ridicule or physical harm for wanting to be good at school. If the Asians make their children work harder by beating them, put a stop to it. If they repeatedly force them down a path that makes them unhappy, put a stop to it. If they're just fostering a culture of excellence, regardless of the subject, then I don't see a reason to do anything.
There's a point where one needs to acknowledge that some cultures are much worse off than others.
And that last paragraph is why, I think, most people completely ignore or forget Asians in the whole cultural debate. They're often lumped into the "American white" demographic despite being neither, which is quite amusing.
Yep, and back then, most people didn't even own a car, let alone build one themselves. This isn't about whether 3D printed guns will ever be viable, it's about whether they're of any use for normal people now. Hint: they aren't, and trying to make one yourself can be dangerous.
But thanks for supporting that argument with your comparison!
Hint: you're the exception, not the rule. You can't assume people will shift to mass transit because your mass transit is well above the average.
Chances are that, in an autonomous car, you wouldn't be fast enough to override it when shit happens. Do you honestly believe you'll be ready and aware in a split second when you've been reading or talking or whatever for hours? The wheel is an artifact which doesn't make sense in an autonomous vehicle.
Just like everyone else who posted something similar to this, you're missing the point: you are not the target market. The people that HP's thinking of when they designed this tablet don't know Cube (I don't either and I'm far from the target market). They don't know Allwinner. They don't know stores like PandaWill or DX. They want to get a cheap tablet at Walmart or Best Buy that comes from a brand they recognize.
Simple, no?
That would be all nice and good if the providers had fiber rolled out at Google's speeds and prices in dense urban areas. Hint: they haven't. The fact they have to support other areas doesn't affect their ability to provide a competitive service to Google's own offering in the same or similar areas.
Ignoring the typical Slashdot cynicism (and often lack of understanding disguised as such), this is actually pretty damn neat! Quantum mechanics and quantum computing using the gates model aren't intuitive, especially not for people without a physics background, so this could really help learning the fundamentals of quantum computing. Being able to visualize the state of the qubits at each step of the process as something other than a big formula is a pretty big deal.
As it is right now, QC is pretty much just taught using pen and paper, but I think this deserves some attention too. I don't think many people in the classroom understood what the hell Shor's algorithm was doing when the prof presented it (I know I didn't), but perhaps with a more interactive demo it'd be a bit easier to grasp. Grover's algorithm would also be extremely cool to watch unfold, I think.
Isn't it ironic that a consumer graphics card can simulate more qubits than most actual quantum computers have right now?
A building out of supercapacitors? I guess that could be interesting in a thunderstorm...
Check out Spec Ops: The Line. It may not be perfect, and it's third person, but it's the sort of story you could be doing in an FPS, instead of another hoo-ah Call of Duty.
It's only an id tech game even. It's by MachineGames, who're basically a bunch of ex-Starbreeze developers. Now, Starbreeze did a few good games like The Darkness and both Riddick games, but they also made less than impressive stuff like Syndicate, so it's a bit of a mixed bag.
Even if Carmack were still at id (and he was for the vast majority of this game's development cycle, remember), he probably would've had little involvement. Not that I feel like it matters, though. Carmack is an amazing programmer and engine developer, but he's not very good at designing games from that tech (as can be seen by the fairly middling output id has had since shortly after its early days).
Keep in mind that Baidu and Alibaba are also the sort of corporation to acquire smaller startups...
What continuously surprises me is that those people don't seem to realize that, if they want to keep their current habits, they only have to move to the US! If you want a paranoid, right-wing, discriminatory and constantly foaming at the mouth state, the US is basically the place to be. You even get nationwide surveillance free of charge!
If you think you're such a great programmer that you're never ever going to write bugs into the programs you write, you've probably never written anything larger than a few thousand lines, and you've probably never debugged what you wrote in the first place.
Hint: outside of Hello World, bugs will happen. Debuggers are a great way of determining what the bug is so you can get on with fixing it, instead of acting like the hot programmer who doesn't need them but instead wastes an entire day combing through his code looking for that one error. Deciding that you're "above" some subset of tools available to you is childish at best.
Nah, that'd also punish people who legitimately forgot their ticket or something along those lines. The much better idea is to increase repeat offender fines. If the first fine's only like $50, but the fifth is more like $500, those fare dodgers would very quickly go broke while normal people wouldn't be affected.
It doesn't have to be successful to be considered bribery.
Wait, speech is money now? I don't think anyone opposes lobbyists going to the politicians and talking them into doing what they want. It's giving money to the politicians as an incentive (obviously without saying that that's the case too openly *cough*) that's outright bribery and is illegal in most sane, developed countries.
The Republicans, progressives? Only in America can this be said without bursting out laughing midway.
AMD arguably still is pretty competitive... for the price. Having to append those words to anything about AMD is what they hate, though. They can compete in the low-mid end by undercutting Intel (and even then their CPUs are usually more power hungry), but as soon as you get closer to the high end AMD's just left in the dust except for those rather rare use cases which don't need much FPU performance but can run in massively parallel systems, where their 8-core CPUs shine.
And I find that a lack of understanding of mathematics and logic (this is college level mathematics for CS we're talking about, so rather basic in the grand scheme of things) quite heavily correlates with an inability to structure code in a logical and mathematically sound way. Funny how that works, right?
It's not that CS is less desirable and especially not less prestigious, it's that we had grossly inflated head counts in CS for a long time because degrees like software engineering didn't exist. Now that they do, the people who want to program and engineer code can go there, and they'll find that what they do is much more in line with what they expected to be doing. CS is reserved for a much more theoretical perspective, and I don't see that as making it the lesser discipline, quite the contrary in fact. It does however mean that a CS degree won't automatically net you a job at a big software company, since the skills learned in CS are at best parallel to what they require.
A good CS student will however be able to adapt quite easily and can even outperform a comparable SE student because of their better theoretical knowledge.
With the immense amount of coverage every Tesla-related fire has had, I wonder how much of a storm the first hydrogen car explosion will cause. Unlike electric cars with relatively stable battery chemistries, hydrogen is extremely volatile. Good luck using that in an ICE without seeing it go boom at the first occasion.