at least ten years old? shouldn't be news for nerds any longer
www.genetic-programming.com is koza's site, not that i think his work justifies his assumed superiority over other work at the time...but probably the canonical reference.
in particular he had good success breeding programs to work in a particular domain (world), but they never generalized well.
an fft is usually quite useful in trying to deconstruct binary formats, all of the fixed-length parts of the encoding show up as frequency spikes. as someone else mentioned, if it employs compression at any level then you're pretty much sol.
seriously though, its not worth it to write a driver for a single instance of a device. and if you dont have adequate documentation, the bar has to be even higher to make it worthwhile. if its really that trivial for you to do, you should get a real job doing it, throw away the printer, and buy one that works.
(yes, i do reverse engineering professionally, and was stupid enough once to write a driver for a scsi tape that wasn't what i thought i was buying)
a grand unified theory would use SIMD for distribution, not just exploiting a shallow local vector unit. like ZPL, or the connection machine languages. in a manner that allows you to exploit scale.
no one calls a cray X1 SIMD, but its alot closer than altivec.
ok. i'll agree with you about the art of computer programming. the agenda is far greater than the content, although there is some stuff of utility in there.
however, tex, as awful of a language as it is, manages to produce output that has the symmetry and balance of (almost) a typesetter. comparing it to msword can only be a troll.
i've had as many problems as everyone else dealing with floats and other garbage, but tex looks nice. admit it.
do the machinists create manifestos about their work? get over it, programming is mildly creative, but whole notion of paradigm-changing products is grossly overinflated. try doing something that has some obvious utility and dont try to ream people for it.
instead of writing large monolithic things and then whinging that the vendor doesn't support some random feature, the hardware people have it much better off.
i can buy 100s of different kinds of DACs, or adders, or crossbars, or.... in hard macro, soft IP, or discrete parts. i get to decide which parts i need to build, and which i can buy off the shelf. and when i do build something, a chip, a function, or a board, there are well-recongnized processes to make sure its going to work as expected, and effectively bound the schedule slip.
in hardware, testing and schedules are not a joke. and every decision i make has to be justified economically.
and in software...i can sell my soul to some huge ERP vendor, and end up with nothing. or i can fire up an internal software group and end up with... nothing.
the model is all wrong. its all about composition. for some reason we just haven't learned that yet.
um. do you realize how many bytes you can address with a 64 bit pointer? unless i screwed up my arithmetic, you can allocate a 8 byte quantity every nanosecond and still not run out of virtual address space for more than 70 years. good luck buying that much physical memory (a small number of exobytes)
sure. when it is. i normally take the bus in seattle or walk. but on the odd occasion that i need to drive out to the burbs to buy something or visit friends i can without having to deal with a cab. they only charge me when i use it, which is rarely. its nice to have the option.
my only complaint is that the stupid web site only deals with ie, so i'm stuck using the fairly painful phone menu.
maybe its not just laziness. maybe the cultral emphasis on extreme anti-intellectualism is showing some long term implications. really. look at politics in the US for an example. i cant help but think that someone may have gotten elected just because he cant speak properly.
if you picture yourself going to grad school and becoming a cs researcher, then by all means. you have to. its a very status-conscious discipline.
if you just want to go into industry, then do whatever you want. the kinds of things you need aren't what they teach in school (although some of them are very cool and can be helpful). you will rise to your natural level in a company and no one will ever think about your credentials at all. work on projects, school is incidental
"Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone", Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 85-92, Munzner, Hoffman, Claffy, Fenner
red storm wont be installed at sandia until later this year. it will be > 40 Tflops peak..but neither of them will be close to peak in actual application code. they should remain roughly within a factor of two. i have a strong hunch that red storms network will be considerably faster, but i have my doubts that that will translate into a substantial performance benefit on mpi code
its in many products. and since the IP history is so insanely tainted, no one can really complain, because they themselves aren't really allowed to use it.
there are other ways to subvert the nonsense..feed it back on itself
"Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users: internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities."
apparently the authors are a little confused about causality
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you must be from canada, central, or south america
at least ten years old? shouldn't be news for nerds any longer
www.genetic-programming.com is koza's site, not that i think his work justifies his assumed superiority over other work at the time...but probably the canonical reference.
in particular he had good success breeding programs to work in a particular domain (world), but they never generalized well.
an fft is usually quite useful in trying to deconstruct binary formats, all of the fixed-length parts of the encoding show up as frequency spikes. as someone else mentioned, if it employs compression at any level then you're pretty much sol.
seriously though, its not worth it to write a driver for a single instance of a device. and if you dont have adequate documentation, the bar has to be even higher to make it worthwhile. if its really that trivial for you to do, you should get a real job doing it, throw away the printer, and buy one that works.
(yes, i do reverse engineering professionally, and was stupid enough once to write a driver for a scsi tape that wasn't what i thought i was buying)
a grand unified theory would use SIMD for distribution, not just exploiting a shallow local vector unit. like ZPL, or the connection machine languages. in a manner that allows you to exploit scale.
no one calls a cray X1 SIMD, but its alot closer than altivec.
ok. i'll agree with you about the art of computer programming. the agenda is far greater than the content, although there is some stuff of utility in there.
however, tex, as awful of a language as it is, manages to produce output that has the symmetry and balance of (almost) a typesetter. comparing it to msword can only be a troll.
i've had as many problems as everyone else dealing with floats and other garbage, but tex looks nice. admit it.
(uncommented c code?)
do the machinists create manifestos about their work? get over it, programming is mildly creative, but whole notion of paradigm-changing products is grossly overinflated. try doing something that has some obvious utility and dont try to ream people for it.
instead of writing large monolithic things and then whinging that the vendor doesn't support some random feature, the hardware people have it much better off.
.... in hard macro, soft IP, or discrete parts. i get to decide which parts i need to build, and which i can buy off the shelf. and when i do build something, a chip, a function, or a board, there are well-recongnized processes to make sure its going to work as expected, and effectively bound the schedule slip.
... nothing.
i can buy 100s of different kinds of DACs, or adders, or crossbars, or
in hardware, testing and schedules are not a joke. and every decision i make has to be justified economically.
and in software...i can sell my soul to some huge ERP vendor, and end up with nothing. or i can fire
up an internal software group and end up with
the model is all wrong. its all about composition.
for some reason we just haven't learned that yet.
supposedly?? stupid children.
maybe he gets more out of life than he would were he a greedy bottom feeder
um. do you realize how many bytes you can address with a 64 bit pointer? unless i screwed up my arithmetic, you can allocate a 8 byte quantity every nanosecond and still not run out of virtual address space for more than 70 years. good luck buying that much physical memory (a small number of exobytes)
sure. when it is. i normally take the bus in seattle or walk. but on the odd occasion that i need to drive out to the burbs to buy something or visit friends i can without having to deal with a cab. they only charge me when i use it, which is rarely. its nice to have the option.
my only complaint is that the stupid web site only deals with ie, so i'm stuck using the fairly painful phone menu.
and without high performance bread, you may as well
not enter the race
maybe its not just laziness. maybe the cultral emphasis on extreme anti-intellectualism is showing some long term implications. really. look at politics in the US for an example. i cant help but think that someone may have gotten elected just because he cant speak properly.
if you picture yourself going to grad school and becoming a cs researcher, then by all means. you have to. its a very status-conscious discipline.
if you just want to go into industry, then do whatever you want. the kinds of things you need aren't what they teach in school (although some of them are very cool and can be helpful). you will rise to your natural level in a company and no one will ever think about your credentials at all. work on projects, school is incidental
sandia is operated by lockheed. it is part of the military-industrial complex, just not that part
doesn't anyone see the gross similarity between the rapture and the singularity?
this isn't science, this is religion. its just sort of techno-humanist rather than being christian.
is there any real reason to beleive that humanity will 'transcend itself'?
let me guess. you're not an addict, are you?
"Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone", Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 85-92, Munzner, Hoffman, Claffy, Fenner
red storm wont be installed at sandia until later this year. it will be > 40 Tflops peak..but neither of them will be close to peak in actual application code. they should remain roughly within a factor of two. i have a strong hunch that red storms network will be considerably faster, but i have my doubts that that will translate into a substantial performance benefit on mpi code
too late. my understanding is that Cray has a patent for spray evaporative cooling as used in the current
X1 product
its in many products. and since the IP history is so insanely tainted, no one can really complain, because they themselves aren't really allowed to use it.
there are other ways to subvert the nonsense..feed it back on itself
umm...unicos/mk?
"Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users: internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities."
apparently the authors are a little confused about causality
"hey kids, lets put on a play"
greg minshalls cube house at ipsilon around 98 or 99