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  1. This is ridiculous. I just wrote a java program handling gigs and no problems ajava.lang.OutOfMemoryError

  2. standing ovation! on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? (ted.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every Ted Talk ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. The "we'll give you 10$ to solve billion$ problem" on Goldman Sachs Will Open-Source Some Of Its Trading Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, let's tweak GS's bottom line and hedge funds for a meager 100k. Probably much less than having to pay one of their engineers for a year.

  4. Re:Right and wrong on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    Different ML techniques will only give small f1-score improvements on the same data-set (given you didn't make big mistakes or use different features). I do think there are some more recent state-of-the-art ensemble techniques like Random Forest and Extreme Gradient Boosting that get good results on smaller data-sets, but those bagging/boosting ensemble-decision-tree stuff techniques were probably already known someway or the other.
    I didn't take ML classes back in my days (late 90s), but do remember there being a SVM class for example. Things haven't changed much since.

  5. Not questioning his - engineering - abilities, and agreeing with the outcome of the judgement, it is stated that he holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering. I'm pretty sure most official engineering titles (as in "Ir. John Doe") require at least a Master's degree (and more, depending on the country). I'm confident someone with a BSc in EE from a good university should have no trouble pursuing a Master in the same field and beyond.
    So, can he call himself an engineer in the generic sense of the term and for argument's sake in the body of his e-mail? I think he can. He's definitely more entitled to do so than all the "Network Engineers" and "Software Engineers" without any studies in Engineering at all.
    Can he sign as "Ir. Jarlstrom"? Nope.

  6. sudo apt purge snapd ubuntu-core-launcher squashfs on Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    my top 1 list.
    I did a "df -h" not long ago to check out my disk usage. I got back a whole lot of /snap/ entries, basically so much "df -h" was pretty much useless at giving me a quick overview of my mounts.
    Since I didn't recall every giving ubuntu permission to mount a bunch of crap (and none of those snaps seemed to be something I was using), I removed it.

  7. Re:But the Amiga was a lot cheaper than IBM/Window on Was Commodore's Amiga 'A Computer Ahead of Its Time'? (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Actually, even the Amiga 1200 was faster at running the Mac OS than the Mac LC III.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph0gxzL3UI&t=75s

  8. I agree and would like to add that even during _real_ Engineering Studies, your specialization (for example parallel processing) is really only a couple of courses, projects and maybe your thesis. Same is true with for example Machine Learning. As an Engineer you should be able to step over to a related field and get that amount of theoretical and practical knowledge (I'm not talking experience) in a couple of months to a year.

  9. Re: Acting as the Devil's legal counsel ... on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    > the sexist assumption that women are fragile little things

    He uses abusive language in general (sometimes I guess). But one can argue that a particular 'aggressive' work atmosphere may indeed be perceived as more hostile by women as by men (in general). I don't think anyone is claiming that men and women are equal biologically / hormonally / physically / ... . But if a certain working environment is - on average - less pleasing to women than to men, then yes his behaviour may indirectly repel more women than men.
    Regardless, still a big fan ;-)

  10. only 1 introvert category? on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    So there are 3 extravert categories and only 1 introvert? Being an introvert makes you automatically stable emotionally, agreeable and conscientious.
    There are only two types of psychology research: garbage and complete garbage.

  11. Football's governing body on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    as in Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

  12. Re:The whole thing is BS on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    but but but, their satellite has 18 entangled photons...That's almost halfway from building a quantum supercomputer that requires 50.
    If they build 3 such satellites they could entangle the whole world.

  13. As if they didn't offshore the jobs already ... on Microsoft Could Move Some Jobs Abroad Because of US Immigration Policies, Top Exec Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That can be offshored.

  14. It's just a small investment for google on Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If Google puts a small team together of some capable engineers it would maybe take them 6 months to have a nice open source package to handle blockchain and distributed ledger technology.
    If they're not into the distributed ledger technology yet it means they don't care about it. As if no one at Google isn't aware of it :-)

  15. Re:Blockchain and electricity consumption on Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Bitcoin uses Proof-Of-Work as a consensus algorithm. You can use any consensus algorithm that you want. For example, a more fancy round robin (with Byzantine Fault Tolerance) or Proof-Of-Elapsed-Time. Or you could just simplify the Proof-Of-Work to be easier to solve.

  16. Or maybe a chemical reaction occurs transforming CO2 with H20 (water) into O2 (oxygen) and C6H12O6 ( glucose)?

  17. It's a Girl !!!! on First Confirmed Image of a Newborn Planet Revealed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Congratulations Star System 3

  18. Now that was a good investment 5-4-3-2-1 year(s) ago. Not only do you speculate on higher demand through cryptocurrency mining, you also get the whole AI and machine -deep- learning crowd and the gamers.

  19. The sentence itself may be ambiguous but there is probably more context int the rest of the text to disambiguate. Also, if you have a big enough annotated corpus to train on (meaning supervised machine learning), your model may already expect bicycle to be the most probably match.
    Because if you look at it, without further context, this is also ambiguous for humans, we just expect it to be the bike, but it could actually be the window she wants.
    Same with the sentence "Batman hits the villain with a wrench". Did Batman use the wrench to hit the villain, or did he just hit the villain who was holding a wrench?
    Even humans don't know for sure, but more context, like a sentence before or after this one, could give more information.

  20. Re:Demand vaca time and use it. on 57% of Tech Workers Are Suffering From Job Burnout, Survey Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part in Belgium where your gross revenue is taxed 13% social security + 50% federal tax + 4% local tax (8% on the 50%). Oh, and your employer also pays 33% on your gross salary.
    What's that? the federal tax of 50% is only in the highest tax bracket? right, the bracket over 35k$. Luckily the lower tax brackets are only 45% between 20k and 35K and 40% between 10k and 20k.
    I sure am thankful I get to keep 1/3rd of my gross income (sarcasm).

  21. Re:they gave the Nobel to Ishiguro on Japanese Writing After Murakami (the-tls.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ishiguro is really a British writer of Japanese origin. Yes he was born in Japan but lived in the UK since he was 5 and had his education in the UK as well. He writes in English.

  22. Re:I Read IQ84 on Japanese Writing After Murakami (the-tls.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you read them in Japanese or translated but I found that his longer books (1Q84, Kafka On the Shore, WInd-up Bird chronicles) had too much repetition in it. I'm wondering if this isn't because in Japan these books are published at different dates (1Q84 part 3 was published almost a year after the first two parts) and this helps the recollection of the story. The translations are usually in one piece so I'm often thinking "haven't I read this piece 10 times before". A good example in 1Q84 is the description of the moon. How many times do you need to describe the moon, really?
    Still one of my favorite authors though, I love his cold-distant yet romantic style, but don't always buy into the magic realism. So I prefer his more romantic books like Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart, ...rather than magic realism from 1Q84 for example.

  23. Re:So... let's use the entire electircal output... on FedEx Sees Blockchain as 'Next Frontier' For Logistics (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Blockchain doesn't mean public. Hyperledger for example is mainly focused on private distributed ledgers.
    But it could really help if different companies and agents are involved in the shipping of a package.
    You don't need super computer power either to add new blocks to the chain. That's just how it's done with crypto-currencies, but you can use different consensus algorithms that do no need a bit-crunching operation.

  24. Re:Psychosis / Mass Psychosis on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about Jesus, the man that used a whip to clear a temple, scatter the money of people and ragingly overturns tables?

  25. As science fiction finally earns mainstream accept on Sci-Fi Is Still Working on Its 'Stale, Male, and Pale' Problem, Says James Cameron (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Sci-Fi IS the most popular genre. Just take a look at the top-10 highest grossing movies of all times. Except for Titanic and "Fast And Furious" it's all Sci-Fi (Avatar, Star Wars, Jurassic Park), Fantasy (Harry Potter, LOTR, ...) and Comics ( Avengers, Black Panther, ...).
    Sci-Fi is as mainstream as it gets.