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  1. Re:as always full of shit on Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela · · Score: 1

    RK3188 has soo much overheating problem at 1080p that my retina android tablet .. just works.
    The point was hardware exists and can be manufactured cheaply (in china just like RPI was at the beginning).

  2. Re:MIT is not the Borg on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    They cant because outcome was good. They only use names (Star Simpson, Aaron Swartz) when they want to disassociate it from the MIT brand.

  3. Re:Headline epic fails. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    Sounds great in theory, but no one will implement it - dropped packets = some shitty software will complain = user will pick up the phone and complain to isp = isp will complain to cable modem OEM = its in cable modem OEMs best interest to never ever drop packets = we get ridiculous big buffers just so some retard doesnt complain about dropped packets.

  4. Re:Headline epic fails. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    What the software actually does is uses genetic learning

    No. Genetic learning is learning by iterating over preselected range of parameters in search of a fit.
    Here they are using real data to teach algorithm optimal behavior.

  5. Re:All Jokes Aside... Still No. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I didn't see anything from them saying that everyone should go out and implement this right now.

    Actually what they said as the opposite - it wont work in mixed networks where other algos (compound/vegas) routinely fill up buffers and create latency bottlenecks.

  6. Re:All Jokes Aside... Still No. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    So we built a computer that figured out the answer. Now we just need to build an even bigger computer to figure out the question!

    HOLY SHIT you just blew my mind. I've been doing Machine learning for a while now, but I just took it for granted and it never occurred to me that learning the model is in fact learning the answer to a question that is often too complex for humans to grasp.

    All hail Douglas Adams, our prophet and saviour!

  7. 1 Gbit downstream on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    1Mbit upstream, and behind a nat. You know its gonna be like that.

  8. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    Most homicides *are* promptly solved. Most are family/partner, and the rest have a clear money trail.

    for the definition of most being barely above 50%

  9. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    If you shoot someone, everyone will know two things.
    1) you shoot
    2) you have something worth protecting

    clearly this is why all homicides are promptly solved, everyone just knows everything immediately :)

  10. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    If you really are one of the crazy preppers you already know not to show your resources in a time of crisis.
    Its as clever as walking around NY with open wallet full of cash in front of you.

  11. Re:Too bad on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 0

    You are joking, but this is exactly how NBN in Australia works. Nationwide fiber network .. with data caps on INTERNAL traffic.

  12. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    So you kill them. Why can't you say it? Because you know it's wrong and evil, but you'll pretend to be a big man on the Internet.

    You kill them if they intend to hurt you, its pretty obvious. But what does it have to do with backup battery and solar power? :)

  13. Re:Something wrong with this picture! on Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To Its Poorest Citizens · · Score: 1

    Planning on the grid failing is always funny. I'm sure you have lots of guns, but what do you do when the grids down for weeks and people see your lights and smoke and come knocking?

    Is that a tricky question? You stand your ground.

  14. as always full of shit on Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela · · Score: 1

    > I can’t think of any board that I could build at say $25 or even $35 that would be as good as Pi, let alone better.

    Whole frickin Cortex-A8 Allwinter A13 tablet at $30
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia50Fx0amE4

    how about RK3066 android stick, Cortex-A9 Dual-core 1GB RAM, 8GB Flash at $35?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAOnI1TR2k

    >But it’s a push even at $45. $55 I could imagine that you’d start to get to the point where you can start to get better but it’s interesting that there’s nothing out there
    >right now.

    yeah, absolutelly nothing out there
    no RK3188 Quad-core Cortex-A9 1GB RAM, 8GB Flash at $55
    http://seabright.en.alibaba.com/product/918363394-209545308/2013_Cheapest_HDMI_rk3188_quad_core_android_4_2_tv_stick.html

    oh, he meant nothing from Broadcom :)

  15. Re:I'd like to see his thoughts on... on Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela · · Score: 2

    get one based on A10 and you will have plenty of GPIOs

  16. Re:What about new talent? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    try rejecting 100 patches per day, every day. Then you will understand what this story is about.

  17. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 1

    erm, when I write OS I mean kernel, not applications.

    That doesn't change anything. It is a paired configuration so the kernel just sets the power state using cpufreq and based on this the cpu itself will determine which 4 cores are presented to it.

    No it doesnt.

    So I'm not sure what you're basing your assumptions on but if you were right there would be some pretty obvious patches in the Galaxy S4 kernel to support this, that kernel source is available but I've seen no such code in there.

    no there wouldnt be, unless you want to attach bigger battery and big cpu cooler.

  18. Re:Buying a blog...? on Hackaday For Sale, Editors Seek Crowd Funding To Buy It · · Score: 1

    What exactly does it mean to "buy" a blog? Are they wanting to pay half a mil for a domain name?

    no nonooo, they want US to pay half a mil so they can keep getting paid from ad money on a monthly basis.
    They dont want to pay ANYTHING out of their pocket.

    I said it many times in HAD comments - register hackperday.com and start fresh.

  19. What is this bullshit? April Fools' Day? on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 1

    >human's flicker fusion frequency is only 55 Hz

    No it is not, guess what is the frame rate of PAL. Nice touch linking to wikipedia as if linked article corroborates your bullshit (it doesnt).

    Modern LCD TVs DO NOT FLICKER. Picture stays on the screen until next frame comes, there is no fade out and sudden flash.

  20. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 1

    erm, when I write OS I mean kernel, not applications.

  21. Re:Ridiculous on Samsung Ups Ante In Smartphone Size Wars: 6.3 Inches · · Score: 1

    actually they are called Phablets in China, and are the next big market after everyone and their dog started making tablets.

  22. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 0

    Yes, like I said OS sees 8 cores, but it partitions load using only 4 cores at a time.

  23. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 1

    No. It presents itself as 8 cores, OS decides what to do with them. AFAIK currently Linux migrates threads using cpufreq clues.
    Nothing stops you from using all 8 cores at the same time.

  24. Time for ARM to invest in GCC on Casting a Jaundiced Eye On AnTuTu Benchmark Claims Favoring Intel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ARM looks like a sore loser here.

    >GCC isn't currently very good at auto-vectorization, but NEON is now standard on every Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15 SoC

    So the conclusion is to remove intel optimizations instead of improving ARM ones?

  25. Re:Read the "bad" reviews on Are Amazon Vine Reviews of Technical Books a Joke? · · Score: 1

    cant - those get delete^^^^corrected