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yazr··on AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen 'Matisse' Coming Mid 2019: Eight Core Zen 2 with PCIe 4.0
Whats the cache-coherency throughput of AMD vs Intel?

Isn't this a major, major issue with >=8 cores ?!

EDIT: yes, of course, lots of server code has very low memory contention.

yazr··on Why are the Maltese so competitive?
How does Malta's regulation help?

I presume if you want to accept German players u need to conform to German rules. So how do these online casinos operate inside the EU ?

EDIT: also note that Malta population is 500K. So even one large unicorn can shift the economy numbers.

yazr··on Track daily tasks using Google Assistant, IFTTT and Spreadsheet
The IFTTT refuses to show prices on the web site

There is no plan or pricing on the landing page (sign up first! start working!)

The platform "Lite Version" leads to a "join waiting list" or "contact sales"

Sheezzz

yazr··on Gaming worth more than video and music combined
> Factorio, Stardew Valley, and Kerbal Space Program

Can u recommend some sort of a factorio for star-exploration type game ?

Kerbal itself is far too complex and detailed oriented for me

yazr··on How to make create-react-app play nice with Firebase
Has anyone run into bandwidth limitation with the Firebse starter plan?

They mention 20GB/month which ~10k/s which seems very low for any kind of server, let alone realtime sub-pub.

I realize its a nearly-free starter plan. Just wondering if i am missing something.

yazr··on New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
Did you need very selective hiring and mercy-less attrition to get to this team? This is obviously a sensitive topic

It seems to me, FINDING the right team for remote is a lot of trial and error.

(I managed a few small off shore teams and the quality really varied..)

yazr··on If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?
Amazingly, LCOE prices of utility size PVs have dropped another 30% - 40% just since this update alone.

And this is not some cherry picking. 2-3c/kwh in the US, India, Chile, Middle East, etc..

yazr··on If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?
The book was a great (and depressing) read 10 years ago.

Today, it is completely out of date on PV, wind. Fingers crossed for same progress on storage & EVs.

Throw in bio-fuels for aviation, and maybe hydrogen for marine and heavy transport, and civilization may yet survive /s

yazr··on I Do Not Like Go
Off topic:

Can i ask Go developers if the compiler is fast enough (for now), or is this still a (major) pain point ?

Disclosure: i work on build systems and optimizers.

yazr··on Show HN: PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app
> after having built N billing portals in the past

Quick question. Any recommendations for a "wallet library" for a web-app side project (either JS or Java backend) ?

Basically we want to take payments from users, charge the wallet for certain operations, and show history and balance.

I am not even sure what to google to find this.

Any pointers appreciated.

yazr··on Show HN: PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app
Do you (plan to) support (multiple) one-time billings ?

I am kinda of looking for a library to manage each customer billings and balance

yazr··on Write Your Own Virtual Machine
There goes the weekend...

Do you know of any recent efforts to combine ML and VM optimizations ?

(I read about the VS compiler and profile-based optimizations)

yazr··on Australian train travels 92km with no driver, purposely derailed
I have edited the title, instead of using local acronyms.
yazr··on How Verizon’s $9bn media bet became almost worthless
Why on earth would anyone try to buy the Yahoos of the world for a 10-digit sums ?

How does a deal like this take place ? Its bizarre

yazr··on Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
Why is everyone turning to a xxx2vec representation?

Obviously, NN work well with one-hot and other vector relations. But I keep wondering why some sort of higher-order-input graph-network (Kipf,etc) is not more popular.

What has been your experience ?

yazr··on US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge
This is shocking in so many ways. Sad !!!

Also, from the article, TIL a new word: Obdurate ...

yazr··on Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine
Similar sentiment has been expressed by others.

In the (simpler and less studied) game of Shogi, AG made very startling moves, which increase the number of vulnerabilities (and opportunities). AG is able to better balance all these combinatoric paths.

Perhaps as humans, we have limited combinatoric capacity, and hence are biased to conservative moves to reduce our search space (so we get lower expectations since we have to bound our variance?).

Whether this is less-strategic or simply less-bound-by-human-limitation is up to discussion.

end-rant

EDIT: Would be interested to hear your views about larger DRL domains. Drop me a line if u r interested gaxasit@getnada.com temp email.

yazr··on Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit
Isnt vandalism a problem with dock-less scooters ?

I can imagine someone passing by, picking up one of these and dumping it into a garbage can.

Maybe the margins are so high they can just effort to replace them ?

yazr··on Breaking Down Memory Walls
TLDR: testing on-the-fly memory (de)compression on contagious memory benchmarks
yazr··on NPR‘s Best Books of 2018
With ebook its even worse.. ;( u can hoard.. but u cant win.
yazr··on Solar Industry's Future Lies in Lightweight Technology
Are these the space-grade multi-junction panels? Are the Loon panels size-constrained or cost-constrained ?

The article itself is odd - most PV will go to utility and commercial scale. Even on rooftop, aesthetics are possibly down the list after durability, reliability, efficiency and cost.

yazr··on The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
Well, I can probably mine 10 tops books and come up with a good list of 100 abstractions. But i am sure someone has done a much better job than me on this..
yazr··on The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
Is anyone aware of a birds-eye catalog of common code abstractions?

e.g. linked list, hashes, lookup table, classes, counters, iterators, etc

(Not referring to books such as TAOCP which cover a few topics in-depth)

yazr··on Podcast Advertising: What We Learned
Are we ok with buying compute on AWS ?
yazr··on US charges Autonomy boss Lynch with fraud over $11bn sale to HP
HP paid $11BN for UK-based Autonomy, only to discover accounting irregularities and crashing sales within a year.

The British criminal investigation was closed last year.

Sigh..

yazr··on [dead]
Well, actually...

PG laments the difference between today and 1500s. He is not talking about some ideal utopia. So the reply tweet claims that the difference is not that great.

yazr··on [dead]
The simplest and best reply to the Darwin tweet is this

https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1068462375970443264

> Today’s Darwin would be like the original Darwin. > Someone with FU money, not dependent on grants,

EDIT: added quote

yazr··on Montezuma’s Revenge Solved by Go-Explore
The reddit discussion is

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/a0nnp7/r_m...

Some skepticism in the comments, since the algorithm assumes you can "return to a previous state" (e.g. with a simulator). So could be interesting for robotics, games..

yazr··on Microsoft Pulling Even with Apple in Ranks of Biggest Companies
Very nice product.

Which lib is used for pdf processing ?

Is epub support in the roadmap ?

yazr··on The World, Built by China
Well - how did China finance all these investments ?!

(start rant)

The simple answer is "China consumed less, and invested more".

The US can tax fuel and SUV, and invest in green energy. The EU can tax London's banks and offshore, it can slash its agriculture subsidies, and invest in tech and innovation.

The Western world simply prefers bigger cars and exotic vacations.

(end rant. Goes online to order Sushi for lunch)

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