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Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) chip used in its virtual reality HoloLens specs

It seems to be insurmountably hard for press to understand that virtual reality and augmented reality are related but distinct concepts.

Beyond that, interesting teardown. The 10w number is great, but my guess is a lot of the high power processing happens in the sensor suite because it's using 4 repurposed IR sensor receiver combos to relay depth data in a highly structured way. That means this processor is the glue between the IMU and RGBD camera combo. I think in the end this can't scale down to consumer side with this approach, not to mention the other hindrances to scaling down with the protection system.
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For the same reason there were no competitors to daraprim before Martin Shkreli decided to be a complete ja. When the price is low enough that there's little profit to be had, nobody bothers competing because it's not worth the time, money, and effort to get FDA approval. When the price gets jacked up like that, you will find generics pop up quickly. The problem is the window between the price hike and when generics pop up can sometimes be years due to needing to get FDA approval.

In this case there was a competitor, but they recently had their product pulled from the market in an FDA recall. So Mylan decided: why not raise the price 600% (and rising) when it's a drug people HAVE to have.

Capitalism in action baby. Let's deregulate EVERYTHING!
"they'll all lose in the long run!"

Even as stated in the article they don't all lose, which is why most of us know a few winners. But for each of those winners we probably know four losers, though they're likely not as vocal about it.
Alas, there are significant differences between the Swiss and US one. Most importantly, law in Switzerland specifies exact coverage criteria for basic health insurance and prohibits excluding pre-existing conditions from it. I'm not sure how financing of hospitals works exactly (I was under the impression that they are at least partially publicly owned). Minor things: there are phone-a-doctor public services that are free of charge for residents in some areas.

Edit: also, every company that provides basic insurance can vary the price based on a limited set of factors and must accept any person.
The funny thing is that layoffs reduce morale enough. Then taking away Fridays? Ha. I'd definitely be finding a new job if I worked there.
Valid? Yes. Ugly to read? Also yes.
i haven't but that sounds dope. you should give it a shot!
So a "used" epi-pen's internal syringe might contain 4-5x more epinephrine than actually goes into a standard dose? I assume this means most of the expense of making it comes from the housing/mechanics. (And recouping whatever cost of QA/approvals.)
Probably because the ethernet driver or hardware has a bug, and the rx buffer is full, and it has been configured to enable pause.

I once took down an entire corp. net by doing serial kernel debugging on a machine with pause frames enabled. Once the debugger took control of the kernel, the driver's rx interrupt handler stopped running, and the rx buffers filled. Eventually, the rx buffers were totally consumed, and the NIC started to send pause frames rather than dropping the packets. To make matters worse, I was remote, so I had to call somebody to powercycle the box.
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I have definitely seen this happening as well. Being the hype and cool factor of startups, wantrepreneurs are sprouting everywhere. It is usually easy to spot them, all talk and nothing to show.
Gay marriage, would be my guess.
Regulatory hurdles to get a new device approved.
I wasn't expecting to start understanding the other side on this one, I have to admit. But this is a compelling argument -- that maintaining the taxi companies is like trying to maintain city buses, except companies built the infrastructure.
What a hypocrite. I remember seeing several job postings. I'm so glad I didn't fall for the 4 day workweek bait and switch. I hope everyone quits.
Uh, no. Alltoall is a challenge for MPI, but not for the reason you describe. TCP windows mean that the receivers aren't the problem. It's all the switch queues in the middle.
Maybe regulation is not so good after all
Other posts have pointed out that companies have tried and failed to produce generics. Seems like a really broken patent system if the patent isn't descriptive enough to allow competitors to actually produce the product. Isn't the point of filing the patent to allow things to progress once the inventor has had their monopoly?
You will lose to them. CodeCanyon is well run and established.
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Might be better to terraform an already messed up planet before our own. (which is arguably somewhat messed up, but not Mars-level. Yet)
I assume you mean that his car could be in the garage and he would be on the outside. If he were on the inside, he could use the emergency release that should be on every automated garage door.
At first I thought this title was a metaphor. Why should any customs agent care about the difference between a bolt and a screw. Then I realized it was literal.

Sad sad sad
I assume they intramuscularly inject epinephrine just as you would with an EpiPen. I doubt it'd be hard for patients to get hold of an epinephrine kit.

You'll also find developing countries have far less allergic population. It's said this is partly due to urban environments having more vitamin D deficiency as well as people being more exposed to more pathogens/etc during childhood outside of developed countries.
I dunno. I bet it's a pretty small number. Fewer than 100 people die per year in the US from anaphylaxis and it's hard to find evidence that this number has risen along with the price of the EpiPen.

At the top end maybe the answer to your question is a dozen or so. About the same order of magnitude as the number of people that die due to dog bites.

It's really small.
"In the process I discovered I'm unspeakably awkward and horrible at networking."

read this: "Design Disruptor" ~ https://thedesignteam.io/design-disruptor-b1c0c58d90b7
If people wanted their anxiety reduced, they'd sign up for a guided meditation group.

People want their accounts reactivated.
If your kid is allergic and needs an EpiPen (or something like it), most school districts will not allow the child to attend class unless they have one at the school. Maybe two.

And of course you have to carry them. There's another two.

So that's $2400. Out of pocket if you don't have insurance, or if your insurance doesn't pay.

The EpiPen manufacturers are abusing their monopoly.
My experience is that if you offer to fix it at your own expense, most people will just happily let you.
> it should undertake a rational risk/benefit approach. Rather than saying that no drug gets through the filter unless it's safe (as demonstrated through reams of evidence), it should ask, how much risk should we tolerate in exchange for how much benefit?

Do you really believe the FDA isn't doing this? The price of these drugs is directly linked with the risk*cost of being sued. In order to reduce the cost of the drugs, we need to reduce the benefits of suing, but this will undoubtably upset libertarians. Can't please everyone.
>Really not buying the "two years is plenty of updates" excuse, especially from the Nexus line.

I'm not impressed with two years of updates either, but I don't think people have any right to complain when that's exactly what they were promised when they bought their phones.

If people are disappointed because they chose to believe, against all evidence, that Google would exceed the promised two years of updates, that's nobody's problem but their own.
Gmail is most likely a combination of global and local filters, and most people probably consider the PS Store emails as not spam. I'm not using Gmail, I'm using FastMail, so I'm using a local SpamAssassin filter (once you mark enough emails it flips from the global to the local filter). SpamAssassin uses some global data (e.g. URI blacklists and whatnot), but AFAIK the bayesian classification for my incoming email is purely based on my local training.
It's actually really common these days.
:)

Search google for "hashed perceptron branch predictor"
holy mackerel, this lib is dope.
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I don't think serious conversation like this is a place for reaction GIFs.
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That's weird to me as a lifelong Mac user because that's what I experience using Windows. My father needed help with something on his Windows machine, so I sat down and double clicked on an app. I got the hourglass for about 2 seconds and then ... nothing. The computer looked like it wasn't doing anything. No feedback. No icon in the dock-like window at the bottom, just nothing. I double clicked a few more times, and eventually the first instance showed a window. I think other instances may have started up in the meantime, slowing things down even more.
My first thought was "Are customs officers so stupid that they need to be told this?". But then my second, more cynical though was "Someone, somewhere, will question their methodology in distinguishing a bolt from a screw for some obscure legal purpose (maybe to avoid a tariff on screws that doesn't apply to bolts?) and they need this document to point to in order to explain in a defensible way why they made that distinction".
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Having grown up in the south, and lived for several years in New England, let me assure you, "humid" in the south is in a completely different class than the exceedingly brief New England summer. I've seen humid days in NE, but it's just a different thing altogether in the south where you can open the back door and walk into what feels like a wall of watery air. I'm sure NE has a day here or there where it gets to that extreme, but it's practically guaranteed in the south.

NE is a different climate; that has its perks too: beautiful fall colors and wonderful snow storms (the milder ones I find fun to watch), and relatively speaking, no humidity.

As a Texan friend of mine once (jokingly) said "Weather is what you experience in a parking lot." (because everywhere else, on a day to day basis in a city — buildings/cars — is air conditioned; only that during that short trip from building to car do you endure the great outdoors) The few New Englander's I've tried this on didn't get it, whereas southerners seem to; YMMV, of course, there's no science here.

The other thing I've never seen, outside of the south, is the horizon turning green during a bad storm (caused by light refracting through hail). Also, I highly recommend the sight of a rainstorm moving across and towards you on the plains, and the sweet scented down-drafts that precede rain. And if you're sick of weather, Silicon Valley has none. (Unless you like fog, then see SF.)
As others have said it's the drug company itself, not an insurance company. The patent they had on the injector has expired so others have tried and failed to bring alternatives to market. Unlike drugs, each medical device has to be vetted by the FDA. Generic drugs can get quicker to market just by showing that they're equivalent to the already approved drug. Devices can't do that.

One of the alternatives was potentially better as they had additional features, but there were problems with the injector itself and it was recalled. That's what other companies have to contend with. It's bad if the injector fails to deliver the dosage and a person dies.

So, people making a 3D printed alternative can't really ensure that the injector works reliably without a lot of work.
Only 10W for all that? While I'm a little sceptical that is an impressive number.
No, I'm pretty sure this has always been the case. Some early adopters lost data when it was on local volumes and not backed up, and everybody who paid attention learned from the public post mortems.

Separately, even hardware you own and operate is ephemeral. You never know when the disk, PSU, or cooling fan will kick the bucket and the host wedges one way or another.

If you want the illusion of permanence, VMWare had a solution for you ... for a price you're not gonna like!
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My Computer Architecture professor Daniel Jimenez worked on (invented?) something like this:

"Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons" (PDF)

http://hpca23.cse.tamu.edu/taco/pdfs/hpca7_dist.pdf
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Intel (and probably AMD) have been using neural based approaches to branch prediction since the early 2000's. This isn't particularly new, it's just not a topic talked about much.
Branch prediction strategies can be learned, just like any other model. I could certainly see something like this outperforming the huge bag of hand-tuned optimization strategies for branch prediction anyway. It could save some silicon.

Even a simple dot product can be called a "neural network," albeit a small uninteresting one. Your features could be (say) the state of cache, the number of jumps, the number of recent stalls / stack size / returns, and so on. Put them into a 10-dimensional vector or whatever, take the dot product between that and a set of 10 learned weights, and preload the branch if the result is above some threshold. Even a simple model could perhaps work really well here.

Of course it's not like they have some deep learning convolutional net running on the program input. I also bet the weights are set at the factory so it's not "learning" anything.
Well, it is what it is -- haute Creole cuisine, its lineage derived from traditional, heavily-sauced French cooking. It's definitely not tailored to modern palates (I certainly don't disagree with you!), but they execute extremely well, unlike many of the illustrious places with poor kitchens that grace the French Quarter.
If you have to pull an army of cores to fight two the really impressive arch belongs to Apple.

OTOH I see this as the optimization of hardware to fix the cap that software, paradigms and devs mean.
How is government protecting a monopoly free market exactly?
The article indicates that academia has been writing about using them for branch prediction for a while and than Intel and AMD have been doing just that for a while. They just don't talk about it much.

> AMD's Zen architect Mike Clark confirmed to us his microarchitecture uses a hashed perceptron system in its branch prediction. "Maybe I should have called it a neural net," he added.

Neural networks can be very complicated, but they can also be very simple. What little I know about perceptrons is that they are very simple. If you google "hashed perceptron", many of the papers that come up mention branch prediction in their titles.
I did something like that in a counterpoint to an apologist for NSA here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/friday_squid_...
I agree with you to an extent, but want to elaborate for anyone who may read your comment and misunderstand.

Value investing does involve investing in companies you believe in, but that belief stems from research and a deep understanding of the market and intrinsic value of the company you are investing in.

The more you truly know prior to investing, the better your investments will likely perform. The key is to eliminate areas of uncertainty (which may ultimately be gaps in your own knowledge).
There was a competitor but it wasn't able to reliably inject the correct amount of medicine so it was recalled. [0]

[0] http://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/sanofi-s-auvi-q-recall...
I can choose to voice my opinion for Trump (really, it's possible). I cannot choose to be brown, or not.
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That's silly. How do you propose to "evaluate what is better, healthier, more rational"? I suppose some panel of experts could give you their best approximation, but it will always be sub-optimal. Markets exist in order to answer these questions, and they answer them by delegating the decision to every person involved in the decision, not by hoping a designated person can make a guess that's close enough.

It appears that the problem in this case is that there is a single producer who is able to engage in monopolistic pricing, which is certainly not something a market-oriented person would condone.

And the market for healthcare is not a free market. Not anything resembling a free market.
its to build upon it too

it is primarily to avoid redundancies
Interesting. Basically if it needs a nut it's a bolt. But if it goes in(be it drilling or an existing threaded hole) it's a screw.

I've never heard anyone use 'square headed screw' when referring to putting a bolt into an existing threaded hole via socket/wrench.

And that typically the shape(no point, square head, tools used) define the name.
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I appreciate you wearing socks with your sandals because frankly I never want to see a man's toes. Thanks for that.

Also, your sister-in-law is right unfortunately. [1]

[1] http://observer.com/2015/09/7-pieces-of-shoe-advice-for-men-...
Would they want to compact the optics though?

I have absolutely no knowledge of the physics involved, but it looks like the projection style that is used has a very limited field of view that won't be resolved with more processing power. I don't see how shrinking the optics could help this.

Because of this, it looks like future immersive improvements will be restricted, but I would be very happy to have it explained to me why I am wrong :)

Edit: my pessimism around FOV was from reading this:
http://doc-ok.org/?p=1274
The manufacturer is obligated to (1) obey the law, and (2) maximize profits for shareholders. If you have a problem with the current situation, blame the government/laws[1], not the company.

[1] Blame is justifiably attributed to the government whether you believe the fix is a freer market (to reduce the costs associated with bringing suitable competitors to market) or you believe regulation should prevent this from happening. Apart from the requirements codified into law, we should have no expectation of altruism by companies, especially when their existence is intrinsically related to profit-seeking motives.
I wouldn't count on this - markets don't seem to care about sea level rise at the moment
Even the phrase "Reduce Customer Anxiety" would increase my anxiety if I were a customer (and steels my resolve not to become one of their "acceptably-anxious customers").

"Reduce", not "remove" - it's stinks of implying there's an acceptable level of "customer anxiety" that their platform should generate, and someone's set some easily-measurable metrics and a bunch of people's KPIs - and those people are now all working out how to game the metrics instead of solve the problems. "Hey, my bonus depends on reducing the clicks on the "Request an appeal" button. What's the easiest way to meet that goal? I _could_ start handling customer service in a professional and sympathetic way - but that's not "The Google Way". I know, I'll just move the button to a different place this quarter, rename it next quarter, and remove it all together before the end of the year."

Sorry Google-people - I know you all don't think you're doing evil, but there'a a hell of a reputation you got to overcome on the "Google just doesn't do customer service" issue.
Yep. :(

We also see drug shortages because the lone manufacturer temporarily or permanently stops manufacturing. For example, there's an ongoing injectable estrogen shortage because the manufacturer has an issue sourcing a key ingredient [0] [1]. (Thankfully, other forms and dosages are not impacted.)

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/13/estrog...

[1]: http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2016/8/04/exclusive-theres...
well, there is no more black exchange rate for dollar in argentina and inflation is kind of getting out of control, so yeah dollar prices increased a lit. of course, SCZ is not comparable with BOG and BA or RJ/SP
"If everything has a backdoor, then why would NSA need to stockpile 0-day bugs? Why would they need such a big TAO division? If they had a backdoor they would just use that."

That argument is not true. Spy non-fiction taught me that intelligence services sort of rate their capabilities on what intel they can bring plus how secret they must remain. The idea being a capability might be so good and so hard to replace that you only use it on highest-risk cases that nothing else works on. Additionally, lower clearances will have greater number of infiltrators. They should see less than higher clearances to reduce damage of leaks. Further, I predicted that the tools themselves were developed in Special Access Programs (SAP's) that compartmentalized away from even TS clearances then selectively released to them. Sentry Eagle et al confirmed my prediction.

You can actually see the bullshitting in progress if you look at that. Each level of clearance is told something different with the lower levels often getting lied to with only highest getting the truth. In one case, it was implied they were attempting to use supercomputers against crypto then TS/SCI version said they got companies to backdoor it. Quite the difference. ;)
It's worth noting that the title of the article is somewhat misleading. The ice shelf entirely is slightly smaller than Scotland, but the part breaking off is (upper estimate) 12% of that, so, according to the article, slightly larger than Prince Edward Island.

Not that this is reason to celebrate or think that this is any more than a continuation of the ongoing and forthcoming climate excursion.
I guess it's naive to assume that Apple isn't also doing the same thing. And apple's cores are bigger so they generally do more work per core per cycle. The exynos in GS7 has eight cores. But the die area is roughly same as apple's dual core chip.
Published July 2012. On October 18, 2013, Jeh Johnson took over, and he's made a lot of progress. I recommend reading "Fifteen Years After 9/11, Is America Any Safer?" by Steve Brill:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/are-we-a...
Could I use this for a personal dashboard? It's meant to track telemetry, so that would include my walking routes, right? ;) Maybe I could also load up my todo list. I know, overkill, but it might be a huge ego thing to throw up a NASA developed Mission Control app on a huge monitor to track personal stuff. And each morning I could put on my headset and do a countdown to getting started for the day.
I don't really think you know all the history here. There are other companies who have/are attempting to create competitors to EpiPen. A few of them weren't able to get passed by the FDA, and one of them passed the FDA in 2012 but was recalled because of the product misfiring. The EpiPen problem seems to be much less an FDA problem then it is a problem with manufacturing, other companies don't seem to be able to make products that work nearly as well as EpiPen. If the FDA wasn't in the picture, you would still have the problem that there aren't any other reliable replacements for EpiPen even though companies have tried.

IMO, I also don't see how your solution would solve any real problems. People shouldn't have to ask themselves "Do I buy the one that is 600$ with a 100% success rate, or the one that's 100$ with a 95% success rate?". That sounds like a pretty bleak state of affairs, and could easily encourage cutting corners to cut costs. "How much does a death cost us?"
"Millions"? How is that?
If EVERYTHING were deregulated, the time, money, and effort to get FDA approval would also vanish along with this particular problem. Would other worse problems appear in its place? Maybe. But calling foul on free-market capitalism in the very most regulated market in the US is a bit disingenuous.
Wow. Any vendor doing this to me goes on a perma-ban list. If they don't respect me before the sale, I'd have no reason to think they'd respect me after.