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The Idea ...
As a developer, I always tend to do a bit of research before embarking on a new feature or project. Often, I find myself visiting Tech Blogs or Engineering hubs of the famous Tech companies, just to see how they tackle certain topics.

I searched ...
This made me wonder if there's a way to have a targeted search for a specific topic limited to known Tech blogs. I started googling it (emoji here) and the next best thing I could find was a curated list in a GitHub repo form A curated list of engineering blogs [ an awesome list, by the way, make sure to star ⭐!!]

I Geeked out ...
Personally, this didn’t do it for me since there is no way to perform the type of search I wanted to have available.

Simply put, I wanted to type in a subject and hit Search and see how the top in the field tackle these subjects

And, in a nutshell, that’s what EngLog is!

If you have ideas or suggestions, please reach out to me via twitter @mshbeab
Which, unfortunately, doesn't excuse them when users take Tesla at their word that their Autopilot feature is fully self-driving and end up in an accident and/or dead.
That cannot be the result of an experiment without some sense of the prior probability, and I don't think CIs as suggested in the article account for that.

For example, if I perform an experiment on a light source and find a 95% CI of 400-1200 lumens for the brightness, the actual probability of this being true is much higher if the light source is a 60W incandescent bulb than if the light source is the sun.
He likes even numbers.
This was my experience with Apple products from like 2003-2010 when I finally decided I should just accept that regardless of my first impression, I was going to like most Apple stuff once I tried it out.

I'm always surprised how many people haven't come to that conclusion.
This was a great piece and I would encourage others to read it... but yeah, as another user said, brutally vivid. It's stories like these that really cemented my desire to pursue healthcare. I will never forget the first code I witnessed in the ED. Every single little detail of that moment is just etched into memory. After I clocked out I just drove for a solid 4 hours trying to process it.

I've been working in the software industry while going to school and at the time of the above, my bosses wife had just returned to nursing, opening an acute care facility. This is after spending nearly 20 years in the same exact ED that I was now at. I got some excellent advice from her, my favorite bit was about learning to love the "absolute shitshow" of healthcare and how to cope with loss. The shitshow aspect is spot on and what this piece really nails. The crazy stories are abundant and at times it feels like we are still very deep in the stone ages.
there's no telling what is actually real time and what is "baked".

Yea, that distinction is... fuzzy, and a little frustrating.

Artistically, this demo is wonderful!

Technically, it's somewhere between "yawn" and game-changing, depending on how much of the lighting and animation is pre-baked. Are the deformations of her skin, clothing, the water, etc. being calculated in real time, or was all the hard stuff precalculated and baked in?

Reason why this matters is because the more dynamic this is, the closer we are to creating actual emergent/interactive experiences with this kind of technology, rather than just a way to render static cutscenes better.
Yes, but the second uop is not expensive like the first in this case. That is, it seems like the the full multiplication is done by the latency-3 op on p1 and the other uop is just needed to move the high half of the result to the destination (indeed, instructions with 2 outputs always need 2 uops due to the way the renamer works). The whole 64x64->128 multiplication still has a latency of only 3, and a throughput of 1 per cycle.

So the 64x64->128 multiplication is still quite efficient compared to ARM where two "full strength" multiplications are needed. It is odd though that there is nearly a 20x difference in relative speeds though, I wouldn't expect multiply upper to be that slow.
For the curious, it's a presentation on "Automation Dependency" in flying, done by someone from American Airlines.
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we’ll agree to disagree here. I believe it’s kool-aid and unless you use it in one of the few niches where it shines it’s a disaster waiting to happen.

the Google brand helped immensely and containers/docker are their own flavor of kool-aid. The art of actually thinking about how you’ll package and deploy your software is lost. Put it in a docker container and fuck it. Fuck security, fuck ever understanding what you’re running, ship it fast/ship it now.
My test for docker and its own flavor of koolaid is to ask its supportes what a container is. 95% don’t know. Yep
isolationism and nationalism IS america....

selecting for highly intelligent immigrants is eugenicism, one step above racism - since racism at least allows for prejudicial morality, biological determinism doesn't have space for free will, let alone natural genetic variability or universal morality. rich european nations engage in various varian disasters in order to push through more regulations. america engages in predatory forced immigration by destabilizing ripe nations and then preying on their elites with faustian bargains. it's colonialism of the mind.

if world power cared about the poor of africa they would stabilize it with a permanent global peace keeping force for one or two generations, and allow people the freedom and space to develop outside of the debt structure which has crippled them since independence. yes, they would do this by forced occupation, at the gasp cost of national sovereignty. china is engaged and accelerating in this process for the coming decades, and in return will secure resources for the next century of cold war.

assad said something very telling when asked before the 2016 us presidential election who he preferred, it was something to the effect of "we don't listen to what the american politicians say, because they always do the opposite when they come to power. we will wait to see what they do."

it's unfortunate that so many people just accept what america says, and avoid looking at what it does, has done, will do.
There is no free market if there is copyright.
> I know in game dev, I was always taught that 60fps is fine, but then there are gamers swearing up and down when they drop below 140fps. Would be curious to see what the max allowed latency is here as well.

The 60 fps mark isn't really latency related. Instead, at 60 fps animation without motion blur feels smooth. At 30 fps you need motion blur or it feels like it stutters (and in 24hz cinema the camera produces natural motion blur due to shutter time).

The latency aspect is more complicated, as there's a long feedback loop: The frame is shown on the screen, is perceived by the user's eye, the user's brain computes a reaction, the brain sends a signal to the hands, the hands execute the reaction, the input device perceives this and sends the result to the computer, the next frame is computed and finally it's send to the screen and displayed. Each of these steps takes on the orders of milliseconds (often tens of milliseconds). Faster refresh rates and more fps improve some of them, and in theory any improvement in fps and refresh rate makes the feedback loop faster and thus improves performance. There are diminishing returns because you don't control the entire pipeline (and the parts that happen inside a human are particularly slow), but going from 60 to 140 fps is a big enough improvement that it matters.

Another factor is the stability of the latency: humans can compensate for quite high latencies by predicting the correct inputs. But this only works if the latency is consistent. Just imagine trying to hit anything with bow and arrow if you don't know how fast the arrow will fly. That's why frame drops hurt so much: every dropped frame is a giant latency fluctuation.
Hm. I used to do competitive air rifle shooting (fwiw top five in the nation at the time), and this experiment comes close to the sort of training that I would do with my coach. He would act as a spotter and after every single shot, would ask me where my shot was (eg, 9pt at 4o'clock). We did this probably 300 times in the course of my training. Despite the "jitter", it was something that could eventually be done with surprising consistency after a while of training this way. It would be a completely different matter if the training was done on a new shooter (who were never, ever good when they first start). The training was also complete ineffective if I had caffeine, or wasn't in the right mood. My guessing ability would then effectively match what was seen in this test.

I'm not sure how this test would have proven anything, especially with such a small sample size. As another poster mentioned, this very much sounds like a test for sensory motor latency, which is absolutely a nontrivial thing for this sort of test.

If the test you described was done against trained shooters, I'd imagine the conclusion would likely be the opposite.
How do you reference local go modules that are under development? The equivalent in node is `npm link`.
>What we do know about actual evolution seems to support Gall's Law.

But human design is not evolution. That Gall's law, which is a form of incrementalism, rings true for a system without a designer appears to be almost true by definition, but it is far from obvious for human design.

We have many examples of human architecture that went from "0 to 1". The von Neumann architecture. The first spaceships, new breakthrough theories in mathematics or physics. While you can debate whether those systems were built literally from scratch or not, they sure made qualitative jumps not comparable to evolution.

And also I would point out that there is a strong survivorship bias in Gall's law. All sustainable complex systems built up incrementally that are still around are by definition an example of success. But we don't actively see the resource cost of incrementalist dead-ends, or the limitations. ("You don't get to the moon by climbing up trees"), whereas every failure in ambitious design is actively debated, or even derided.
That's because they've got all the enthusiasts they want right now. The S is clearly meant to bring more people into the VR market, not act as an upgrade for existing owners. It's a good option for people that waited to buy an HMD too long and don't want to get an old system that will be discontinued in a few months, and those that can't/don't want to deal with wiring up all the cameras/sensors. It also isn't a terrible option as a second VR setup. I have a Vive, and if I was really interested in Oculus exclusives and a little impatient, the S wouldn't be a terrible option.

I don't see the S as an upgrade or competing product, but as an option targeted for a specific market based on all the data they've collected. That said, I agree it feels underwhelming, going to LCD from OLED is a bad move, and I don't trust inside-out tracking to work as well as advertised.
It means the same in the US. It must be an intentional choice. It is surprising to me that when choosing a name for a project a person wouldn’t google it first to see if the name is already in use at least.
You definitely aren't doing your commute in a Tesla, then.
It seems like a third party site/app for recommending youtube videos would be appropriate but I also suspect that might hit youtube's terms of use. If not, seems like an opportunity, if so, the ball's in Google's court.
>the place where his talents are best used
>to pursue career in tech in Silicon valley

working for a tech company in SV is NOT the best thing for humanity. There is much more to do in Harlem or in this case Nigeria than working on marketing tech in the bay.
Yes, I was just saying along with OP that a statistician would be most critical of the professor's reasoning. It's like a tyrant saying you should take a class in morals when you raise an objection to their atrocities.
Whoosh. That post was about your strawman. As in the one that was quoted.
> I would recommend using some old school technology (pen/pencil and blank paper) and draw diagrams, write down every question and observation, notes.

I have found paper and pencil to work best for my brain trying to manage attention while doing many tasks, so I take this to heart. That said, I think there is probably a tool I can use to be significantly more effective in organizing my thoughts—but probably one made of paper and pencil in the genre of the bullet journal.

If anyone knows of any techniques of organizing notes like this, I’d be grateful for some names that I can google. For now, I’m going to try experimenting with various ways of using flashcards (ALA record cards).
Yeah, you can definitely buy some real cheap, garbage "meat". But you can also buy really high quality, really good meat. It's not like "markets" means everything is of horrible quality.

I think the whole point of GP is that lab grown meat makes it cheaper to produce much higher quality meat. That would actually mean at every price point, you get better quality than you do today. Your comment comes off as aimless pessimism rather than anything actually related to this thread.
You are saying that the cost to develop successful self-driving cars is 1-50 quadrillion dollars using an optimistic estimate of rail costs. That does not seem reasonable. Perhaps 200 billion across all companies have been invested in self-driving cars so far (I.e., Waymo is just a fraction of that.)
> Raising threshold will not just reduce probability of false positive result, but also will raise probability of false negative.

And this article emphasises that huge numbers of scientists and their audiences cannot correctly interpret negatives (false or otherwise).

The negative means: "Our data does not appear to show any correlation that met the criteria we chose to determine statistical significance"

This negative is frequently misinterpreted as: “We have shown with acceptable confidence that there is no correlation". (which does not inherently follow).

Therefore, adjusting the common p value threshold to P<0.01 while not correcting this widely-held cognitive error could (potentially) even worsen the problem, because people will encounter proportionally even more of the 'negative' results that they are already well-established as poor interpreters of.
Who is to say that he won't go back to his country of birth at a later time and use the knowledge he gained elsewhere to help them pull themselves up?
The move to casual is risky if it alienates the current user-base of gamers.

However, it is my understanding that the number of VR gamers isn’t high enough to drive self-sustaining profits for VR developers.

There’s a case to be made that a platform like VR can’t be sustained by gaming. That VR needs a killer business application. If that is true, then the Quest isn’t equipped to handle business use-cases (battery-life), and neither is the current Rift, whose onerous setup is a non-starter in an office.

If the Rift S is a plug-and-play solution to sitting VR, and if the increase in resolution and lenses makes text legible, then we will finally have a practical platform for business software.

The most immediate business use I see is remote collaboration. While meetings and white boards stand out as obvious wins, I’m thinking there is opportunity in reimagining the original killer apps: spreadsheets, word-processors, calendars, email, and of course, the web browser.

No one could fix email. No one could figure out social browsing. No one could solve voice-dictation. No one seems to follow anyone’s calendar but their own. And as for spreadsheets, the monstrosity that is Airtable implies large unmet needs.

VR needs a killer app, and it won’t be Doom. It will be the next Netscape, Excel, or Word.
It's not so much how much CPU each takes up, but that 'make' will waste some time recompiling stuff that doesn't need to be recompiled. Ninja is better about reusing stuff compiled the first time to make the second compilation faster but still accurate.
the other day I noticed fresh wasabi root sold in a grocery store for roughly $40-$50
There are plenty of YouTube proxy sites, including Bing (I think).
And if it’s not a pointer but a word-size integer, just use an invertible hash function (aka permutation aka block cipher) so you can store the hash code in place of the key :)
Just like rms, PETA and the ACLU do things I don't agree with, but philosophically, especially with FSF, EFF, and the ACLU, I think that their overall goal is one I agree with.

No one has the time and attention to address everything, and so I am glad there are those that focus on each of these individual issues.
Following the same line of argument, why are we even discussing this stuff on the internet, using devices that consume electricity, going through servers that likely consume tons of power... when we could all meet in a field and talk?

Honestly, this sort of attitude is why I just struggle to trust any “green” activism, despite fundamentally being a leftie. You are happy to live in a cave, fine, do that; but myself, I like my tech and I want to keep going forward.
Statisticians are doing fine indeed. The problem lies entirely in the ( non) design of experiments ( DoE) of the “scientists”. The sorry state of affairs of graduates from universities in properly designing experiments in which proper randomization, focus on sources of variability, between groups and within groups is not understood nor accounted for in the design is the true source of the problem. Scientists should always consult a statistician when undertaking an experiment. At least if they would like to make/draw sensible conclusions.
I would say the modern state of surveillance capitalism is in a large part what rms warned about with proprietary systems being used against the user.
A 95% confidence interval will contain the true mean 95% of the time (across an infinite number of replications of the experiment/study). For a single confidence interval, you have either captured the mean in your confidence interval, or you've not -- there's no probability about it.
"Nasty" may be an exaggeration, but readability improvements do matter.

Yes, Dart has a debugger, not to mention "hot reload" that's a big selling point for Flutter. The Dart team maintains their own tools and is well aware of the cost of maintaining and improving them.
Integer multiplication always carries the risk of Integer overflow. Integer Overflow is undefined behavior in C, so it's the programmer's responsibility to make sure it doesn't happen.

To that end in the example a __uint128_t was used, which is nonstandard, and apparently not implemented all that well with the given combination of compiler and ARM CPU. Given that we're talking about a 64-bit CPU, my argument is that this is not very surprising.
You disagree that it's interesting?
you can get supposedly freeze dried real wasabi and it's not too expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Sushi-Sonic-Powdered-Wasabi-1-5-Ounce...

no idea if this is some kind of trickery or ruined this way
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Nope. I still believe in the Steve Jobs vision. "We make the best product for the lowest possible price". This doesn't look like 1 best product. And clearly all Apple pro-customers can see they are being milked.
I think we need a full reset of user expectations. Menus taking 1-2 seconds is not okay!!
Someone concerned about the environment can consider both plant-based food and more local, seasonal foods. There's no need for the two approaches to be considered at odds.

But if you care to, you can check out a ranked order of top solutions to climate change. We need to work all items on the list, not just the top ones, but you'll find "Plant-Rich Diet" as #4 on the list:

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

Improving transportation doesn't even show up until #25 on the list.

Consider that 3% of calories that go into beef production end up as calories that a human consumes. The practice is so inefficient that about 50% of the land in the US is devoted to grazing cows:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/img/2018...

Imagine how much more local food we could grow across the country if we weren't so inefficiently filtering our calories through cows, adding cholesterol and saturated fat in the process.
The people with free will refused to do the experiment.
Another awesome RTX demo from Crytech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqhkDm2_Tw
I am an EE and our complex analysis class definitely did define complex numbers "rigorously" (in the usual R^2 with multiplication -> wow, it's a field way, none of the fancy algebraic closure stuff).

However, later I spoke with some of my classmates and it turned out that this left absolutely zero impression on them and they still believed that "we define i to be sqrt(-1)" high school rubbish...
Per pound? That seems cheap. I've seen it at Uwajimaya, late on a Sunday night, for US$99.99/lb. The man stocking it told me, "Get some now, while you can! The restaurants will buy it all up and it'll be gone by morning."
Suspect you lose a lot of the relevant flavor components this way. It's pretty delicate even from the fresh plant - sorta the whole point is you have to grind it fresh and use it within a short span (~an hour)
The fact that there's a huge demand is irrelevant to it being forced on non users of the service. I.e. neighbors.
2048?
I have no knowledge of what's considered state of the art... but I'm curious if we are at a point were we could get "good enough" animation real time. From south park to toy story level. I know there's a lot of time that goes into building sets/worlds and other models, but would love to see the option become more common.

Local TV stations with animation shows, much like local entertainment used to be, but animated instead of fully acted live.
Injection is the #1 class of bug in the OWASP top 10 for 2017.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10-2017_A1-Injection

Is there any escape?
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> since you wouldn't need to grow bones, organs

That's the thing - when I eat cuts of meat, I prefer "bone in". If I have the choice, I'll take a chicken drumstick over a nugget, and a bone-in rib-eye over a fillet.

That said, I do like prime rib - but that's actually closer to a slice of roast beef than anything else.

Oh - and bbq brisket - no bones there.

They will also have to figure out how to grow the fat in with the muscle, too. That's where most of the flavor in meat comes from, not to mention texture and tenderness.

As far as organs...well, I do enjoy some tripas every now and again in a taco or burrito...
> Ultimately SDC deaths end up as bugs/features on some random devteam's backlog, and I have no desire to have a JIRA ticket named in my honor.

Instead you can be the victim in a vehicular manslaughter case due to DUI/texting/etc.

As stated elsewhere on this thread, self-driving needs to be measurably better than a human. My state displays how many people have been killed thus far this year on the automatic traffic signs (used for amber alert, traffic info, etc as well). A 20% reduction in the 3000+ folks killed in 2018 would mean a whole lot for those saved.
Another alternative: Robind Hood Hashing

http://norswap.com/robin-hood-hashing-jvm/

(Might actually be the same technique, it's not quite clear!)
To see how absurd that definition is, think about this - CI itself is random! So if you conduct a 100 experiments, you'll get a 100 (non-overlapping) CI's! So in which of those 100 CI's does the "true population mean" lie ? All 100 of them ? 95 of them ?! You tell me.
Do you need just a statistician or a statistician and experiment designer?
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Lucky break then that git core uses merkle trees and content hashing which require no coordination and make it easy to reject corrupt data