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alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: Rv8: a high performance RISC-V to x86 binary translator [pdf]

if only it wasn't that expensive to get a license for x86

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: MILA and the future of Theano

organically? Please, Google promoted Chrome through ads for months! -- disclaimer, I love Chrome!

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Transformation Invariant Reverse Image Search

I wonder if only using non-overlapped triangles would reduce accuracy. Otherwise, it should limit the number of triangles.

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

plus, I might add, you can create secure software, that can't be penetrated from outside, but what about the hardware? Unless you write this (software) too, how can you trust the underlying hardware? e.g.: broadpwn. Yes, open source makes it easier to audit/collaborate/patch but it's not enough.

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

do you think these questions are addressed by open-source software? I mean, if you only have a few buttons in front of you, how can you verify/audit the software it's running?

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

to protect voting, audit your software/system extensively. Openssh is open-source and we all know the story..

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

similarly, on a larger scale, one could ask whether deep learning is unethical for automating millions of jobs (if not yet, certainly in the future).

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: Google I/O 2017

I read: I suggest purchasing a scanf :(

alkoumpa | 8 years ago | on: Google Cloud TPUs

they are definitely moving really fast on this one

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: An LZ Codec Designed for SSE Decompression (2016)

posts involving vectorization are always nice, especially if it involves compression. I'd love to see a vectorized version of arithmetic coding, that would definitely be interesting

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Open-source chip RISC-V to take on closed x86, ARM CPUs

I meant in a SIMT fashion, more like a GPU

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Open-source chip RISC-V to take on closed x86, ARM CPUs

I wonder how of those fit in a zedboard. (not going to ask how many hours of tool fighting that would require though).

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: The Ultimate in Garbage Collection (1995)

So, Kim Jong-un has a memory leak problem, but that's probably good for the rest of us..

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Getting Started with Headless Chrome

Does it work without X-server?

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Ffffound is shutting down

If they are shutting down, why not make (and share) an archive of the whole site, to preserve the works that's been done? Sharing through bittorrent is free and decentralized. They already host the images, and I get the feeling that sites in this niche are already in some gray-copyright area..

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network

The nature of Facebook makes it also far more easier to release and distribute new products. People come to your service every hour -- on the other side none (should have) wanted to visit Microsoft's homepage, which makes the enterprise agreements a necessity, that doesn't scale (by any means) as well, although MS managed to scale pretty well.

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: MP3 for Image Compression (2006)

While it might be possible for special cases [1], I have my concerns, you really can't compress (lossless) beyond the (information theoretic) entropy -- in which case one would try to compress deflate (zip) with deflate (png).

[1]: I remember when I was taking an information theory lesson at the university and told the (video/jpeg compression guru) professor that I compressed an AVI file with my dump arithmetic coding implementation, he was shocked, turns out the file had some large crappy header from the editor

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card

not sure why anyone would spend double money when you can get about the same performance using a gtx 1080 TI. The performance looks marginal IMO -- optimizing the code on gtx 1080 TI (cuda and/or shader assembly) would probably yield very satisfactory results and definitely better perf/buck.

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki

if your objective is to optimize the best place to buy a house, shouldn't you account about how the travel times of these 30B routes change over time?

alkoumpa | 9 years ago | on: Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement

Not only is it duplicate, it also contains nasty "behavior". If prev->next equals NULL then dereferencing this would result in segfault, so in this case another if statement is required.