octoploid | 8 years ago | on: AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
https://sci-hub.cc/https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v55...
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octoploid | 8 years ago | on: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
Well, at least Intel acknowledges, documents and finally fixes these CPU bugs (via microcode updates).
AMD on the other hand doesn't even acknowledge an issue when multiple customers report problems. See this Ryzen bug: https://community.amd.com/thread/215773
octoploid | 8 years ago | on: AI achieves maximum score of 999,990 on PacMan
octoploid | 8 years ago | on: #c0ffee is the color
Yeah! The soundtrack (Coffy is the Color) is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycOq6NwT_0
octoploid | 8 years ago | on: Apple Events – WWDC Keynote, June 2017 [video]
octoploid | 8 years ago | on: Users report parallel compiling is causing segfault on Ryzen Linux
It appears to be an issue with Ryzen's new micro-op cache and "CMP/TEST conditional jump" instruction fusion.
See comment from inuwashidesu in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6f08mb/compili...
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: The Mathematician (1947)
The article was written 1947, so I guess he was thinking of algebraic geometry before Grothendieck came along.
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: True Colour support in various terminals
Here is an image printing function for bash/zsh:
function img { for image in "$@"; do convert -thumbnail $(tput cols) "$image" txt:- | awk -F '[)(,]' '!/^#/{gsub(/ /,"");printf"\033[48;2;"$8";"$9";"$10"m "}'; echo -e "\e[0;0m"; done ;}
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
AMD will use the same die for its server CPUs, so ECC support is on chip anyway. I see no reason why they should turn it off in the Ryzen CPUs launched today.
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
Several people contacted ASRock in the last few days.
And the reply always was that ECC is fully supported,
e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762950
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
Anandtech is wrong and ECC is not disabled at all.
For example all ASRock AM4 boards support ECC memory.
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo
By the time they will finally make the switch, Firefox' market share will probably have plunged to a very low single digit percentage.
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
Look at the gif that shows how it is used on torvalds/linux:
https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: C++17 – better than you might think
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: C++17 – better than you might think
Build-in sum types and pattern matching are the major missing features.
Instead C++17 will have library hacks like std::variant, that almost certainly will be deprecated for C++20.
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
It is spreading to other DNS providers, too:
https://status.fastly.com/
www.ft.com is unreachable for example.
octoploid | 9 years ago | on: GNU Tools Cauldron 2016 videos
Slides are here: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2016
octoploid | 10 years ago | on: GCC 6.1 Released
Correction. Clang used to compile much faster years ago.
But nowadays GCC-6 actually compiles faster than clang-3.8.0.
See e.g.: http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2016/03/building-libreoffice-wit...
octoploid | 10 years ago | on: GCC 6.1 Released
Well, just use -fsanitize=undefined and it will point out (most of) the isuses for you.
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