This is a robotics paper by Nvidia & UW researchers. It is not an Alphabet/Deepmind paper, and it also has nothing to do with the "NIST" OCR dataset. Was there really not a more appropriate name than "AlphaNIST"?
How does this compare to Claude Managed Agents?
I had to double check that this wasn't an April Fools joke. The GitHub project has commits from 2 weeks ago, so it's not. Looking more closely though, this looks a lot like the Google "AI Cookie" from 2017, which also…
Years ago, my college multi variable calculus and linear algebra courses were both taught primarily using course materials that were interactive Mathematica Notebooks. We had access to all of the symbolic algebra tools…
Not really new news: https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-space-force-contract (Oct 2023)
For anyone else who was confused to see a paper use the same name as a commercial product, it looks like Google Gemini was announced in May, whereas this was submitted to SOSP that had an April submission deadline.
GPU performance per dollar is only competitive for specific workloads. For extremely large scale compute, getting enough data center GPUs can also be challenging.
What a convenient source of liquidity for the various drug cartels in El Salvador who need to launder their money.
For all the hate that Java tends to get, the language natively supports this distinction between: * Expected errors - Checked Exceptions * Unexpected errors - Unchecked Exceptions Idiomatic Java also makes heavy use of…
Microservices is just OOP/dependency-injection, but with RPCs instead of function calls. The same criticisms for microservices (claims that it adds complexity, or too many pieces) are also seen for OOP. Curiously, while…
If you replace the word "bonus" with "promo", then you unfortunately get an eerily-accurate reflection of the state of FAANG companies.
> unless you have some indication people are increasingly picking the competitor over you, or especially and more simply leaving you in favour of the competitor. If this happens, you've already lost. Software…
I'd bet someone just wanted to teach a course for fun and without compensation, but they had to formalize it and pose an actual job listing online for a month. Probably explains why the "Open date" & "Final date" are…
There's a 2016 CppCon talk here about making C++ Modules work at scale for Google's 100Mloc mono repo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFNpBfemDI So, apparently it can work. I don't don't how much Google's internal…
If generalized to 2D (and over the unit sphere), you'd get Google's S2 library (https://s2geometry.io/). In 3D, the same can be done with morton codes (or a 3D hilbert curve) to build an implicit octree. Some raytracing…
I wouldn't be surprised if Google's TPU's pushed them far over the edge on this. I'd bet TPUs running inference for Ads models can basically print money for the company. They've also already been building their own…
CLion (and other IDEs) have pretty good vim plugins: IdeaVim, VsVim , Vrapper. They're not perfect, but I also made the switch from vim to CLion and never looked back. With a half-decent plugin for editing text, there's…
IOS 13 has a feature that can do something to that effect: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/facetime-feature-in-...
Dependency injection systems (like Dagger or Guice) are essentially programming languages that specifically model this kind of initialization-vs-runtime distinction. Dagger is actually implemented as a compiler…
> Which advice did/would have helped you landing your first job after university? Take a few advanced, specialized CS classes by your 3rd year. These often have large end-of-semester projects that can be fairly open…
You could Google for "t-shirt sleeve mask" and make your own. Etsy can also be quite fast.
"Most experts think that flu viruses spread mainly by droplets..." (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm)
Masks are effective at stopping people from unintentionally infecting others. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/well/live/coronavirus-fac... "Even a simple mask is very effective at trapping droplets from your…
Researchers at Adobe published similar work several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978055 Interestingly, FB folks used a vastly simpler network architecture, but it probably still works because they…
> For visualization, I prefer the way H3 looks over S2. While that’s just an opinion, H3 grid is exposed directly to drivers and in lots of tools. Ah, yes this makes a lot of sense. The video in the link actually does…
This is a robotics paper by Nvidia & UW researchers. It is not an Alphabet/Deepmind paper, and it also has nothing to do with the "NIST" OCR dataset. Was there really not a more appropriate name than "AlphaNIST"?
How does this compare to Claude Managed Agents?
I had to double check that this wasn't an April Fools joke. The GitHub project has commits from 2 weeks ago, so it's not. Looking more closely though, this looks a lot like the Google "AI Cookie" from 2017, which also…
Years ago, my college multi variable calculus and linear algebra courses were both taught primarily using course materials that were interactive Mathematica Notebooks. We had access to all of the symbolic algebra tools…
Not really new news: https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-space-force-contract (Oct 2023)
For anyone else who was confused to see a paper use the same name as a commercial product, it looks like Google Gemini was announced in May, whereas this was submitted to SOSP that had an April submission deadline.
GPU performance per dollar is only competitive for specific workloads. For extremely large scale compute, getting enough data center GPUs can also be challenging.
What a convenient source of liquidity for the various drug cartels in El Salvador who need to launder their money.
For all the hate that Java tends to get, the language natively supports this distinction between: * Expected errors - Checked Exceptions * Unexpected errors - Unchecked Exceptions Idiomatic Java also makes heavy use of…
Microservices is just OOP/dependency-injection, but with RPCs instead of function calls. The same criticisms for microservices (claims that it adds complexity, or too many pieces) are also seen for OOP. Curiously, while…
If you replace the word "bonus" with "promo", then you unfortunately get an eerily-accurate reflection of the state of FAANG companies.
> unless you have some indication people are increasingly picking the competitor over you, or especially and more simply leaving you in favour of the competitor. If this happens, you've already lost. Software…
I'd bet someone just wanted to teach a course for fun and without compensation, but they had to formalize it and pose an actual job listing online for a month. Probably explains why the "Open date" & "Final date" are…
There's a 2016 CppCon talk here about making C++ Modules work at scale for Google's 100Mloc mono repo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFNpBfemDI So, apparently it can work. I don't don't how much Google's internal…
If generalized to 2D (and over the unit sphere), you'd get Google's S2 library (https://s2geometry.io/). In 3D, the same can be done with morton codes (or a 3D hilbert curve) to build an implicit octree. Some raytracing…
I wouldn't be surprised if Google's TPU's pushed them far over the edge on this. I'd bet TPUs running inference for Ads models can basically print money for the company. They've also already been building their own…
CLion (and other IDEs) have pretty good vim plugins: IdeaVim, VsVim , Vrapper. They're not perfect, but I also made the switch from vim to CLion and never looked back. With a half-decent plugin for editing text, there's…
IOS 13 has a feature that can do something to that effect: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/facetime-feature-in-...
Dependency injection systems (like Dagger or Guice) are essentially programming languages that specifically model this kind of initialization-vs-runtime distinction. Dagger is actually implemented as a compiler…
> Which advice did/would have helped you landing your first job after university? Take a few advanced, specialized CS classes by your 3rd year. These often have large end-of-semester projects that can be fairly open…
You could Google for "t-shirt sleeve mask" and make your own. Etsy can also be quite fast.
"Most experts think that flu viruses spread mainly by droplets..." (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm)
Masks are effective at stopping people from unintentionally infecting others. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/well/live/coronavirus-fac... "Even a simple mask is very effective at trapping droplets from your…
Researchers at Adobe published similar work several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978055 Interestingly, FB folks used a vastly simpler network architecture, but it probably still works because they…
> For visualization, I prefer the way H3 looks over S2. While that’s just an opinion, H3 grid is exposed directly to drivers and in lots of tools. Ah, yes this makes a lot of sense. The video in the link actually does…