My bed at the parent’s farm was hurting my back – and with a old 5 inch spring mattress, it was clear the mattress there was a leading factor. A 2″ foam topper had not done much to help. When a friend start shopping for a mattress for their new apartment, it finally occurred to […]
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I spend a lot of time while developing in data science waiting for my current sample of code to finish running. In particular, my package AutoTS tries hundreds or thousands of models, and even with small data that can take a while to run. Another big factor for me is the environmental cost of development
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While doing some benchmarking of my AutoTS package I quickly discovered a troubling trend – my newest, fanciest, most expensive Intel i7 CPUs – an Intel 10700 and 1165G7, were performing vastly slower than their older counterparts. I wasn’t terribly surprised to see the 1165G7 having issues: Tiger Lake – a brand new architecture CPU
Overall: the Yoga 7i 2 in 1 is an excellent ultrabook offering everything one would expect from one of this class: slim & light, good screen, good keyboard, and good battery life. It even goes above and beyond, with impressive single core CPU performance and great speakers. Multi-core CPU performance and graphics performance are both
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To me, the ideal setup is two computers: a powerful desktop and a convenient ultrabook. Indeed, even a more budget user might benefit from having a combination of a Chromebook and Desktop – a $300 Chromebook and a $700 Desktop probably beats a $1000 laptop – especially if you build the desktop yourself, as you
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