Background: as advanced algorithms become more common and useful, that’s “AI”, there is the constant background fear being discussed, of skynet and terminator style AI robots destroying all. The truth is less exciting: killer robots require lots of very expensive sensors and compute capability. Their programming tends to be much more brittle and slower to […]
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In a moment of sheer evil madness, while eating a more sophisticated potato soup, my mind came up with the idea of a ‘Hawaiian’ style soup. Hawaiian in the sense of the the pizza, which this tastes similar to, named because of the pineapple and with no relation to real Hawaiian culture. I was unable
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Holly Ann WilliamsKelly Ann CatlinYou can see the similarities but also the differences in name alone. Kelly was my twin sister, center of my life, who committed suicide. Holly was my best friend, sometimes my girlfriend, and we had a bit of Sherlock and Watson routine going. Ultimately, Holly was my replacement twin sister. For
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If you have no idea what AVX-2 and AVX-512 are, they are names for instruction sets, a combination of CPU design and language that help execute, in this case, math. AVX512 is a newer 512-bit instruction set promising faster performance. Since data science can sometimes be rather slow, faster math sounds very promising. Overall, the
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Strength and honor! I have chanted this to myself tens of thousands of times over the years, day after day. It is a rallying cry, a reminder never to stop. To hold the line, no matter the cost. I share with you now the single great secret to success that I have learned, and seen
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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
