Well, points for learning from the best. And to be fair, from the brief look I got before their site went offline, they provide a more in-depth simulation of the game development process. Game Dev Story is charming but pretty simplistic.
Chiropractic is bogus. It wasn't designed to correct posture or "force tight muscles to release", it was designed to cure completely unrelated illnesses. Which it doesn't do. Any success it may have in treating minor back pain is accidental.
They didn't use the gas directly; they dissolved it in water, at a concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb). 5ppb concentration in air is detectable by smell; 10 ppm, i.e. 10,000ppb, is the safety limit for extended exposure set by OSHA. So the concentrations used in the experiment are quite safe. That said, in higher concentrations it is seriously nasty.
The problem was, it didn't actually answer the questions.
SoftLayer have a history of being very aggressive on DMCA takedown orders - you may get as little as four hours to remove the content or have your server taken offline. Even if it's a shared server hosting many accounts.
They're releasing the laptop chips first.
Socket 2011 has quad-channel memory off one die, and AMD's G34 server socket has quad-channel off two. Again, it's definitely possible.
With 768 shaders off just dual-channel DDR3 you'd be seriously bandwidth-starved, so I don't see it working well without four memory channels.
So, 4 cores at 2.5-3.5GHz, 384 shaders, and dual-channel DDR3-1866 RAM at 35W.
If AMD were to double everything they'd have a really nice 70W desktop chip. Not sure what the die size is for Richland, so a doubled chip might not be cost-effective - though the PS4 APU has 8 cores and 1152 shaders, so it's at least possible.
Likewise for our database clusters. We use open-source software (MongoDB, Redis, Riak) so hardware cost matters - if you use Oracle or something like that, software costs dominate. If you want large 4-socket servers, AMD offers much better value than Intel. And if you want lots of small 1S servers, AMD wins again, because the E3 Xeons only support 32GB RAM.
DARPA runs a lot of these research seed programs, putting a couple of million dollars into a bunch of different but related research projects. In this case the program budget is $100 million in total, and Continuum got $3 million for their Python work (Numba, Blaze, etc). Some of the program money may have gone to R as well; there's a couple of dozen research groups, but I don't have a full list.
Both. The prebuilt "Anaconda" distro defaults to Python 2.7, but it also works with 3.3 and 2.6.
I've only spent half a day with it, but I'd have to say, no. It's as resource-intensive as ever, the UI still freezes intermittently when there's any processing going on at all, and it crashed completely when trying to play a short video.
On the other hand, it managed to resurrect my copy of Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog which iTunes 10 ate. (The player said I hadn't downloaded it and wouldn't play, and the store said that I had downloaded it and wouldn't download. iTunes11 re-downloaded it for me. And crashed a short while later.)
Great idea. Wrong implementation. There are many pitfalls with making science degrees cheaper, like for example what happens when you switch majors?
After you have a couple of semesters of credits in science and math? Mission accomplished.
In contrast, there was 9/11 - sure, most people think it was the Saudis, but there are too many questions unanswered, like the lack of debris, lack of video, lack of an airplane at the Pentagon
Lack of debris? Lack of airplane? If you believe that, I'd seek a second opinion if you said the sky is blue.
Piledriver is the architecture, like Intel's Ivy Bridge is the architecture.
These are server chips. Best case, these are finally faster than their pre-Bulldozer parts in real, consumer desktop use. They will not beat an 8 core Sandy Bridge Xeon in FP-heavy applications, and power consumption is, at best, on the same level as the Xeons.
That's true. A 16-core Opteron has the same FP width as an 8-core Xeon, and a higher TDP for a given clock.
On the other hand, we buy almost all AMD because it lets us build cheap 1U or 2U 4-socket servers with 512GB of RAM each. 4-socket Intel chips (E5-4600 or E7) are much more expensive; mid-range servers work out to 50% more for Intel, and high-end servers about 80% more for equivalent speed.
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.
