Daily Archives: August 12, 2016

Nvidia Reports Strong Quarter Driven By The Pascal Launch & Strength In Deep Learning

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Leading GPU manufacturer Nvidia reported its Q2 2017 earnings on August 11th. The company built on its growth momentum by posting revenues of $1.43 billion, an increase of 24% over the prior year and 9% quarter to quarter. It was above guidance and consensus as well. Except for a 6% decline in its OEM and IP business (in line with declining mainstream PC demand), Nvidia witnessed strong growth in all its business segments. The company registered strong double digit growth across its four key platforms – Gaming, Professional Visualization, Datacenter and Automotive, which together account for 89% of its revenue, up from 85% a year earlier.

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Why Facebook Is Investing In a Hardware Lab

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Recently, Facebook posted a blog about the opening of “Area 404”, a 22,000 square foot fully equipped hardware lab in its Menlo Park office. While Facebook generates most of its revenues from advertisements on its core social media platform, it has hardware-related initiatives intended to amplify or support its main business. These include its Connectivity Labs, the Oculus VR business, and promising research projects including Aquila and OpenCellular. The goal for Area 404 is to offer the various engineering teams a single location equipped with the latest equipment to pursue their projects. As Facebook continues to grow and focuses on immersive social experiences such as virtual reality, it will need intelligent hardware to support its growth. Area 404 should help the company better address these needs.

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Facebook hace nuevos ajustes a su sección de Noticias para ser más ‘informativo’

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¿Sientes que te informaste después de echarle un vistazo a Facebook o sientes que no sabes cómo perdiste 10 minutos de tu vida sin enterarte de algo nuevo?

Facebook anunció este jueves 11 de agosto que hará un cambio leve a su fórmula con el fin de que los artículos que te parezcan más informativos surjan al principio de tu sección de noticias.

Lo que eso significa precisamente está poco claro y varía de persona a persona. A través de varias encuestas constantes, Facebook se ha enterado de que la gente piensa que las historias son "informativas" si se relacionan con temas que les interesen e incluyen noticias sobre el mundo en el que viven. No se refiere a la calidad ni a la veracidad de las historias, sino únicamente a la percepción que tienen las personas de ellas.

A través de una combinación de calificaciones de los usuarios en su Programa de Calidad en los Canales (un grupo de prueba compuesto de usuarios que califican las publicaciones en su sección de noticias) y de los comentarios, los "Me gusta" y el historial de lecturas de los usuarios, Facebook decidirá qué tan informativa te parece una historia.

¿Tiendes a leer historias sobre puercoespines y las noticias más recientes sobre las elecciones? Es probable que pronto veas más artículos y publicaciones sobre estos temas en las páginas que sigues o en las de tus amigos.

El canal de noticias es cada vez más complicado, está en constante cambio y nunca es tan suculento como esperas. Facebook hace cambios constantemente en un intento permanente por conservar la atención de la gente para que visite la página más a menudo y que comparta más materiales. Además, ya es costumbre que anuncie estos cambios, incluso los más pequeños.

A principios de agosto, Facebook anunció que planea combatir los "titulares anzuelo". En junio señaló que daría prioridad a las publicaciones de tus amigos y familiares.

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Is there a mod that removes huge mushrooms? via /r/Minecraft

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Is there a mod that removes huge mushrooms?

Hi, I'm /u/manint71 and I suffer from mycophobia, the fear of mushrooms. Please PM me all the hate comments to keep the comment section full of discussion. Feel free to ask questions about it though.

Anyway, playing Minecraft has always been a challenge for me. I've played since Beta 1.2_02, and I had great amounts of fun with it. The small mushrooms are easy to ignore and it doesn't bother me.

Then Beta 1.8 came, and added huge mushrooms, but it was fine because you actually had to make them yourself and as long as I didn't do anything, it's fine. It was still kind of difficult to play with friends, because they either made H.M (i'll use this abbreviation from now on) because they didn't know of my phobia, or because they knew it and wanted to fuck with me. I pretty much stopped playing multiplayer and stopped watching let's plays because of my phobia.

In 1.0 (or Beta 1.9, like it was called "back in my day") they naturally generated in their own biome, but it was so rare so I kept playing anyway.

I kept playing until 1.4, and I stopped playing because I got bored of the game. I came back a few days before 1.10 and I ask my girlfriend what has happened since. She says, to my despair that those things now naturally generate, in her favorite biome, roofed forest. I told her of my phobia, and to my surprise she didn't laugh at me.

I can seriously not play singleplayer anymore, because of my fear. I have to have her play with me so I won't stumble into any mushrooms, but it's still really difficult because she has to do the exploring, which I can imagine is a burden.

So what I ask is; are there any mods for this?

And if there aren't, this may be too much to ask for but; could any of you guys make one?

TL;DR: I'm a mycophobic that can't play this wonderful game because of huge mushrooms. How do you remove them?

Submitted August 12, 2016 at 09:00AM by manint71
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VRLA: Where Hollywood Goes To VR

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VRLA’s Summer Expo was the biggest they had ever had; by their own measurements there were over 6,000 attendees and they actually had to turn the event into a two-day experience. I attended the VRLA Summer Expo last weekend, and I gained some valuable insights about where VR content is going and where VR content is moving. The show kicked off with a series of major announcements including the VRLA founders announcing their own project’s release which is a VR movie creator called Mindshow that allows creators to import assets into VR and create VR movies.

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