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Ditto for math libraries, machine learning libraries + tools, statistics calculations and matrix multiplier kernels. Hell, I'd take a 1% chance of blowup for a

• pif 11y ago
  > I'd take a 1% chance of blowup for a 10% speedup any day. Are you serious? Would you base your research career on software that you don't trust? I wouldn't. Please, notice that 1% chance of full blowup means a not-null probability of nice-looking-but-actually-false results from time to time, and that's a risk no researcher is allowed to accept.
  • iofj 11y ago
    > Are you serious? Would you base your research career on software that you don't trust? I wouldn't. I guess you haven't seen the quality of academic code recently. The choices are basing your credibility on slow badly written code or fast badly written code.
• 0x07c0 11y ago
  That is what we have fast math for :)