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A little anecdote. A friend of mine who's working on his Ph.D at CMU sped up his physics group's simulations by an order of magnitude by simply running the sam
by baguasquirrel 17y ago
A little anecdote. A friend of mine who's working on his Ph.D at CMU sped up his physics group's simulations by an order of magnitude by simply running the same code multiple times on multiple machines. The problem was that the choice of initial random seeds could nontrivially effect the convergence time. There are examples of this in generic programming. Look at quicksort for example. Picking the right pivot can matter a great deal.