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...Which means you have lots of ground to cover before you reach parity with Fortran (phase 1), and then reach parity with CUDA Fortran (phase 2).
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"And that's what we're talking about here, compilation speed, not computational equivalence." I believe the original poster meant generated code when (s)he wrote about compiler performance; the compile time is rather irr
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I have nothing at all against POSIX, but unless one is running HP-UX, Solaris or an illumos-based OS like SmartOS, POSIX compliance is spotty at best in other operating systems. For this reason, the safest thing to do is write code for eith
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Shell scripts depend on what is in /sbin and /usr/bin, so software which comes with the OS. If you are struggling with that, then I warmly recommend the "Learning the UNIX operating system" book from O'Reilly t
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No, I don't "probably" mean POSIX, if I write Bourne and Korn shell, then that is what I mean! I grew up on real UNIX operating systems, not the GNU/Linux cheap knockoff! Boy do statements like these make me furious!
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Google has no business writing a programming guide for something they aren't competent for; the guy who wrote this is about as clueless as they come when it comes to shell programming, for example he thinks using eval should be forbidd
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There is one and only one language that's both correct and the best tool for scripting: Bourne or its superset the Korn shell (not even bash).
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There was absolutely nothing impolite in the way he phrased his response. Rather, what I'm responding to is passive-aggressive.
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Wrong: the data science world is built on R, which was designed from the ground up to be the freeware alternative to SAS and Mathematica.
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Could not have put it better myself. If he wants fast, short of hand writing in assembler, CUDA Fortran is the way to go. Too much exposure to "Hacker" "News".
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by Annatar 8y ago
"Partly it's because I'd like more help from my programming tools, such as static type checking, better handling of abstractions" As soon as I read that, I know immediately that I'm dealing with an object-oriented p
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SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is by far the most mature of all GNU/Linux distributions. Their AutoYaST provisioning system with Kiwi imaging capability is conceptually identical to Solaris' JumpStart™️ with compressed Flash™️ archi
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by Annatar 8y ago
I'm curious as to what the author would think of this in contrast to Debian: https://illumos.org/books/dev/
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That's kind-of-sort-of what I had in mind... rather I'd like to run the entire Lisp language on the GPU(s) directly instead of a generic central processing unit.
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Out of the question, go away with that cursed JVM and never mention it to me again! I don't and never will do bytecode on a virtual machine!
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Too lazy to search it for you (and I read it roughly seven years ago); use a search engine yourself. Really, the sense of entitlement in this place... And if that with the tanker surprised you, maybe you should spend more time researching a
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by Annatar 8y ago
This is not proof Sir, it's just a table. For something to be scientifically proven, the methodology has to be disclosed and it has to be repeatable, consistently. No amount of re-inventing the scientific method from first principles w
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by Annatar 8y ago
Don't get worked up over it, it's just an observation of the state of affairs, I don't have a tin foil hat. I think the U. S. should have better public transportation infrastructure and more pedestrian sidewalks and, oh! driv
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by Annatar 8y ago
I see that the tin foil hat conspiracy theorists are out in force today, trying sensationalist headlines in an affort to get people to pay for the subscription. Doesn't this violate this website's code of conduct or some such? Ble
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by Annatar 8y ago
WANT!!! This gave me a crazy idea, cross-compiling one of the Lisps using CUDA to run accelerated directly on the GPU... Hmmm...
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Not true at all; someone with the brains to understand how software works at the lowest level can figure out the higher levels easily, while the reverse apparently doesn't hold.
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by Annatar 8y ago
If I catch anyone at my company doing CVops, there will be hell to pay. Not at the company's expense and certainly not on my watch!
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by Annatar 8y ago
Japan is decidedly not the United States. In some European countries like Germany writing to one's representative damn works, and works well; in Switzerland the situation is even better, the people decide directly and as the consequenc
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"In theory you can enumerate all Turing machines of a given length, or all Python programs of a given length, and find the shortest one that does a given task, but the list grows exponentially with length." Can it be proven that t
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Finally some honesty so the society can start dealing with the problem in earnest. I hope the clear text honesty streak continues and that this is merely a beginning, because the world is upside-down and the society rotten from the inside u
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From the article it looks like a much better and cheaper solution is to build retirement homes for the elderly. Is it feasible to write to one's political representative in Japan?
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Are you saying that it's simply a case of resume inflation at employer's expense?
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"Pragmatists" in reality end implementing what I term vomit which then I have to come back to and clean up after them. The problem with a "pragmatic" solution is that it is misleading: it's quick and cheap in the sh
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I'm genuinely curious: what exactly is so hard about installing and system administering one's own servers inhouse that so many people would put up with these complications?
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I know what it is as I am an actual system engineer; the question was for our self-proclaimed "principal engineer" to see if he has a clue.

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