BadInformatics

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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   I wish I could copy and paste this on every low-effort/high-level "X tips for ML in production" article (for context, TFA's site was spamming Reddit and HN a while back). Most corporate decision makers don't know wh
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   This phenomenon is both depressing and heartening. If anything, I feel like the general CS community needs more "gotcha" moments (feat. Schmidhuber-like characters) that can bring previously-buried prior art to the surface again.
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   I have yet to see a "good" EHR. The top dollar solutions are at best usability nightmares[1] and since every major vendor is based out of the US, they all optimize for billing/CYA over reducing clinician workload or increasin
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   There are a few efforts working in this space. As you can imagine, all of them are experimental: - Dex: https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang/ - Hasktorch: https://github.com/hasktorch/h
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   > although no one has done it yet This may be generally true (though the benchmarks I've seen show Knet.jl and sometimes Flux.jl on par with TF/PyTorch with a single machine + single GPU), but there are definitely domains where
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   I encountered this once in an internship in Switzerland (didn't have to write any, thankfully). Quite the esoteric little platform indeed!
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   As someone who uses TF/PyTorch/JAX and numba for their day-to-day DL work, I've been watching Julia's post-hype developments in this area intently. Julia has probably the most vibrant ML ecosystem of all the non-Python l
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   Ideology(destroyallsoftware.com)

   1 points by BadInformatics 6y ago|0 comments
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   by BadInformatics 6y ago

   Of course, but the flip side is that same confluence of attributes has also exacerbated issues of reproducibility. Just as science and the methods/mediums by which we conduct/disseminate it have changed, so too should the standard
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    I don't think that removes the need to provide enough detail to replicate the original environment though. We write one-off scripts with no expectation that they will see outside usage, whereas research publications are meant for just
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    Conversely though, it is often impossible to obtain the original code to replay and identify differences once that step is reached without some sort of strong incentive or mandate for researchers to publish it. When the only copy is lost
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    (non-TF) Keras has notoriously bad multi-GPU support though (and was generally not well optimized. Case in point, the latest version just re-exports/forwards to tf.keras). Looking at something like https://lambdalabs.com&#x2
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    AMD does have ROCm/HIP, hipDNN and hipBLAS (which mirror their counterparts), but these and the rest of their modern GPGPU stack suffer from a lack of polish, ineffective evangelism and subpar documentation. It's difficult to just
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    There have been a few discussions on what Vulkan needs to be competitive for GPGPU programming. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880502 comes to mind. I would also note that multi-gpu distributed synchronization (espe
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    They do, but (as described elsewhere in this thread), the level of polish isn't quite up to that of the CUDA stack. Add onto that the relatively abysmal developer evangelism from AMD and it's not surprising that adoption is so low
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    > CUDA is much nicer to use than OpenCL I think this is also part of the problem. AMD has a nearly function-for-function compatible GPGPU stack with CUDA in ROCm/HIP that fixes many of the pitfalls in OpenCL, and even provides autom
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    Disk space and LTO improvements in Rustc and Cargo(blog.rust-lang.org)

    4 points by BadInformatics 6y ago|1 comments
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    `uploadImage`, `createWithArray` and `createWithList` also read suspiciously like RPC endpoint names. Not that one should depend on such URLs having meaning in a REST system, but this is arguably more egregious than the SocialSite API ( htt
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    You can see attempts to formalize this "HATEOAS-less REST" in frameworks like the Richardson Maturity Model [1]. One less-discussed area where REST has taken hold is in indexing/SEO (i.e. the Semantic Web's success stori
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    As a counterpoint, Windows explorer still doesn't support tabs. I would also give the newest version of Ubuntu a try--NVIDIA driver support is much improved, and IMO the installation/upgrade workflow is nicer than Win 10 now (bu
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    by BadInformatics 6y ago

    Was prepared for an introduction to some novel never-before-seen method near the end, but this was a nice and well-structured summary regardless! Wanted to tack on a couple of questions/thoughts: 1. Is the author familiar with all of t