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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Bleak
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I think you’re overthinking this, e.g., Zemax’s optimization isn’t that different than the ray-tracing presented in this book. The sophistication truly comes from the users.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
You’d be surprised! Everywhere I’ve worked, academic or industry, typically writes their own simulation software. Sometimes it’s entirely handwritten (i.e., end-to-end, preprocessing to simulation to evaluation), sometimes it’ll leverage a
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New Mario Kart
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I used to do this and, for me, the time it took was entirely dependent on the gear I was provided and whether the climb was enjoyable. The gear isn’t exactly what you think of when you think climbing gear and, frankly, it’s infuriating. It
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I love this: > “If you have to have your 15 minutes of fame for something, why not let it be something as joyful as the ‘I Voted’ sticker,” Boudreau says. “It just makes me smile.”
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
On benchmarks where it’s impossible to verify whether there’s contamination?
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Cargo is great so I’m surprised we’re not seeing tinier interoperable packages (e.g., tasks like serialization and transport) instead of C++-like frameworks.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I worked on Hack during my Meta bootcamp and was surprised to learn that many people used and relied on Hack outside of Meta. It didn’t appear to be anywhere near the size and scope of PyTorch and React but the number of users looked relati
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Nobel laureate Paul Romer sharing some Python advice is a little strange!
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Quadro?
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
CUDA is ubiquitous in science and an open source alternative to the CUDA runtime is useful, even if the use is limited to verifying expected behavior.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I don’t think it’s more complicated than people want an abstraction for the complex number instructions you find on processors like the TMS320 series or Qualcomm Hexagon.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Apple and Microsoft underinvest in their widget toolkits. It’s especially damning for Apple since they spend the money to write numerous custom widgets (e.g., the widgets in their professional apps like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro) but don’
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Unless you know something I don’t, that’s not the case. It also makes sense, engineers are far more portable and scarcity isn’t an issue (many ML PhDs find engineering positions).
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Academic compensation is different than what you’d find elsewhere on Hacker News. Likewise, academic performance is evaluated differently than what you’d expect as a software engineer. Ultimately, everyone cares about scientific impact so
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Hacker News is, in my experience, and despite its benefits, susceptible to a belief in pseudoscience. I love the optimism behind the refrain of “what’s next?” But, at the end of the day, I wish the community, myself included, did a better j
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Academia is cooperative. A good paper is a paper that furthers discussion.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I think this also explains the continued success of World of Warcraft.
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Easily
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
I don’t know anything about trends but I still write some C because it’s widely supported across a variety of platforms.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
There’re a handful of ways to introduce electro-optical and all-optical non-linearities into optical neural networks. Here’s a fair survey of the field: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3607533
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
If you have a laser, you can print an optical neural network using a consumer 3D printer. The present barrier to adoption, as the article describes, is the cost of transitioning from the optical space to the electronic space.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 2y ago
Yes, there’re a handful of apps that use the neural engine to fine tune models to their data.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 3y ago
It’s a cell culture …
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 3y ago
I don’t hate this! The author is, despite their sarcasm, correct—sometimes integers are insufficiently expressive. It’s the C++ equivalent of geometry in the Wolfram Language.
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 3y ago
I believe “world models” are the future of the field so I really need better performance in areas like IVP, FFT, special functions (e.g., harmonics), and dynamic programming. The H100 advances (e.g., DPX instructions) are terrific but they
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 3y ago
Yes, training and evaluation code, i.e., the code used to generate the weights.
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PyTorch Operator Rankings(twitter.com)
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by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 3y ago
I’m not, but I’d love to see open source components that outperform the alternatives (e.g., ESS).

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