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by Symmetry 3y ago
Problems are disproportionately likely to show up right as you start out on a journey.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The potential usefulness of things like TPUs actually made me invest in Broadcomm, which helped Google design them and could potentially help Amazon or however else design their equivalents. But I'm also long NVidia and a half dozen o
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Famously whether free helium is a molecule or not depends on whether you're talking to a physicist or a chemist. But yeah, people in different countries speak different languages and the same sound, like "no" can mean a negat
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I don't think it makes any sense to talk about all on-chip memory as a register set. In practice most uses of REP MOVS these days don't leave L3$ but because it's an instruction that runs for a highly variable amount of time
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by Symmetry 3y ago
It's understandable that people at Google are worried because it's likely very unpleasant to see critical articles and tweets about something you did. But that isn't really bad for Google's business in any of the ways t
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by Symmetry 3y ago
On the other hand lower earners are more exposed to things like credit card interest rates. Which isn't to say that that swamps the wage increases, just that the picture is complicated.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
NVidia is actually doing a trial run of a non-critical product at Intel right now, and I'm guessing could possibly do more if it works out well.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
And probably they'd been at least thinking about that since the early 2000s to have it ready by then. But the claim is that they were thinking about it since their beginning in 1993, and that's the part that just seems hard to be
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by Symmetry 3y ago
My first guess involved caching but I was thinking about whether the binary itself had to be read from disk or was already cached in RAM. Great linux-fu post.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The newest release, 6.0.2, supports a number of other cards[1] and in general people are able to get a lot more cards to work than are officially supported. My 7900 XT worked on 6.0.0 for instance. [1] https://rocm.docs.amd.com&#
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Given the price of top line NVidia cards, if they can be had at all, there's got to be a lot of effort going on behind the scenes to improve AMD support in various places.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
No I haven't but I'm not trying to draw a distinction between the average post-Soviet neighborhood and the average US neighborhood. I'm trying to draw a distinction between Le Corbusier's vision of urbanism (still bette
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The Chinese/Soviet style of a tower in a park builds tall, but it doesn't actually tend to give more density than more US style dense areas with 3-5 stories mostly filling a block. With the Chinese approach you get better views,
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Par for the course in new rockets is 2 explosions in the first 10 launches, even for experienced rocket manufacturers.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
And more importantly, anaerobic life arose on Earth first and plausibly the jump from a lifeless planet to anaerobic life took an order of magnitude less time than the evolution of photosynthesis did. Because of that and given how much mor
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I'd always assumed that once the big Trackpoint patents expired you'd see a lot more of them. But nope.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
As "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" put it: 1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creat
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An Interview with Scott Alexander(neonarrative.us)
5 points by Symmetry 3y ago|2 comments
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Here in the northeastern US, the permitting process for adding new power plants to the grid is long and cumbersome in a way that is usually the long pole in adding new generation to the grid when the new generation is as quick to put up as
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The semi-strong from of the Efficient Market Hypothesis says that the market has already incorporated all publicly available information. But "publicly available" is doing a lot of work there. What constitutes an impressive abi
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The question is how much of the gains from advances in AI the current leaders will be able to capture. I'm actually guessing more than in the Internet boom peaking in 2000 but I'm not actually sure. If the players remain static
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by Symmetry 3y ago
In all the years since Asilomar we've only got one known instance of someone doing human germline genetic modifications.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I think that most people would say that diverting the trolley to where you, yourself, are tied up would be a moral but supererogatory thing to do. But we still make it impossible to do that because the relatives of the person who sacrifice
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by Symmetry 3y ago
A core that actually optimized for IPC would run at very low clock rates to make sure you can do a round trip to RAM in a single clock cycle.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
They don't require more transistors, they require bigger transistors. Ideally if transistor A is pushing a line with twice the capacitance attached compared to transistor B, transistor A would be twice as wide and so have twice the dr
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Particle filters would be the main other one I'd reach for. The ability to represent multiple hypotheses is a big advantage they have.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I read the article when it came out and re-scimmed it just now. My understanding at the time and still was that the legal case revolved around the API and the exhibits entered into evidence I saw were all Java function names with their arg
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Regardless of the legal status of APIs, this Phoronix article is about AMD providing a replacement ABI and I wouldn't assume the legal issues are necessarily the same. But because this is a case where AMD is following a software targe
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by Symmetry 3y ago
It's more that the resource balance in AMD's compute line of GPUs (the CDNA ones) has been more focused on the double precision operations that most supercomputer code makes heavy use of.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I've used them in robotics and for tracking satellites going overhead via radar. Apparently they're also used by economists for guessing the state of the economy, along with other filters in the standard robotics toolkit.

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