ajdecon

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by ajdecon 14y ago
Basically, I wrote a Masters thesis and exited my program with as much grace as possible. I actually managed to tie up a fun side project and assist with a couple of other students' projects on my way out (more productive than my PhD thesis
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Realizing that being happy was more important than achieving an arbitrary goal (a PhD) that was (a) making me miserable, and (b) didn't matter to anyone but me. Getting past that mental block was basically necessary for a lot of amazing thi
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by ajdecon 14y ago
You also can't know when someone between you and the other endpoint has configured something stupidly. :) As a sysadmin, I do my best to make the network as damn near perfect as possible; but as a developer, I still generally assume the net
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Re 3: I don't think anything like this exists yet (as you've described close to the "holy grail" of numerical languages ;-) ), but you might want to check out Julia[1] if you haven't done so yet. It doesn't do everything you want, but has d
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by ajdecon 14y ago
If anyone has invites.... ;-) see profile for email address.
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Really, you only use email as a TODO? You've never used email to discuss ideas? Catch up with an old friend? Have an argument? Flirt with someone you are attracted to? Anything that qualifies as a conversation?
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DOE flips switch on Titan, world’s newest fastest supercomputer(arstechnica.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
What's your startup?
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Automated testing and research software(ivory.idyll.org)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
A lot of those knobs are actually pretty useful, especially when there are competing implementations of a standardized interface that have different strengths. As an example: In scientific computing this often means choosing a particular BL
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The objection was probably the post's implication that those technologies could manage all or most courses. > switch to ereaders Unless they're seeing different ereaders than me, that kills most detailed and colored diagrams in science
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by ajdecon 14y ago
In other words: PaaS or SaaS will become much more popular to build on, and developers will spend less time working with servers or IaaS. Industry trends continue. We need an article for this? From a practical perspective, part of what thi
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Calling this a "supercomputer" is a misnomer (though it's a sexy one), because it makes people expect real high performance. As many have pointed out, a single GPU could beat this thing easily in terms of performance. It's really a dev plat
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by ajdecon 14y ago
IANAL. However, I don't believe that the US military can impose criminal sanctions on civilians, only their own personnel. (With specific exceptions for being called in to deal with specific emergencies, etc.) From the article TechDirt link
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> If you don't get support for that subscription, I can't see a difference worth $350 between RHEL self-support subscription and CentOS. * Access to the RHEL repositories, with faster updates than CentOS or alternatives. * Ability to up
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What Your Computer Does While You Wait(duartes.org)
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Benefit for the family of Sean Smith (Vilerat)(youcaring.com)
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University builds cheap supercomputer with Raspberry Pi and Legos(arstechnica.com)
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How Tesla K20 Speeds Quicksort, A Familiar Comp-Sci Code « Nvidia (blogs.nvidia.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
To be honest, I went back and forth several times on which one I thought would be easier. It's extremely dependent on the skills and personality of the person in question. I ended up deciding the people skills would be easier to teach becau
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I wonder which is easier: training Rodrigo to communicate well, or training Gabriella to program? I suspect it's the former, though you might first have to convince him that communication is important at all. Being able to train in both dir
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by ajdecon 14y ago
MPI shines mostly in the context of tightly-coupled applications operating on multiple nodes with a fast, reliable network. Most implementations are well-optimized for operating on extremely high-bandwidth low-latency networks like Infinib
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Infiniband: Back from the dead?(gigaom.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I'd love an invite, if available.
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Most of these have wide acceptance among the HN/Startup crowd; I might expect to see more disagreement if the list were exposed to corporate programming environments, or especially to their managers. I have a couple of quibbles, though: -
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by ajdecon 14y ago
This is often tightly coupled to hosting providers. I've worked before at a company where we did hosting + full sysadmin services for high-performance computing. The big challenges included finding talent (good sysadmins are not easy to fin
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I can't stand recruiting houses like this, but I love working with in-house recruiters. The times I've worked with a recruiter who's actually employed by the company I'm interviewing at, they have: - Asked intelligent questions - Followed
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DakaRand 1.0: Revisiting clock drift for entropy generation(dankaminsky.com)
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Will HPC Work In The Cloud?(clustermonkey.net)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
That argument is true for just about any company's benefits. Even without this, startups generally offer much less in the way of life insurance, health insurance, time off, and various miscellaneous benefits. All of these provide a much hig

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