ajdecon

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Nvidia’s Kepler Pushes Parallelism up to Eleven(insidehpc.com)
1 points by ajdecon 14y ago|0 comments
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A fatal lack of accountability(boingboing.net)
1 points by ajdecon 14y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Certainly, and that's why patio11 has done as well as he has. But it's an easy example of why web startups aimed at a nontechnical audience can succeed even without being terribly complex, and is a supporting point for the idea that some st
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by ajdecon 14y ago
From the article: (Note: In this post I’m talking specifically about tech startups, and especially non-sales-driven tech startups) More specifically: non-sales-driven tech startups with founders who don't have their own money to fund deve
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Let's assume one neuron is replaced every second. No problem, nice and gradual. What if it's one every millisecond, every picosecond? Should make no difference, because it's still one by one. It should make a difference how long it take
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by ajdecon 14y ago
True, but in that case, the motivation for having a copy in the first place gets a lot lower. It isn't immortality. At most it's another version you create so your friends and family don't have to give you up. Which I can see being pretty m
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by ajdecon 14y ago
In similar situations I've either used a "BSD with attribution" style license (i.e. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD_with_Attribution ) or simply included a "How To Cite" section in the README. For example, ImageJ is popular in
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Warning: I don't actually do web startups myself, so this is based on an outsider's view of the field. Computer science provides some really awesome ways to deal with algorithmic problems... but for most startup-type applications, those pro
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by ajdecon 14y ago
i would never pass this test. i would solve this problem using variables for dimensions of the bus and a constant "packing factor" (or assume the optimal cannonball packing and approximate the golf balls as spheres) and write an express fo
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Absolutely. Also, while the article may be right that a lot of research-group clusters being run out of a closet are only getting 10% utilization, this is not true for shared institutional clusters. Those systems are often hitting utiliz
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Just as a caveat: "in decent health" doesn't just mean "in decent health right now". It means "has never had a major health issue that could put you in a high-risk group". Individual insurance also means that the first major health issue yo
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by ajdecon 14y ago
+1 for Nordstrom, based on their staff. Of several places I've been, they were the most sympathetic to my sheer cluelessness when trying to find clothing to suit my purpose. :-) Might be I just got lucky, but it's been true at two locatio
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by ajdecon 14y ago
True; but for random programmer off the street, these languages impose an additional cognitive load. For a given Java library, most of the example code and documentation will be geared to Java itself, and translating that to "another JVM la
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by ajdecon 14y ago
As a (ex-)physicist, I don't particularly care where the experiments are taking place: cool science is being done, and the people at CERN are a pretty international bunch. They're also scattered around the world: I know a few people at the
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Honestly, you'd be surprised. The IT world includes a lot of people who train up from help desk or similar positions, and spend their time very focused on the specific class of problems they're dealing with. Not surprised at all that someon
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Tor/Forge to Go DRM-Free By July (science fiction publishing imprint)(whatever.scalzi.com)
2 points by ajdecon 14y ago|0 comments
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Mobile Carriers Lobby Against Cellphone Location Privacy Bill(wired.com)
2 points by ajdecon 14y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I've been playing with Julia a bit lately, but I haven't had any good reasons to write real code in it yet. I've got to say, a useful Python compatibility layer between the two languages would be awesome . Being able to call SciPy librarie
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> The design of a language strongly influences the tone of its community, as well as the libraries available (both the number and the types). I certainly think this is true, and I think that Dag's underestimating the importance of the
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by ajdecon 14y ago
> While I'd welcome clearer law it's important to point out that it's the ICO who'll be enforcing the law, so if they say they're not going to go after people it's safe to say they won't. Until some group puts pressure on them to enfo
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The cluster used a mix of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 1 Gigabit Ethernet interconnects. However, the workload was what’s often known as "embarrassingly parallel," meaning that the calculations are independent of each other. As such, the speed
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Well, the author describes a certain kind of culture surrounding certain kinds of programming, anyway. It's a culture that seems pretty common in web development circles, in startups, and on HN, and I definitely buy into it to a certain ext
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by ajdecon 15y ago
And it's worth adding: a pretty large proportion of these people who don't work jobs they love are still pretty happy. They have families and hobbies and lives that are full of more than their work.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
If you do programming because it pays better then, you are going to be just another guy who never amounts to anything in this world. I know a few of these people. You're right, they've never amounted to anything... except - Good and lovin
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by ajdecon 15y ago
This does a pretty good job of describing my response to the post too. I think work/life balance is extremely important, but so is enjoying what you do during the day, and continuing to learn about your work and the world at large. I typica
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I took the same route, "mastering out", and that cultural perception that "leaving your PhD is failing at life" was my biggest hurdle. I knew I could get a job, knew that I could probably find something interesting, but the looks of pity a
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No Free Lunch for Intel MIC (or GPU’s)(blogs.nvidia.com)
68 points by ajdecon 15y ago|22 comments
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Physics and then materials science. I haven't noticed that it's been a problem, either from actual work or getting pestered by recruiters. But I've mostly been in work related to scientific computing so far, where non-CS degrees are almost
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Currently Julia handles parallelism on its own: you use the parallel primitives or higher-level functions provided by the language, not an mpi, and run over multiple processes using either "julia -p <N>" (on a single machine) or "Ju
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Edit: Title asks for downsides (but it seems like tue kind of title that might be changed) Disclaimer: I really like Julia, and loving it for some numerical stuff right now. That said... Potential downsides: - Very new, standard libs are st

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