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541.
by arcanus 10y ago
> Why after several positive tests, has the physics community not gone full throttle to try and disprove it, like they did with cold fusion? No one has any funding to research it. Despite the press, no major research agency is backing ef
542.
by arcanus 10y ago
How could any quant models not be based on the brains of their inventors?
543.
by arcanus 10y ago
Honest statement: maybe its because I'm a child of the 80s, and so grew up around media with strong dystopian/cyberpunk styling... But I've always wondered why more tech companies and corporations don't embrace this aest
544.
by arcanus 10y ago
Great point. Better to be employed than not, and of course no job is a perfect fit. Would be interesting to count one as being only 60% employed, in the example you give. So if you had 100 million people all employed at 60% fit, that's
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by arcanus 10y ago
What about the computer needed to drive these displays? Will they all require a 1k computer with a top of the line AMD/NVIDIA GPU? That is the biggest cost barrier to large scale VR adoption. To say nothing of the lack of killer softwa
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by arcanus 10y ago
> This is a highly overconstrained search Yes and no. It can speak to structural inefficiencies in the economy. For instance, I am a Computational Scientist with a decade of experience in scientific research, publications, etc. It would
547.
by arcanus 10y ago
Yep! > It's telling that other cities, e.g. Washington, DC, are experiencing similar levels of economic and population growth And not are all tech hubs. Nyc is more finance driven than tech. D.C. is a very different beast.
548.
by arcanus 10y ago
I'm surprised they didn't adjust for cost of living across each city. I lived in D.C. for four years, and it was certainly less expensive than NYC/SF, broadly speaking.
549.
by arcanus 10y ago
A great deal of that is for post-processing, however. Very little python used in the compute heavy pieces of scientific computation.
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Research: Why Americans Are So Impressed by Busyness(hbr.org)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
551.
by arcanus 10y ago
I liked some of this point except the end, which is not correct. > NVIDIA at this point can probably spin off a pure consulting division for AI/ML and bring in more revenue than AMD in its entirety AMD had $3.99 Billion in total rev
552.
by arcanus 10y ago
I think we do need an entirely new paradigm for society and work given automation. However, can UBI be economic? If we pay all 300 million in the USA 15k a year, that's 4.5 trillion a year. The annual GDP is about 17 trillion, so that&
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by arcanus 10y ago
> It would be great for Nvidia to get real competition in this space. It seems obvious AMD will be a player, since they have similar hardware (GPUs) and with a proper port (using HCC, openCL, etc. ) for cuDNN should also have excellent p
554.
by arcanus 10y ago
But who will build it? The article hints that Intel (KNL) and Nvidia(+IBM) are not the front runners.
555.
by arcanus 10y ago
I still prefer the hacker jargon file: http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
556.
by arcanus 10y ago
> WI, MI, and PA Wisconsin was not considered to be a battleground state. HRC didn't even campaign in the state after the convention.
557.
by arcanus 10y ago
Hardware battle over AI platforms is heating up. Will be interesting if Intel can catch nvidia, or GPUs in general.
558.
by arcanus 10y ago
It's more pervasive than AI: The megacorps are hoarding all the world's top technical talent. The start-up value proposition is fundamentally weaker, at present. The salaries are substantially lower, and IPOs are too scarce (and
559.
by arcanus 10y ago
With moore's law slowing/dying out, hard to blame intel for desperately trying to find new revenue streams.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Agree with everything you write except, > That this is being published in a journal which does not cover basic physics is not helping AIAA is an extremely reputable journal and society. All the members are extremely familiar with conserv
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The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn(bloomberg.com)
148 points by arcanus 10y ago|70 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Most of economics is an intellectual veneer to justify politically motivated policy actions. The 'science' is seldom predictive, nor does it even attempt to be. It has more in common with augury. This blurb, for instance, openly a
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Google Taps AMD for Accelerating Machine Learning in the Cloud(forbes.com)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
564.
by arcanus 10y ago
It's not the hardware. VR needs a killer game to make a market.
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by arcanus 10y ago
One famous piece of trivia about Deus Ex is that, if you look at the city skyline during the missions set in New York City, the Twin Towers are conspicuously absent. The real reason for their exclusion isn’t very interesting: something to d
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AMDSC16: Radeon Open Compute Platform 1.3 Released, Boltzmann Comes to Fruition(anandtech.com)
3 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
567.
by arcanus 10y ago
I like nextplatform and nvidia did just have a great quarter. Tensorflow runs best when accelerated by nvidia GPUs. However, the article vastly oversells nvidia in the HPC space. Intel's MIC platform is targeted at competing with GPUs,
568.
by arcanus 10y ago
I was surprised there was no mention of gaming consoles, where a similar dynamic is playing out with integrated CPU/GPU systems specially designed for the systen.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Anyone used Julia for something approaching HPC, e.g. in a distributed environment instead of MPI? I've heard plenty of buzz about it in the HPC community but haven't had a moment to play with it yet.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Please AMD make competitive products to keep Intel and nvidia honest!

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