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by arcanus 10y ago
Weird. No one else would want a scheduler to be FIFO, either. Rather, the actual optimization that is performed by slurm, pbs, etc. under the hood is pretty interesting. The point of schedulers is much more complicated than a straightforwar
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Between a rocket and a hard place: Elon Musk to give the speech of his life(arstechnica.com)
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by arcanus 10y ago
^ this. Absolutely don't disagree with any of it. Big runner here. I'll just add that many people are mentally exhausted, and frustrated they cannot sleep. But I bet they are not physically exhausted. HIIT, distance running, wha
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by arcanus 10y ago
If only the USA had a similar program!
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by arcanus 10y ago
Well considered, if only to get folks to ask why they are included. Many do not realize how quickly some women can get pregnant again after giving birth.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Several big warning signs, if you read between the lines: 1) All the string people are saying they are applying strings to different fields. That means funding is drying up. 2) No new blood: they are quoting all the same people as 10 years
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by arcanus 10y ago
* The share of GDP generated by America’s 100 biggest companies rose from about 33% in 1994 to 46% in 2013. * The five largest banks account for 45% of banking assets, up from 25% in 2000. * About 30% of global foreign direct investment (FD
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by arcanus 10y ago
If we did, it is not likely that the strong scaling is perfect.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> it's not even remotely reasonable. What is more scary: I exclusively write LaTeX equations in emails, raw to my colleagues. We have all been working with it for so long it is a native language. Math does funny stuff to your brain
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by arcanus 10y ago
> how little auditing goes on Companies see Risk Desks, QA, etc. as 'cost centers', and try to keep these budgets down. Risk adjusted, they are massive profit centers. In addition to the actual $$ they save in fines, and stock
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by arcanus 10y ago
Agreed. At the same time, those cultures were objectively 'worse'. They were xenophobic. They were sexist. They were racist. They were superstitious. Disruption happens at the level of nations. The USA has reinvented itself many t
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by arcanus 10y ago
> I'm as patriotic as the next American, but if the Chinese start making better products and we start copying them for a change is that really a bad thing No, it would be a great thing. Competition is always good, that is practica
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by arcanus 10y ago
I read this as implying GS has decided the software has no value.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> totally broke. I would be absolutely shocked if he doesn't have 10MM stashed away somewhere. No longer a billionare? Sure. But broke, no. Furthermore, he could easily net several million a year just in speaking and consulting fee
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by arcanus 10y ago
Fun article. > "That being said, this optimization seems to run 4-5x faster on CPU than GPU." I'm guessing it is a question of throughput. GPUs are becoming almost like vector processors, and so if you do not 'feed th
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by arcanus 10y ago
Completely agree with the above. > there's only a small handful of martial arts that actually work in applied person-to-person combat Even MMA, which is billed as a sorting of martial art's effectiveness, has substantial rules
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by arcanus 10y ago
I think you are over-selling the internet's contribution. The growth of MMA has been the real driver. UFC1 (and even PRIDE, a bit) was originally billed as a 'meeting of martial arts styles', where different disciplines could
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Modern AI researchers are like people trying to invent flying machines without the formulas of aerodynamics An apt analogy, given that flying machines were designed by individuals without a robust understanding of fluid mechanics.
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by arcanus 10y ago
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Mosquitoes are the main food source of some animals, which leads them to die out. Then those animals are the food source of other animals, etc. etc.. Actually, several biologists believe the impact would be minimal, or even beneficial:
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by arcanus 10y ago
You seem bullish on ARM and dismissive of Intel or AMD, not sure why. NVIDIA is certainly ruling the roost because of CUDA+deep learning, but advantages in chips don't tend to last, and I do not see why this time would be any different
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by arcanus 10y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that a shrinking population might also result in large-scale technological growth? Scarcity often results in innovation. A finite resource like labor will result in higher salaries due to competition and innova
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by arcanus 10y ago
> re-negotiate the patent cross-licensing agreements with Intel I've always wondered why intel does not buy AMD... is it just because of an expected anti-trust lawsuit? With Nvidia, ARM, IBM, it does not seem that a monopoly in x86
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by arcanus 10y ago
I've been recently reading reports from some of my banking friends (and actually chatted with some folks I know at AMD) because I'm curious about AMD's turnaround. Even just last year AMD looked to be in very dire straights,
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by arcanus 10y ago
Post-scarsity, I can't help but be excited at the fact the people will work on what they really want, instead of what they are pushed towards for $$ reasons.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> speculation on their gains in the HPC and "deep learning" I think this will be the battleground; see intel MIC for another big sillicon trying to edge in. I agree that CUDA/cuDNN is far ahead, but do you think they can m
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Most people don't realize just how much AMD has turned around the past year. I've been recently reading stock reports from some of my banking friends (and actually chatted with some staff at AMD) because I'm curious abou
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by arcanus 10y ago
> He is probably smarter than all the professors there. That is not a good perspective to go into a learning experience with. I hope he does not arrive with that expectation. While I agree that Ivy league is a nice signalling indicator,
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by arcanus 10y ago
Fascinating info! However, why would you ever inherit the debt? Does this also include the deceased's assets?
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by arcanus 10y ago
I've not heard of a modern country where debt is inherited by the children. However, you said, 'estate', which can be sent into receivership due to defaulting on loans. So your assets may be seized before they are transferred

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