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by arcanus 4y ago
> I think we should get away with the 'net impact' of 10x engineers because that's too contextual Disagree. My experience is that 10x engineers ARE inherently contextual. When we are talking about the cream of the crop, th
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by arcanus 4y ago
Von Neumann and Einstein's contributions to humanity are incomparable to a 10x engineer. I don't think metrics such as productivity (which 10x crudely approximates) can begin to address this level of innovation. Both unquestionabl
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by arcanus 4y ago
This sounds like the qualifying examination. In my phd experience in the USA we had oral qualifying examinations which involved whiteboard derivations. The thesis defense after writing was really mostly focused on probing the results in the
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by arcanus 4y ago
130k might correspond to just 3.25 million a year with a 4% withdrawal rate. While this is a nice nest egg, it's hardly ridiculous levels of wealth. 4% is often considered a 'safe' rate of withdrawal in retirement.
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The Office Monsters Are Trying to Claw Their Way Back to 2019(nytimes.com)
11 points by arcanus 4y ago|3 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
> Like many examples of Norse savagery, not proven to ever have happened. This is a curious comment. There is real historical evidence for Viking savagery and human sacrifice. Humans are notoriously violent throughout history. It would p
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by arcanus 4y ago
> there were two systems in China that had recently broken this barrier Allegedly broken this barrier. There is a reason that science is conducted in the open, in a reproducible and traceable manner. Those systems might not function pr
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Frontier supercomputer debuts as world’s fastest, breaking exascale barrier(ornl.gov)
2 points by arcanus 4y ago|0 comments
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US rushes to catch up with China in supercomputer race(ft.com)
1 points by arcanus 4y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
I disagree. There has always appeared to me to be a wide variety of beard sizes and shapes. I know men who cannot grow a beard. I can only grow a thin, straight beard, and I have friends with thick beards that curl around.
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by arcanus 4y ago
I'm a man. My outside observation is that women are frequently very judgemental about the decisions other women make about breastfeeding, diapers, and overall parenting strategies. My wife had a great deal of trouble getting our first
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by arcanus 4y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... On a mor
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The rebellion against the return to the office is getting serious(wsj.com)
99 points by arcanus 4y ago|167 comments
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by arcanus 4y ago
This is known as wage compression. It is occurring (typical in hot job markets) and has many of the problems you noted. Good indicator of a distorted labor market.
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by arcanus 4y ago
When I became a tech lead, I found "The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change By Camille Fournier" very useful. There is a chapter on 'being a tech lead'.
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For most Americans, owning a home is now a distant dream(cbsnews.com)
31 points by arcanus 5y ago|15 comments
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by arcanus 5y ago
Anyone want to weight in on how this falls legally? Price fixing can be a felony, and result in jail time[1]. Not sure if this falls under that, or similar anti-trust laws. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/bus
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by arcanus 5y ago
I disagree. The website you linked to shows speed-ups on MI250X between 1.6x and 3x higher than A100. The theoretical memory bandwidth speed-up between MI250X and A100 is only 1.6X (3.2 TB/s vs 2.0 TB/s). Thus, I'd say they a
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Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in(nytimes.com)
213 points by arcanus 5y ago|234 comments
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by arcanus 5y ago
Reading this, I came away feeling the only difference between this and other open world games is the density of activities. That is not particularly notable, particularly given we do not know how large the world will be.
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AMD Announces Instinct MI200 Accelerator Family: Taking Servers to Exascale(anandtech.com)
5 points by arcanus 5y ago|1 comments
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The AMD Instinct MI200 Series Accelerator(youtube.com)
11 points by arcanus 5y ago|1 comments
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by arcanus 5y ago
> Schools should work to produce well rounded educated productive citizens for the community. Agreed, but who defines this? Parents deserve input, as key stakeholders and as taxpayers.
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by arcanus 5y ago
The key quote for me was, "So if we compare it to the standard index, the similarity that we see is that the United States, overall, total corruption is much lower than in China, and that’s totally expected. But what the U.C.I. is able
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by arcanus 5y ago
A classical-based zettascale computer could be impossible and might be irresponsible given the massive power required. My bet is Intel will achieve this with greatly reduced precision for ML training (FP8 or something) and declare 'vic
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by arcanus 5y ago
While possible, 'official' supercomputer rankings are independently by the top500 organization. It's entirely possible this is nothing more than Chinese propagada designed to undermine the imminent Exascale success from the U
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The End of China’s Rise(foreignaffairs.com)
5 points by arcanus 5y ago|2 comments
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by arcanus 5y ago
In AMD land, `rocm-smi` is like `top` for your gpus. Very similar in capabilities and functionality to NVIDIA.
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Weird Muons May Point to New Particles and Forces of Nature(scientificamerican.com)
7 points by arcanus 5y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 5y ago
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a famous sci-fi that directly mimics feudalism and the church after nuclear war-- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

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