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A GPU port of DOOM (running on ROCm)(github.com)
3 points by atq2119 2y ago|2 comments
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by atq2119 2y ago
They're fine with cloud. But... I suppose most of our most sensitive documents are in Microsoft's SharePoint anyway. Effectively sharing our code with them via Copilot is actually comparatively less problematic. Personally, my mai
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by atq2119 2y ago
That seems awfully optimistic, given what Sam Altman is getting away with transforming the governing structure of OpenAI.
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by atq2119 2y ago
The word they were really looking for was "favorable".
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by atq2119 2y ago
Many people like to think they're on the same team as winners, even if those winners couldn't care less or even have contempt for them. Acknowledging the naked truth of power is too depressing for them. See also: Sports, politics.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Then you use `git gui`, which is part of the git distribution itself, or `tig` if TUIs are your thing. I have a key binding for `git commit --squash=%(commit)` in my tig config, so I can interactively select lines or hunks to stage and then
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by atq2119 2y ago
Heck, I'm convinced even the upper class benefits long term from the kind of investment you're talking about, for a bunch of reasons. To name just two examples: Technological progress happens more smoothly when there are mass mark
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by atq2119 2y ago
We are all engaged in this "exercise in manipulation of myth" in this very discussion, and so you either missed the point or are engaging in dishonest rhetoric intended to further your goals in this manipulation of myth. Out of th
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by atq2119 2y ago
> There is always a shortage of money. Because human desires are infinite and our resources are not. There is never a shortage of money at the level of overall society and governments because money is a purely social construct and we c
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by atq2119 2y ago
Correct. I think the one thing that is "owed", if that is even the right word, is that you don't knowingly put malicious software out there. But that's it.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Doesn't that argument make the fundamentally incorrect assumption that the space of produced output sequence has pockets where all output sequence with a certain prefix are incorrect? Design your output space in such way that every pre
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by atq2119 2y ago
Good. Now compare to OpenAI. Clearly what Meta is doing is better than OpenAI from the perspective of freedom and decentralization.
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's obviously false. If you know that the bias is 0.5, you can just pass the input stream through unmodified. You can also construct better codes for other biases.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Why would the expression 2^-2 pose a problem? There is no ambiguity there that requires operator precedence to resolve.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Should inciting others to commit crimes be in itself a crime? Certainly, if somebody influential enough does it, it has the potential to destabilize our society with catastrophic results.
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by atq2119 2y ago
The 90s internet comparison feels pretty apt to me. In both cases, it's a signal that a correction, maybe even a crash, is going to come due to massive over- and misinvestment. But like the 90s internet, it's likely going to be ex
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by atq2119 2y ago
Two points about the GPU comparison. Modern GPUs, including the 7900 XTX, have tensor cores which give higher TOPS, especially for smaller data formats like int8. Desktop GPUs are also driven to power levels and voltages are beyond peak eff
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by atq2119 2y ago
There may be problems in the implementation details depending on the university, but the general idea of TAs is a good one, for two primary reasons. One, in many fields, the more advanced you are, the harder it becomes to remember or even u
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by atq2119 2y ago
It is clearly outside of London, but an easy enough day trip by train. Since you brought up Paris, I'd compare it to Versailles.
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by atq2119 2y ago
All things equal, I do think tipping for normal service from people who are employees is messed up. Unfortunately, culture in many countries is to tip in certain situations, especially in restaurants, even for normal service. But just becau
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by atq2119 2y ago
That's Visa's normal service. Considering that exceptional is silly.
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by atq2119 2y ago
An alternative to the sibling comments: In this context, the notation 0.999... does not represent a process. It represents a fixed number. Which number? Well, if you reason through it you'll find that it has to be the same number as th
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by atq2119 2y ago
The trend seems to be going towards multiple decoder complexes. Recent designs from AMD and Intel do this. It makes sense to me: if the distance between branches is small, a 10-wide decode may be wasted anyway. Better to decode multiple bas
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's well known that performance doesn't scale linearly with power. Benchmarking incentives on PC have long pushed X86 vendors to drive their CPUs at points of the power/performance curve that make their chips look less effic
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's not exactly potential. The way I've heard it phrased is: hire for slope, not y-intercept. The trouble is that slope is even harder to judge than y-intercept.
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by atq2119 2y ago
On the one hand that's interesting, on the other hand eponyms are generally a bad idea. If you mention "Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit" the chances of being understood outside of a very specialized audience are far lower th
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by atq2119 2y ago
That's more than just slightly facetious. In a modern x86 CPU, the bulk of instructions are translated to micro-ops by fixed-function logic, and the micro-ops are executed directly. That's very far from interpretation. Some instru
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by atq2119 2y ago
Not GP, but a guaranteed source availability means users can fix issues themselves in the future if the original provider goes belly-up.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Here's a report of the actual experience one game developer had with bug reports on Windows vs. Linux, suggesting that having Linux support is useful: https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b&#x2F
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Most likely it really is better overall. Think of it this way: AMD is pretty good at hardware, so there's no reason to think that the raw difference in terms of flops is significant in either direction. It may go in AMD's favor so

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