bcatanzaro

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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   Matt Pharr’s series of blogs on ISPC are worth reading: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   They are using a perchlorate to increase safety?
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   Let us never forget that Elizabeth Holmes’ father was a VP at Enron. https://www.masterresource.org/enron-legacy/chris-holmes-enr...
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   A lot of people here are assuming that NVIDIA doesn’t do 1:1s because Jensen doesn’t do them. This is wrong. I’m Org3 (Jensen is Org1, so I’m one level below Jensen but don’t report to him). I have regular scheduled 1:1s with my Org2 manage
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   I don’t know why this journalist says the industry needs to “level” with consumers about the death of Moore’s law. NVIDIA has been announcing the end of Moore’s law at least since 2017 [1]. [1] https://www.techspot.com/news&
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   Also possibly upgrading the wiring in your house or office.
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   I didn't know Long COVID could cause multiple organ failure and death.
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   I'd say the anecdote about Sarah Palin saying "I can see Russia from my house" is related. Plenty of Americans think she actually said it even though it came from SNL. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sa
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   by bcatanzaro 3y ago

   The article states that storing 10kWh of electricity with this will take 45m3 of concrete, weighing 110 megagrams. One Tesla Powerwall takes 0.127m3, weighs 0.114 megagrams, and stores 13.5 kWh. Now of course the attraction of this energy s
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    Water is also neurotoxic in large quantities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    Oh man. We’re still dealing with the .heic debacle where you can’t use photos from your iPhone with many applications (like Gmail) unless you manually convert them to .jpg So crazy to me that Apple and Google fight over image formats like t
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    I find the description of alcohol as something that "stupefies" rather reductive. People are often louder, more expressive and more interesting when they've had a drink. The opposite of catatonic. Now it's true that over
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    I have wondered this myself and I think the answer is that American universities want to discriminate based on wealth. They actually want the richest kids possible going to their schools. Their business model depends on it.
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    The people who oppose nuclear power always point to the construction cost and long delays. BUT. The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so m
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    Does anyone know whether this training run used FP16 or BF16? This GPU has tensor cores which dramatically accelerate DL - if they are being used. The post doesn’t mention it.
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    by bcatanzaro 3y ago

    We can't even keep normal roads free of potholes, how would we ever maintain electrified highways. Also the waste inherent to inductive charging would eat in to the carbon emissions benefits we're hoping to get from electric cars
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    $5M penalty seems very small.
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    The figures are beautiful!
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    I’m not sure if I can think, despite having a PhD in EECS. We humans prize our ability to think very highly but it’s a nebulous concept. I believe these models will get much better at simulating “thinking” in the next few years, and we so
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    This was an extremely enjoyable read, thanks to the author for taking the time to write this up.
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    Queen of the skies. :hugging_face:
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    So if it's unlikely to lose a Google account due to bad policies, why can't Google afford a proper ombudsman-led process for arbitration?
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    This article has aged very poorly. It's hard to look at LLMs and argue they don't have reasoning capability.
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    I’ve never seen “omnivore” used negatively before. Personally, I love fake-bleeding plant based impossible burger. Tastes great. Better for the planet. I am sad that vegans have decided it’s gross and wrong.
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and most recently Kazakhstan have switched their namesake languages from Cyrillic to Latin alphabets. Some of these languages have been written in Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic over the years, but there&#
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    I think it's actually a political protest. Ukrainian more-or-less shares an alphabet with Russian. A number of former Soviet countries that in the past shared an alphabet with Russian have been abandoning Cyrillic and moving to the Lat
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    This will never happen, but I wish we could go the other direction and write Polish and Czech/Slovak in Cyrillic. They would be so much easier to read! SZCZ is only one letter!
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    I'm passionate about bread baking. Today I tried baking a challah with the tangzhong method. I think it turned out great.
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    I always thought Windows ME was the Wii U of Windows. Microsoft was expecting people to line up around the block and fork over $100 for Windows ME and everyone was just confused.
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    by bcatanzaro 4y ago

    I don’t think it’s obvious. European culture has been dominated for 2000 years by the teachings of Jesus, who said: “Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.