breakds

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   by breakds 3y ago

   The only thing that I carry all day besides my laptop is a flash disk with ventoy in it.
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   by breakds 3y ago

   Curious on "as research tools" - do you use it to manage research papers?
3. 33.▲
   by breakds 3y ago

   I am curious which market you are talking about and how do you get or pay for the data? Thanks!
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   by breakds 3y ago

   I had two successful hires who just graduate from college, with no machine learning experience (major in accounting and civil engineering). With 3 months training by working on real world projects, they become quite fine machine learning en
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   by breakds 3y ago

   Just in case anyone uses NixOS, the following simple piece of code just works for me, and I spent no time setting up a new NixOS machine that enables remove desktop with RDP: https://github.com/nixvital/vital-modules&#x
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   by breakds 3y ago

   Not defending anyone, just saying. - If I have $1000 I might choose to spend $2 for a gambling. - If the trader have $10M already, it might be reasonable for him/her to spend $20k gambling on some rumors. This guy could be someone who
7. 37.▲
   by breakds 3y ago

   It is not only about computation, but also the communication bandwidth and memory, especially in training large models. The top consumer GPUs e.g. 3090/4090 still cannot beat H100 in this area even if a lot of techniques are applied.
8. 38.▲
   by breakds 3y ago

   I bought a google nest hub on my office desk specifically for having meetings with Google Meet. Yesterday it tells me I can no longer do that after Sep 28. WTF.
9. 39.▲
   by breakds 3y ago

   You don't have to stop working. There are many interesting jobs that do not pay very well. Having a few million in your pocket give you the privilege to consider those jobs.
10. 40.▲
    by breakds 3y ago

    There are quite some wealthy people who happens to understand technology well and use and contribute to many open source tools.
11. 41.▲
    by breakds 3y ago

    NixOS and never look back.
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    by breakds 3y ago

    My homelab has 1) a NAS/Server with 10700 + 12 TB HDD x 15 forming a ZFS, with 128GB of RAM. 2) A pair of machine learning servers, each of them with a threadripper 3955wx, 256GB RAM and two 4090s 3) A more powerful machine learning se
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    by breakds 3y ago

    Or if you are using Nix use https://github.com/nixvital/ml-pkgs outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }@inputs: { overlays = { dev = nixpkgs.lib.composeManyExtensions [ inputs.ml-pkgs.overlays.torch-fami
14. 44.▲
    by breakds 3y ago

    For flake.nix, you add that to the inputs, for example, call it `nixpkgs-old`, and then reference the package of interest with: `nixpkgs-old.legacyPacakges.linux-x86_64.node`, or something like below let pkgs = import nixpkgs-old {
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    by breakds 3y ago

    I use Nix to manage my machine learning development environment: https://github.com/nixvital/ml-pkgs Sure after the building the binary is HUGE. But I only have to build it once and cache it so that all my workstations
16. 46.▲
    by breakds 3y ago

    That is the basic version. The EDU version which opens more API/interface to the user cost much more. Also training a whole-body (quadruped + robotic arm with gripper) to do something like picking strawberries remains challenging today
17. 47.▲
    by breakds 3y ago

    Have been using flakes in production for more than 2 years - I think it is stable enough for daily use.
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    by breakds 4y ago

    This is very true. There need to be a Nix guy in the team to bootstrap and be the evangelist. My experience is that in one week everyone gets very familiar with the workflow, and in 3 months all of my team become experienced Nix users.
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    by breakds 4y ago

    I have been managing all my existing and new projects with nix for a few years and never look back. Guaranteed to build and run on all my machines. nix flake new --template "github:nixvital/flake-templates#cpp-starter-kit" my
20. 50.▲
    by breakds 4y ago

    After reading the title, I was thinking "Agreed, adding type to your code definitely make it more readable".
21. 51.▲
    by breakds 4y ago

    Same here. I do not have any opinion towards systemd, but using it together with NixOS is really simple and hassle-free.
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    by breakds 4y ago

    I have a bunch of 3090s in the garage for machine learning almost 24x7. The garage has no AC at all. None of them have failed yet.
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    by breakds 4y ago

    Those programs are most useful in teaching you how to self-teach, which seems like a skill that you have already mastered and excel at. The degree can definitely make your resume look better, but past work experience and projects speak much
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    by breakds 4y ago

    I have been there. The progress was rather slow until I started to use NixOS. The learning curve is a bit steep but is very rewarding. It is not specific to self-hosting stuff, but as a side effect it makes self hosting super easy (declarat
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    by breakds 4y ago

    Just want to say that filerun is a really good option for self-host NAS with WebDAV support as well as a nice web app. Would definitely recommend. Even though you use filerun to host files, you can still point Lychee/Plex etc to the ph
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    by breakds 4y ago

    But in reality, it seems that working on something that interests you, is a privilege.
27. 57.▲
    by breakds 4y ago

    Not an apple fan, but I cannot be separated from my iPad (and the pencil) for this particular use case.
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    by breakds 4y ago

    Which is why I am using Nix to maintain my development for each machine learning research project.
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    by breakds 4y ago

    Yes it by default build everything from source. However, most of the packages will have binary cache on https://cache.nixos.org/ so that your installation or update will download them instead of building them. Also you can
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    by breakds 4y ago

    The thesis is a master piece, highly recommended!