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by bufo 6y ago
People have been saying that for years and keep getting it wrong. There is no evidence whatsoever that current x86-64 chips will do better. The polar opposite of SPECint2006 is stuff like Speedometer 2.0, where Apple chips still crush it h
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by bufo 6y ago
1Blocker works well!
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by bufo 6y ago
See this thread https://twitter.com/wightmanr/status/1309583916362117120
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by bufo 6y ago
That's because of the improved memory bandwidth. See https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
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by bufo 6y ago
Nvidia nerfed at the software level the FP16 performance to disincentivize people from using this card as a TITAN / datacenter ML card replacement.
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After 10 years, the “Fenn treasure” has finally been found(arstechnica.com)
3 points by bufo 6y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 6y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the point of my comment. Keep in mind the point of the original article: "For a language famed for its terseness, Haskell it turns out, isn’t as terse as expected - it’s average size of source code
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by bufo 6y ago
The actual fastest Haskell programs are here: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... These are the ones which are used for benchmark results. The only fairly idiomatic ones (no pointers, no mal
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by bufo 6y ago
Have people actually looked at the code? You can’t treat the benchmarks game code as a simple black box. Most implementations look like C regardless of the language, eg. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmark
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Imperial College Covid-19 simulation code open sourced(twitter.com)
2 points by bufo 6y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 7y ago
I've been enjoying https://albumoftheyear.org (a critic and user review aggregator) to find new music. It has some blind spots, for which @tedgioia ( http://tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2019.html ) can help.
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AOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letter(theverge.com)
9 points by bufo 7y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 7y ago
Here's a real time raytracer I wrote with first person movement to move around the black hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqnRs_xTWQ&feature=youtu.be https://github.com/fernand/schwarzsch
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by bufo 7y ago
Go’s compiler is not at all optimized for generating fast floating point instructions like AVX and its very cumbersome to add any kind of intrinsics. This might not matter for light games but an issue when you want to simply switch to wide
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US Commerce Dept. proposes vast new export control restrictions on AI(twitter.com)
8 points by bufo 8y ago|8 comments
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Homelessness Spending Comparison for SF, NY, and LA(medium.com)
4 points by bufo 8y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 8y ago
Reminder that Lenovo has been struggling with quality control lately (they're not the only ones) https://www.ultrabookreview.com/21014-dr-servicelove-learned... . It's really frustrating to read glowing reviews, bu
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Password breach teaches Reddit that, yes, phone-based 2FA is that bad(arstechnica.com)
4 points by bufo 8y ago|0 comments
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Human Values: A Quick Primer(medium.com)
1 points by bufo 9y ago|0 comments
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PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware(arstechnica.com)
3 points by bufo 9y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 9y ago
Again: no one cares about CAPTCHA in the deep learning world compared to other more challenging benchmarks. I wouldn’t be surprised that many optimizations could be made with ANY kind of effort put into it. Still waiting for Vicarious to go
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by bufo 9y ago
Looks like Bret Victor's paragraph was removed from the page? It still talks about "6 principal investigators" but lists 5.
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Upspin: A framework for naming everyone's everything(upspin.io)
5 points by bufo 9y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing Political Polarization on Twitter(theoutgroup.org)
9 points by bufo 10y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 10y ago
About Drake's equation: https://xkcd.com/384/
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Terrapattern: a visual search tool for satellite imagery(terrapattern.com)
44 points by bufo 10y ago|21 comments
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by bufo 11y ago
How are you thinking about latency in an environment where there's a waterfall of Now function calls? Will Now functions calling over Now functions naturally get cached on the same server?
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Deep learning solution for the Netflix prize(karthkk.wordpress.com)
3 points by bufo 11y ago|0 comments
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Diagnosing Heart Diseases with Deep Neural Networks(irakorshunova.github.io)
2 points by bufo 11y ago|0 comments
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by bufo 11y ago
What's the battery life you get?

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