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by dagmx 2y ago
To your last point: it’s neither the language nor the packages but rather it’s the ABI. Python isn’t fully ABI stable (though it’s improved greatly) so you can’t just intermix compiled dependencies between different versions of Python. This
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by dagmx 2y ago
Anything where the language frontend isn’t tied to the ABI compatibility of the artifacts I think. They can mix versions/editions without worry. I think it’s a larger problem with interpreted languages where all the source has to be in
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by dagmx 2y ago
I disagree with this entire comment. The Python community consisted of tons of developers including very wealthy companies. At what point in the last few years would you even say they became “rich enough” to do the migration? Because people
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Python famously has a community that does NOT adapt to changes well. See the Python 2 to 3 transition.
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The analogy doesn’t quite work because the product isn’t the processor, it’s the Mac or the GeForce card. In that sense, both NVIDIA and Apple are doing the same thing.
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They’re 3 SoC designs and a binned variant of each. That’s different than 6 very different SoCs as your comment says. Each tier has different capabilities, ie the pro is not a binned version of the max and the base is not a binned version o
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by dagmx 2y ago
They literally just released it in two more countries this week. So no.
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That’s my take away too, even though I’m invested myself. The discussion around them has transcended into mythology. Imho part of it is because GPUs themselves are so foreign to many people as a development target and so they’re not really
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by dagmx 2y ago
Here’s a list of projects https://www.khronos.org/ If I were to categorize the successful ones: glTF, KTX, SPIR-V, OpenGL and its variants, WebGL People will say Vulkan but it has the same level of adoption as OpenCL, and h
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Both 1 and 2. I haven’t done much with 3 as OpenCL is effectively a dead api at this point. 1 was definitely a lot easier to work with than 2. CUDA is easier than both but I don’t think I hit anything I could do in CUDA that I couldn’t do i
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by dagmx 2y ago
Not with Rocm since I’ve moved my personal stack to NVIDIA (for rendering) and Macs for day to day use. I did write quite a bit of OpenCL prior to that on Intel/AMd/NVIDIA, both for training and for general rendering though, and d
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I agree the library situation for OpenCL never stood up. Khronos tried at the start but then lost steam. It’s one of the projects I think the Khronos group mishandled the most unfortunately.
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Please, this is just revisionism. There’s nothing inherent to AlexNet that relied on NVIDIA hardware or even software. It was just what happened to be available and most straightforward at the time. To say it wouldn’t have been possible on
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by dagmx 2y ago
What if I told you that the rest of the context was about custom cores.
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I agree ROCm was a mess and only recently is even really usable. That said ROCm is quite a recent thing borne out of acknowledging that OpenCL 2 was a disaster. OpenCL 1 had a reasonable shot and was gaining adoption but 2 scuppered it.
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I was around then too and people forget that AMD also had GPU compute APIs. The difference is AMD killed theirs to use OpenCL and NVIDIA kept CUDA around as well.
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AMD had GPU compute APIs at the time as well. They also used to contribute GPUs (albeit in much smaller quantities). They just ended up killing them in favor of OpenCL which then withered on the vine. NVIDIA absolutely contributed to the fo
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by dagmx 2y ago
But that could apply to any of the GPU manufacturers. CUDA made for an easier ecosystem but if it didn’t exist it would have been any of the other APIs. The first transformer models didn’t even use CUDA and CUDA didn’t have mass ecosystem i
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by dagmx 2y ago
LLMs absolutely did not emerge because of NVIDIA. you’re the one imho who is mistaking correlation with causality. The first transformer models were developed at Google. NVIDIA were the card du jour for accelerating it in the years since an
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The majority of those different chips use the same cores though as each other, and vary mostly in packaging or binning.
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They do mixed page mode depending on the program running.
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NVIDIA don’t have custom cores
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This is both simultaneously surprising (given how long they’ve been in the perfect space to acquire) and unsurprising (given that they’re a perfect fit) Really looking forward to what comes out of this.
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Some do, but a lot will have their firmware actually do the translation into other compute types that align better with the hardware.
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Other hardware vendors absolutely do the same. Geometry shaders are poor performers on several other vendors for precisely the same reason
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The quality of wonder dynamics is still significantly far away from handling more complex real world shots, or more fine grained movement. It’ll certainly help but the death of manual tracking is greatly exaggerated.
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by dagmx 2y ago
You’re comparing cameras against different product segments. Laptop cameras are significantly smaller in all dimensions than phone cameras. Most laptop cameras are 1-4MP. Most are 720p (1MP), and a few are 1080p (2MP). The previous MacBook
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by dagmx 2y ago
Coolness is about being comfortable and confident being yourself these days. Not just outward shows of “coolness” That’s apples brand and has always been. It’s the “you’re weird, you’re quirky, you’re different, you’re you” of being cool, n
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The story is you ask your phone and it tells you. The rest of the details are irrelevant to it. You don’t need to know how it happens. And that’s fair about the Ubuntu ad. I think the issue is the Ubuntu ad isn’t trying to be anything much.
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Which iPhone ad can you point me to that doesn’t have a story around a feature at the least? Also since you bring up familiarity, does that Ubuntu ad tell you which version it’s about? What’s it telling even a seasoned Ubuntu veteran? And l

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