david-gpu

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by david-gpu 5d ago
What looks like a peripheral issue to you is somebody else's central goal. And vice versa.
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by david-gpu 5d ago
There is a niche market for hand-knit sweaters, and they do have some fervent followers, but most of us prefer the price and convenience of machine-made fabrics. Just like most of us do not write assembly by hand any more, most of the time.
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by david-gpu 6d ago
Humans will hallucinate misinformation and state it with confidence. They stochastically parrot their training data without any real understanding. Cool trick, but no true reasoning is happening.
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by david-gpu 6d ago
> Most say who say animals can't grieve are in the same boat with those who used to say human babies don't feel pain. My dad was an anesthesiologist, and what he told me is rather different from that meme. The reason was that
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by david-gpu 7d ago
Your company or team has a terrible culture. It is not like that everywhere.
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by david-gpu 8d ago
For what it is worth, if you want your withdrawals to last for decades, then you are limited to around a yearly inflation-adjusted cap of around 3% of the original principal per year, gross of taxes, if you invest in low-cost passive index
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by david-gpu 8d ago
I don't know who is down voting you. AFAIK IEEE 754:2008 does require support for subnormals. You can optionally have modes that flush them to zero, but you must support subnormals. I haven't done any work on this stuff since
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by david-gpu 8d ago
> There's an obvious bias in focusing on retirees though. I mean, the whole notion of retirement exists for a reason. Go on, please. Whatever argument you make, please account for early retirees as well. > if we can feed and s
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by david-gpu 8d ago
> My argument is that most people only veg out because they are tired of a hectic work life, but if given the chance to coast for a long time they would find productive work voluntarily and be more inclined to share their work We have
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by david-gpu 9d ago
Yes, I wanted defaults as well, particularly a default context and command queue. Design by committee is a real phenomenon. And people in a committee know that, but they are also helpless.
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by david-gpu 9d ago
I wrote a reply linking to some recent polls, but deleted it in favor of this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. "
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by david-gpu 9d ago
>> Win32 is the most stable abi on the Linux desktop. > Dead wrong [...] if I want to release a binary _without relying_ on Win32 Then you are not using the Win32 ABI, are you?
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by david-gpu 9d ago
> The reason I'm sticking with CUDA is because it's by far the most convenient API to use, without nonsense like 50-liners to alloc memory or the need to manage descriptors, bindings, queue families, etc. I was there when the
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by david-gpu 10d ago
I agree with your moderation in general, but this time I need some help to understand what did I say that was nationalistic. People from different nationalities are broadly approaching this subject of international cooperation according to
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by david-gpu 10d ago
On day-to-day interactions with my coworkers, I had no problem working with Americans. At the same time, a lot of them voted in favor of foreign policies that I very strongly disagree with. Both can be true at the same time, and the former
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by david-gpu 10d ago
Here are two quotes from Statistics Canada, to provide some food for thought. "In 2021, more than 8.3 million people, or almost one-quarter (23.0%) of the population, were, or had ever been, a landed immigrant or permanent resident in
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by david-gpu 10d ago
Portugal is not part of the Benelux. Poland is not part of the Western Union. Ireland is an island. Yet here we are, because we have enough in common that we would rather cooperate than compete.
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by david-gpu 10d ago
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by david-gpu 10d ago
Further cooperation between the EU and Canada has been talked about for a decade or so (see CETA). Just because it is news to you, it doesn't mean it is news.
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by david-gpu 10d ago
> Canada at its core is still British, Scottish, and French Have you been to Canada any time in the past few decades? Around half of the population of Toronto, Canada's largest city, is foreign-born. And I promise you it is not pr
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by david-gpu 13d ago
Isn't vendor financing a common business practice to finance the cost of equipment? What makes it nefarious in this instance?
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by david-gpu 14d ago
> It's a first amendment protection FWIW: Ziggy, the developer, is based in the UK.
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by david-gpu 14d ago
Trademarks are lost when they are not defended. That is entirely separate from fair use in copyright law.
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by david-gpu 14d ago
> But isn't it much more fruitful and interesting to form an argument for it? If he is still in the context here: is there something about Baudelaire's critique you were discussing originally that has helped you arrive at th
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by david-gpu 14d ago
My opinion is that the field will adapt. AI will not spell doom for mathematics. On the contrary, it is the beginning of a new era. Math is having its Deep Fritz moment, just as computer science is going through the same. Some folks are str
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by david-gpu 14d ago
I do not want to make him sound unreasonable. He is a brilliant man. But I also think that he is a bit shell shocked, much like other luminaries in the past have been when confronted with rapid technological development, so I wanted to high
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by david-gpu 14d ago
> It is not about what a "failed mathematician" would do, or if "LLM can only record what already existed" This is what I was alluding to: I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems i
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by david-gpu 14d ago
You have expressed a few different ideas, so I will address them separately. > It's not about whether the conjectures themselves are interesting or not, or whether people simply have enough time. Tao seems to think otherwise, if I
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by david-gpu 14d ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49664505
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by david-gpu 14d ago
I am very specifically addressing what I have read Terrence Tao say on AI and mathematics, as that is the subject of this submission. Are we on the same page?

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