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by david-gpu 3mo ago
All these apps rely on the data provided by OpenStreetMap (OSM). It is a Wikipedia-like project where anybody can contribute edits. https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
Thank you. I like the comparison of "meditation" with "sport": it is not all the same, even if there are commonalities between some disciplines. It is rare to see laypeople discuss some of the different types and which o
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
The privacy policy indicates that they track you and share your data to ad networks like Meta. Yikes.
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
I understand the frustration of these unmet expectations. There are good technical reasons why each of these things don't work the way you would like them to. E.g. adding preemption to GPUs is doable, but it is not cheap, and simply ki
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
That is largely what drivers do: work around hardware bugs. It's the industry's dirty secret. To be fair: the hardware is enormously complex, and the drivers much less so.
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
How do you determine that the bugs you run into are located in the Nvidia drivers and libraries? Way back when I wrote the OpenCL driver at Qualcomm, we would frequently get bug reports from customers complaining about our code. During my t
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
"I am fine, thank you. How are you?"
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
Some folks are not going to like what I am about to say, but what I do is write down as much information that I think may be relevant as possible, trying to avoid leading the witness with any of my preconceived ideas of what may be going on
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
Last week I went to a highly-specialized tertiary clinic about further treatment for a rare medical condition that I was diagnosed and treated for as a child. The two very specialized doctors I met there confirmed a diagnostic mistake that
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
For people who are already in academia and want to be more academic? I don't get it. This notion that Masters are for academia is so contrary to my experience altogether. They are not even associated with research, in my experience.
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
What are PhDs for, then?
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
A Master's degree is hardly academia, is it? A PhD is the starting point for a career in research, and even that does not necessarily imply academia, either.
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
A Master's thesis is not for somebody aiming for academia. It is a requirement for graduation. Rather different from a PhD.
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by david-gpu 3mo ago
You don't need billions of parameters for that, precisely because the risk of being stuck at a local minimum decreases exponentially with the number of parameters. Right?
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
There has been an extension of sexism over the past few decades, where ever increasing swaths of people find it socially acceptable to treat a large cohort of the population as a uniform evil to be mitigated. And it is not limited to a few
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Congratulations to everyone who celebrates Father's Day. And for those who had a particularly difficult childhood, for those who may still struggle with the trauma of abuse and neglect, here are some resources you may find useful: * &q
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Isn't that due to a lack of leadership, rather than a problem with teamwork itself? Somebody has to be ultimately in charge and willing to put a stop to endless debate.
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Not a single mention of the work on limb regeneration by Professor Michael Levin's lab at Tufts? https://as.tufts.edu/biology/tufts-center-regenerative-and-d...
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Yup. I bet they haven't tried scooping the crema and tasting it by itself. Since doing that, I now scoop and throw away the crema every time.
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
If you are looking for an easier routine, have you tried the OXO rapid brewer to make "soup"? It is as easy to operate as an Aeropress, and it makes a really yummy concentrated cup. A typical recipe is something like 20g coffee an
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
"Cold brew" means that the coffee was brewed with "cold" water. Whether or not it is served cold is orthogonal -- iced coffee is usually brewed hot.
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Oversimplifying: If global temperatures went down when greenhouse gases went up, it would falsify our current climate models. But we don't see that, do we? Denying climate change for decades is what brought us to the immense challenge
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
They are popular for cargo bikes; picture a parent with a couple of kids, or a big grocery run. They are also a great way of commuting without having to worry about being sweaty when you arrive, if you have a long commute. Lastly, they are
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Drivers kill and severely injure people at rates higher than all other violent crime combined. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240086517?hl=en-...
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
A pedal-assist e-bike with a 500 Watt motor and an easily bypassed speed governor looks like a bicycle, it is pedaled like a bicycle, and yet it is unsuitable for a bicycle lane or a path shared with pedestrians.
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
Alan Wallace wrote a short essay on this subject titled The Taboo of Subjectivity. It is available online for free, if you are curious.
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
What do you consider Android to be, if not a competitor of iOS?
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
DRAM optimized for CPU usage looks very different from DRAM optimized for GPU usage. You are leaving a lot performance on the table when you have a unified memory architecture. It makes sense in some situations, but it is not a silver bulle
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
I can relate. Working in floating point hardware design gave me an irrational distaste for it. The horrors!
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by david-gpu 4mo ago
We don't have anything to measure consciousness generally. We don't even have a broad consensus on what consciousness is . And because of that we can't discern whether X is conscious for most values of X , including but n

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