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by davidmr 8y ago
I’m absolutely not defending academia as an industry. I did my time there, and I would never go back. To say that the overhead goes to flashy buildings and fat admin paychecks is a bit of a misrepresentation. Those buildings almost always h
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by davidmr 8y ago
I just moved from the USA to the UK. It was shocking how much better the consumer banking system is here. With 10 seconds of typing on my phone, I set up my standing rent payment to my landlord (which would have been too much money to use C
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by davidmr 8y ago
Serious question: are there any large (say >2,000,000) cities in western-style democracies (for example, Singapore is quite safe, but I think their system of government makes it a little easier to fight petty crime) in which the police r
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by davidmr 8y ago
I’m genuinely curious about who the target customers are for this platform. In terms of simple strategies (see signals A and B, fire order, wait for signal C, exit market, profit), there’s just no chance of a startup beating the established
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by davidmr 8y ago
I spent a year at a “Great Books” college whose program Adler helped found. It was a really amazing luxury to be able to spend so much time on it (I left after freshman year, so I only got through the Greeks). Ultimately, St John’s generate
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by davidmr 8y ago
The article is a little light on details, but seems cool nonetheless. I’d like to see more details on the tensorflow modifications they made for parallel computing. I’ve never had awesome results using distributed tf. The parameter server m
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World’s fastest computer breaks AI record(wired.com)
2 points by davidmr 8y ago|1 comments
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by davidmr 8y ago
I'm not 100% sure that this buys you a ton since the multinode training is still done with tensorflow clusters or horovod, so there's nothing new I can see (after all of 10 minutes of looking, so take that with a grain of salt) wi
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Intel open sources Nauta: multi-user, distributed environment for DL training(github.com)
2 points by davidmr 8y ago|1 comments
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by davidmr 8y ago
I just finished Virus Hunters of the CDC , a 1996 book written by a couple of CDC epidemiologists, one of which had led a couple of Ebola responses in (what was then) Zaire and CAR. (He was even on the team that named the disease for a riv
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by davidmr 8y ago
I wondered why the feed wasn’t as good these days; that’s really sad. He was really funny, and it was so unusual to associate humor with (in my experience) the most humorless branch of the federal government.
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by davidmr 8y ago
I’m not sure you understood. Regardless of whether they send out the helicopter, if they don’t take a report, the crime isn’t counted. You can’t say anything meaningful about whether crimes are getting more or less prevalent if your stats a
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by davidmr 8y ago
I agree, but I think I’ve put less thought into it than you have. Just because I tend to focus on research and low-latency infrastructure, I’ve been really happy with the container-first approach. I really like being able to deal with these
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by davidmr 8y ago
More than anything, I’m astonished that an article about k8s in Forbes of all places is both cogent and well-informed. There’s nothing in it that anyone who payed attention to Kubecon or k8s in the last couple years wouldn’t have known, but
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by davidmr 8y ago
Like any other thing the SEC would consider a security, it’s complicated and technical. The article refers to https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf as the SEC’s basis for considering how “coins”
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by davidmr 8y ago
“However, the Dragonfly teams were instructed that they were not permitted to discuss the issue directly with Brin or other members of Google’s senior leadership team, including Pichai, co-founder Larry Page, and legal chief Kent Walker.” I
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by davidmr 8y ago
They’d have to pay me a lot of money to do it, that’s for sure. I’d love to see the disaster recovery plans. Every major Lustre site I’m aware of has had a data loss “incident” at some point in their history. It’s possible AWS has it all fi
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by davidmr 8y ago
This was inevitable, and I’m sure the engineering from Amazon’s side is impressive because Lustre is an absolute beast to run well at scale, but I’m not sure how great an idea it is for most people. Coming from an academia HPC background an
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by davidmr 8y ago
Well that’s fair. If it’s all unknowable anyway, I’d be happy to know that. Anything that lessens the blogspam on the topic!
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by davidmr 8y ago
That’s true of any kind of success in any organization, yet there are still studies that show that certain types of traits indicate success at certain types of organizations, etc. Even in a general sense, I’d be happy if these types of conv
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by davidmr 8y ago
Maybe I’m just a grouch in general, but I pray for a time when we have sufficient data available that this ceaseless and monotonous drone of posts about whether remote work is the best thing since sliced bread or if it’s the 7th sign of the
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by davidmr 8y ago
Other than for people with limited mobility, can you help me understand why people think this is so? To me, it seems like evolution solved this problem for us when we became bipedal. It’s entirely possible (even likely) that I could just be
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by davidmr 8y ago
Purely out of curiosity, what jobs is your employer trying to fill that an intuitive understanding of said theorem is required? I took a lot of linear algebra and I can’t recall having covered it.
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by davidmr 8y ago
Here’s something I wrote in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222470 At least on the real big systems, most of our work was with a small number of research groups basically doing the same workflow: start y
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by davidmr 8y ago
I definitely agree with you. I’ve been paid more or less to run GPFS over the last 15 years or so (finally free of it for the last few months), and while I hate it with a searing passion, a) it’s far better than the alternatives as long as
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by davidmr 8y ago
Even by the standard of what passes for legal advice on the internet, this is especially terrible advice. I also live in the Midwest and am currently sitting out a noncompete agreement (which, since it must be paid to be enforceable in my s
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by davidmr 8y ago
“To a unique gateway” with a static IP is hardly an actual answer. Under whose AWS account is this server provisioned? Who has root?
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by davidmr 8y ago
I mean, I don’t understand any of this, but I doubt it’s worth trying to understand. At any rate, this is a strange HN submission title for a paper whose abstract claims to have unified quantum mechanics and gravity. Also, if a 2016 paper r
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by davidmr 8y ago
I've read this comment 10 times and I still can't tell if it's satire or not. Well done, either way.
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by davidmr 8y ago
I don’t deny at all that it happens, and I understand that management has a difficult path to tread, but he just threw out a claim that it had happened to him with absolutely no evidence or even plausible story of who did it or why.

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