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by davidmr 9y ago
The NTSB and most of other highly developed nations ' equivalents really are quite amazing. For whatever reason, I read most of the full NTSB aviation incident reports. Aside from the thoroughness of them and the engineering geekery, t
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by davidmr 9y ago
Rather "into an I/O-bound problem". Apologies for ruining Ken's great joke.
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by davidmr 9y ago
They do, more or less. It's called MPI-IO, but it's still tough.
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by davidmr 9y ago
I don't think so; HPC is a different beast There are very few if any organizations on earth that have a database that can write a sustained 1TByte/second+ from as few as 300-400 node to 100s of PB of stateful media for years on en
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by davidmr 9y ago
I’ve spent most of my career specifically dealing with HPC I/O from a systems and applications perspective. I worked in academia for a while, then in the DOE (almost indistinguishable from academia except worse bureaucracy; shocking, I
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by davidmr 9y ago
Wildly off-tooic, but I recently visited Amsterdam for the first time and was absolutely astonished at the lack of curtains. The jury seems to be out on whether it's a vestige of Dutch Calvinism or if it's just somehow cultural, b
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by davidmr 9y ago
I was going to say that I do something similar with mine[1], but I looked at your makefile and saw that it's about 10x more sophisticated than mine, although I've never really had sufficient problems to warrant learning the makefi
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by davidmr 9y ago
I absolutely do. I probably would have worded it differently.
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by davidmr 9y ago
The comma in the second element allows—I would even say requires—one to separate elements of a list with semicolons. I don’t have a copy of the NYT Style Guide, but I just consulted my Chicago Style guide, and it is explicitly permitted. Gr
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by davidmr 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Is it your contention that, if anyone could get opiates without any regulation or prescription, fewer people would take them than they do now? Why would scrutiny of any kind by
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by davidmr 9y ago
I spent a year in a "Great Books" college, where there are no textbooks, no lectures, etc., just primary sources progressing roughly chronologically. For first year math, you go through Elements almost entirely front-to-back. I ha
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by davidmr 9y ago
As others mentioned, that's certainly not my experience, but the tactile nature of taking noted by hand still helps me remember better. I've been half-heartedly considering learning shorthand. I still like taking notes by hand, bu
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by davidmr 9y ago
I certainly don't have much to add on any of the technical discussion here about the host side of things, but speaking as someone who in a previous life had to run miles and miles of IB cable under the floors, rip out mysteriously brok
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Ask HN: Have you learned to write shorthand?
1 points by davidmr 9y ago|1 comments
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by davidmr 9y ago
As a former DOE lab employee, I can't even begin to imagine the hassle of changing operating contracts, although LANL has really been putting forth extraordinary effort to get the DOE to try. What's most irritating is that the DOE
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by davidmr 9y ago
Unfortunately not. The docs on the Dataset API are quite good though.
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by davidmr 9y ago
I agree. I meant the / to indicate that either one or a combination would have been helpful in different ways, but I certainly could have phrased it better.
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by davidmr 9y ago
Many years ago in a past life, I worked on the network security team at the University of Chicago. We had a similar policy (and they may still for all I know) of just being able to requisition publicly routable IPs and run whatever you want
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by davidmr 9y ago
In my limited experience, their root cause analyses are really impressive as well with lots of internal attention and resources. I'm not allowed to talk about any Intel issues, but we reported a very strange issue to Nvidia, sent a cou
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by davidmr 9y ago
This is a great start, and I find your code extremely easy to read. I might suggest some example code for more advanced methods of data ingestion. All the code I see uses feed_dict, which is certainly the most straightforward, but once you
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by davidmr 9y ago
Thank you. Even if things are a little different for every person as they naturally are, this is good advice and I genuinely appreciate the positive attitude. As someone who has struggled with depression quite a bit, I generally have a knee
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by davidmr 9y ago
It's just a press release but I've been using them for a while, and it is quite not very to watch a model training or hyperparameter search scale effortlessly over multiple GPUs. It almost makes up for the royal pain in the arse
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Announcing General Availability of GPUS for Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine(cloud.google.com)
2 points by davidmr 9y ago|1 comments
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by davidmr 9y ago
Even for training? That would be disappointing.
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by davidmr 9y ago
The potential use of TPUs for training is very exciting. They say that they train floating point, but I don't see any indication to the FP precision they're capable of; perhaps I'm missing it. At any rate, I'm really exc
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by davidmr 9y ago
The discussion seems to have pretty well settled on Google's policies around service deprecation, but in case anyone's interested in chatting about the replacement API, I'm excited about the long-term prospects of their ML En
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by davidmr 9y ago
They're both magnificent planes, but given the option I will usually take the 380. At least on the upper deck, it's far quieter. Over a 10-15 hour flight, that goes a long way with me.
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by davidmr 9y ago
I did! 15 years ago I went and had custom earplugs made with replaceable attenuators, and they're still in perfect shape. Without question, it was the best $200 I've ever spent. I can't recommend them highly enough to anyone
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by davidmr 9y ago
Semantic quibbles aside, water cooling is a godsend for one's ears.
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by davidmr 9y ago
I spent a couple of years running the I/O system on the Blue Gene in that photograph (Intrepid). The pictures really don't do it justice, although all the doors are off in that photo, so that wasn't even really what it looked

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