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by dplavery92 6y ago
For many of us, the Inception-style CNN workloads--especially at FP32--are much more realistic than large language models that may be better suited to take advantage of the tensor cores. If I'm going to be memory bottlenecked either w
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by dplavery92 6y ago
For what it's worth, the "Free to Play" sector that dominates a lot of market share isn't just the gambling-lite, pay-to-win mobile sector anymore. We're talking about major titles like Fortnite, League of Legends,
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by dplavery92 6y ago
I don't know if there are any white papers with hard details yet (if anyone knows of one, please share!), but nVidia's marketing material[0] for the Ampere architecture claims the following: "Sparsity is possible in deep lear
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by dplavery92 6y ago
>Objects more massive than [2 to 3 times the mass of the Sun] can only be black holes One (pedantic) correction: objects more massive cannot be held up by neutron degeneracy pressure, but you can have more massive stars held up by radia
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by dplavery92 6y ago
It's not impossible to distribute training across multiple GPUs, but it's certainly not straightforward. And if you want activations for an entire 4K image in the same model, having a lot of memory on one card is your friend.
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by dplavery92 6y ago
I think it holds the market position previously known as xx80Ti
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Maybe Vera Rubin belongs on this list as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Usually "breeder" indicates a reactor with a fully closed fuel cycle that generates more fissile fuel than it consumes. A Pu-239 breeder would need to begin with critical mass of Pu-239 to begin this fuel cycle, in addition to th
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by dplavery92 6y ago
There is a huge gulf between the abundance necessary for criticality and that necessary for prompt criticality. Even rudimentary, low-yield weapons design requires HEU, likely over 50% 235 (and if you have the capability to enrich beyond 2
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by dplavery92 6y ago
In Shayer's article (not the top-level BBC article) he makes the comment that they developed the iPod OS on Windows machines since the compiler and tools for building on ARM were not yet available on Mac. You make a good point about d
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by dplavery92 6y ago
If Shayer's (in turn, Apple's) participation were classified, he would be looking at a serious criminal offense for writing the article. The hardware and functionality of the devices that the Bechtel engineers were integrating, a
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by dplavery92 6y ago
You may be able to find uranium ore with relative ease, but enrichment is a nation-state level project that is unlikely to escape the notice of the world's intelligence and energy agencies.
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by dplavery92 6y ago
I've definitely felt and experienced the situation you're describing, but I think you might be painting with too broad a brush. Sources like ArXiv, Google Scholar, and Semantic Scholar have made it really easy for me to access ton
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Ironically, in the DoD contracting world there are roles like this; SETA (systems engineering and technical assurance) and SME (subject matter expert) contracting roles from disinterested third parties are usually a required function in DoD
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Right, and among them are more[0] patents held by the US Navy for high-temperature superconductors and "high frequency gravity wave generators." It's clear he has at least one patron within the DoD; it's a shame that th
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by dplavery92 6y ago
The "background" section of this particular patent [0] starts pretty sane (if obviously a little grandiose--enough to get one's guard up) but rapidly and suddenly dips off the rails. The trouble is that the mostly unintell
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Any works you produce using the GPL'd asset must also be GPL'd. So I can put a price-tag on my movie, comic book, AI model, or tutorial, but anyone else can also copy and redistribute my work with no legal recourse from me. It&#
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by dplavery92 6y ago
I think that's a fair argument to make for GPL when you're talking about software , e.g. GIMP, which you could use to produce commercial art assets that you then sell. But for data , whether these images or audio clips or wea
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Our "toy" up there is marvel of global technological cooperation, the subject of an international treaty only a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union, maintained by engineers, scientists, and spacefarers from fifteen differ
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by dplavery92 6y ago
Maybe you meant centuries, and not millennia? English, even it's oldest forms, hasn't been around for millennia. Anyway, as your own etymology link demonstrates, the word's first use in its present meaning, as an execut
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by dplavery92 7y ago
It doesn't appear to me that the article linked in the rebuttal thread appears to address any of the points made in this article. Instead, the author offers that he's written two books and thousands of blog posts in Markdown, and
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by dplavery92 7y ago
Generate a random int from [0,199]. If you generated a 0, you die. Rationally, you pretty confident that you won't die? Sure. But what behavior changes are you willing to tolerate not to have to take the chance? I sure wouldn&#x27
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by dplavery92 7y ago
No one claimed the opposite; someone merely asked for evidence for an assertion. Since that assertion is important to a larger argument, it's reasonable to ask why we should believe it.
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by dplavery92 7y ago
This, I believe, is the exactly the behavior the parent commenting was describing (and bemoaning.) If you you have to check against every term in a linked list (an operation proportional to the length of the list), then your hash table cea
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by dplavery92 7y ago
Because global warming means not just a slightly less comfortable summer season, but also rising ocean levels that displace low-lying coastal communities (to include not just island nations like Micronesia and The Maldives, but also large s
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by dplavery92 7y ago
Harmonics occur at integer multiples of the fundamental. If a body resonates at F, you will see harmonics at F, 2F, 3F... You will not see harmonics at fractional (1/2 F, etc...) frequencies of the fundamental, though you will likely
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by dplavery92 7y ago
Median personal income has not, in fact, been keeping pace with inflation. The median personal income (men and women) in Sep 2016 was $31,099.[0] Which means the $47,600 tuition ($62200 with mandatory room and board)[1] was 1.53x (2.00x
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by dplavery92 7y ago
I don't know who.
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by dplavery92 7y ago
I think we have seen this sort of approach succeed in a major US TV production in Netflix's Narcos. There are English-speaking characters, yes, but most of the drama happens entirely in Spanish. I think this series would also have bee
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by dplavery92 7y ago
While 5 megatons definitely does seem like an overestimation, I think the fear was that it was a much larger mass of molten corium, including not just the fuel itself, but also molten silicon and lead, from the material dumped on the expose

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