dr_zoidberg

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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Is that really bad? I mean, it's telling me the language it's in, so it's a bit of valuable information if I'm looking for articles/posts about something a bit esoteric. Say I wanted to implement algorithm X for whi
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
The D-Wave design is for quantum annealing, which is still super interesting and solves practical problems, in particular optimization problems. You can read a few summaries of the different systems and how they were compared to classical c
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Decoherence is the answer. Veeeeery long story short, qubits have to be isolated from the world as much as possible to maintain their "magical quantum properties". Decoherence is when those ideal conditions break, and the qubits n
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Question: does it have such a dramatic effect in vaccinated persons too? I just read a few headlines about the tests for this treatment, but haven't really had the time to read in detail.
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Yes, that's a lot considering that large systems today have in the order of 100-1000 qubits. Mind you, the systems currently saying that are larger than 100 qubits are debated if they really are quantum computers in the broadest sense,
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Back when I was younger we had to develop a few simulations in university, and we spent half the semester coding the building blocks in C. I was slightly good at it, and having seen my brother stumble a couple of years before, I knew I had
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
I'm not arguing against your point at all. I'm just pointing at the fact that there are many who are happy to wait a year, buy a 10-20% faster CPU and call it a day, or buy more/larger instances on the cloud, or do anything b
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
You are precisely telling me the ways in which I can get faster hardware: GPU, accelerators, the I/O stack and SSDs, etc. I agree that the software layer has become slow, crufy, bloated, etc. But it's still cheaper to get faster h
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Wasteful of computing resources, yes, but for a long time we've been prioritizing developer time. That happens because you can get faster hardware cheaper than you can get more developer time (and not all developers time is equal, say,
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
N is right next to M in QWERTY keyboards. Typing fast, you may hit one instead of the other.
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Well we can shorten that list if you're able to write your models in tensorflow 1.15 to: Windows 10 and Python 3.6+. Microsoft has done something quite interesting with tensorflow-directml [0, 1]. A friend is training convolutional net
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
> Layers and layers of cruft which you can trace back to before the computing era. Even those layers and layers don't _have to_ slow things down. Check the refterm "debacle" ([2] for the context, [0, 1] as Muratori's
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
IPythons ? and tab-autocomplete feel like superpowers when exploring a new module you're unfamiliar with.
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
And just like OP said, it generally takes a couple of months to go from paper to working code. I've implemented a few papers as code as a side-gig for a while, and I wouldn't mind having a baseline from the authors to check and se
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
I think part of the problem is that the discussion has already been rigged beforehand, and now you _must_ lie to be heard. Not because you want to, but because those that came efore you did. So if you now simply state the facts as they are,
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
I was commenting on the fact that people stuck with the idea that "AVX512 is bad because it downclocks". As for turning off the E-cores, yes, it's a tradeoff that you have to consider if it's worth or not for your use ca
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Well it's the subject of the email sans the "[GIT PULL]" at the start. Maybe they just went with it for the title? It's been changed to "...for Linux 5.17" so it's clear now for those just reading the head
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
That was before Ice Lake, where it had a very decent performance (just downclocking 10%) and then on Rocket Lake it didn't even downclock [0]. But the thing that stuck in our collective mind was that "it's bad because it down
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
The 1 μs is the time the electronic shutter takes to act, and there's no spec sheet for that that I'm aware of in the Sony cameras. As for exposure times at high frame rate, they go up to (down to?) 1/10,000th of a second, so
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Right, that was it. I just took the "International" part of the name to mean as if it were signed by many countries, not a "from the US to the rest of the world".
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
I'm a bit confused here. There are a few Sony cameras (the RX series) that have a 960fps capabiilty, with exposure times of under 1/1000th of a second. That's around 8 times the 125 fps limit set by ITAR, yet those cameras ar
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
It's pretty sustainable on cities witth proper public transport. And I say that living on a city with pretty much subpar public transport, but on which I manage to go everyday just walking, save for a few trips from time to time where
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
In a course I teach when the isolation measures started in my country we got 2 weeks in advance to turn everything from in-person classes to virtual "maybe for a month, and then we'll go back" (you can imagine how that turned
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Check, not a fan of M1 being super closed, but "it's the Apple way" (and I don't buy Apple products). RISC-V is very interesting, but so far it seems to have been too niche and not exploited to its full capacity. Here&#x
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
Got it. What about the RPi vs M1 numbers? I've not found anything in that regard that puts both chips on the same ballpark, M1 seems to be getting at least twice (and in general about 10x) the performance for a similar power envelope.
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
The argument as you've written it here is interesting and makes sense, but I have trouble getting to that conclusion from OPs comment.
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
It's a completely new account that was created specifically to write a negative comment in a post. Maybe that's enough for the flagging?
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
I'm not quite sure I follow it myself, but here are the key points as I understood: * Energy decline is accelerating. * Perf-per-watt is stagntting (hence the comparisson of RPi @ 28nm vs M1 @ 5nm). * This trend leads to economic decli
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
> How come I'm not responding faster, merging PRs, fixing issues? For this critical popular project??! > Meanwhile, sponsorships are at 13% of the (not terribly ambitious) goal of $6k/month The answer would then be: "be
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by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
> That's small thing, but really makes me spend so much more time when I need to use Python for something. I guess that's not an issue for experienced developers who memorized all functions they need. I've been programming

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