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by erosenbe0 6y ago
You are entirely correct that this is helpful. But you don't need to go to Haiti. 3000 W. Madison in Chicago is two miles from the nation's second most important financial district and it is still burned out exactly as it was thre
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
If you are living in the US or EU then being able to hide assets and transfer without censorship is mostly a bug, not a feature. And eventually the governments will have to do something about it in order to preserve the rule of law. What ha
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Sure. Training neural nets is somewhat analogous to starting on the top of a mountain looking for the lowest of the low points of the valley below. But instead of being in normal 3d space you might have 1000d determining your altitude, so y
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Is the high priced 256 thread part that interesting for rendering? You can get 4 of the 64 thread parts on separate boards and each one will have its own 8 channel ddr instead of having to share that bandwidth. Total performance will be hig
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Hashing and linear algebra kernels get much more speedup on a GPU than a vfx pipeline does. But I am glad to see reports here detailing that the optimization of vfx is progressing.
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Desktop GPUs could have 64GB of GDDR right now but the memory bus width to drive those bits optimally (in primary use case of real-time game rendering, not offline) would up the power and heat dissipation requirements beyond what is current
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
I'm a bit out of date but if we are talking about rendering (not data retrieval workloads) I believe the best way is fundamentally the same as it was 25 years ago: network boot, mostly network storage, and applying local config overlay
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Memory bandwidth costs a lot of power so I think the idea is to reduce the need for unnecessary memory ops both saving power and reducing latency
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Basically reference counting requires grabbing a number from memory in one step, then increasing or decreasing it and storing it in a second step. This is two operations and in-between the two -- if and only if the respective memory locatio
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Mostly deficit spending. QE and the like is for increasing the money supply, not really spending. Though it can have a knock on effect in terms of the rate the govt borrows at.
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
In terms of suffering, I'm more worried about the loss of support workers and supporting businesses over the long-term. Especially in a place like Chicago where the installed base of offices is much much larger than SF, and where porti
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Well, it's not like x86 unaligned access was some cute thing they did just to make it extra complex. It made complete sense in 1976 when designing an ISA that might support implementations with an 8 bit memory bus and no cache. Why eat
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Well it turned out that for running scalar code with branches and stack frames exposing too much to the compiler was not helpful, especially as transistor budgets increased. So as long as we program with usual functions and conditionals thi
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
People in American ghettos do express their opinions online, but the upper classes and special interest groups have much more ability to construct and influence the dominant narratives. So one should always question whatever is the prevaili
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
I believe they were friends prior to SCOTUS appointments when they were both on DC circuit. They were really big opera buffs. But in any case they had some exceptional traits that are not necessarily common.
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Need comparative data. Repeat same study with heavy ice cream consumption, heavy video game playing, tackle football exposure, or anything else that could impede adolescent health and development.
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
It most certainly should continue to be thought of as a dietary supplement by current definitions, or you are on an errand to redefine that term (in the USA, at least). It is the responsibility of physicians to discuss diet and supplementat
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Sure. Read bios to research career trajectories. For example, read the bios of billionaires of who made a lot their money via renumeration. Cheryl Sandberg, for example. Steve Ballmer. Made their connections in college.
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by erosenbe0 6y ago
Many service workers will still want to live in or around relatively expensive areas. I live just outside of Chicago: 10 minutes to the beach; 20 minutes to downtown; 20 minutes to a hub airport; 15 minutes to top class sports, theatre, and
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
My guess is they want to separate the balance sheet of something that is subscription based (like entertainment) vs. something with a lot of factories and capital investment. The debt structure and cyclical variations are probably quite dif
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
It is quite well established that Vitamin D supplementation is effective in resolving deficiency for otherwise healthy, non geriatric children and adults. However, when it comes to other populations you would have to consult the literature
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
The CDC-6000 and Cray-1 designed by Seymour Cray are the most admired, hands down. It is also notable that quite a bit of R&D was done in Chippewa Falls, WI, which is just a regular old town in America's Dairyland.
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
In your average rust belt type city, your average cardiologist is making 400-450k at 50-60 hours a week. Senior developers in those same cities make 90-150k at 40-50 hours a week. The doctor, once established, also has the advantage of gene
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
If only it were not the case that our top talent aspired to work on advertising technology we might have nice things like an HIV vaccine or mass adoption of renewable energy.
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
Here in Chicago, half my team bikes or walks to work and the other half takes public transit. Most everyone over age 30 or 35 can scrape up enough to own a property on a rather average tech salary. Other than the intolerable weather during
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by erosenbe0 7y ago
It would be interesting to compare the trajectories of the bottom 5% of Harvard grads with the top 5% of UMass grads. As a thought exercise, you can ask yourself: would you prefer that your doctor be from the former or the latter group?