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by foxhill 12y ago
> Despite Apple's best efforts, OpenCL uptake seems to be sluggish. CUDA continues to dominate developer mindshare, by providing a far better language, API, and toolchain. i'm afraid i have to disagree with you there. over the
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by foxhill 12y ago
also, intel have poured millions of dollars into architecture research, which, as impressive as this work is, probably has not had the same amount of R&D.
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by foxhill 12y ago
wow, this is nothing short of incredible. i wonder if an OpenCL stack can be made..
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by foxhill 12y ago
that's.. oddly haunting.
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by foxhill 12y ago
theory: articles of the form: "X is broken", "X is wrong", or some other equally dramatic statement, say almost exactly the same thing; nothing.
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by foxhill 12y ago
well, in his defence - > Every voting system is manipulable
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by foxhill 12y ago
science has always about taking random guesses (some less random than others) and using evidence to determine wether those guesses are true. perhaps this makes no falsifiable claims. maybe it does, but we have no means to test them. sound
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by foxhill 12y ago
well, that's kind of an issue with consciousness - it's so meta, and intangible.. sort of like trying to guess which OS a machine was running, just by looking at the CPU.
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by foxhill 12y ago
nothing wrong with a little conjecture as long as you are aware that it is conjecture. this has certainly made me want to read the book.
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by foxhill 12y ago
as the article mentions, CSV is not well defined. libraries are.. well, different. you'd spend as much time becoming familiar with one as you would writing a basic parser. commas don't delimit field entries? CSV -> comma separa
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by foxhill 12y ago
well, i'd only consider that a bug if java defines that integers will use at least as many bits as needed to store their value. i'd guess this is not the case (but i don't know for sure)
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by foxhill 12y ago
well, of course they can be buggy, they are written by humans, after all :) but in my time as a programmer, i think i've seen one bug that was a genuine compiler bug. and this was in floating point arithmetic optimisations. llvm/c
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by foxhill 12y ago
i think in this context, the author is referring to mainstream (gnu, ms, intel) compilers, that are very mature and have thousands of tests that they must pass to be eligible for release. writing a compiler is tricky, and it is almost an
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by foxhill 12y ago
250W TDP in a package that size.. as the article correctly states, it's about how many FLOPs you can get inside a rackmount case. that TDP alone is going to mean that you wont be able to put that many in a single case. a dual socket bo
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by foxhill 12y ago
in principle, yes, but the parallela board isn't exactly the fastest of all the embedded boards. also, OpenCL apparently isn't the preferred programming model for the epiphany, so performance wont be as good as bare-metal (but tha
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by foxhill 13y ago
it certainly helps when your function isn't as simple as main..!
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by foxhill 13y ago
this is a style i still use today (almost) int main (int argc, char **argv) { //body.. } although most people think i'm weird for it..
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by foxhill 13y ago
i suspect that the downvotes from people are because python is far too powerful as a build scripting language.
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by foxhill 13y ago
> Bash has wonderful completion, all the stuff you listed. It's in the "bash-completion" package, and usually just an "apt-get install bash-completion" away. i don't doubt that at all - but it's hardly
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by foxhill 13y ago
off the top of my head: - tab completion on a shit-ton of stuff (configure scripts, makefiles, ssh hosts, aptitude packages, git branches) - partially entered command? push up to look at similar commands you have previously entered - immedi
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by foxhill 13y ago
indeed, the biggest story is in fact in the discussion of this article - how the hell did you manage to get a username like 'computer' in a place like this?!
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by foxhill 13y ago
certainly, n=12 is not science, it's only a mild improvement on wild conjecture. however, i can't seem to find anything that says the study was funded by a company that sells green tea drinks (or anything that would call the study
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by foxhill 13y ago
you most certainly have the right to silence in the UK. > while I appreciate this is a US legal case, in the UK the right to silence can be used against a defendant as you correctly identified, only inferences in a somewhat defined range
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by foxhill 13y ago
i'd like to see a source for that claim, regardless, pre-GCN GPUs had double precision support that wasn't purposefully knee-capped. 52 bits of mantissa would have been plenty. as for nvidia knee-capping integer arithmetic on thei
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by foxhill 13y ago
well, SDL will do the job of getting a window from the OS. when used with GL (in the way valve do), it doesn't really do much else.
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by foxhill 13y ago
sorry if i wasn't clear, but i am aware that most AAA games use DX. the same is not true for open source. there are already DX->GL compatibility layers, although most of them are in house, by companies that produce ports (ala Feral
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by foxhill 13y ago
kind of preaching to the choir, no? i mean, there are more open source games that use OpenGL than DirectX, and are already cross platform as a result. similarly, i would imagine if a AAA game studio wanted to do such a thing, they would rol
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by foxhill 13y ago
> apparently knows nothing about bitcoin and the level of anonymity it provides. > comments on it anyway. good luck indeed.
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by foxhill 13y ago
by go away, you of course mean hidden to be found and solved later? bugs do not typically just fix themselves.
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by foxhill 13y ago
it's patented? 16 bit floats have been a thing for a long time.. :/ edit: never mind. somehow convinced myself that this was just 16 bit floating point arithmetic. it is not.

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