gmt2027

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by gmt2027 15y ago
My experience is in porting numerical algorithms to NVIDIA GPUs with the CUDA platform. If your intention is to decide whether a GPU port is worth it, then perhaps you should be thinking at a higher level of abstraction. I only "speak" CUDA
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by gmt2027 15y ago
After the last upgrade, I've been forced to abandon Unity and Gnome3 for Xmonad. I'm seriously considering another distro like ArchLinux. Xubuntu may just be the solution - for now anyway.
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by gmt2027 15y ago
I was avoiding an absolute statement because macroscopic objects are entirely capable of behaving in unpredictable ways, however the odds against are so high that the chance of this happening is infinitesimal.
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by gmt2027 15y ago
Every time I write non-numerical code, it is fairly obvious that translation to this unnatural 'intermediate representation' requires extra effort.
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by gmt2027 15y ago
Can you distinguish between the storage schemes in short vs. long term memory? A transition takes place at some point. Long-term storage may not be the best indicator of actual structures used in working memory, which is where the computati
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by gmt2027 15y ago
Actually representing the entire state of the universe sounds rather ambitious. However, the very action of 'imaging' will force the entire system into a consistent state by quantum collapse. The universe will be represented but changed, th
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by gmt2027 15y ago
I believe we are considering an abstract data structure here.
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by gmt2027 15y ago
Short answer: A graph. All data structures are simplified graphs. The state of the physical universe is a massive graph in which interconnected objects are themselves massive assemblies of graphs of atoms and the atoms are graphs of subatom
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by gmt2027 15y ago
I agree, the discussion here has immediately taken a technical dimension for the same reasons that engineers are really poor at evaluating the real world value and far-reaching social implications of the technology they create. This is not
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by gmt2027 15y ago
"Catch them young" Canada was a highly developed economy before the era of big oil. It has the third largest proven oil reserves after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Despite high production, primary industries constitute less than 6.2% of GDP.
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by gmt2027 15y ago
Good article. It is rather depressing to accept the reality that these countries will only continue to deteriorate for the foreseeable future.
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by gmt2027 15y ago
I find this very easy to believe and it is the story of the poor major oil producing countries. In Nigeria, 25% of the national budget is dedicated to the personal expenses of the lawmakers by law. The rest makes its way into a very corrupt
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by gmt2027 15y ago
The basic problem in porting to OpenCL/CUDA is identifying the mapping and reduction operations buried in imperative code. That these data-parallel operations are fundamentally functional is clearly reflected in the primitives that the Thru
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by gmt2027 15y ago
Email already connects everyone on the Internet but billions of people are not online by an accident of geography and birth. Mobile phones connect a reasonable percentage of the rest. I may be mistaken but it is doubtful that many users' qu
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by gmt2027 15y ago
We are a generation of fluff and polish. Today's most celebrated young 'engineer' is Mark Zuckerberg, creator of a really cool way to rank hot chicks, measure faux popularity and extend the social dyamics of high school into the real world.