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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Oh dear ... we seem to have found an accidental logical inconsistency in the universe. Prepare for reboot in 3 .. 2 .. More seriously, I can and do disagree strenuously with friends, family, coworkers over many things. I value opposing vie
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Physics as well. When I finished up in the 90s, the market was flooded with applicants from the former soviet union as well as locals. I remember speaking to people I knew on hiring committees who told me of 1000+ applicants per open tenur
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Well ... no. 5 is short. My BS took 4 years. My MS took 2 years. My PhD (computational physics) took 7 years. I was the fast one at my school. Some of my peers (high energy physics, nuclear, etc.) took 9+ years. Then again, I met my forme
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I did similar measurements in a past life[1], when I was still working in physics. This is in part why it is so intriguing to me, in that higher temperature superconductivity is definitely something of a holy grail. [1] https:/&#x2F
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Possible “room temperature” superconductivity observed, with caveats
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I'd argue that the typecasting in that last paragraph may not be realistic. > But more importantly ... to business's eyes, Rust is too immature, Scala and F# inherit all the billion-dollar mistakes from their parent VMs, Julia
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Hrm ... argumentation by reference to authority (various Ph.D. people) is a sure way to lose a scientific argument. But that isn't my only qualm. In the construction of the fields, there is a simple definition of the division function.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
The study linked in the article itself, indicates that the current state of scientific understanding is that water born and skin contact are not significant issues for asbestos, and the primary concern is inhalation. Took me only 5 minutes
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This is quite literally the definition of triage. You have finite resources. You have requests for resources which exceed your capabilities to service. You need to determine an order. In an ideal utopian world, no one would ever need thes
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Heh ... back when I was still in pursuit of the elusive academic career, I used MuMath, Maple, and Macsyma along with Fortran, C, and this odd language called Perl (to automate many of my jobs). Mathematica was still new-ish, and mostly co
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Number 1 lesson from this: ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA AT A DIFFERENT PLACE ON DIFFERENT MEDIA. For google, to do this, use https://takeout.google.com/ . Download a copy of your data. Now. Number 2 lesson to learn
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
For my PhD program, I specifically looked for advisors doing the type of simulations I was interested in. There weren't many (1989-1990 time frame). I found one who on paper looked great: lots of good recent publications, assistant p
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This ^^. I got a masters at one U, and was ensconced at another U for the Ph.D. by then. Actually that was the year that I started at the new U, and they told me, 2 weeks before I started, that they expected me to take and pass the Ph.D. q
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Dependency radii of packages in CentOS are horrible. Your minimal installs are hovering above 1GB. Debian are better at 400MB or so. Alpine is great, in that you can get this down to well under 100MB. This has been a long standing compla
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Not quite ... classical orbits over extended time periods (T >> 1 orbital period) tends to require significant precision thanks to the "chaotic" aspects of the diffeqs. See [1] for some additional details. Many orbital sims
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This is incorrect. Right to work, prevents a monopoly on labor that a business must consume via a union, from using its power to preserve its monopoly. Previously, businesses, even if opposed in principle to a union forming, had little rec
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Intel's TPU2 and 3, as well as NVidia's V100 series get great tensor performance on FP16 and FP8. There are many implementation and algorithmic risks associated with using such small FP sizes, especially if you are working on pro
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
That's about 1/2 tonne of AC. Insane ...
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This is a new one to this old dog. 2k18 is 2018. 1k7 looks to me like 1007. Much shorter to use 1.7kW which most know how to parse to 1.7 x 10<sup>3</sup> Watts.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
... so then you are saying that a union is a branch or department of the US government? Hmmm ... I don't quite remember it that way. The US constitution specifically gave the right to levy taxes to the federal and state governments.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Paraphrasing that economic philosopher Inigo Montoya ... You use that phrase "negotiated voluntarily" ... I do not think it means what you think it means. Right to work laws limit the power of unions to form labor monopolies, open
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Language. The class action was done via antitrust mechanisms as I understand it[1][2][3]. If you want to assume that a class formation is a union, albeit a temporary one to effect good, I FULLY support that. This is how a union should wor
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Looking at history, and some recent (2010) articles before we changed. See [1][2][3] The laws to which you refer ar the Taft-Hartley act, and the NLR act. As for the "no forced membership", it was seemingly easier for local compa
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Wow ... relating management to cancer. In a free market, workers would be able to find other employment if their company treats them poorly. In reality, the demise of the free market here hasn't been hastened by "cancerous"
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Wrong in most aspects. Right to work effectively ends most labor monopolies that unions have erected. By removing the monopolies, workers have far better choices about whom to work for, and how to negotiate wages. Here's a simple exa
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
>>>You will find interesting that there is a link between high unionization and unemployment. >Yes, and there's a link between high unionization and higher wages/better benefits/better working conditions. Of cours
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
In grad school, I taught recitation and lab sections of physics courses. Some of my students were local school district teachers. Two of them I remember. These two, in different years, had one thing in common. Both were functionally illi
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Michigan is now (thankfully) a right to work state. This means that people can be hired without worrying about it being a union shop. The union used to have effectively a monopoly on labor at many sites here. This is no longer the case.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Back in my day, you raised wages when you could demonstrate success in your endeavor to drive more revenue/margin. You got paid less when you drove costs higher. Seems like this is a basic law of economics or something. Monetary re
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Funny how the union abuse anecdote gets downvoted, while the pro-union propaganda doesn't. My stories are similar. Its not a right or left issue. Unions, with very few counterexamples ... to the point where I am unaware of any ... dev

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