jamiejquinn

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by jamiejquinn 17d ago
Appreciate the looking good aspect but surely the graphics community also appreciates some level of consistency...?
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by jamiejquinn 17d ago
Damn, coming from the CUDA world, this is quite unexpected. Do you know of any resources on FP in the graphics hardware? I mean do they fit A standard (nvfp, bf, etc?)?
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by jamiejquinn 18d ago
Applied mathematician here. Where I see models having a huge impact is in simulation code development. One blocker for years now has been the adoption of GPUs. LLMs can fairly successfully and very quickly port to GPU and suggest/imple
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by jamiejquinn 18d ago
Goddamn Gauss, man.
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by jamiejquinn 18d ago
Agreed. For a long time it felt like most governments/funders accepted that pure research is a necessary part of feeding the applied research machine. And now the funders seem particularly short-sighted. In saying that, in the spirit o
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by jamiejquinn 18d ago
"Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice." Loved the (possibly not deliberately ironic) use of the LLM'S favourite analogy, load-bearing. Nice wee article though. I particularly agree with "Don’t take all o
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by jamiejquinn 19d ago
Ahh I only do this when reinstalling or moving to a new laptop but it's good to know about Atuin for the future!
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by jamiejquinn 19d ago
Ahh I see you've never been to a physics conference!
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by jamiejquinn 19d ago
I've relied on this so much that I copy my entire history between machines...
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by jamiejquinn 19d ago
Generally agree. As with many optimisations, branchless code can easily be less obvious than the branchy equivalent.
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by jamiejquinn 25d ago
As far as I can tell (and my research was on the simulation side of Navier Stokes) the key AI output was a specific counter-example solution, generated with a method suspiciously close to that developed by the research duo involved in the c
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by jamiejquinn 27d ago
Why?
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by jamiejquinn 1mo ago
Plenty of scientific simulations end up being IO or communications bound when at scale (e.g. 30k CPU cores). Can hide latency to a certain degree but basically any algorithm that uses timestepping must halt at some point to allow data to fl
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by jamiejquinn 1mo ago
The broad swathe of analyses done to answer the question of "how did the economy change due to brexit?" consistently suggest brexit shrunk the economy. All analyses are biased or flawed in some way because they rely on making a pr
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by jamiejquinn 1mo ago
I don't think that's an honest reading. If there were a wealth of data and analyses that suggested the UK's economy is larger because of brexit I could agree but I certainly can't find any. You're right to be skep
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by jamiejquinn 1mo ago
When economists struggle disentangling the effects of brexit from the pandemic, an actual disaster, and so can't really determine if brexit was a disaster, I feel like you can't honestly say it wasn't . But still, while it&#
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by jamiejquinn 1mo ago
Ding ding! We've found our best candidate for ambassador to a newly discovered alien species!
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by jamiejquinn 1mo ago
I agree with you but I believe the definition of handcrafted will shift to include software produced partly by AI, just as most handcrafted things involve industrial machinary at some point. But then, I can also imagine a world where nobody
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by jamiejquinn 2mo ago
I find your take a little lacking in nuance... It's not the only option but jupyter notebooks are excellent for (at least) quick prototyping, data visualisation, literate programming and exploring ideas. I write plenty of Fortran and C
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by jamiejquinn 2mo ago
I laughed so hard at that, thanks
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by jamiejquinn 2mo ago
Hard agree. AFAIK Jon Blow's Braid couldn't be made with an existing engine (at the time) due to its time warping mechanics. That's a big reason I like developing games with frameworks. It allows reusibility and access to cle
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by jamiejquinn 2mo ago
That's interesting. Coming from C++ and Zig, the massive time "wasters" are metaprogramming features, i.e. Templates and comptime. Are Rust's macros the compile-time culprits?
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by jamiejquinn 3mo ago
I'm really sorry to be harsh but if you don't use programming languages and have never written a transpiler, why should anyone read your comment? You critique the approach as brittle and yet the approach you propose doesn't s
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by jamiejquinn 3mo ago
Right, that makes a lot of sense. Seems like reviewers can easily see and check those asserts to understand if the LLM has written something sensible (and I presume those asserts are strongly declared in the prompts). I'd love to read
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by jamiejquinn 3mo ago
This is an interesting approach. When you say no abstractions though, what do you actually mean? I would count functions as abstractions but do you mean classes/structs representing an object? Effectively no new types?
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by jamiejquinn 3mo ago
I disagree with your definition of meaningful here. Society's willingness to pay is certainly a signal for meaning in an output but it seems quite inaccurate. Think of the number of artists and thinkers that weren't recognised in
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by jamiejquinn 3mo ago
I was surprised to find out that material science uses up a significant amount of the compute time on the big research machines, at least here in the UK. It's both potentially lucrative research and computationally intensive. Combustio
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by jamiejquinn 3mo ago
I've found trying to find a distraction-free editor a distraction in itself. I'd bet money that most authors using an old word processor had some external reason to use it (cost, availability, editor compatability) and just stuck
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by jamiejquinn 4mo ago
> it'd be a bug if they diverge That's a very nice rule of thumb. I've often overabstracted when two pieces of code look similar at one point in time and then they diverge.
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by jamiejquinn 4mo ago
That's typical of models that use the anelastic approximation, where it's useful for a number of reasons to rewrite the equations replacing the true vertical with a vertically stratified variable. I've seen density, pressure

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