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Pushing the limits of GPU performance with XLA(medium.com)
3 points by jlebar 8y ago|1 comments
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by jlebar 8y ago
Of course, the irony of all of this is that they end up discriminating against the very people they need: The different, the strange, the quirky, the innovative - everyone who doesn't perfectly fit the criteria of a safe hire where no
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by jlebar 8y ago
It's not just untrusted native code. A lot of these exploits in general are exploitable through js. And I know there are folks on hn who think js is an abomination and noscript is the answer to all of life's persistent problems
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by jlebar 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law :)
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by jlebar 8y ago
> to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy. Indeed, Fox News, Britebart, and friends are terrifying.
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by jlebar 8y ago
The bike appears to have a device on it which allows it to collide with the bar of the car safely. It appears to me that she collides with it a bunch of times, both while accelerating and decelerating. This appears to be by design? Defini
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by jlebar 8y ago
Maybe this will finally end the myth that "you can be rude and insulting as long as you're right" that people seem to attribute to Linus's outbursts Yeah, reading the comments here, I'm not so hopeful.
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Instead, we can barely talk about it. Is your contention that the main thing about the election of Trump that upset the people in this video that he took a cooly rational stance against some forms of immigration? Banning all Muslims --
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by jlebar 8y ago
"Fake news" has lost all meaning in the intervening years, but at the time, it is hard to remember, we were concerned about essentially phishing websites that made themselves out to be (say) CNN, but were not. As others have said,
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by jlebar 8y ago
> EDIT I'm just going to add this in because it just doesn't sit well. It shouldn't acceptable for leadership in a workplace to stand up and express pain and dismay at the outcome of a democratic process. Isn't this e
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by jlebar 8y ago
>> If developers are your company's most constraining resource, the key question is how to increase their productivity. > "Increasing productivity" typically puts pressure on developers. I agree frequently -- perhaps
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by jlebar 8y ago
>> The polynomial x^3 −3x +1 is represented as Poly [1, -3, 0, 1] > It starts with the 0th coefficient and goes up. Is a list in Haskell canonically written in the opposite order of what I expect? I expect that the 0'th eleme
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by jlebar 8y ago
I am not a Haskell programmer, but is this correct? (Poly a) + (Poly b) = Poly $ addup a b where addup [] b = b addup a [] = a addup (a:as) (b:bs) = (a+b):(addup as bs) Imagine a simple example, adding `x+2
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by jlebar 8y ago
Heh, most people think mine are headphones. The derp factor only occurs once they figure out that they're not. :)
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Barring a stupendous reversal in greenhouse gas emissions, the rising Atlantic will cover much of Miami by the end of this century. Note that your home does not need to be permanently underwater to have it destroyed by a storm. Not ev
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by jlebar 8y ago
If that hurts your brain, try counting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKDXe0FP2wc .
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by jlebar 8y ago
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EQCE9LRXE
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by jlebar 8y ago
> The most hilarious part was when OpenAI paused the game, then resumed it. This illustrates that there is still some unexplainable randomness. This was done by the game coordinator -- the humans' machines DC'ed during the game
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by jlebar 8y ago
Given the choice, I'd rather we play God a little more with weird foods and a little less with the futures of billions of people who will be driven from their homes of much worse by climate change.
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by jlebar 8y ago
We are (well, AMD is) working on it. It's all being done in the open; there are PRs you can follow. You can even help out if you're so inclined. It's not going to be simple or fast, but it's coming... (I work on XLA, a
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by jlebar 8y ago
So use the surplus to lower taxes on poor folks? Like, you can't fight the laws of economics. We don't have to like them, but can't we work within them rather than coming up with economically inefficient solutions which ar
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by jlebar 8y ago
If there are any OpenAI folks hanging out here, I'd be really curious to hear about the (apparent) tactical pause by the AI in game 2.
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by jlebar 8y ago
> I think what is going to happen is people are going to realize robot cars are death traps. Drop the "robot" -- it's cleaner.
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by jlebar 8y ago
Direct link to the paper: https://misc0110.net/web/files/netspectre.pdf
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by jlebar 8y ago
As a compiler hacker, I'll posit that LLVM is far easier to hack on. And of course the licensing makes a huge difference. So in terms of mindshare among people who are doing compilers, it's kind of a no-brainer.
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Also, if a group of urban westerners WERE to stop eating such a large quantity of meat en masse, it would have the effect of lowering the price of meat and not the effect of simply reducing the meat eaten in the world. This is equivale
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by jlebar 8y ago
Why does it make sense to compare global CO2 emissions to WeWork's CO2 emissions? One company with one decision making an 0.1% reduction on global CO2 annually sounds pretty darn good to me.
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Eliminating demonstrated interest seems to go against the whole Carnegie Mellon ethos. After all the motto is "My heart is in the work." "Demonstrated interest" is a term of art in college admissions that refers to
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by jlebar 8y ago
"Demonstrated interest" is a term of art in college admissions that refers to demonstrated interest *in attending a particular school". They're not talking about extra-curriculars, which might demonstrate interest in STE
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by jlebar 8y ago
Demonstrated interest in CMU isn't the same thing as demonstrated interest in STEM.

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