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by jlebar 9y ago
> On the other hand, I believe Google is working on a CUDA compiler [1] Hi, I'm one of the developers of the open-source CUDA compiler. It's not actually a separate compiler, despite what that paper says. It's just plain,
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Conferences, Inclusion, and My Axe(medium.com)
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by jlebar 10y ago
I went to Stanford, class of 2010. I got a BS and MS in computer science; the MS was with Stanford's "coterm" program where you can earn credits towards your master's degree during your four years as an undergrad. * wha
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by jlebar 10y ago
It feels like there is a huge amount of money lost on inefficient markets and efforts. It's a feeling . But is it reality? That's a question for spreadsheets and numbers, not our feelings. Are there countries that are 25% mor
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by jlebar 10y ago
On what basis do you think that you think you can write off 25% of non-military non-debt government spending? Is that just a hunch? I would suggest trying it sometime. Look at the US government budget, and try to cut out 25% of it. It is
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by jlebar 10y ago
The problem I have, and that I think many people have, is that fraction: 30/60 = 1/2 = getting a bit silly. But why ? I mean, are you just rationalizing? "I think 50% taxes is a lot just because I do, therefore I think i
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by jlebar 10y ago
* "At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books." * Copy-paste error caused a dropped exponent. It's 10^4677 books.
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by jlebar 10y ago
(Though the New York Times might represent the leading edge of the change in popular opinion.) Note this is an AP article.
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by jlebar 10y ago
> NB: there is a lot of new information in this article. It's a great read. I hope those who were poo-poo'ing NYT for its earlier article being a softball will reconsider that criticism. Journalism takes more time than writing
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by jlebar 10y ago
Why no AMD GPU support? I think it just reflects the team's internal priorities. Patches are welcome; we want people to use this system. It wouldn't even be tremendously hard. The XLA IR --> LLVM IR backend is relatively si
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by jlebar 10y ago
> Do you assume you always have CUDA sources for ML operations in XLA? I was under the impression that closed-source libraries like cuDNN were used. Yes, XLA calls into cudnn and cublas. It's not a fundamental architectural thing,
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by jlebar 10y ago
Honestly for those of us in machine learning, I think something like XLA will likely win over both paradigms. (Disclaimer, I work on XLA.) https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/experimental/xla/ XL
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by jlebar 10y ago
You may also enjoy my video from last year's cppcon about CUDA, which is in some ways higher level, and in others much lower level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHa-OSrZPGo
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by jlebar 10y ago
> I'm sure there are similar facts telling us that without smart kids around other kids can be harmed in similar ways My point is that rather than assuming things we think are probably are true, we should try to argue from data. Es
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by jlebar 10y ago
> Even if you were to create a special "school for smart people only" and magically teleport all geeks there, I wouldn't be sure it would eliminate the problem of geeks being bullied. First, note that the standard the scho
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by jlebar 10y ago
Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to engage with the scientific literature cited in this article? These arguments are considered. Indeed, even in TFA: > Failing to provide an appropriate education for students who are gifted incr
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by jlebar 10y ago
I think you're applying a very ungenerous reading to the parent. The parent's argument is exactly the same if we change "giving people food" to "giving people who have food that isn't suitable for them food tha
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by jlebar 10y ago
It's important to remember that the Constitution is, in effect, more than just the text as you read it. All parts of the law, but particularly the Constitution, are "interpreted" by the judiciary, and these interpretations
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by jlebar 10y ago
Man, I would love to try these out. Are they available for purchase?
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by jlebar 10y ago
I use https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Leight-Visibility-Disposable-L... . They are pretty comfortable after you get used to them.
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by jlebar 10y ago
> Has anyone tried earmuffs worn at gun ranges instead and if so are they uncomfortable if worn for prolonged periods ? I use such a pair at work: https://www.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-Over-Earmuffs-X5A/dp/B01MG1...
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by jlebar 10y ago
So complain about Uber. There's lots to complain about, for sure. But don't make it about the "serfdom economy" or tech in general. Seriously, we're sitting here on our pocket supercomputers [1] using wireless cit
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by jlebar 10y ago
> The point is that most people as the supplier aren't doing Uber, AirBnB, etc because they like it. They're doing it because they don't have any other good alternatives. Well, sure. Why is it the fault of Uber/AirBnB
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by jlebar 10y ago
No, they cannot with the U2F protocol (as implemented by yubikey). The simplified version is, Google sends the browser a one-time key, which the browser forwards to the HW token to sign with its private key. Then the browser sends this bac
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by jlebar 10y ago
My wife has art history and philosophy undergrad degrees, from Duke. She then went and got an architecture degree from Columbia, and now she's a practicing architect. This was actually a somewhat reasonable progression, although if sh
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by jlebar 10y ago
Note that GPGPU compilers have the same sorts of problems; see e.g. https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27738 .
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by jlebar 10y ago
While I have your attention, I'd like to register a concern about this bright line it sounds like you're trying to draw. A tactic currently being employed by Trump is to claim that questions of fact or science are actual political
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by jlebar 10y ago
Understood. I wonder if you could suggest a better way to phrase this point. Like, is it out of bounds to say that someone's comment here and comments in the past sound to me like Chinese propaganda? I guess that is what I was trying
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by jlebar 10y ago
It is the opinion of almost every other country in the world that these are international waters. China doesn't get to change the facts of international law just by claiming there's a "dispute". I looked back through yo
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by jlebar 10y ago
> gcc -O1 -o fft-test fft-test.c fft-portable.c -lm -O1 instructs the compiler to leave some optimizations on the table. If you want the fastest code the compiler can generate, you want -O2 or -O3. This is true for clang and gcc.

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