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by jlebar 3y ago
Oh wow, I think this translates PTX (nvidia's high-level assembly code) to SPIR-V? Am I reading this right? That's...a lot. A note to any systems hackers who might try something like this, you can also retarget clang's CUDA
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by jlebar 3y ago
Because reduced demand for home purchases presumably means increased demand for renting. People have to live one way or another.
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by jlebar 3y ago
I don't think I agree with the principle of, if you can ignore the hate speech it's actually a pretty egalitarian place. Like you say, it's not egalitarian towards those who don't have an easy time ignoring the hate sp
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by jlebar 3y ago
I was 100% prepared to believe that the length of empty string in js is 7. Then upon opening the post I was 100% ready to believe that js has three different string length functions that all handle Unicode differently.
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by jlebar 3y ago
For example, to evaluate something as simple as 1.3+2.4, you need an exact model of your target architecture's fp unit. If you want to cross compile, generate code for x86 while running the compiler on anything other than x86, this mea
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by jlebar 3y ago
Prior art: https://www.arthurganson.com/concrete-1
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by jlebar 4y ago
Waymo | Bay Area and Remote within the USA | Full-time I'm hiring for the team I lead at Waymo. We're GPU experts who care about latency on the car. Before coming to Waymo, I lead the CPU/GPU parts of XLA, the compiler for T
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by jlebar 4y ago
I've found it really useful for explaining mathematical concepts using the notation and terminology I'm comfortable with . For example, GPT-4 gave me the first explanation of backwards-input and backwards-filter convolutions that
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by jlebar 4y ago
> Should language be precise, or nice? [...] Maybe freedom of thought, and the ugliness beyond, is something that should only be allowed in ones own head? I don't think that asking people to say "died by suicide" rather th
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by jlebar 4y ago
Right. And I am saying, Deaf people, and other people who don't think they have a disability, are asking for us not to say that they do when they don't think they do. And the answer from some quarters seems to be, I think "
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by jlebar 4y ago
The entire point of this linguistic exercise is that your opinion that you would not give up your ability to hear is no more or less valid than someone's opinion to the contrary.
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by jlebar 4y ago
> But.. disability is abnormal and negative? How tortured of a definition of 'normal' must one use to make blindness normal? And I suspect if the author of that sentence were offered, say, $100,000 to undergo a painless but irr
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by jlebar 4y ago
> The mental contortions required to conclude that "committed suicide" trivializes something, but "died by suicide" doesn't, are so extreme that I cannot believe anyone honestly holds that opinion. I think the no
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by jlebar 4y ago
> What is so hard about the concept of allowing people to be wrong about things? Because democratic society requires us to agree on basic facts in order to function. "People are wrong about" things like: - who got more votes in
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by jlebar 4y ago
I will never forget the conversation I had with someone about competitive Excel. Them: It's a real thing, I was watching on YouTube! Me: I know, it's pretty awesome/hilarious. Them: Yeah, and they treat it like a real e-sport
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by jlebar 4y ago
> A while back I invested in 3M because it's a company that makes so many amazing and industry leading products and I thought they'd do well. A couple years later and the stock is just lagging. The relevant question isn't
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by jlebar 5y ago
I remember being disappointed by this book. I wanted to read about algorithms for choosing a random float in [0,1], and IIRC its only suggestion was randint()/INT_MAX. This is wrong in part because the smallest nonzero value you'
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by jlebar 5y ago
If you like that you may also like https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html (Also "Hackers Delight" if you really can't get enough of it.)
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by jlebar 5y ago
Presumably they're talking about putative electric heating, not cooking.
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by jlebar 5y ago
> What most people don’t know is: Gas fees on Ethereum are supposed to be high. Count me among those not in the know! I...really don't get it. Bitcoin was supposed to be a currency. Then we realized that it's too slow and too
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by jlebar 5y ago
I do "love" how a wrong, one-sentence comment spawns so much argument. So many person-hours spent arguing this point online. So much of our lives. I'm as guilty as anyone. Yes, "someone's wrong on the Internet&quo
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by jlebar 5y ago
> Why is no one bothering to claim it? I think of that old joke: >>>> The young economist looks down and sees a $20 bill on the street and says, "Hey, look a twenty-dollar bill!" Without even looking, his older and
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by jlebar 5y ago
Death is not the only risk from this disease. Young people are at risk of getting long covid, for example. https://www.mattbell.us/delta-and-long-covid/
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by jlebar 5y ago
Yeah, sorry, I misunderstood. Do you think it's impossible that the virus actually did infect you the second time, just asymptomatically?
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by jlebar 5y ago
> There is no scientific proof, e.g. RCT, that lockdowns work Nor that parachutes work! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
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by jlebar 5y ago
> Who cares how many people are vaccinated, what the goal should be is reducing hospitalizations, deaths and long-Covid I mean, sure, but in our toolbox of interventions, vaccination is far and away the best one we have in service of tho
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by jlebar 5y ago
If you lose friends, family, and love interests because of your position on covid vaccines, I hate to break it to you, but this consequence was not imposed by a corporation. It was imposed by your friends, family, and love interests, who,
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by jlebar 5y ago
> if you're under 50 and have no comorbidity, you're not at risk. This is exactly the kind of false information the YouTube ban is about. You're proving how we need it.
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by jlebar 5y ago
Do you take seriously the proposition that more than 100k Americans could die from the vaccine without us noticing? This would easily put it in the top 10 causes of death in America. And presumably this w would be happening worldwide, at
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by jlebar 5y ago
People like you who had a mild case may benefit most from the vaccine, because you may be the least likely to have developed long-lasting antibodies. You've seen what the virus can do. Why chance it? I'm sorry to hear about your

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