lcnielsen

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by lcnielsen 4mo ago
> AI accelerators used in DC are not really "graphic cards" any more, you ain't running gaming on it I think the lighter 40 series cards like L40 still have OK graphics features. But otherwise yeah, after the Ampere genera
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by lcnielsen 9mo ago
This is a feature I've been waiting for for a long time - finally, something that makes File Explorer _slower_.
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by lcnielsen 10mo ago
Except literally everyone who needs a functioning queue system.
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by lcnielsen 10mo ago
I'm not going to say Slurm is great (its API:s are awfully inconsistent and there's a lot of code churn between versions leading to subtle behaviour changes in prod), but it's an invaluable and reliable tool. As someone who m
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
There's a ton but it's pretty scattered. Yurii Nesterov's a big name, for example.
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
Yeah, I did a lot of traditional optimization problems during my Ph. D., this type of expression pops up all the time with higher-order gradient-based methods. You rescale or otherwise adjust the gradient based on some system-characteristic
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
> No one is locked into Offive because of file formats A lot of people are locked in because those import/export features are typically imperfect (or perhaps the documents themselves are) and will badly and often "invisibly&quo
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
> Looking at Latex, I don't think hand tuning some parameters until you get right look in every single case is much better user experience... Having written many papers, reports and my entire Ph. D. thesis in Latex, and also moved b
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
Plus with any kind of effort put into a standard browser setting you could easily have some granularity, like: accept anonymous ephemeral data collected to improve website, but not stuff shared with third parties, or anything collected for
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
Because they track usage stats for site development purposes, and there was no convergence on an agreed upon standard interface for browsers since nobody would respect it. Their banners are at least simple yes/no ones without dark patt
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
Yeah, but the only reason for this time wasteage is because website operators refuse to accept what would become the fallback default of "minimal", for which they would not need to seek explicit consent. It's a kind of arbitr
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
I don't think the cookie law is that impractical? It's easy to comply with by just not storing non-essential user information. It would have been completely nondisruptive if platforms agreed to respect users' defaults via bro
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
The kind of CUDA you or I would write is not very hardware specific (a few constants here and there) but the kind of CUDA behind cuBLAS with a million magic flags, inline PTX ("GPU assembly") and exploitation of driver/firmwa
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
> funny how efficient markets work. Can one really speak of efficient markets when there are multiple near molopolies at various steps in the production chain with massive integration, and infinity amounts of state spending in the proces
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
The problem with those are the iffy headless support. For Gnome it kind of works as long as you don't run into keyring issues (you will, the credentials management for gnome-remote-desktop is terrible compared to eg xrdp), don't n
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by lcnielsen 1y ago
This is literally the best thing about Unix tools. You can write a compact little Awk script and pipe that with a few coreutils to parse mountains of text into sensible data. I use this kind of thing every day.
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by lcnielsen 2y ago
I spent a substantial part of my Ph.D. dealing with this stuff, existing frameworks and algorithms were not suitable for our exact use-case and implementation. I had more bugs/artefacts than I'd like to admit due to some off-by-le