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by martinpw 9y ago
I wish Intel would make their compiler free, or work harder on integrating their optimizations into free compilers. They can't be making much money off it, and it just feels counterproductive to charge customers extra to get the best p
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by martinpw 9y ago
> Global warming should be making record weather events more common Not necessarily. If there was no long term warming trend, records would become less common over time, since they would be weather-related random values and there are mor
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by martinpw 9y ago
I believe some (all?) new Intel processors have built-in hardware components which are a source of truly random numbers.
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/update-on-genome-seque... Interestingly the cost had not dropped in the past two years. Also the graph references genome.gov but that site appears to be unavailable at the mom
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by martinpw 9y ago
Looks like even less than 30% - the chart in this article shows panels are only around 10% of total cost for residential, meaning further panel price declines now have very little effect: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017&#x2
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by martinpw 9y ago
There is this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20816312 "Compared to the 48 hours pre-exposure, participants interacted with significantly more people, and in significantly larger groups, during the 48 hours i
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by martinpw 9y ago
Had an office where, every Thursday, one developer's machine would reboot at the same time late in the evening. It didn't happen to anyone else. Eventually he decided to stay late one Thursday and watch it to see what happened. At
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by martinpw 9y ago
If you go here: https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/ Then select "Operating System" and submit, you can see the OSs that used to be run on systems over the past 10 years.
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by martinpw 9y ago
That article was a fascinating read. Thank you.
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Also an article here on impact of sand mining on rivers in India: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/magazine/sand-mining-indi...
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> Is it okay for an engineer to take responsibility for a client and reach out to them directly instead of through an middle man support? The problem with this is that the client now has your direct contact information. If you help them
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by martinpw 9y ago
Not quite what you are asking, but related, is the idea of evaporative cooling of beliefs, a selection effect where over time the more objective and rational holders of a belief are persuaded by the evidence that their belief is incorrect,
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> Assuming these traces were typical could lead architecture designers to optimize for cases found more rarely in commercial computing workloads. At the time Itanium was actively being pushed by Intel I was working for a company building
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by martinpw 10y ago
The LA Times popup says: "To read today's stories, please turn off your ad blocker or subscribe". That "or" implies a subscription should allow you to browse ad-free. Is that intended to be true? I actually purchase
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by martinpw 10y ago
The more recent results referenced in this thread were with viable embryos: "The latest study is the first to describe the results of using CRISPR in viable human embryos, New Scientist can reveal."
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by martinpw 10y ago
Indeed. I was hoping that the blog post would conclude with a section describing how they had learned an important lesson and would now be much more strict about dealing with this compiler warning in particular, and indeed compiler warnings
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by martinpw 10y ago
I'm having trouble finding good references now, but I am sure I remember reading that is was simply slowing the clock. In my case, yes, Skylake would still be a win over older hardware, but the question is whether to use AVX512 or not.
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by martinpw 10y ago
> I bet if you're using Intel MLK for example, it will probably "magically" get faster on these Skylake machines by using AVX512 automatically. (Aside, I think you mean MKL.) There is a 200MHz clock reduction when running
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1.6million.
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For the specific case of public university tuition costs, this analysis from the UC system suggests the increase it is primarily due to reduced government funding, requiring students to make up the difference: http://www.ppic.org
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by martinpw 10y ago
Apparently it is a quote from Herodutus, so the reference dates back a long way but that does not necessarily mean it is true: http://skepticalphilosopher.blogspot.com/2009/09/persian-str...
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by martinpw 10y ago
Kumatos are pretty flavorful. In the US you can get them at Trader Joe's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumato
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> When ontop of oscillations, they are never obvious from the vantage point of a single wiggle. I am reminded of the Martin Luther King quote: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
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by martinpw 10y ago
> Mind you, for movies where the majority of many shots are CGI-composited (or for works that are just plain-old digital animation in their entirety), the 3D is "free": you have a 3D master whether you want one or not, and any
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by martinpw 10y ago
My best friend and I both did PhDs in astronomy starting at the same time, me in the UK, him in the US. I completed in 4 years, he took 9 years. The big difference was that the PhD in the UK launched you straight into research on day 1. No
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Reminds me of this interesting case of a piece of land between Egypt and Sudan that neither side wants, because having ownership would mean conceding ownership of a second larger piece of land to the other country: https://en.wik
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by martinpw 10y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens with VR games. With a regular game you can always do something else - check your phone, walk away for a moment. In VR you are stuck staring at a loading screen unable to easily do anything else. We
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by martinpw 10y ago
I remember seeing a booth for the NSA at the Supercomputing conference a few years ago on the show floor. The floor was full of huge expensive noisy booths from big corporations, universities and other government agencies. In contrast the N
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There is no multi-socket Phi - I asked about it at an Intel booth at a conference a while back and was told the delta between memory bandwidth and inter-socket bandwidth would be so great that it would not be a useful configuration. I belie
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I did a book a couple of years back. Motivations were: - I have been working in a particular speciality long enough that I felt I had something worth sharing with others, and was also lucky enough to be in a company that allowed me to write

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