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by miloshh 18y ago
For example in academia, being "scooped" is a very often discussed and a very real threat. In the research community, hard-working people that are excellent at execution are a dime a dozen, and ideas that have not been done before are a rea
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by miloshh 18y ago
Especially program transformations, compilation, correctness proofs, model checking... Other ML-style languages might be good too, but Haskell feels cleaner and more modern, and seems to have a more vibrant community these days.
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by miloshh 18y ago
I think physics would be very happy to come up with a theory of "almost everything", like set theory is for mathematics. That would be a huge step forward, and would be completely unaffected by Godel's theorem. Also, the halting problem's i
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by miloshh 18y ago
What exactly are they trying to say? What they don't like and want to change? The Communist Manifesto was similarly arrogant and angry, but at least somewhat understandable. :)
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by miloshh 18y ago
The Larrabee SIMD width will be 16 and NVIDIA's is currently 32, so that's almost the same. Not just the rasterizer, but any application that wants to take full advantage of Larabee will have to use the SIMD vector units to the max. Larrabe
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by miloshh 18y ago
OK, this will take me some time to think about, but I'll get back to you...
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by miloshh 18y ago
No, Larrabee will have exactly the same issues. Except threads will be called fibers, and blocks will be called threads. Read the Larrabee paper from Siggraph 08. The way to get maximum performance out of a given chip area is to use SIMD, a
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by miloshh 18y ago
Hmmm.. OK. You mind posting a link to the pseudo-code of the algorithm? The problem of different number of iterations per thread is quite common, but can often be fixed. If all threads in a block have the same number if iterations, you're f
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by miloshh 18y ago
What are some of these complex tasks you had in mind? I think that almost any computation-bound task, however complex, could benefit from GPU acceleration. But I would like to hear about exceptions.
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by miloshh 18y ago
However, the easy access to graphics hardware is less appealing when you realize it only supports 640x480 and 16 colors. Yes, you could write directly to ports to change the screen mode, but that would break the "non-moving target" argument
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by miloshh 18y ago
I don't agree Matlab is a horror - and I am a CS person, not an "engineer" as you say. It is an excellent domain-specific language. It might not be a good general-purpose language, but it was never intended to be that. True, some of the "bo
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by miloshh 18y ago
If you're affiliated with a university, it's very likely that a Matlab license is already available to you. I do research in graphics, and I find it extremely productive to test ideas in Matlab. you can hardly find a better time-saving proc
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by miloshh 18y ago
The NLP concepts seem so broad and vague that whatever a socially skilled person is saying might be cast in terms of them. For example, can you imagine a single good public speaker that's not doing any "pacing and leading" or "emotion trans
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by miloshh 18y ago
Yes, part of the problem might be that mathematical achievement is not valued highly. But it cannot be the full explanation, since math is unpopular across the world, not just in the US. For example, I'm originally from Eastern Europe, one
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by miloshh 18y ago
I think the way you idealize research is not naive by any means, and you should stick to your view. By all means, one year is not too late - you should change your research project to something that's your very own. If your advisor doesn't
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by miloshh 18y ago
The article has some good points, but Paul Krugman does too. The modern "keynesian" view that the Great Depression was caused by very bad policy of the Fed (keeping very high interest rates and desperately clinging to the gold standard) see