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by oflordal 2y ago
You can do that on both HIP and cuda through e.g. hipHostMalloc and the cuda equivalent (Not officially supported on the AMD APUs but works in practice). With a discrete GPU the GPU will access memory across PCIe but on an APU it will go fu
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by oflordal 3y ago
Did anyone evaluate this compared to using api access through an external gui (i.e. continue.dev). For software dev did the cost end up higher? I am thinking this is can be more convenient (and I suppose engineers can more easily use it out
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Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber(blog.waymo.com)
411 points by oflordal 3y ago|373 comments
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by oflordal 4y ago
Any company that are not allowed to share code with third parties either by internal or customer policy. This should be a lot of companies.
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by oflordal 5y ago
ARM big little (which the M1 is at least somewhat based on) was announced the year before the prediction.
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by oflordal 5y ago
No, this is about HW architectures. While they are likely evolving towards one a other there are tile based (like Imagination and ARM Mali) And immediate mode (Nvidia AMD) that both implement the same APIs (OpenGL, Vulkan etc). All these HW
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by oflordal 6y ago
It is as much or more about saving power by reducing costly traffic to the external RAM. For the pathological cases where you don't compress you simple don't save power, on average you do.
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by oflordal 7y ago
If you think it is fun, having a hobby (mturk) that is a small net positive can save you a lot of money compared to having a hobby which is a net loss (most hobbies).
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by oflordal 7y ago
Supposedly the step in the middle is SW optimizations?
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by oflordal 10y ago
This is obviously a nice gesture by Nvidia but I always wonder how can it be legal to have different amounts for father/mothers? Are there no laws on discrimination based on sex in the US?
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by oflordal 10y ago
There are games and experiences that people seems to think are interesting enough to play on the GearVR. The PS4 will be more powerful than the phones powering that. Obviously you have to adjust your expectations compared to the Rift but it
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by oflordal 11y ago
ARMs customer facing code is 100% verilog and this reflects most of the industry.
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Amazon’s now selling its own brand of ARM processors for the connected home(venturebeat.com)
4 points by oflordal 11y ago|0 comments
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by oflordal 11y ago
The greyscale gradient animations that are meant to show banding are full of gif artifacts so they are not actually smooth gradients.
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by oflordal 11y ago
Its been 10 years since standardization and the eda vendors are still whining about SystemVerilog implementation... Interfaces was a great addition it serves more uses that simple structs (which were not available before SystemVerilog eithe
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by oflordal 11y ago
>Not sure what difference the 4 in 764 It says it is a 4 core device.
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AMD announces CUDA support(anandtech.com)
43 points by oflordal 11y ago|6 comments
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by oflordal 11y ago
Here is a video of Pierre Spray (one of the F-16 designers) discussing the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
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by oflordal 11y ago
The testbenches in that directory are supposedly too basic to have been used for development (a few directed test cases per module). I wonder why they wouldn't release the proper testbenches?
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Predicting Eurovision 2015 from Twitter data(astrodataiscool.com)
2 points by oflordal 11y ago|0 comments
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by oflordal 11y ago
KTH in Sweden added a special course that was essentially there to practice for this kind of competitions. "Problem Solving and Programming under Pressure" http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/DD245
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How Some Men Fake an 80-Hour Workweek, and Why It Matters(mobile.nytimes.com)
9 points by oflordal 11y ago|2 comments
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by oflordal 11y ago
I have been thinking this will change as self driving cars becomes more prevalent. Commuting by car is very inefficient since all the time spent driving is wasted (compared to public transport were you can potentially work on the way to wor
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Self-Powered Camera(cs.columbia.edu)
2 points by oflordal 11y ago|0 comments
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FPOP: NFC enabled Ear thermometer on kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
1 points by oflordal 11y ago|0 comments
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by oflordal 12y ago
Säd. Coindidentally the same happened to one of the Oculus founders. http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/oculus-vr-co-founder-andrew...
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by oflordal 12y ago
Being from Sweden with its relatively generous parental leave (~18 months for both parents, a fairly common company perk is to get 6 of these with 90% pay) its hard to understand how especially mothers can return to work already after 12 we
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by oflordal 12y ago
Frankly, I am amazed technical marketing at Semi companies get the specifications right as often as they do. They typically don't get to bother engineering all too much and even if they typically have worked in engineering before they
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by oflordal 12y ago
Try http://www.robozzle.com for a game in similar vein with a bit more depth.
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by oflordal 12y ago
While this may be of little concern, compared to your PS3 this will use significantly less power. Comapred to your TV is is very possible that the ecosystem for this product will be larger.

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