owlbite

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by owlbite 3y ago
10 years ago a crack professor unit was defunded by an academic tribunal for misconduct they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum teaching schedule to the research underground. Today, still wanted by the activist co
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by owlbite 3y ago
Of course, that would require the politicians to first opt their own political calls in to the existing (if largely useless) measures such as the Do Not Call registry.
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by owlbite 3y ago
I think in most deployments, they're not fp32 by the time you're doing inference no them, they've been quantized, possibly down to 4 bits or even fewer. On the training side I wouldn't be surprised if they were bf16 rath
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by owlbite 3y ago
...at least as long as you don't go anywhere near the atomic mess.
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by owlbite 3y ago
It very much depends on the field. Sure there are some where reproduction is a massive time and resource overhead. But we don't even seem to be picking up the low hanging fruit - I used to work as an algorithm researcher, and reproduct
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by owlbite 3y ago
But there's presumably little to stop the NSA asking GCHQ "can you give us a list of US citizen that match profile X", so does the fact that they strip it out of their local copy make a big difference?
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by owlbite 3y ago
It seems odd to focus on the CPU here, when presumably the vast majority of those flops re coming from the NVIDIA parts? Are the CPUs expected to contribute significant compute, as opposed to marshaling data in/out of the real compute
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by owlbite 3y ago
AI safety for a lot of the movie-style concerns is pretty easy: don't connect it to the f*king nuclear launch system you moron. Ensure that any output on the launch decision path is checked by a human that actually engages their brain.
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by owlbite 3y ago
To be fair for charging purposes I find wireless charging so good I never use the cable to charge my phone these days. After moving to the Belkin MagSafe stand it got even better, I think Apple could have easily just stuck with lightning un
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by owlbite 3y ago
This is a right-wing Tory government. The same people who initiated the Brexit mess mainly because they wanted to opt out of human rights (sorry I mean "reclaim their sovereignty").
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by owlbite 3y ago
If a software signing key is compromised it can be revoked and a few weeks later the risk is only to people who don't keep their OS up to date. Further, exploited compromises are detectable, especially if exploited at scale. If the bac
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by owlbite 3y ago
In my experience it largely depends on the field within Software Engineering, and where it blurs into subfields of Applied Math / Engineering. Machine Learning needs some things (mainly "easy" things like matrix multiplicatio
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by owlbite 3y ago
Most of the BLAS implementations are in C/C++/ASM, as they're the small performance critical part. The LAPACK layer above that which calls the BLAS to do the heavy lifting is a much much bigger target, and aside from the most
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by owlbite 3y ago
But this is basically the industry's line. That skill and the right tools are required, otherwise a substandard repair is performed. And for some products that is dangerous.
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by owlbite 3y ago
The only problem with cross-platform standards is they are never performance portable unless they're so high level someone already their primitives have already implemented the algorithm X different ways for you already. For any low le
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by owlbite 3y ago
I've often wondered whether they could "containerize" passengers by having the seating as a whole remove from the plane. People then have all the time in the world to get seated outbound, and additional space to deplane at th
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by owlbite 3y ago
There's also "cover your ass". At least I've heard tales of major aerospace companies keeping warehouses of old sun hardware in case they need to demonstrate the simulations they ran back in the 90s were not fabricated..
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by owlbite 3y ago
Oh, it's entirely possible to get bit-reproducible results. Just not in a performance portable fashion. Different microarchitectures (e.g. how many vector instructions of what size need to be in flight for full occupancy), different nu
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by owlbite 3y ago
Attempting to get bit-exact reproducible results across different hardware is a fool's errand (if you care in the least about performance). The nature of the beast is that as soon as you change the order of arithmetic you're going
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by owlbite 3y ago
My main worry is that by incentivizing customers to install dubious software on their own vehicles in a rent-seeking money grab, manufactures will make us all less safe.
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by owlbite 3y ago
UK MPs: "We're very worried about people debunked due to their repulsive beliefs". Also UK MPs: "We believe ISPs should be able to deinternet people's views based an arbitrary computer models of dubious accuracy.&qu
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by owlbite 3y ago
The Conjugate Gradient Method without the Agonizing Pain https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake-papers/painless-conjugate-grad... Presents a really nice conceptual/intuitive explanation of how/why it works, rather tha
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by owlbite 3y ago
Well apart from when the 15 or so times in the past few years where the value of usdt wasn't the same as usd... https://protos.com/history-of-tethers-peg-every-time-usdt-tr...
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by owlbite 3y ago
The fact that you can represent a graph (the mathematical abstract object) as a diagram is sort of by-the-by here. The most important thing is that graph algorithms and concepts have a strong relation to numerical aspects of the linear alge
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by owlbite 3y ago
Comparing an unregulated industry that seems to uncover a major scam in a major player at least several times a year to the highly regulated stock market in which major scams involving major players are uncovered at a much lower frequency a
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by owlbite 3y ago
Sparse Linear Algebra is Graphs all the way down.
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by owlbite 3y ago
Pretty much any low-level library in userspace as well, though there's a (very slow) move towards more security-focused languages/variants in those areas (probably also true of kernel space). Though C++ creeps in as well (we see a
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by owlbite 3y ago
Owning one of these cars I can tell you it's not worth the money. Drops out of hands free mode every few minutes. The only way I'm paying a goddamn subscription for something like this is when it gets me from A to B without me nee
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by owlbite 3y ago
(and you're still probably better than ChatGPT?)
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by owlbite 3y ago
Also a baseball cap: If I wanted to subscribe to your website, I'd find the link myself.

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