physicsguy

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by physicsguy 6mo ago
You tend to only learn these things as they become a problem too. That's super super domain specific and it doesn't always translate between areas of research. So for e.g. when I did HPC simulation codes in magnetics, there was li
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
Great way of moving the jobs to London!
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
Think another level of complexity of algorithm, different expansion bases plus a mix of input sources. Also not trying to one-shot it.
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
(a) you're not extracting linked plans in the schema - for anything larger scale than a single house development, this is really common. For e.g. you might have 5-20 different planning applications on the same large(r) site for things
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
I've tried both against similar and haven't found it such a clear cut difference. I still find neither are able to fully implement a complex algorithm I worked on in the past correctly with the same inputs. Not sharing exactly the
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
Rust is terrible for pulling in hundreds of dependencies though. Add tokio as a dependency and you'll get well over 100 packages added to your project.
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
We did it in an engineering setting and had very mixed results. Big 800 page machine manuals are hard to contextualise.
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
My understanding reading it was that PyPi packages is just being used as a proxy variable
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by physicsguy 6mo ago
I worked in an industry for five years and I could feasibly build a competitor product that I think would solve a lot of the problems we had before, and which it would be difficult to pivot the existing ones into. But ultimately, I could ha
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
They had some great video series too which seem to have stopped. Their War Stories gaming interviews were brilliant.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
In my PhD more than a decade ago, I ended up using png image file sizes to classify different output states from simulations of a system under different conditions. Because of the compressions, homogenous states led to much smaller file siz
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
I'm not sure why this is against 'frameworks' per se; if we were sure that the code LLMs could generate was the best possible, we might as well use Assembly, no, since that'd lead to best performance? But we don't g
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
> Costs for all features are shared by all users. To a degree but most enterprise focused software usually has differential pricing. Often that pricing isn't public so different companies get different quotes.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
The other thing is bringing in the knowledge about what other customers in the same field want. For business-focused software this can be a boon, customers often can't really envision the solution to their problem, it's like the H
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
Until a given company decides they need access control for their contractors that's different from their employees, etc. etc. etc. - seen it all before with internal often data scientist written applications that they then try to scale
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
I just don't buy it. Most people who've been in a business SaaS environment know that writing the software is relatively the easy part aside from in very difficult technical domains. The sales cycle + renewals and solution enginee
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
With this, they've not provided an upper bound the error on the kernel expanded with N terms which I think is a big missing piece.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
Yes, agreed. I find it interesting that people are saying they're building these huge multi-agent workflows since the projects I've tried it on are not necessarily huge in complexity. I've tried variety of different things re
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
I've had quite a bit of the "tell it to do something in a certain way", it does that at first, then a few messages of corrections and pointers, it forgets that constraint.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
Even the exact same source code compiled with different compilers, or the same compiler with different compiler options. Intel Compiler for e.g. uses less than IEEE764 precision for floating point ops by default, for example.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
The massive missing factor here is personality. You can be the most impactful person going but if you are an asshole then you won't get promoted. Edit: maybe I should say - an asshole to management, or bring up difficult things, etc.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
How does it compare to Maya these days?
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
Makes a dent when they fire at the high salary end and rehire at lower salaries.
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
What a bizarre comment. Take something like NumPy - has a hard dependency on BLAS implementations where numerical correctness are highly valued for accuracy and require deep thinking for correct implementation as well as for performance. Wr
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
This is a great way of framing it that I'd never thought of before. I worked in engineering software for a long time and because of who we sell to, there's always been a very hard cost-benefit analysis for customers of SaaS in tha
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
This was the norm many years ago, I worked on a simulation software which existed long before Protobuf was even an apple in it's authors eyes. The whole thing was on a server architecture with a Java (later ported to Qt) GUI and a C++
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
The typical way would be to unroll the inner loop manually; often you can get away with: for (int i = 0; i < N; i += SIMD_WIDTH) { for (int j = 0; j < SIMD_WIDTH) { // do code } } but
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
> As a HPC developer, it breaks my heart how worse academic software performance is compared to vendor libraries (from Intel or Nvidia). We need to start aiming much higher. They're optimising for different things really. Intel&#x2F
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by physicsguy 8mo ago
The big thing for me has always been (a) reliability of the hardware (b) good performance/battery trade off (c) nix-like environment. In my prev. job I had a windows laptop with WSL2 though and I actually was super productive with that
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by physicsguy 9mo ago
There is quite possibly an argument that the match should have been cancelled/away fans not issued tickets, the issue is the cover up and dishonesty which is why he has to go.

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