pokeypokes

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by pokeypokes 3y ago
Important to understand that with these kinds of libraries, it's one thing to get everything working, and a whole other to have it all be fast. Given finite resources AMD are (rightfully) focused on the second, for a narrower set of us
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
I have the book but didn't know about these, thanks for the link!
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
Do you work at AMD and therefore have some kind of insight that we don't? Based on my own experience it's much more likely the call was just a marketing exercise, completely orthogonal to actual development. Gfx drivers are compli
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
Feeling frustration about something not working is a normal part of software development. Reporting a bug, or choosing not to use that software are normal too. Making a public video trashing the work of 100s, using the language he did, is a
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
What contributions did he make to ROCm?
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
Didn't he just find/report a bug in the multi-gpu case? Then have a melt-down after an AMD engineer sent him a fix a couple of days later? I think you are overstating his contributions, in fact it's not clear to me he made an
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
A non-trivial amount of effort has gone (and is going) into this, see the Hipify tool.
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
The overwhelmingly most valuable (and difficult) part of copilot is the work done by openAI. You're acting like you single handedly built it. I can't stand working with people like you, classic main character syndrome.
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by pokeypokes 3y ago
Seriously, I'm shocked at these other replies. How can you see someone like this and not help? Nobody is asking anyone to get in a knife fight, but at the very least call someone. If I just left someone to die like that it would be har
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by pokeypokes 4y ago
Yeah the parent comment kinda reads like "optimizing matrix multiplication isn't hard if someone abstracts away all the hard parts for me"
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by pokeypokes 4y ago
John Henry wasn't hammering those spikes for fun mate. Many of us (idealistically) work on tech with the goal of freeing us to spend time on things like your examples.
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by pokeypokes 4y ago
I don't see a contradiction.. Humans can both be intelligent and overestimate that intelligence (by thinking it's special and unobtainable) at the same time.
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by pokeypokes 4y ago
"It's just a parrot" parroted repeatedly to suggest a lack of deeper understanding, while revealing the same.. So meta. The general reaction of people to all this has been one of the most interesting things about it imo. Earl