readonlybarbie

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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
if you are targeting more than one specific platform, do you like, include the immintrin.h header and use #ifdef to conditionally use avx512 if it's available on someone's platform?
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
so then, if i want my code to "explicitly" use avx512, i have to do something like this? ``` void myNotOptimizedThing(my_data* d){ _SPECIAL_CPU_MANUFACTURER_0X3D512(d); } ``` edit: and include some header from the manufacturer m
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
thanks for that! so it sounds like, if i purchase a chip that supports avx512, and run an operating system and compiler that supports avx512, i can write "plain old c code" with a minimal amount of compiler arguments and compile t
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Noob question- must one write avx512 assembly directly by hand, or is this something a c compiler would do for you?
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
In the event that you don't purchase any physical parts for making controllable robots, you'll find similarities in programming game physics, which really is just a simulation of the world we live in and how to propell an object a
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Very interesting perspective, considering that iirc, failure to report the specific crime of child sex trafficking / rape is a crime itself.
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
I think we've hit the point where trying to point fingers at certain ideologies is yielding, well, absolutely 0 returns. If someone has no solutions and only excuses, it doesn't really help the situation anymore, and the area will
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Attention any quant firms-- I'll do it for 250k, 80 hours a week, 24/7 on call, fire me if I don't deliver satisfactory results. 10 years of experience in Cpp, Java, Javascript, Python, SQL, the last 5 of which as a lead (aka
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
While I agree all of these scenarios are good reasons to leave, I have a feeling (based on being an American for all 30 years of my life now), these answers would be classified as "TOO REAL" and as a result you might be filtered f
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
What you are describing at the old company is not a failure of old tools, but rather a failure of management/employee self-management at that company. Any tool can be used to do good or evil. They were using old tools to do evil things
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
How can we more effectively show a robot that circular objects with a certain position, scale, rotation, mass, color/pattern, or an arbitrary label ("that thing over there") is what we want? Seems like a fun question to solve
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
They've been plugging it elsewhere for quite some time now.
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
The first interesting thing I'm told is that real biological neurons operate as booleans in the real world, whereas in computer land I'm told it is preferable to use float neurons. I suppose that you could chain biology neurons to
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Totally agree. Better to evaluate something by its array of capabilities, rather than if it fits a label that has a murky definition :)
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
I think the key word in that quote is "any" intellectual task. I don't think we are far from solving all of the mobility and vision-related tasks. I am more concerned though if the definition includes things like philosophy a
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Ok, so now we just have to define "AGI" then. A robot, which knows its physical capabilities, which can see the world around it through a frustrum and identifies objects by position, velocity, rotation, which understands the passa
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Agreed, but I also wonder if this is a "necessary" requirement. A robot, perhaps pretrained in a highly accurate 3d physics virtual simulation, which has an understanding of how it can move itself and others in the world, and how
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
This is an interesting comment. I agree that I hear the "all we need is 86 billion neurons and we will habe parity with the human brain", and I feel it is dubious to think this way because there is no reason why this arbitrary num
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
As a professional programmer and a relatively optimistic AGI enthusiast, why would the current ML methods not work, given sufficient CPU/RAM/GPU/latency/bandwidth/storage? In theory, as long as you can translate you
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Agreed, with the only caveat being, there is a chance that the current favorable market conditions for programmers disappears. There might come a day where companies believe that the value of slapping a few potentially buggy libraries toget
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
I was very confused as to why people had believed that passport control and property registrar records had less weight in an investigation compared to a pizza box.
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by readonlybarbie 4y ago
Which is kind of a shame, to be honest. I would dare say that even x86 assembly is less complicated to understand than many of these libraries, where time is spent trying to memorize their semantics rather than understanding how data is m