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by rpep 4y ago
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy. He also wrote an excellent book about Chernobyl which I read last year.
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by rpep 4y ago
On top of that, you almost certainly do not want to instantiate an N x N matrix, because sparsity is an important factor in most real problems.
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by rpep 4y ago
There’re many people doing larger matrices, but of course they’re mostly sparse and so this isn’t relevant to them.
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by rpep 4y ago
I think there are some things this misses about the scientific ecosystem in Universities/etc. that can make the cloud more attractive than it first appears: * If you want to run really big jobs e.g. with multiple multi-GPU nodes, this
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by rpep 4y ago
> I think it's storing array data as-is in straight binary. You can't infer the stride from the raw binary; a 2-D array [[1, 2], [3, 4]] in C ordering just looks like: 1,2,3,4 and in Fortran ordering it's 1,3,2,4 So there
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by rpep 4y ago
There's quite a bit of magic hiding under this. For e.g., try creating a NumPy array with different orderings, and the metadata looks the same: import asdf import numpy as np x = np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4]], order="C") y = np.a
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by rpep 4y ago
> can break things that there's no way to know until production I would argue that any production system should have enough tests that upgrading a dependency that breaks compatibility should cause failure of the test suite in some w
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by rpep 4y ago
... yes, I am actually.
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by rpep 4y ago
My surname is Pepper and it didn't come up with me :D
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by rpep 4y ago
Porting x86 to ARM is not really that difficult. You've got to recompile your code on the different machine anyway, so the architecture itself shouldn't be the major barrier.
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by rpep 4y ago
This must be regional, because it certainly doesn't show that for me in the UK, top two results are the wikipedia articles for the vegetable (capsicum) and black pepper.
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by rpep 4y ago
Google Voice only works in the US so not an option for most people.
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by rpep 4y ago
The Metaverse is just an example of everything that's wrong with it. Why would anyone want to spend time in something that looks horrendously outdated?