sorenjan

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by sorenjan 6y ago
It's a big problem if you want to use GPGPU in a product shipped to customers, or if you want to do some GPU programming on your own computer in your free time. Keep in mind that not only is it Linux only, it doesn't work on consu
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by sorenjan 6y ago
There are multiple tattoos of Disney and Nintendo characters engaging in various sexual activities, which both companies normally seem allergic to.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
He wants $150,000 for a 32 year old picture. That's just greedy. Imagine how much Disney will make from tattoo royalties if this gets accepted.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
I think it depends on what you call it. Instead of calling it AI or even ML you could call it pattern recognition or automatic model parameter estimation, but it doesn't sound as cool.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Which AMD cards though? It's one thing to be able to buy AMD hardware for your data center or workstations, but as far as I can see their latest consumer platform RDNA2 doesn't support ROCm [0]. Radeon DNA doesn't support Rad
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by sorenjan 6y ago
They shouldn't, it was poor wording from me. What I meant was when will there be non proprietary frameworks available for researchers to use? There's also the issue that by relying on proprietary frameworks that work now, you migh
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by sorenjan 6y ago
SYCL looks nice in theory, but AMD seems determined to stay irrelevant in GPGPU. To use SYCL on AMD you use a backend that targets ROCm, which still doesn't work on Windows. So why would I use that instead of Cuda and just not care ab
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Some things were better back in the day. E-mail could not be invented today, it would be a mix of incompatible mail system like Facebook mail, Google mail, Apple mail, Slack mail, some distributed open source mail nobody used, etc.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
A better question would be when will serious ML researchers stop using proprietary frameworks? The open source projects should work towards using something more open than Cuda, probably Vulkan. It's a real shame that Nvidia has a whole
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by sorenjan 6y ago
And by old, you mean six months?
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Sounds like the Cocktail party problem. https://www.comsol.com/blogs/have-you-heard-about-the-cockta...
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by sorenjan 6y ago
> I don't like taking the dirt from one place to the next, so I buy a new vacuum cleaner every time. That seems extremely wasteful. Why not just emptying the vacuum cleaner before bringing it to the new place? One person buying 20
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by sorenjan 6y ago
I'd say he's almost surely not a cat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Strava even has their own fork of the OSM online editor iD[0], that uses the heatmap data to align (or "slide" [1]) paths to where people have been. I haven't used it in a while, it was pretty slow when I did and I don't
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by sorenjan 6y ago
I usually look at Strava's heatmap when I'm unfamiliar with an area. Chances are if there's a path on the map, it shows up on the heatmap. https://www.strava.com/heatmap
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Why would it be easier for the Americans to spy on Ericsson networks than some German network?
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Cross platform is old school. You can send email between providers, call people on different phones, and access websites without knowing what kind of server they're on, but can you place a video call from Skype to Google Duo? Send mess
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by sorenjan 6y ago
> They were 4mb and 8mb. Yes you read that right, that is "m" as in megabytes. mb is short for millibit, the abbreviation for megabyte is MB (or MiB if you mean 2^20 bytes). I know it's a minor thing, but "m" an
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by sorenjan 6y ago
I walk to the restaurant and get the food myself. I refuse to take part in this gig economy with modern exploited day laborers, and big international companies dipping in to the already small margins of local businesses.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
I don't understand why it's legal. How can it be allowed to send out uncertified software to cars on public roads? Aren't there safety standards that need to be met? I thought that safety critical products where better regula
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by sorenjan 6y ago
> What makes you think Google wants Apple to have the only good smart watch? Wear OS shows how little Google care about good smart watches. It's six years old and still bad, if they wanted it to be good they would've fixed it y
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by sorenjan 6y ago
Turns out Automotive grade is a thing for a reason, and using best practices can be important even if you're an agile and new startup with a lot of hype. > Elon Musk bragged that the Model S's 17 inch screen isn't automoti
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by sorenjan 6y ago
So Telegram stores files at a cost of a few hundred million dollars each year? It sounds a bit unbelievable that a big majority of their operating cost is simply storage, but I really don't know. Anyway, sounds like a great feature tha
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by sorenjan 6y ago
The only time I've seen it used has been by people looking to buy drugs. It's so closely related that a single "wickr?" post on social media is basically synonymous with drug deals.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
I had this exact discussion in another thread here on HN less than 24 hours ago. Being supported by a non-profit is great, but how is that non-profit funded? They still need to pay their bills. Wikimedia get around $120 million in donations
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by sorenjan 6y ago
According to this Wired article [0] from last year, the number of Signal users aren't public, but they've had "more than 10 million downloads on Android" and another 40% on iOS. Lets say 20 million downloads in total. Of
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by sorenjan 6y ago
And according to Telegram's Pavel Durov, "A project of our size needs at least a few hundred million dollars per year to keep going." [0]. So future funding sources will be needed if Signal grows to be a big player. It's
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by sorenjan 6y ago
How is Signal going to fund their operations in the future if they grow to anything close to the other three in size? Donations? Even if they're a non-profit they still need to keep the servers running.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
That's strange, here in Sweden electric heating is seen as old and wasteful. In cities most use district heating, others use heat pumps or some kind of bio fuel. At least for new houses, but it's also common as a retrofit.
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by sorenjan 6y ago
How much of Huawei's research is done in EU? They have at least three research facilities in Sweden alone. Ericsson does a lot of research in the US. All of these companies are global, so to assign their research to only the country wh

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