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by subharmonicon 3y ago
Yes, I completely understand the reason for the dialects. I’ve been working on compilers for decades, and what’s interesting about MLIR is that it’s a bit of an anachronistic approach. People used to write optimizers with multiple levels of
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
It’s not clear that all these dialects are actually helping things, or that the design of something from which it’s easy to make new dialects is that helpful. Why? I attended an MLIR online meeting months back and there was someone presenti
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Stan Lippman has died (2022)(en.wikipedia.org)
101 points by subharmonicon 3y ago|17 comments
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by subharmonicon 3y ago
I don’t get the sense that this is what the parent comment is talking about at all. Not to mention that GPUs already execute in-order (at least any that I’m familiar with). They do have multiple execution pipelines, but instruction fetch&#x
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
It’s not that simple, although it may seem that way for some people. Twice I have been on very extreme calorie counting regimens for months at a time combined with substantial weight lifting and cardio. Both times I have observed that if I
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
It’s hard to fathom how the upper management of these companies couldn’t see this coming when they were binging on hiring. Did they really believe we were in some new era of pandemic-fueled hyper-growth and that they would be less competiti
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
I remember in the late 70’s or early 80’s riding my bicycle to the convenience store to buy my mother a carton of cigarettes. Technically I think you needed to be seventeen to purchase them in Michigan at that time, but I just told the pers
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America, the Bland(nytimes.com)
3 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|1 comments
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Do Americans Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ Because of a Frat Party?(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|0 comments
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Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater(smithsonianmag.com)
890 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|195 comments
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
> Although the findings are deeply fascinating the researchers do indicate they need to be interpreted with caution. The cohort of subjects is incredibly small, and while the researchers did try to match the control group as closely as p
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ChatGPT Is a Mirror of Our Times(nautil.us)
3 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|0 comments
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391043 Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34409204 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34409860
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391043
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391043
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The November 2020 landslide, tsunami, and outburst flood at Elliot Creek(nautil.us)
26 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|6 comments
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Hadn’t seen that - thanks for the link to the previous discussion!
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Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures (2022)(alain.xyz)
4 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|0 comments
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‘Depression Rooms’ and ‘Doom Piles’: Why Clearing Clutter Can Feel Impossible(nytimes.com)
17 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|4 comments
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Drying Great Salt Lake could expose millions to toxic arsenic-laced dust(smithsonianmag.com)
26 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|11 comments
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
From the draft recommendation, it looks like this is the eligibility criteria: VIII. Eligibility for Reparations Checklist for eligibility: REQUIRED: - An individual who has identified as ‘Black/African American’ on public documents fo
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
It’s not clear from the article that it’s a requirement. It says “may”: “They may also have to prove they were born in the city between 1940 and 1996, have resided in San Francisco for at least 13 years, and be someone, or the direct descen
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Here’s one example: The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/820181127... “… 40 years after the internment camps
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Title modified to fit limit. Originally: “$5 million for each longtime Black resident? S.F. has a bold reparations plan to consider”
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$5M for each longtime Black resident? S.F. reparations plan to consider(sfchronicle.com)
17 points by subharmonicon 4y ago|25 comments
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Not disputing this, but my observation is that if that’s true he is hardly alone amongst people working in this space. I’ve seen multiple people over the last 15 years say that we’re 3-5 years out from a breakthrough that will result in 120
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
Rather than “well meaning members of the public”, I think the larger problem is with health and science reporting which frequently reports findings of very small studies as if they are definitive fact, with very prominent and provocative he
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
From what I have read in the past this is just how the funding tends to work. You write a grant proposal for a study with 20 people, get funding, get results, use that to get funding for another study with 200, then 2000, etc. Frequently th
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
This was just step one: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/technology/elon-musk-twit... Many more let go since, and many resignations as well. Perhaps you’re nitpicking layoff vs fire, but the company ha
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by subharmonicon 4y ago
I’ve always enjoyed “programming in the small” more than “programming in the large”, especially when the latter is in a position where I am part of a huge machine shipping a huge product to a large number of users, which has been most of my

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