trostaft

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by trostaft 3y ago
The title appears to match the one on the article (unless they're doing some title fuzzing)?
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by trostaft 3y ago
Disclaimer, this is out of my field. Essentially: Spherical harmonics are one of the classic methods to solve PDEs on spheres, modeling complex processes like climate change, or black hole physics, etc. The spherical harmonic transform is p
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by trostaft 3y ago
Frankly, I got over the curve by forcing myself to write a lot of it. I learned about the language back when I was a freshman in undergrad, and I intentionally just did everything in it. Not just my math and computer science work (but abs
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by trostaft 3y ago
Yes, I've looked at this. It looks great, and the templates functionality is precisely what makes LaTeX is the standard, and so it's clear they understand what it takes to replace the language. As it stands, LaTeX is deeply entren
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by trostaft 3y ago
Intuition and rigor are the 'yin and yang' of conducting interesting applied math research (specializing to my field because that's all I can speak to). Initial research is almost entirely driven by intuition. Experimentation
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by trostaft 3y ago
I write LaTeX pretty much every day (math graduate student), and I like LaTeX quite a bit. It's a piece of software that solves a difficult problem, and after the (admittedly nearly vertical) learning curve, you can quite easily produc
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by trostaft 3y ago
> but to make sure a grad student can spend a $50k grant. As a graduate student, thank you. Thankfully, my workloads aren't LLM crazy so I can get by on my old NVIDIA consumer hardware, but I have coworkers struggling to get reasona
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by trostaft 3y ago
Why even require an inner product! You can get away with a lot just sitting in an Banach space (only a norm required).
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by trostaft 3y ago
I feel like this is a niche that smartphones haven't hit. Perhaps we'll have to wait until it's 'easy' to manufacture phones, but I would be extremely interested in something more customizable on the hardware and&#x
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by trostaft 3y ago
That's supposed to be for tomorrow, IIRC
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by trostaft 3y ago
Yep, seeing it on my end. Just as I go to send in an issue...
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by trostaft 3y ago
Indeed, developing directly on the smartphone would be ridiculous. But, to be honest, I have similar feelings to developing directly on a laptop. There's no position I can place it at to have an ergonomic position; I always end up feel
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by trostaft 3y ago
There's tildes, whose creator (guy who wrote reddit's AutoModerator) explains it better than I. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Only thing is that it's invite only at the moment... And I seem to hav
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by trostaft 3y ago
Yes, but I don't think its debatable to say that the entire ecosystem is firmly behind NVIDIA's. Usually it comes as a surprise when something does support their framework, whether directly ROCm or even HIP which should be easier.
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by trostaft 3y ago
Perhaps you should link to the actual article, as opposed to the reddit thread about the article... https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/reddit-blackout-date-end-...
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by trostaft 3y ago
This project has been unmaintained for a while. Both Intel and AMD have the opportunity to create some actual competition for NVIDIA in the GPGPU space. Intel, at least, I can forgive since they only just entered the market. Why AMD has str
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by trostaft 3y ago
I agree, particularly because I think smaller communities are a solution to the moderation problems that have plagued traditional megaplatforms. That or developing better NLP tools that are able to better understand human nuance in a commen
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by trostaft 3y ago
There was a brief period where the internet was shockingly stable. However, 'creative destruction' and churn is inevitable as the whole world continues to desire a better internet. If reddit cannot productively use this to come ou
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by trostaft 3y ago
Copilot is designed for code, but it can still be used for whatever you want. I found it useful when writing latex files, even for the text explanation portions as opposed to the text markup 'code'. There was a y combinator thread
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by trostaft 3y ago
Did the same, but I took a step further and deleted my account. I had been using the site for over a decade, I knew that if I didn't cut off the path behind me I'd be tempted to linger. I'll miss my local and hobby subreddits
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by trostaft 5y ago
I think this depends on the college. Because mine barely gave a shit about pre-reqs and frequently let me swap requirements / graduate for undergraduate courses. It's a culture thing, and how annoying the admin culture is there.