turbo_wombat

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   by turbo_wombat 1y ago

   One of the big changes in the post war era was that immigration was massively opened up in 1965. From 1924 to 1965 the US had very restrictive immigration laws, which led to labor shortages, which allowed unions to become strong, rising wag
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   by turbo_wombat 1y ago

   The original version of Ultima I was written in a mixture of BASIC and assembly. BASIC is pretty slow, but most BASIC implementations let you call into optimized assembly routines. Though, past a certain point of complexity, performance asi
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   by turbo_wombat 1y ago

   They are comparing unoptimized PyTorch inference, something you would never deploy on a device, to a model with custom kernels. Yes, of course the model with custom kernels is faster, whether it's written by a human or an AI. Generally
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   by turbo_wombat 1y ago

   You are asking why save Intel of all chip manufacturers, and the answer is because there aren't any other major chip manufacturers in the US. AMD no longer has a fab. TSMC dominates the global market and basically has no competition. I