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by varelse 7y ago
3/4 of academic positions are now non-tenured. When I left academia at the end of a 4-year post-doc in the late 90s, I more than tripled my salary in a day. These days, it would be more like ~10x. Without tenure, what possible reason
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by varelse 7y ago
If you don't have a fundamentally serial workload (and usually either you don't or you have a lot of them you can parallelize across tasks) and you are willing to write bespoke CUDA code for that workload, Nvidia is telling the
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by varelse 7y ago
Sure, but the really lucky break IMO was a decade of INTC repeatedly punching itself in the face w/r to manycore computation. I was at Nvidia from 2001 to 2011 (and now back) and I spent 2006-2011 as one of the very first CUDA program
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by varelse 7y ago
If you have a successful kickstarter campaign and you fail to deliver, that's on you. There's no Big Gaming conspiracy that caused you to fail. You did that all on your own. And people who continue to throw good money after bad
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by varelse 7y ago
Going out on a ledge, 100 years is a really long time technologically speaking... As such, I don't think we'll literally program computers in 100 years so much as think about problems whilst connected to some sort of cybernetic sy
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by varelse 7y ago
See also "The Revolution Will Not Be Supervised" from CS294-158... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX11C5Vfo9U
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Noted, edited... Time to buzz the server tower?
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by varelse 7y ago
In a desperate attempt to get me to take Xeon Phi seriously, Intel once sent me a free Xeon Phi server. I still have the thing, but because the boards were passively cooled, the server fans sounded like an F-14 (edited) trying to take off
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by varelse 7y ago
>One does have to ask, though, why the Democrats have resolutely refused to acknowledge that this is how the electoral college works, and pay more attention to winning in rural and small states. Nailed it. I lost almost all respect for
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by varelse 7y ago
Points 3 and 4 personally. Feel free to disagree, but some of the homeless are bums IMO (note IMO). I'm willing to help them if it helps everyone else because it's cheaper than any other alternative, but I'm not going to pr
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by varelse 7y ago
Sure, but take Santa Cruz: $66K median wage or so, but $900K or so median house price. Incredibly unaffordable despite being far cheaper than SF or San Jose, unless you clog its NIMBY constrained highway driving 25+ miles each way to your
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by varelse 7y ago
I drove cross country a few years ago. When I hit Barstow, I was struck by how many seemingly homeless were being sheltered in its motels and I spoke with a few of them. They were sent there from Los Angeles. There was trash everywhere a
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by varelse 7y ago
It goes back and forth, and the Democrats grabbed an early lead in Big Data to insure Obama's victory in 2012, but I think they seriously underestimate the ability of republican operators to catch up and game the existing system. They
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by varelse 7y ago
So I agree in principle, but I also think our culture fails on imposing ownership of one's choices in nearly equal and opposite proportion to how much Asian countries overemphasize it. And this came to a boiling point when a Chinese fr
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by varelse 7y ago
Not that I like either party particularly much (and I might even hate the democrats more for being supposedly aligned with my views, but mostly seemingly into disagreeing with each other No True Scotsman style), but even as a straight dude,
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by varelse 7y ago
Agreed, and it comes back when you stop providing it... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-homelessness-housing/...
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by varelse 7y ago
The CEO of Aurora (who previously led self-driving cars at Google) agrees with you... https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512618/how-long-will-it...
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by varelse 7y ago
W/r to comp, that's my data point, don't like? Then don't like... FB has a salary cap below GOOG, AMZN is just cheap and prefers people leaving to countering. Then AMZN makes a big deal of hiring such people back for wh
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by varelse 7y ago
So I agree if a 1 percenter is paying 37.3% on their income, they are paying enough. But that's not how it works for the top of that tier once you're living primarily off complicated capital gains and financial instruments, and it
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by varelse 7y ago
As someone with Fuchs Dystrophy (which is slowly blinding me), and writing style aside, I'd like to see the aging billionaires of Web 2.0 throw money at more ideas like this instead of at Hail Mary passes to immortality. Is that so mu
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by varelse 7y ago
The OpenAI approach is more amenable to an obvious HW implementation with the block sparsity because the blocks are are GEMM operations are implemented in the first place. There are obviously more available sparse solutions if the block spa
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by varelse 7y ago
Another thing that in my experience was close to magic was immersing sore limbs in ice baths. I had a near career-ending bout of RSI a decade ago. Physical therapy and fancy peripherals were unhelpful. But a couple months of nightly 10 m
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by varelse 7y ago
Except for the one true fitness influencer... https://www.youtube.com/user/BroScienceLife/videos Which pretty much says everything about fitness influencers, no?
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by varelse 8y ago
Funny, as someone with the useless superpower of knowing an enormous number of TV Show themes, I could hear all sorts of riffs on such themes ranging from Magnum PI to Sesame Street. Overall, IMO it wildly gyrates from the best I have ever
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by varelse 8y ago
No, I meant exactly what I wrote. For example, if you were to try to duplicate Google today, you would drown in content farms and other sorts of BlackHat SEO because Google has been engaged in just such a Red Queen's Race with the Bla
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by varelse 8y ago
Seems to me the answer to this is a sliding scale of compensation that rises for consistently valid responses and decays to zero for these sorts. Of course, this can be gamed as well, but it seems like everything's a Red Queen's
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by varelse 8y ago
In my case, the project we wrote an OP1 for was judged to be too technically complex such that anyone capable of executing on it would be a "flight risk" capable of commanding higher pay elsewhere. Therefore they decided to destaf
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by varelse 8y ago
That just pushes the problem one level down on the stack, no? Or who sends back the work of the 6-pager Czar? IMO they need to refresh the process, and refresh it frequently. I don't see them doing that though. Similar things have h
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by varelse 8y ago
The ideal of the 6-pager is magnificent. The reality of the 6-pager in 2019 is that it has become boilerplate where style overwhelms substance. Similar things can be said of their OP1 and OP3 planning processes that are becoming increasin
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by varelse 8y ago
I don't know which of these techniques they actually built, my experience with these techniques is several encounters with salespeople from multiple vendors who present them running on FPGAs and then compare performance to non-approxim

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