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It is interesting to note that the listed libraries are not written in Python (Cython at best). The moment what you want to do with your data is not covered by the library, you either hack it or you're screwed.
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Communication is a key bottleneck. Modern supercomputers budget roughly half to interconnect. Nvidia invested heavily in developing NVLINK to be able to make GPUs communicate at the bandwidth necessary to make multi-GPU boxes more practica
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I've always heard that pattern itself is older than C++, originating from Smalltalk.
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There are moisture regulating sheets on the market that allow vapor to pass in summer. It is many times more expensive than a simple plastic foil, but still a drop in the construction budget bucket.
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There seems to be some attraction to CL for QC researchers. I also used CL for my PhD's QC compiler and VM. Although my low-lv QVM was written in C, it takes s-expr input. I'm a bit sad it wasn't cited by the Quil guys :p ht
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The Flemish would typically beg to differ.
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To generalize, learning C is easy, but doing anything with it is not. To be clear, this is not meant as a critique on C, on the contrary. Put simply, it is just that making computers do stuff is hard. This is especially true if you want it
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When such statements in the style of "you don't have to learn a new language" is uttered, it is usually completely ignoring the fact that solving the problem at hand is many times harder than learning some new syntax. Learni
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And a very important part to SupCom's zoom feature is that at a certain zoom level it switches to a rich visual overlay of unit icons and pending/queued orders.
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Essentially, it is the algorithm by which the C++ compiler selects what template specialization to use at your 'call' site. Function templates can be overloaded and essentially create an entire family of specializations. As a C++
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Thank you for keeping a unified dispatch/selection algorithm in D! I feel that in language design, simplifying/streamlining the programmer's mental model is often undervalued compared to "but you would expect X to happe
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You avoid GC in D in the same way you avoid GC in C++. If you are using D to do rapid prototyping or scripting, at least you have a GC that allows you not to think about it. If you are on a project where performance is a feature, you alread
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THey didn't write a new compiler. They did have some work to make their codebase work on LDC, the LLVM-backend implementation of D. Rewriting the standard library for performance is not unique to D. Game developers famously avoid stl&#
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After many years of discussions on the topic, my goto line is now the following: "Parallelism is for performance, Concurrency is for correctness."
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D feels much more like a 'sane' C successor, dropped from a parallel dimension where C++ could evolve without caring much about breaking its legacy code running the world. It has a few warts, some D v1 leftovers, but overall feels
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Remedy (game developer) uses it in-house, mostly for their animation and AI engines.
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Several languages seem to share this curse. You do see companies advertise it on language conferences or websites: Jane Street for OCaml, Remedy Entertainment for D-lang, Naughty Dog and ITA for Common Lisp. But you are often left wondering
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Are there not significant diminishing returns to such techniques? More sophisticated eviction strategies need to be proporially more effective to compensate for the increased overhead. Or do you see the simulations only as an offline tool f
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I assume that only the execs with (plausible) deniability can do the denial.
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We had a follow-up course to SICP that started with the meta-circular interpreter, broke that one down even further and eventually moved completely to a C-implementation. Most insightful course I ever had. We got assignments such as: &quot
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It functions as a good way to whet the appetite of the reader or student. SICP's meta-circular implementation occupies a kind of sweet spot, it imparts to students that only just grokked recursion to understand how the programming lang
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It is ad-hoc in C++, templates weren't designed for general compile time meta-programming. It took several recent changes to the standard to make it a little more palatable with static expressions and general template improvements.
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Imaginary worlds podcast did an excellent episode on the subject: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/fantasy-maps.html
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False comparison. Intel is doing a lot more than AMD, those employees are across many different products and business units.
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In case your argument was not about a hard treshold (which isn't the case as pointed out in this thread.) : How do you define merit? A family with a higher income are in a better position to leverage their means into a better education
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There exists other reasons to not allow third-party benchmarking, other than trying to hide something. A common reason is as a way to make sure the benchmark is done in a proper way. I've had the experience myself, and I can imagine th
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Good point, and a hot topic over the years in the DotA community. The developer introduced some UI changes over the years that do exactly that: show every bit of information that an expert human or AI could realistically figure out and expl
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Wallonia has at least one pumped hydro that I know of. There were plants for a 'energy island' 300MW hydro plant at sea, near the large-scale wind farms. The idea is the same, pump sea water up an artificial horse-shoe shaped isla
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Be careful not to conflate chemical and mechanical properties. They share chemical properties, but do not share the mechanical property that makes Asbestos carcinogenic. Asbestos breaks down into particles of a dangerous size and shape. Gla
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Dota is a bit different from other esports such as SC2, in that it leans much more on game-sense and decision making than twitch skills[1]. Nevertheless, OpenAI dulled the reaction time artificially to be more human-like. It makes sense i

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