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Have you benchmarked Tile against Stalin∇? https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD Page 3: http:/
by FiveDegrees 9y ago
Have you benchmarked Tile against Stalin∇?
https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD
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http://barak.pearlmutter.net/papers/ad2016b.pdf http://barak.pearlmutter.net/papers/ad2016b.pdf
- hedgehog 9y agoThat looks both clever and interesting, do you know if they have published any benchmarks on GPU or other accelerator targets?
- FiveDegrees 9y agoNot that I've been able to find.
- Isinlor 9y agoWho in his right mind would name a library after Stalin?!
- laingc 9y agoIt’s a word play on “Stalingrad”. It’s kind of funny.
- Isinlor 9y agoIf I would name a library after a man who directly ordered to kill your grandparents and grandparents of your colleagues by shooting them in back of their head would you find it funny? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre The man who sent an army to kill and rape people in your country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland The man who planned to crash a nation by starving it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor You know, people from your history lessons actually lived like you and I do and some of them still do, as do their families.
- FiveDegrees 9y agoYou are of course entirely right. It may be worthwhile to email Siskind or Pearlmutter on the subject. I believe Siskind has a tradition of naming things after brutal dictators, so I imagine it's liable to not amount to much. Might as well name your VR SDK Holodomor.
- laingc 9y agoYou’ve run away with this a bit too far. Firstly, I am staunchly anti-Stalinist, anti-communist, and anti-socialist. I’ve been to former Soviet states and seen the devastation that Stalin and his ilk wrought. Secondly, the library is a wordplay on the name of the city (or perhaps the well-known battle) of Stalingrad. That’s already a step removed from being named after Stalin. Thirdly, stop trying to turn the world into a humourless wasteland. The policing of jokes of questionable taste screams of moral panic.
- singularity2001 9y agoalmost as funny as naming a catacomb 'Hit Lair'