Firadeoclus

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by Firadeoclus 1y ago
While you can use uniform registers to implement the uniform keyword from shading languages, the two are not the same. Uniform registers are not constants, and they are only uniform/shared across one warp. Nvidia architectures before T
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by Firadeoclus 2y ago
What makes a judge a "real" judge is that a sufficient number of people capable of enforcing judgments share the view that the judge is a real judge.
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by Firadeoclus 2y ago
Visual programming languages are not prevented from using textual symbols, though. And many people use diagrams to communicate ideas more efficiently than they could with text alone.
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by Firadeoclus 2y ago
> Any language can be expressed in S-expressions. I'm not sure this is true for the C preprocessor, though, where macros can represent partial structure.
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
This is a really interesting system, and I'm excited to give this a try! Without knowing whether the following cases would actually be useful/relevant, I'm curious if these things apply to Unison: - Is there a way to "pi
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
> It's not a matter of identity, but explanatory power. To reiterate, the self-acknowledgement/'diagnosis' as autistic (not ASD) is 'useful from a self-compassion and tolerance standpoint'. So instead of, wh
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
Which could be a coordination problem, though. Where initial high costs are due to a lack of scale whereas if everyone participated, costs would come down fast.
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
Putting fans on radiators should also increase the amount of heat that can be transferred, right?
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
>The whole point of interfaces is that you're not supposed to care how a method is implemented, only what it does which is explained by a combination of context, naming and documentation. There are, however, cases where code is a be
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
One way to get deterministic output is to use integer/fixed point math. Quantised models already do that for matrix multiplication, but things like softmax may still be implemented using some floating point math. It's possible to
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
This. Being able to expand macros lets you learn what it does in context, and once you're more familiar with the abstraction it gives you the benefit of hiding the details and highlighting the moving parts within an otherwise static st
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
This makes sense but to be honest, how I'd really like to represent data to go along with code is as a table or a tree (i.e. presentation/interaction more like a spreadsheet).
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
> "More people with cards tend to be white and therefore the cards are racist" is such a weak take - there are more white people than minorities, for one. But this is quite different from what the article actually says. What th
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by Firadeoclus 3y ago
Certainly, getting those elements in larger quantities will be important, but by the time we have the cargo capacity to build colonies on the moon it seems likely that someone would be very happy to trade, say, 100t of Earth-sourced C/
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
You could call the way the curriculum is organised "spaced repetition", but this isn't personalised and thus missing the feedback part of spaced repetition. Generally, children aren't taught the method of spaced repetiti
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
There is no reason public transport should aim to be financed entirely by fares, or to make a profit from fares. It benefits people who rarely or never use it.
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
A "generic raw text editor" is a tool. The vast majority of text editors people use are actually quite complex, way beyond the complexity that would be needed to implement a "generic structured data editor". And the latt
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
> They almost convinced me somewhere in my career. But the hard truth I learnt is that most people are saying this because they aren’t capable of verbalizing what they are programming. I'd say that's true, and it's worth n
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
A text editor is a tool. Text files are only "human readable"/"human editable" in the sense that such tools are ubiquitous whereas structured data editors are not. Which is a real shame. Entering, manipulating and v
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
What you might do is train using dense matrices, then sparsify those (pick the 2 out of each set of 4 weights that are closest to zero, mask them out), then do a few more training iterations with the mask in place. It turns out that even wi
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
Note that AMX can achieve roughly double the FLOPS with FP16, and 8 TFLOPS for the GPU is only about 77% of peak. You can do better than that, especially using FP16 90+% is possible (which is >9.4 TFLOPS).
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
That's a pretty huge amount of processing power hidden away! Are these experimentally confirmed performance numbers? So this is 16x16 single precision fused multiply-adds at 3.2GHz with a throughput of one per clock, right? (16 x 16 x
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
> the terminal provides a very fast feedback loop where I can iteratively examine the output of a command and refine the filters I apply. As a result, I am able to prototype commands quickly and accurately. That's what any REPL does
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
Though its impact may be limited, this is some nice work! Now could someone look at how video codecs can produce excellent high-detail scenes and motion in 4k resolution while at the same time making a blocky mess out of soft gradients, esp
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
Moreover, an ANN parameter is not equivalent to a human neuron.
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by Firadeoclus 4y ago
> Electric motors haven't become remarkably more efficient --- the starting point was already quite high. Batteries have, though. And if we're talking about personal transport, the passenger mass to total mass ratio in today&#x
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
>No, it is not. It is the physically correct way to do it. 50% more red light is emitted than blue or green. That is a red tint. That is a red tint. And that's why it's not the correct way to do it. A subpixel antialiased white
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
> Why would I ever go to a woman for "emotional support"? Her lived experience and frame of reference will be so radically different from my own that her advice is unlikely to be applicable. When I need support, I call my guy f
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
It depends on what the converted energy is used for. If you use it to power a device in the house then it's quite likely most of that energy will end up as heat in the house again.
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by Firadeoclus 5y ago
What exactly does it mean to "perceive a bicycle"? Noticing shapes and colours and recognising them as a distinct object? Recognising an obstacle? Noticing qualities like smoothness and straightness and associating the concept &qu

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