bronxbomber92

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by bronxbomber92 1mo ago
I wish they would release the quantized versions in a safetensor format. Many frameworks can't load PTE and GGUF.
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by bronxbomber92 1y ago
A question for the author(s) since they seem to be very responsive to this thread :). 1. How fine grain is each task? In a traditional matrix multiplication kernel, for example, each thread block is responsible for a small output tile of th
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by bronxbomber92 2y ago
An example of “AST via reflection” https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/metaprogramming...
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by bronxbomber92 2y ago
What are the hero use cases for AI agents? Reading the website, I don't see a good demonstration of what "AI agents" are and what they're good for.
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by bronxbomber92 3y ago
I believe this post is referring to device-scoped memory barriers - also sometimes called fences - as opposed to execution barriers. The former being a mechanism to ensure memory accesses follow a well defined order (e.g. it'd be b
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by bronxbomber92 4y ago
Threads are also a tool for concurrency.
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by bronxbomber92 4y ago
The author states it wasn't actually work-life balance that was making him happy and tired. Rather, he discovered: > By mid-2021 I was tired all the time. I know I wasn’t alone, because it was an ongoing meme inside Google2. It’s on
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by bronxbomber92 5y ago
This is the same for any specialized software engineering role. Compilers, GPGPU, embedded systems, computer graphics, image processing, etc. In an interview panel for any of these roles, you will be expected to be a competent software engi
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by bronxbomber92 5y ago
Do you have references to the incident(s) or published work(s)?
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
> The players are traded freely among teams Yes, this happens more often than in the past, but there are still many players and staff that stay with an organization for an extended period of time (e.g. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick). >
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
My impression was that the iTunes stunt was not received well because they had already lost popularity. The iTunes stunt didn't help, but I doubt it materially hurt their popularity either.
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
There is roughly equal levels of complexity in any modern, high performance, general purpose/programmable chip.
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
How much would the trade offs change if GPUs shared the same main memory as CPU?
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
> It occurs to me that for this particular algorithm there might be a chance to rescue it. Instead of simply spinning, a waiting workgroup might make a small amount of progress recomputing the aggregate for the partition it's waitin
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
On 1, you are right that most HW most of the time will make the requisite forward progress after the atomic bump. But Vulkan does not guarantee it and most HW doesn't either (you're just getting lucky with a high probability).
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by bronxbomber92 6y ago
A couple of small comments. 1. The single pass prefix sum the author implements is not legal Vulkan code. The algorithm requires spinning on conditions to be satisfied by concurrently running threads. This is allowed to deadlock in Vulkan a
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
I know very little about the actual technology, but I feel like the blurb on their front page explains this succinctly: “ Firecracker enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which provide enhanced s
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
Does “1M for 4 years stock” mean a 1M grant per year that each vest over 4 years or 4 years worth of grants that total 1M?
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
We have a similar culture on my team. When I was a junior engineer, being able to poke my head into any open office that sounded like it had an interesting conversation going on was really an invaluable way of learning.
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
Metal 1.0 reflected the capabilities of mobile GPUs at the time. Apple is not in a race with Khronos.
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
You're understanding of the history of Mantle, Metal, and Vulkan is very poor. 1. Mantle was not originally being proposed as a "open" API as you are implying. A reading of the [original white paper]( https://www.am
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
And macOS. And iOS.
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
Hmmm, I think I know where the OP saw this link posted originally :-).
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
It's a simplified form of Hungarian notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
On a related topic, what are other's favorite learning resources for applied distributed systems?
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
I assume you mean suburbs of New York City , as the suburbs in the rest of the state are not nearly expensive. Rent for a 1 bedroom apartment will be much closer to $800 (and I'm not so sure the job prospects in a NYC suburb is substa
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by bronxbomber92 7y ago
If the Metal debug layer doesn’t warn you, then it is a bug (either in the driver or in the debug layer depending on the intended behaviour).
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by bronxbomber92 8y ago
What is the nature of your work within SWE?
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by bronxbomber92 8y ago
What did your day to day look like?
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by bronxbomber92 8y ago
"Cloud" can mean a lot of things, so what does it mean to you in this context? Edit: Put another way - day to day, what are people in such roles working on exactly?

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