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by cepth 2y ago
Assuming you're not just here to troll (doubtful given your comment history, but hey I'm feeling generous): > lol AMD flogged its floundering foundry waaay before Intel ran into any problems. Not wanting/being able to spen
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by cepth 2y ago
(Part 2 of 2) > Please show me an AMD GPU with even eight years of support. Back to focus, ROCm isn't even that old and AMD is infamous for removing support for GPUs, often within five years if not less. As you yourself noted, CDNA
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by cepth 2y ago
(Split into two parts due to comment length restrictions) > I work closely with OLCF and Frontier (I have a job running on Frontier right now). This is incorrect. The overwhelming majority of compute and resource allocation are not &quot
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by cepth 2y ago
No, not really? The customers at the national labs are not going to be sharing custom HPC code with AMD engineers, if for no other reason than security clearances. Nuclear stockpile modeling code, or materials science simulations are not be
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by cepth 2y ago
A couple of thoughts here. * AMD's traditional target market for its GPUs has been HPC as opposed to deep learning/"AI" customers. For example, look at the supercomputers at the national labs. AMD has won quite a few hig
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Motortrend Reviews the Lucid Air(motortrend.com)
2 points by cepth 5y ago|0 comments
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by cepth 5y ago
I think the general idea that "lawmakers are ex-lawyers, and therefore write extremely bureaucratic laws" is a common sentiment, but there are a number of reasons why I think this is not quite the case. Few (if any) US representat
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by cepth 5y ago
It’s a much more fully featured note taking app, probably most directly comparable to Roam Research. E.g., tagging, graph views, back links between notes, note/document templates. All docs are (more or less) plain markdown as well, so
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by cepth 5y ago
They’re different ratings systems, and not meant to be directly comparable. Chess.com uses Glicko with an initial rating of 1200 ( https://support.chess.com/article/210-how-do-ratings-work-on... ), while Lichess uses Gli
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by cepth 5y ago
In 2017, Ars Technica did a deep dive into computation in Formula 1 ( https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/04/formula-1-technology/ ). Some relevant quotes: > For example, each Formula 1 team is only allow
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by cepth 6y ago
You’d be paying for earnings several years out, for sure. But I think it’s hardly fair to compare to Nikola. Trevor Milton’s experience prior to starting Nikola was selling home security systems. Lucid’s leadership team features various Tes
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J&J one-dose Covid vaccine is 66% effective, a weapon but not a knockout punch(statnews.com)
1 points by cepth 6y ago|0 comments
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by cepth 6y ago
I might’ve thought so too, but the account I’m replying to seems to be a genuine CCP critic (which is totally fine!). A post about Putin and the CCP exploiting US domestic political turmoil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by cepth 6y ago
Yes, a HN member with a profile created in December of 2008, 5800+ Karma, with links to his Twitter and name of his employer in his profile page is a 五毛(50 center). The CCP is truly all powerful! If my dripping sarcasm wasn’t clear, you’re
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by cepth 6y ago
Given that a typical garbage truck weighs 25+ short tons ( https://www.reference.com/world-view/much-garbage-truck-weig... ), it seems likely that you start to run into the legal limits for local roads. E.g. in NYC ( htt
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by cepth 6y ago
I have to commend the author for taking on a beast of a task. It's not easy to be learning/relearning chess while also trying to program an engine! I think programming a chess engine that can beat most club players (let's say
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by cepth 6y ago
In the United States, liberal and leftist are distinct terms. Even someone like Ben Shapiro recognizes a difference between liberals and leftists ( https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/966081078166421504 ). Silicon
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by cepth 6y ago
The paper referenced ("Gender shades: Intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification") has been cited 1000+ times per her Google Scholar page ( https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lemn
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by cepth 6y ago
I was happy to write this, since The Great Courses have had such a big impact on my learning. I was just frustrated that what could've been a nice profile (given how much access the author had to the company and its leadership) turned
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by cepth 6y ago
It's in the linked article: > (A Great Courses lecturer earns a royalty that varies according to how highly viewers rate his performance; the base royalty is 4 percent of the course’s gross revenue, but that rate can rise to 6 perce
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by cepth 6y ago
> This past academic year, for example, a Bowdoin College student interested in American history courses could have taken “Black Women in Atlantic New Orleans,” “Women in American History, 1600–1900,” or “Lawn Boy Meets Valley Girl: Gen
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by cepth 6y ago
Breaking up my comment because it was "too long" to submit as one (that's a first). ---- There are so many factually incorrect claims and contradictions in this piece that I don't even know where to begin. I write this a
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by cepth 6y ago
What would you consider a system? Python definitely has more market share than R, but there's still name brand companies of various sizes that use an R stack for data science. RStudio lists dozens of example clients here: https:/
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by cepth 6y ago
I guess it depends on what you’re trying to accomplish (I’ve worked heavily with both R and Python). If you’re trying to create ETL pipelines that integrate with BigQuery, Mongo, or whatever other database, I think it’s fair to say that the
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by cepth 6y ago
There have been a couple others that come to mind. With the CEO of Cerebras (a buzzy and well-funded chip startup) on the ARK Invest podcast: https://ark-invest.com/podcast/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-a... . I will say
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by cepth 6y ago
I can’t speak specifically to Intel, but at most large private companies when you’re an employee you give up the rights to talk to media/press about your work without employer approval. For the Fortune and Lex Fridman interviews, Kelle
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by cepth 6y ago
What makes this more bizarre than Keller’s typical short stints at previous companies is that he has done a ton of media in the last year. He’s probably given more time to journalists/interviewers in 2020 than in the previous 3 decades
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by cepth 6y ago
The article’s articulation of what goes into returning a serve is a bit simplistic, but the underlying idea is not crazy. * When you return a serve in tennis, you are doing so from only one side of the court. The opponent’s serve can only l
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by cepth 6y ago
In boom times, it’s probably true that people can develop irrational exuberance e.g., taking out a big mortgage because hey, housing prices are going up everywhere. When things are good, maybe you don’t budget so precisely. I know I don’t!
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by cepth 6y ago
The margins for used cars aren’t high enough to support that kind of discount ( https://jalopnik.com/how-to-negotiate-for-a-used-car-5570813 and https://www.autonews.com/article/20180428/RETAIL04&#x

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