cgravill

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Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler(github.com)
1 points by cgravill 4mo ago|1 comments
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by cgravill 4mo ago
directly to PTX — no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust.
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by cgravill 1y ago
Wow, glad someone is doing this, looks ideal. We’ve a cargo bike with battery failing (physical connector we can’t replace and some cells borderline), when you get to Yahama motors we’d be interested to look into it.
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by cgravill 1y ago
Is there an intention to bring the auto backend selection to the non-pip interface? I know we can configure this like you show https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/ but we have folks on d
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by cgravill 1y ago
The main NuGet was problematic for a long time e.g. not providing any control over transitive dependencies (like pip at the time). You had to use https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/ if you wanted safe and consistent re
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by cgravill 1y ago
We do something similar with a mix of C++, Fortran, and CUDA dependencies. Using https://cibuildwheel.pypa.io/en/stable/ and the repair functionality to restrict the manylinux to something sensible seems to have h
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by cgravill 1y ago
It's definitely possible, and my current company were very happy to agree to 4/5 of the time for 4/5 of the salary and it's working out well for everyone. However, I've also found some organisations - that are other
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by cgravill 2y ago
Some comparisons of power generation by deaths here: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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by cgravill 6y ago
There are some companies such as https://www.owlstonemedical.com/ who’ve made some progress on medical diagnosis from breath
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by cgravill 6y ago
Link here to the comment https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610
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by cgravill 7y ago
There's a related Microsoft Research project https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil... (I work in the same lab but on different things)
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Do Londoners dream of electric buses?(ianvisits.co.uk)
67 points by cgravill 8y ago|96 comments
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by cgravill 9y ago
Hibermate are very good, I use them especially when travelling. Original style are reasonably priced https://www.hibermate.com/products/the-original-hibermate
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by cgravill 9y ago
There's a Microsoft Research project that does something like this with mosquitoes for disease management: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-pre... (note: I work at MSR, but on oth
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Tensor Processing Unit(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
2 points by cgravill 9y ago|0 comments
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by cgravill 10y ago
It'd be great to have it built-in but you can get https://chocolatey.org and MinGW pretty easily: iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex restart prompt, then: choco install m
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Why Sony’s Breach Matters(blog.learningbyshipping.com)
8 points by cgravill 12y ago|1 comments
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by cgravill 12y ago
I use WebSharper at MSR and have been very happy with the results. We have substantial amounts of F# for simulation, modelling, and analysis of biological systems. It’s useful to be able to run this code in many places and WebSharper allows
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by cgravill 15y ago
There are some timing comparisons of using PyPy vs CPython with nltk showing improvements http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-dev/browse_thread/thread...
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Basics of Three.js Presentation(fhtr.blogspot.com)
2 points by cgravill 15y ago|0 comments
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by cgravill 16y ago
The cost of providing power to datacenters is going up both in absolute and percentage. You pay once to heat the server in waste energy then again for air conditioning to cool them back down. The ARM chips provide better perf per watt but t
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by cgravill 16y ago
"Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not."