nradclif

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The moderately easy problem of consciousness(noahpinion.blog)
4 points by nradclif 5mo ago|1 comments
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by nradclif 6mo ago
"Complete results, architectural decisions, and runnable code below." This is a weird post, there doesn't seem to be any "below" here. Another comment linked the article: https://huggingface.co/blog&
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by nradclif 6mo ago
What role do you play in creating software? If you don't need to see any code, should your employer consider cutting your position? I'm very much pro-humans-in-the-workforce, but I can't understand how someone could be ok wit
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by nradclif 8mo ago
It applies to the technical track too, which has levels you can move up. The names of levels vary from company to company, but most seem to have ~10, so there’s plenty of room to move up the technical ladder. I’m in the US, so I’m not sure
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by nradclif 8mo ago
In tech companies, there’s usually both technical and management tracks, and you can be promoted up the ladder (many times over) without changing jobs. At a certain point you’ll do less design and coding, and more high level strategy, but t
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by nradclif 1y ago
From Gemini: The Original Intent of the 14th Amendment The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, primarily to overturn the Supreme Court's infamous 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford. In that decision, the Court had held that no pers
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by nradclif 1y ago
A million trillion operations per second is literally an exaflop. That's one hell of a GPU you have.
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by nradclif 1y ago
> if you don't go into management after about five years, usually it is seen as a failure to grow up on their career I don't see how that's possible. Wouldn't such a norm result in something like a 7:1 ration of manag
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by nradclif 2y ago
> Programming as theory-building Sounds similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence .
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by nradclif 2y ago
I don’t know the exact utilization, but most large supercomputers that I’m familiar with have very high utilization, like around 90%. The Slurm/PBS queue times can sometimes be measured in days.
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A day in the life of the fastest supercomputer(nature.com)
81 points by nradclif 2y ago|58 comments
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by nradclif 2y ago
Stephenson had a rough start in my opinion—Snow Crash isn’t really his best. Try Anathem instead. If you don’t like that, you probably won’t like Stephenson.
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by nradclif 2y ago
Model checking can be used to formally verify state machines. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking .
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by nradclif 2y ago
Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) compilers/runtimes do something similar to that. Unified Parallel C (UPC, https://upc.lbl.gov/ ) and Coarray Fortran/Coarray C++ ( https://docs.nersc.gov/develo
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by nradclif 4y ago
> niche domains I’m not sure if I would call movies and video games “niche”.
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by nradclif 4y ago
Irony?
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by nradclif 5y ago
What country are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?
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by nradclif 5y ago
I don’t read the NYTimes technology section frequently, but whenever I have it’s always seemed more like a “Silicon Valley-themed politics” section to me. Not at all like any of the technology magazines/websites mentioned by the OP.
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by nradclif 5y ago
As someone who doesn’t design websites for a living, I’m always a little baffled by strong reactions to website designs, especially ones like this one that don’t look all that different from a million other websites to me. I have a suspicio
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by nradclif 5y ago
I think he's saying that if there are 10 million citizens demanding something, and they're certain that they're correct, then it might require the National Guard to prevent them from taking what they believe to be theirs. In
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by nradclif 5y ago
If I saw someone pour grape juice from a teaspoon into their drink, I would definitely assume that "grape juice" was slang for some type of drug, since people don't generally pour fruit juice by the teaspoon. The fact that th
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by nradclif 5y ago
Came here to say this. It drives me nuts when people unconsciously identify all software engineering with web application design.
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by nradclif 5y ago
“Never mind the 1%, let’s talk about the 0.01%” Sincerely, The 1%
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by nradclif 7y ago
What about Intel, AMD, and other chip makers? Under the definition of tech company that you mentioned, they wouldn’t be.
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by nradclif 7y ago
Huang is a professional mathematician at Emory.
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by nradclif 7y ago
That was over a century ago (although within the “century or two” limit specified). But it’s not at all characteristic of the majority of scientific discoveries made in the last century, which were largely made by professional scientists an