owlbite

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by owlbite 1mo ago
Interesting, but I don't see any licensing terms, which means I can't touch it in a commercial setting.
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by owlbite 2mo ago
At least with LG TVs you can just not give them the internet and nothing of value is lost (at least assuming you have an Apple TV or other trusted smart tv capability). Much more difficult to not give the windows PC internet and have it be
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by owlbite 3mo ago
I'm still astounded my Ford's infotainment system takes 5-10 seconds after opening the radio "app" to present me with the station selection UI. Most of that seems to be some sort of startup delay. The mind boggles.
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by owlbite 3mo ago
I'm somewhat dubious about anything talking about low level performance programming at the instruction level that doesn't distinguish between latency and throughput, never mind mention the incredibly out-of-order nature of modern
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by owlbite 3mo ago
Or economies of liability and buck passing. I suspect managers and businesses will still want to be in the game of "not my fault, supplier is working on it, we can sue them if they don't meet SLA".
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by owlbite 6mo ago
It will be interesting to see if this solves any issues that aren't already addressed by the likes of matlab / SciPy / Julia. Reading the paper it sounds a lot like "SciPy but with MLIR"?
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by owlbite 6mo ago
Not just for speed, Horner can also be essential for numerical stability.
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by owlbite 7mo ago
FORmula TRANslation, the clue is in the name. It's great at math, but yeah, strings and OS stuff is a PITA. The modern vector-based syntax is still really nice and I've yet to come across a C++ library quite as slick. But I think
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by owlbite 7mo ago
I suspect main benefits are they have no need to maintain the hardware or software for any longer than it makes sense for their own needs, and don't have to handhold users through a constantly evolving minefield of performance and tech
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by owlbite 7mo ago
I think the current generation of tools have a long way to go before I trust any numerical algorithm they implement, based on our recent experiments trying to make it implement some linear algebra by calling LAPACK. When we asked it to writ
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by owlbite 7mo ago
Have meetings to figure out how to interact with the other 9990 employees. Then try and make the skeleton app left behind by the team of transient engineers who left after 18 months before moving on to their next gig work, before throwing i
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by owlbite 7mo ago
Transmission is pretty expensive, lots of infrastructure and maintenance.
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by owlbite 8mo ago
I think calling VLIW "an adandoned design" is somewhat of an exaggeration, such architectures are pretty common for embedded audio processing.
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by owlbite 10mo ago
This book provides a high level overview of many methods without (on a quick skim) really hinting at the practical usage. Basically this reads as a encyclopedia to me, whereas Nocedal and Wright is more of an introductory graduate course go
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by owlbite 11mo ago
But it can be even worse than that. It's "we assassinated the phone", "algorithm says vehicle has suspicious travel history and must die". There's no real thinking human in the loop for some of this stuff, ju
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by owlbite 11mo ago
Very true, but a lot of stuff builds on a few core optimized libraries like BLAS/LAPACK, and picking up a build of those targeted at a modern microarchitecture can give you 10x or more compared to a non-targeted build. That said, most
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by owlbite 11mo ago
They just label such people as Applied Mathematicians, or worse: Physicists and Engineers; and then get back to sensible business such as algebraic geometry, complex analysis and group theory.
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by owlbite 11mo ago
Introduction to PhD study: "How hard can it be, I'm sure I could write that in a week"
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by owlbite 11mo ago
I thought GPLv3 adoption by GCC was what really lit the flames on moving to llvm by commercial entities?
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by owlbite 11mo ago
Oh yes, from an actual implementation POV you can just apply some transpose and ordering transforms to convert from row major to column major or vice-versa. cblas is pretty universal though I don't think any LAPACK C API ever gained as
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by owlbite 11mo ago
What I suspect he really means is that FORTRAN lays out its arrays column-major, whilst C choose row-major. Historically most math software was written in the former, including the de facto standard BLAS and LAPACK APIs used for most linear
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by owlbite 11mo ago
Much better to burn the area for multiple smaller units, its a bit more area for frontend handling, but worth it for the flexibility (see Apple's M-series chips vs intel avx*).
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by owlbite 1y ago
In the UK specifically the radical reform (read destruction) of council housing by the Thatcher government had a large impact on the housing market in the 1980s.
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by owlbite 1y ago
The main advantage of cmake is it's slightly easier to use than autoconf so long as you stick to the path. Do not attempt to leave the path. Also the path is poorly signposted.
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by owlbite 1y ago
So my experience with moving from a Cambridge undergrad to an Edinburgh postgrad, albeit a couple of decades ago now, was the expectations between the two were nowhere comparable. Cambridge if you'd not done the homework before the tut
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by owlbite 1y ago
There will almost certainly be an election in 2028. The degree to which it will be rigged through gerrymandering, voter intimidation, voter suppression and/or blatant cheating is a different question.
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by owlbite 1y ago
That and the speed limits are actually enforced, at least significantly more so than they seem to be here in California: - Lots more speed cameras - Average speed cameras especially make a huge difference vs spot enforcement - Tolerance for
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by owlbite 1y ago
Which is still shockingly outdated compared to e.g. London, where I just use my tap to pay method of choice on entry and exit, done.
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by owlbite 1y ago
I think this is the thing we need to change most. These big companies effectively have as much power as courts to break your life, but no transparency, oversight, appeals process or even a clear process in some cases. They can destroy a per
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by owlbite 1y ago
So how many gates are we talking to factor some "cryptographically useful" number? Is there some pathway that makes quantum computers useful this century?

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