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by peterhj 6y ago
An aside: the text-only version of the NPR website is wonderfully clear and legible. Here is the original article in the text version: https://text.npr.org/2020/12/15/944184405/1st-patients-to-ge...
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by peterhj 6y ago
For something searchable, see “Baumol’s cost disease.”
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by peterhj 6y ago
Nitpick, but undergraduate enrollment is over 31,000 (as of fall '19 [1]). [1] https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts
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by peterhj 6y ago
On the contrary, "dark silicon" instead suggests that separating fp32 and int32 (now in GA102/104, fp32 and int32/fp32) data paths at the cost of more die space usage currently makes excellent sense. (See also: tensor co
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by peterhj 6y ago
Direct URL to one of the combined AQI maps for the Bay Area: https://files.airnowtech.org/airnow/today/cur_aqi_sanfrancis...
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by peterhj 6y ago
Would be glorious if at some point they also released sources for the voxel RTS's (Tiberian Sun, RA2).
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by peterhj 6y ago
Fun fact: Alex Krizhevsky's cuda-convnet was also an early adopter of CHWN tensor layout. Basically, having the batch size N as the major dimension limits you to running batch sizes that are multiples of the warp size (typically 32), b
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by peterhj 6y ago
rustc does have a working nvptx target today, though it’s not supported nearly as well as the mainstream cpu targets, and some things you would really want for gpu programming (e.g. shared memory address space) are not currently exposed in
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by peterhj 6y ago
In fact, one of the motivating applications of PageRank was to bridge academic citation analysis to the web: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
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by peterhj 7y ago
Her short story collections are quite accessible. If you want to dive into the Hainish cycle, _Four Ways to Forgiveness. Or for a mostly Hainish but more diverse set of stories, _The Wind's Twelve Quarters_.
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by peterhj 7y ago
I first learned about calculus from, I think, this book, "Calculus the Easy Way" [1] (or, at least the first chapter or two). It does make use of some algebra, but you're not necessarily limited to the strict progression of p
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by peterhj 7y ago
$2250/month was c. 2015-2016 for EECS GSRs (during the semester)
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by peterhj 7y ago
NB: article was written December 2014. 1970 is now 50 years ago.
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by peterhj 7y ago
> Prof. Matsuzawa, through his cognitive research of chimpanzee Ai I had to do a double take there.
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by peterhj 7y ago
> Due to the complexity involved, Cerebras is not only designing the chip, but they also must design the full system. ... The WSE will come in 15U units with a chassis for the WSE and another one for the power and miscellaneous component
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by peterhj 7y ago
Cool to see this on HN. I briefly worked there on a closely related project during high school after this paper was published. It was my first real experience doing wet lab work-- learned a bunch, met cool people, was fun. (Also did a lot o
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by peterhj 7y ago
To expand a bit, as I understand it, Remora gives a type system (and type inference) to APL- and J-style reranking, which is called rank polymorphism in Remora. The key thing is that type inference in Remora is based on Presburger arithmeti
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by peterhj 7y ago
Spoiler, ish: The last time I measured ImageNet JPEGs with EXIF orientation metadata, the number of affected images was actually quite small (< 100, out of a dataset of 1.28M). There are also some duplicates, but altogether it seems fair
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by peterhj 7y ago
Bonus round: (1) Find the ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) images possessing EXIF orientation metadata. (2) Of those images, find which ones have the "correct" EXIF orientation.
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by peterhj 7y ago
Not the most explanatory sources but function spaces essentially are vector spaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space#Function_spaces http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HilbertSpace.html
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by peterhj 7y ago
Have you looked into SageMath? (Technically it's "Python-based" rather than "just" Python.) I'm also curious if you're specifically looking for something in Python, or if doing symbolic computation/co
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by peterhj 7y ago
One counterexample: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09308v1
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by peterhj 7y ago
Pratt parsing is great. Quoting from the original paper itself: > One may wonder why such an "obviously" utopian approach has not been generally adopted already. I suspect the root cause ... is our universal preoccupation with
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by peterhj 7y ago
If you have an assembler or C compiler you can implement matrix multiplication (GEMM) which usually does most of the heavy lifting in your neural net. Now you correctly alluded that it may not be simple to efficiently implement GEMM but if
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by peterhj 7y ago
I'm curious if you have a particular language/microcontroller/microwave/badger you have in mind? Depending on which, YMMV.
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by peterhj 8y ago
In the Bay Area today, a section of Amtrak's Capital Corridor passes through the salt ponds and the Baylands marshes which is also quite reminiscent.
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by peterhj 8y ago
arXiv started out with physics preprints.
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by peterhj 10y ago
I'm not sure that there's a mature Rust alternative to "all of the above" quite yet. Some things that I've had to build for my own work (not always "built," sometimes I just wrote FFI bindings) include: *
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by peterhj 10y ago
Rust has been pretty critical to me for getting my work up and running with minimal debugging (I'm in CS grad school, working on deep learning and optimization). I'm super productive programming in Rust, which is also generally a