plekter

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by plekter 1y ago
While in general I am very much in favour of playing both sides of an abstraction, I would argue that RTL is nowhere near the top of the stack. In the GPU world, you have games, which are built on game engines, which are built against an AP
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by plekter 4y ago
Modern gpus + drover stack usually had more than one frame in flight. You have to output a frame every 4ms, but you do not need the latency from the start of the application rendering code to the frame being on screen to be 4ms - pipelining
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by plekter 4y ago
I think multisampling may be the answer. For partial rendering all samples must be written out, but for the final one you can resolve(average) them before writeout.
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by plekter 4y ago
GPU hardware architecture. It's just a never ending stream of fun problems to solve and I love it!
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by plekter 4y ago
On reading your original post again, what you experienced (both being super exhausted after work, and a shower helping) resonates with my what I felt early on in my career. Things that helped were - Take care of primary needs during the wo
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by plekter 4y ago
Kids. That's it, really, and I love it. Nothing makes me snap out of it like being assigned a role from Paw Patrol by my two year old, and going off on some rescue mission. It's pure bliss.
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by plekter 5y ago
I totally agree that the existence of these drugs make the world a better place. I also totally agree that there should be significant financial upside to developing drugs like these, after all we do want to incentivise making the world a b
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by plekter 5y ago
That particular drug was on the news in Norway this week because it is so incredibly expensive that the state don't want to pay for it. We are talking 20-30k USD per month per patient. I partially excused that mentally with a "but
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by plekter 5y ago
It works in Firefox on my a32
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by plekter 5y ago
I don't think they can use jpg directly, that would be a waste of transistors given that the graphics world use other compression formats like etc1, bc, astc and so on. It is however perfectly possible to decode blocks of JPG on a GPU
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by plekter 5y ago
Micropolygons. He said on twitter that most of the triangles are pixel sized or smaller. This approach would fall flat on its face with large primitives: - The for loop in the rasterizing code would get very large strides between lanes in a
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by plekter 5y ago
Are the consequences of the massive energy usage also opt-in?
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by plekter 5y ago
I'll wager a guess: ASML, the Dutch company that makes the magic machines TSMC(and others) use to make chips.
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by plekter 5y ago
I agree with that - but if you take an unchanged core and manufacture it at a different node, then you won't see a change in IPC, which in my book makes it questionable to attribute IPC gains to the process node.
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by plekter 5y ago
Process node changes generally doesn't do anything for IPC - those are generally rather due to microarchitecture improvements, so I doubt the move to 5nm has anything to do with the IPC gain..?
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by plekter 5y ago
Mobile GPUs (Imagination PowerVR, Qualcomm Adreno, Arm Mali, Apple's GPU) are exactly that.
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by plekter 6y ago
Some of these are pure gold! "2:4 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory."
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by plekter 6y ago
I used Meshuggah - Bleed and a carrying harness to get my then 2 month old to sleep. Close enough to white noise, and motivation for daddy to keep rocking. Not sure I want to read research on whether that was a good idea..
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by plekter 6y ago
I live in Northern Norway in eastern Finnmark. This article seems to miss these points - When you are sufficiently far north, winter means beautiful snowy landscapes, aurora borealis, good stable conditions for cross country skiing, no grey
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by plekter 6y ago
I do wonder what this means for Arm's Mali GPUs if this goes through.
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by plekter 7y ago
I'd argue that modern GPUs pipelines are quite different from the API programming models they support, especially tile based renderers do lots of funny things while maintaining the illusion that you are running on the abstract OpenGL p
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by plekter 8y ago
I was in Kenya just after this, when Miguna Miguna went missing for a few days (people feared he had been disappeared,but he "just" got deported). As chance would have it, I was in his home town. Quite heavy demonstrations - makes
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by plekter 9y ago
So you see it as a general career progression impediment - even the gifted gets "slowed down" progression wise? Are you talking from personal experience, or guessing? I strongly suspect a lot of this depends heavily on how the tal
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by plekter 9y ago
> reality is, if your team is 80-90% not remote, forget about career advancement. That's quite a sweeping statement - and doesn't resonate with me at all. I fit that statistic, but I work in a company that has a mature process
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by plekter 9y ago
Yearly reviews, where high performers get recognized and promoted. My career progression has matched that of my peers, so I have no complaints there.
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by plekter 9y ago
I've also worked remotely for 4 years now, but in a company where remote workers aren't that common. I absolutely love it - I love the autonomy, the lack of office distractions, etc. I think the key things for me are - Love your w
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by plekter 9y ago
It looks nowhere as good as MRI - but has the advantage of being very quick to do. MRI will also image different things (depending on settings). US will show you interfaces between different kinds of tissue (that's where you reflect pa
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by plekter 9y ago
I wrote my master's on doing the reconstruction a few years ago. On my shoddy 10 year old laptop GPU I could reconstruct a 3D volume from 800-ish slices in about a second - depending on interpolation - so on modern hardware (or even mo