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by taharvey 3y ago
Autonomous systems startup, after assembling one of the largest teams in differentiable computing, demonstrates super-fast differentiable AI training running two orders of magnitude faster than standard frameworks. Collaborating with the Sw
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by taharvey 6y ago
C is already a subset. It's basically one step above assembly.
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by taharvey 6y ago
Not sure I'd take advice on UI/UX behavior from someone who professes to not leave a terminal window... 35 years after better things came along. I know I live back when terminals were all we had. Boy were we happy when that wasn&#
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by taharvey 6y ago
On a Mac invisible files aren't important for even a "pro" user... except for occasional developer needs. It worth saying a feature like this doesn't come without cost. Progressive disclosure and a bullet proof user envi
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by taharvey 6y ago
Exactly. It's not just Google. Adobe or any other company installing always running updaters... is just wrong.
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by taharvey 6y ago
This is actually the core failure of the Linux approach and why they year of the Linux desktop never occurred. Because there is no 1-true approach, developers must support too fragmented of an ecosystem, thus Linux becomes too big a lift to
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by taharvey 6y ago
Interesting milestone, worth reflecting on the broader failures of OSS. Open source user-facing software like Gimp, Openoffice & inkscape were supposed to be the wave of the future that would eclipse their commercial counterparts over t
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by taharvey 6y ago
Your statement is de-latched from facts. What are you smoking.. seriously? Who is following in the footsteps of strong-man totalitarian practices? Trump. You can not name any democrat that would fit this description. Who uses propaganda inc
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by taharvey 6y ago
This. There are in fact many parties in the USA. But unfortunately the USA is still using an early alpha release voting system that was invented in the 1700s before voting theory had been even understood. The result of a majority win voting
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by taharvey 6y ago
Not sure they are bad people per se... but where do you draw the line? Sure Hitler improved the German economy, does that make it defensible to support him? This is the fundamental question in nationalist movements that are driven by ideolo
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by taharvey 6y ago
Totally agreed. The biggest problem in the political discussion is false equivalency. If one side doesn't believe in truth, facts and science, and the other side defends them as fundamental to everything... than those are not equivalen
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by taharvey 6y ago
I would say this is the fundamental reason to vote. What we saw in this countries current divisions is: REPUBLICANS: voting for ideology over everything EVERYONE ELSE: voting for democracy and stability over ideology.
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by taharvey 6y ago
Proves only gullibility has no racial boundaries.
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by taharvey 6y ago
Well said. Let startups be visionary, the government should be boring and centrist most of the time. If everything is going well and on track in the government, there shouldn't be any news.The president of the united states shouldn&#x2
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by taharvey 6y ago
Figma approaches design from an investors point of view. Like most other web-SaaS tools, they aren't browser based because its better for the user. They sacrifice speed, native functionality, and usability for owning via server-side
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by taharvey 7y ago
Essentially Swift is in Lattner's words "Syntactic sugar for LLVM"... meaning it was designed from a compilers point of view to provide an ontology for code that a compiler can analyze, interpret, optimize, and enable deeper
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by taharvey 7y ago
I would encourage you to look deeper. 1. We've moved our company code base from tight C/C++ code to Swift. It is just as fast, with higher level syntax. In some cases faster. It has native SIMD types without external libraries too
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by taharvey 7y ago
What part of Swift being as fast as C++, as safe as Rust, and with the functional type system of Haskell (but actually useful in the real word) is unappealing?
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by taharvey 7y ago
Actually this started before Lattner. Richard Wei kicked this off with his DLVM thesis. Either way, Swift's functional design around a type system has some compiler implications towards solving larger problems that Julia probably will
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by taharvey 7y ago
The guys in our group giggle at Hacker News. The only time they ever even hear about Julia, is when a Swift article shows up here... then all the Julia nerds come out of the woodwork. Guessing the opposite rarely happens.
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by taharvey 7y ago
I'm not conflating. Just like Julia, Swift can JIT... after all both are built on top of the inventor of Swift's LLVM compilation environment. That is not what I'm talking about. Nor am I talking about dynamic dispatch. Swift
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by taharvey 7y ago
You apparently aren't familiar with Swift at all. I'd recommend exploring more before answering. Swift had Linux support since it open sourced 4 years ago. IBM, AWS, Google all have very performant server-side swift packages for m
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by taharvey 7y ago
I suspect his comments are about the vision for the whole solution and environment, not just auto-diff, which is just a piece. Auto-diff extends back 40 years. But the relative obscurity of its usage is that it is a "add-on", meta
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by taharvey 7y ago
Or... as Jeremy Howard said it, having a real compiler with a strongly typed language is "mind blowing" after working in Python. A compiler isn't in your way, with modern JIT compilation and a language with an actual type sys
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by taharvey 7y ago
In his lecture, he specifically said he interviewed both the Swift and Julia teams and got a view inside what happening at Google... and the the Swift teams work, development, and vision was well beyond what the Julia team had even envision
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by taharvey 7y ago
Swift is: 1) A fast general purpose systems language (like C++) 2) With high level semantics and usability (like Python) 3) With type system from functional programming (like Haskel) 4) With concurrent memory model (like Rust)
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by taharvey 7y ago
Ok, I'm going to take this one. First, are you claiming that weather scientists and forecasters are part of a vast global conspiracy? Seriously? These guys aren't even climate scientists, they are just building more accurate senso
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by taharvey 8y ago
While I get the concern, everybody's history here is backwards. Apple released Metal 2 YEARS before Vulkan. Why? Because OpenGL wasn't hacking it anymore and had become too asymmetric. Vulkan copied Metal, not the other way around
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by taharvey 8y ago
Your view of visualization is a limited world: windows and Max?
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by taharvey 8y ago
Honestly, because professionals don't use it.

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