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Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost(arstechnica.com)
2 points by torrance 2d ago|2 comments
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Julia 1.13 Highlights(julialang.org)
4 points by torrance 7d ago|0 comments
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A Preview of Roc 0.1.0(youtube.com)
3 points by torrance 1mo ago|0 comments
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by torrance 5mo ago
I think you are making exactly his point. Practicing code as a craft, caring about how you do it, how well you do it, and what it’s ultimately used for is, as you correctly point out, not going to bring you profit or employment. So maybe th
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by torrance 11mo ago
Well, in Julia, for one.
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by torrance 1y ago
The simplest way to do this is described here: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePointPicking.html Essentially: 1. Generate uniformly random values u,v between 0 and 1. 2. Then find their spherical coordinates as: theta =
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Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians(theguardian.com)
137 points by torrance 1y ago|51 comments
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Spotify exodus over arms industry link(theguardian.com)
6 points by torrance 1y ago|0 comments
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by torrance 1y ago
If you select "All data" for their user count, you'll notice a sharp shift in the gradient of the user count about a year ago. Any idea what would cause this?
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by torrance 2y ago
Since no one else has mentioned it, I appreciated the Arrested Development references. Very cute.
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by torrance 2y ago
These results are promising and hopefully carry over to the upcoming Strix Halo which I’m eagerly awaiting. With a rumoured 40 compute cores and performance on par with a low power (<95W) mobile RTX4070, it would make an exciting small f
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by torrance 2y ago
What about Nextflow?
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by torrance 2y ago
If your project depends heavily on general purpose GPU programming, you might start one in C++. This was the case for a project I am working on that was started in the last year. The interop features in rust (and other languages) are simply
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Spack Package Manager(spack.readthedocs.io)
3 points by torrance 3y ago|0 comments
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by torrance 3y ago
2008.
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by torrance 3y ago
I’m really unsure why this is front page. For a hacker news audience that has little knowledge of Aotearoa New Zealand history, this is an odd first introduction that has historically been used to vilify Maori and in turn justify colonisati
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by torrance 3y ago
You should read a little more closely before such strong condemnations. The Julia macros @btime and the more verbose @benchmark are specially designed to benchmark code. They perform warm up iterations, then run hundreds of samples (ensurin
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by torrance 3y ago
Whilst the Julia version currently beats Mojo, I fully expect both to approach basically the same performance with enough tinkering, and for that performance to be on par with C or Fortran. A more interesting question is which version is mo
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by torrance 3y ago
Thanks for that. That’s quite a different meaning.
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by torrance 3y ago
Not to be confused with the Julia binary building platform of the same name ( https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil )
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by torrance 3y ago
In case you were wondering like I was: “The Linux kernel's stateless video decoder interface is used for video decoding where no state needs to be kept between processed video frames and allows for independently decoding each video fra
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by torrance 3y ago
Most of these features were covered at last year’s JuliaCon. Videos are all online - worth checking out!
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by torrance 3y ago
Interferometry relies on measuring the interference pattern between two points simultaneously measuring incoming radio waves. Each element of a baseline must be measured at the same time. If we were to allow the Earth to rotate around the
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by torrance 3y ago
I'm confused how the Doppler shift is measured in the case of the continuously modulated frequency? It seems both range and Doppler shift are encoded in the reflected signal - how are they separated? Edit: or is it the case that a full
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by torrance 4y ago
No. Carbon credits are meant to create a market for the right to emit carbon dioxide, ideally where the total credits are fixed and reducing per year. What you're talking about are carbon offsets, which in turn increase the the total p
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by torrance 4y ago
There’s a number of words like this that won’t autocomplete unless it’s seen it first. Another one: condom.
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by torrance 4y ago
The same could be said of a lot of modern art: it is heavily influenced/driven by the critics, not the enjoyment/pleasure/surprise of a more general audience (who just don't "get" it). There's a feeling th
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by torrance 4y ago
Develop against CUDA locally. Port my kernels to ROCm, and occupy a whole HPC node for debugging and performance tuning for a week. It’s terrible. Edit: I should say that their recommendation is to write the kernels in ‘hip’ which is suppos
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by torrance 4y ago
I’m not using Frontier, but I am using Setonix which is a large AMD cluster being rolled out in Australia. All of AMD’s teaching materials are about ROCm so this is very much how they’re expecting it to be used. The real pain for us is that
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by torrance 4y ago
I’ve used CUDA and Julia extensively in my work for radio astronomy imaging applications. I can say it is a delight to work with. All the usual GPU tips and tricks still apply, of course, and you need to pay careful attention to sequential

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