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by wallscratch 2y ago
Can anyone comment on how efficient the Warp code is compared to manually written / fine-tuned CUDA?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
They literally just saved the world, and we’re not going to give them any credit for it…?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
I’m sorry, but what is the play on words in the title “Attention is all you need” here?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Going to echo the suggestions for the Art of Problem Solving books, particularly I recommend the contest books (vol 1 or 2). Several very talented people have said to me that these books taught them how to think. Maybe a bit exaggerated, bu
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by wallscratch 4y ago
That’s true, but my view is even if the original article is unbiased, the selection process by which it was chosen to appear on this periodical with the reach it has introduces some statistical bias.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Does anyone have suggestions with where to find more exercises? I notice the book pdf has like ~38 total, but was curious where one would find more.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Human Revolution was wonderful, but Mankind Divided had such bizarre pacing… I was ~15 hours into Prague, waiting for the transition to the next locale like in all of the other Deus Ex games, and then the story ended… sigh
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by wallscratch 4y ago
You mean Pembroke? Probably more like 5-10 kids a year. Even my public suburban kc high school had 7ish kids going to ivies my year.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Could someone explain why refactoring is so much easier in functional languages?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
I’m confused — why can’t the sex workers just claim to be independent masseuses or something else innocuous like that?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Can you give an example of a system that’s in place to ensure workers are near max capacity most of the time?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Linux kernel has a bunch of gotos, primarily used to just jump to exit / deallocate on kmalloc failure, without having to unnecessarily complicate the control flow to handle that.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
This is super cool, and helps fill a hole I had always been frustrated by during my own self-education. I am curious to know approximately how many hours the courses take, and if you can share anything about which future courses you have in
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by wallscratch 4y ago
This take seems a bit pessimistic about the longevity of society to me. If we still have tens or hundreds of thousands of years to go, just going with whatever was best by 2020 seems a bit ad hoc. Not that I know the future.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
It should be totally deterministic with the use of random seeds, I think.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
I thought modern computers are primarily cache limited and even running an os entirely on ram (on a system with no hdd/sdd) isn’t that much faster. I would be curious to see some data.
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by wallscratch 4y ago
Why? Aren’t all regular expressions equivalent to some finite state machine?
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by wallscratch 4y ago
> I went to a mid-tier state school and my friends were just people I happened to be lumped together in housing. Is it "optimal"? No, but I enjoyed it. My friend crew consisted of a stoner, a very religious dude, a meat head an
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by wallscratch 4y ago
I strongly encourage you to contact MIT about your situation and family’s situation and try to negotiate out more financial aid. As someone who went to a flagship state school for undergrad and ivy for phd… A) Most of the people I know who
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by wallscratch 5y ago
I rewatched lotr after having seen GoT, and I was struck by how simplistic the good vs evil narrative of everything was.
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by wallscratch 5y ago
As someone who went to a state school for undergrad and an ivy for phd (and took some undergrad cs classes there), and I can say that yes, the undergraduate classes are definitely much harder at ivy league schools, at least in stem.
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by wallscratch 5y ago
Sure, but I don’t think that devalues his criticism.
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by wallscratch 5y ago
Do you remember what library it was?
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by wallscratch 5y ago
There are a few techniques: Patch clamp recording: you are literally sticking a needle into a single neuron and measuring it’s activity EEG/MEG: using electrodes to measure activations of many thousands or millions of cells
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by wallscratch 5y ago
> At the day job, its Python everywhere. I've been told people would laugh at using Perl. Kind of a shame, as I see multiple pages of code that could be easily reworked into a far more readable, easy to reason about and comprehend s
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by wallscratch 5y ago
Any thoughts on anvil? It’s a full-stack python framework. I think it features a python to js transpiler: https://anvil.works/blog/client-side-python
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by wallscratch 5y ago
Chocolate also has caffeine, which may be what’s keeping you up.
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by wallscratch 5y ago
It’s striking that every org and every team is hiring.
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by wallscratch 5y ago
What’s up with wikipedia results being deprioritized?
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by wallscratch 5y ago
Couldn’t there just be some google maps / waze API that jurisdictions can enter speed limit information into for different days and times of the week, and just have the car query that?

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