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LeanderK

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About LeanderK

CS phd student at University of Edinburgh @ the APRIL lab email Leander.Kurscheidt(At)gmx.de also on github etc.

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    Comment #47179093

    there is still no vmap-like operation for GPUs in julia, right? How's Reactant coming along?

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    Comment #47111452

    you know that people really go there to dance and enjoy the music? A friend of mine is a professional (modern) dancer, so has as much credentials as you can, and she enjoys dancing…

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    Comment #46911379

    I am not sure why...you want the LLM to solve problems not come up with answers itself. It's allowed to use tools, precisely because it tends to make stuff up. In general, only if …

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    Comment #45082142

    people always cheer up stats like that americans are drinking less, but I think what's overlooked is that young adults also socialising less. Turns out, they also have less sex, le…

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    Comment #44515327

    Purely anecdotal, but I was recently reflecting at the current trend of people posting really extensive morning routines. Waking up, meditation, yoga, gym, shower, eating breakfast…

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    Comment #44150178

    I really enjoyed how they did it in Tübingen, where I did my masters. You usually had to achieve a certain score on the homework (usually 50-75% of the overall points) in order to …

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    Comment #43968590

    I didn't enjoy the city of arts and sciences tbh, it felt disconnected, artificial, maybe almost totalitarian in its will to show off. I also thought that, if you look past the imm…

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    Comment #43519135

    I recently found out that this is not a thing everyone does. This is essentially how I survived my studies, I was never able to concentrate at home except under intense stress. Qui…

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    Comment #43382126

    I am having trouble understanding the document. Where is it stated? I can not exactly follow your argument. I am not sure why being accountable to the people necessitates having no…

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    Comment #43381869

    ah ok, thanks for the clarification! But there shouldn't be too many probationary employees, right? So what's administrate leave exactly? Just relieved from your responsibilities? …

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    Comment #43381792

    As someone from europe, I am baffled by the ability to just fire everyone on the spot. Are there no job-protections for federal employees? This makes agencies really dependent on t…

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    Comment #42829918

    it boggles my mind that a place like new york doesn't have the money to just do that. Raising the speed limit gets more important the longer you travel and connects distant parts y…

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    Comment #42705916

    I just want to point out that germany and US have a similar number when adjusted to it's respected population size (I think it's even a little bit higher). I am kinda surprised to …

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    Comment #42241071

    ah no, what i meant that I see these really low-quality, disregarding patches. It seems like, if for example there's some cobblestone-like road, they are not really required to red…

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    Comment #42199443

    interesting. I noticed something similar in the UK but not in Germany. Maybe some simple change in the way these utility repairs are regulated is to blame? While interstates are ni…

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    Comment #42177935

    well, but machine learning is the major reason we use GPUs in the datacenter (not talking about consumer GPUs here). The others are edge-cases for data-centre applications! Apple i…

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    Comment #42177061

    its possible. Just look at Apples GPU, its mostly supported by torch, what's left are mostly edge-cases. Apple should make a datacenter GPU :D that would be insanely funny. It's ac…

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    Comment #42167764

    why? what are the main drawbacks? I imagine the complexity, but can you go a little bit into the details for someone with only little frontend experience

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    Comment #42164427

    I am no frontend-guy, so I don't understand why in the age of node.js web-servers this ditchonomy exists between server-side and client side (SPA). Can't you initialise/pre-render …

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    Comment #42163984

    yeah that's how I do it. You start simple (known solutions for trivial points), then easy cases with analytic solutions and then just some random stuff where you test that the solu…

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    Comment #41965694

    really not my experience. I have never seen such dirty trains in other european countries. Would have been bearable if they would be at least fast, but they are not

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    Comment #41832392

    Interesting, i am in the opposite situation. Using the deutsche bahn for long distances is often horrible so I never thought I would miss it but omg I really didn't have a good exp…

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    Comment #41596981

    not sure exactly what we're talking about but why must tiger parents have smart kids? I thought its just really pushy parents? As a kid, to light the spark of a topic, i would say …

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    Comment #41574321

    what am I missing? Isn't this good news (the positive phase 2 results)?

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    Comment #40940083

    I think at first even background NPCs that don't give quests and rewards would be nice. Sort of give everyone a character and let them just babble. It breaks the immersion to hear …