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aportnoy

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About aportnoy

email: aportnoy@pm.me

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    Is Bel a smaller LISP than what's described in The Roots of Lisp? [1] [1] https://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

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    aportnoy.com

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    Comment #41429694

    For NVIDIA, 1. play around with the NVPTX LLVM backend and/or try compiling CUDA with Clang, 2. get familiar with the PTX ISA, 3. play around with ptxas + nvdisasm.

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    Comment #37828509

    Well then… test your memory :)

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    Comment #37828467

    Don't overclock your memory.

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    Comment #37828456

    Wow I came back to post this exact reply. I set my system to a slightly high frequency, ran memtest overnight with errors. Set it back down to a supported frequency, ran a full mem…

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    Comment #37828086

    > But the lack of ECC was a huge bummer at the time of purchasing my system. Why?..

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    Comment #37815845

    > extremely opinionated I have not seen a single codebase that widely uses uint8_t and does not typedef it to u8. It is the exact opposite of "extremely opinionated".

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    Comment #37792176

    Note Sam Altman is a Cerebras investor.

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    Comment #37705682

    Asking because I am on that team :) I went through the same hiring process and had a positive experience at every stage. I had a strong competing offer but went with the JAX team a…

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    Comment #37699594

    What happened?

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    Comment #37265241

    1 is the multiplicative identity 0 is the additive identity all([]) is True any([]) is False

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    Comment #37225973

    Go to the blog and skip to results: https://ai.meta.com/blog/seamless-m4t/

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    Comment #37201381

    The project is a port of https://github.com/nviennot/core-to-core-latency from Rust to C.

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    Comment #37080465

    I used to surf near Scripps Pier while in college and I remember there were always a couple people sitting outside in beach chairs working on their laptops. Salk Institute is an ev…

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    Comment #36650218

    The funny thing is Perl is now arguably more obsolete than sed and awk.

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    Comment #36633317

    I recently interviewed with a fantastic startup in that space called TestFit (testfit.io).

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    Comment #36286253

    This definitely isn't "printing" in the original sense, just a serialization algorithm.

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    In the original LISP with dynamic scoping I think it would be fair to serialize that expression as is: "just use whatever value is bound to 'y' at the time of evaluation, if any".