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I have most likely outdated info, I left Google Research 4y ago. Back then, available TPU instances were plenty and GPU scarce. Nobody wanted to mess with an immature crashing comp…

My experience cycling regularly in NYC: bike lanes separated by curb, stoppers, or poles are more dangerous as cars stop at their entrances/exits and I am literally trapped or cann…

I love using AI tools and they are changing my work and life in amazing ways. I cannot imagine going back. And yet, I am more concerned about the social damage due to their widespr…

It's hilarious that people describe their anecdotal experience of being in a calorie deficit as a proof that "intermittent fasting works". This was never the question, but whether …

I share the sentiment. I haven’t used it in a while (at work use different languages and in the last few years my personal coding is only Python script/Jupyter notebook bite-sized)…

Original author here and it's been a while since I have read such word salad nonsense, sorry. Why people who have no idea or expertise comment on articles? GenerateMips API constru…

It wasn't an exaggeration! :) The shock of many of my colleagues (often not even junior... sometimes professors who decided to join the industry) "wait, I need to talk to product t…

You don't understand the Silicon Valley grind mindset :) I personally agree with you - I am happy working on interesting stuff, getting a good salary, and don't need a promo. Most …

If someone believed they will earn 2-5x better than in academia, with full freedom to work on whatever interests them, and no need to deliver value to the employer... Well, let's s…

One unique and new feature of Slang that sets it apart from existing shading languages is support for differentiation and gradient computation/propagation - while still cross-compi…

It does! Both platform-specific compute shaders as well as cross-compilation to CUDA. The authors even provide some basic PyTorch bindings to help use existing shader code for grad…

It's interestingly disingenuous that many claim of GLP-1 agonist miraculous effects on all kinds of health problems, where the same problems are "simply" solved by getting on a cal…

Yes, I am an (amateur) photographer for the last 27 years, from film, DSLRs, mirror less, mobile. And I worked on camera ISPs - both hardware modules, saving RAW files on mobile fo…

It's not. a) compression can be lossless. b) RAW is not about storing literal photons ADC measurements. It always has "some" processing as those always go through an ISP. We can ob…

It's the other way around - in hearing, phase is almost irrelevant. At medium frequencies, moving head by a few centimeters changes phase wand phase relationships of all frequencie…

Seems you have not worked with ML workloads, but base your comment on "internet wisdom", or worse, business analysts (I am sorry if that's inaccurate). On GPUs, ML "just works" (in…

Yes, my experience with academics is that there are a lot of very dishonest people. They are political bullies who also lie in their research. Chances of being caught are close to …

I lived in SF for ~1.5y, and it's not NYC, and I did not like it too much, but it certainly has some of the city conveniences and is not a car-hell suburb. (I lived in a building w…

I know this is an unpopular opinion in the US, but the tenements can be pretty great. I grew up in Eastern Europe (Warsaw) in "commie" blocks and there was a lot of valid criticism…

I enjoyed the post and appreciate the author sharing their perspective. It's one of many valuable datapoints for anyone considering such a transition. I agree with a lot, but like …

I'm a former game dev and I used ImGui a lot and don't think it's used because those reasons. It's used for quickly hacked debug tools to interleave UI and regular logic and not do…

Wait, what? This is literally not the point of research. The point of research is to form some theory and gather data that is relevant, and then analyze statistically. Plus propose…

I'm always for people over financial entities and capital holders, however in this case it's pretty simple - you sell control to someone for a ton of money, so why on Earth would y…

I shipped a dozen products with them (mostly video games), so there's nothing "wrong" that would make them unusable. But programming them and setting up the graphics pipe (and all …

If they create a better tool chain, ecosystem, and programming experience than CUDA and compatible with all computational platforms at their peak performance - awesome! Everyone wi…