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cgravill

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About cgravill

Working on making motors better at https://monumo.com/

https://www.gravill.com/

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    Comment #48073728

    directly to PTX — no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust.

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    Comment #44929957

    Wow, glad someone is doing this, looks ideal. We’ve a cargo bike with battery failing (physical connector we can’t replace and some cells borderline), when you get to Yahama motors…

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    Comment #44899891

    Is there an intention to bring the auto backend selection to the non-pip interface? I know we can configure this like you show https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/…

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    Comment #44899353

    The main NuGet was problematic for a long time e.g. not providing any control over transitive dependencies (like pip at the time). You had to use https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket…

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    Comment #44897925

    We do something similar with a mix of C++, Fortran, and CUDA dependencies. Using https://cibuildwheel.pypa.io/en/stable/ and the repair functionality to restrict the manylinux to s…

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    Comment #44097858

    It's definitely possible, and my current company were very happy to agree to 4/5 of the time for 4/5 of the salary and it's working out well for everyone. However, I've also found …

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    Comment #41312701

    Some comparisons of power generation by deaths here: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

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    Comment #26046864

    There are some companies such as https://www.owlstonemedical.com/ who’ve made some progress on medical diagnosis from breath

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    Comment #22875950

    Link here to the comment https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610

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    Comment #20274181

    There's a related Microsoft Research project https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil... (I work in the same lab but on different things)

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    Comment #16563071

    Hibermate are very good, I use them especially when travelling. Original style are reasonably priced https://www.hibermate.com/products/the-original-hibermate

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    Comment #16270220

    There's a Microsoft Research project that does something like this with mosquitoes for disease management: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-pre... (note: I …

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    Comment #13715081

    It'd be great to have it built-in but you can get https://chocolatey.org and MinGW pretty easily: iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex restart prompt, then…

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    Comment #8410521

    I use WebSharper at MSR and have been very happy with the results. We have substantial amounts of F# for simulation, modelling, and analysis of biological systems. It’s useful to b…

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    Comment #3053975

    There are some timing comparisons of using PyPy vs CPython with nltk showing improvements http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-dev/browse_thread/thread...

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    Comment #1339310

    The cost of providing power to datacenters is going up both in absolute and percentage. You pay once to heat the server in waste energy then again for air conditioning to cool them…

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    Comment #1312348

    "Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not."