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If the UK was still relevant in the world, the BBC would continue to fund this.

California should do something similar to what Massachusetts did & implement a state income surtax of 5% for those making over $2M/yr. That way, there's no arguing about net worth,…

It's not just the AIs that steal... Thom Yorke is well known for his sticky fingers... https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/19266y3/does_any...

HPC folks who care about performance don't use gfortran. It's borderline dishonest to compare rust performance unless the target compiler is something like Intel's Fortran compiler…

it would be nice to be able to open papers in a new tab or window on Firefox instead of this thing hijacking the standard user interface.

is there a github for this?

Getting closer every day. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1

If what Elmo did at twitter is anything to go by, this is just a fricking disaster of gargantuan proportions waiting to happen.

Allan Holdsworth isn't on this list. Which means whoever wrote it knows less about guitar than they think they do.

Doesn't mention Geisberg forcing Mike Payne to leave PTC and Mike joining Solidworks to head their development.

For a while you could view Netflix online and rent DVDs from them.

I got paid to do the LAPACK port, back in the mid 2000s, for a federal contractor working on satellite imaging type apps. I was still a good coder, back then... Took me about a mon…

Never said it would hurt NVidia, only that CUDA itself isn't as strong a barrier as people seem to think it is. But with GPU target support in LLVM, in most cases you won't need to…

Back in the late 90s, there was a project at SGI, called Bali, to make all their pipelines work in IEEE 32-bit floating point (they were using Intel i860 chips) so that they could …

I have 40+ yrs of HPC/AI apps/performance engineering experience & I was one of the 1st people to port LAPACK and a number of other numerical libs to CUDA. Moreover, many of those …

Mostly true, and you'll get no argument from me on the AMD & Intel are fuckwits front. Intel does ok, but AMD in particular has completely dropped the ball on the SW front, and has…

CUDA is a shallow moat whose effectiveness depends entirely on NVidia convincing people to be mortally fearful of water.

lmfao at the Meta folks not giving any credit whatsoever to the company that actually came up with and implemented the infrastructure work.

wish someone would redo these books, the way they did w. the Feynman lectures. Some of the volumes were so badly printed, as to render them almost illegible.

this is misleading.... she didn't design TM's compute/networking HW, only the systems' chassis & skins. Which is to say she was responsible for how those machines looked, but not f…

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Julia was meant to be a better Fortran/C++

https://theoreticalminimum.com/

the twitteresque counter.social social network is run by one guy, has been operating since 2017, and afaik the bills are paid simply through crowd funding. In that light, I'd say t…