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nikonyrh

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About nikonyrh

Blog: https://nikonyrh.github.io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48837483

    Does that take into account the efficiency of transforming the gas to electricity first? Ah, well we have other power sources as well. But if you were to use gas, it doesn't seem t…

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    Comment #47947232

    At least in Finland's Nordea bank you can order a physical code calculator, they used to be small enough to keep on your wallet but the new one is the size of an old small phone. I…

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    Comment #46896316

    Wood / metal working, MTB and Factorio. Or did you mean within the IT sector? Well ML is interesting ;)

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    Comment #44850608

    AMD already has Composable Kernels[1], and supports for example Triton[2]. Then there is also HIP[3], and there are tools to automatically convert from from CUDA to HIP. But since …

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    Comment #44850432

    He should have asked what is the price for 1 MB, or 1000 kB. 2 cents, right? insert meme here

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    Comment #41832992

    I suppose you aren't a fan of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize . > The goal of the Hutter Prize is to encourage research in artificial intelligence (AI). The organize…

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    Comment #41630983

    I don't think the distinction between indoors or outdoors usage is relevant, in the end we are still talking about the volume of drinkable water people use. Whether they use it for…

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    Comment #40876519

    I always found it interesting that you cannot have a domain name without publishing your address and phone number, or paying for an extra service.

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    Comment #40676620

    This reminds me of the meme where you read up instructions of good sleep, at 4am before getting ready to go to bed.

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    Comment #40676414

    "In a notebook, you can go back and edit and run individual lines of the notebook without re-running the whole notebook from the start and without re-computing everything that depe…

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    Comment #40650761

    I bought Unihertz Pocket Titan, at least it was different! Quite thick and heavy, but the battery lasts about 6 days even without any power-saving mode.

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    Comment #40649656

    Since with CUDA you are programming so close to hardware, and hardware (and CUDA itself) has advanced so much, I recommend you to go trough very carefully all the major CUDA versio…

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    Comment #40640488

    - Photo editor - In-memory database - Data compression algorithm - 2D or 3D physics engine / game - Game engines in general

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    Comment #40628253

    Aah that makes sense, thanks!

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    Comment #40627809

    I'm not familiar with this library, how does `text("(now())")` evaluate and why there are extra parentheses? And should that be a lambda expression as well, so that `create_date` i…

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    Comment #40627666

    I suppose all SW engineers have experience with data structures, when you are choosing whether to store the data into a dictionary, array or linked list. It is a bit more stretch t…

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    Comment #40536701

    Wow, very cool and easy to set up!

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    Comment #40349180

    Building a custom wall mount for my downhill bike. It requires some extra engineering and planning, the space is tight since there is already one bike on the hallway. It is also im…

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    Comment #40342203

    That is what I usually do, I don't find very interesting to just load pre-existing models and feed data into them. But sometimes it is a necessity, if the network is too large (lik…

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    Comment #40261673

    I remember not being able to read Pandas parquet files using for example Vaex ( https://pypi.org/project/vaex/ ). And it is a bit disgenuine not to enlist all supported arguments o…

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    Comment #40192494

    I thought this was 17% of all online sales! Like all of the stuff that Amazon sells.

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    Comment #40049661

    These are just my favorites, and in the order of which the popped into my mind. - Office Space, 1999 (especially for people who work at offices) - The Matrix, 1999 - Fight Club, 19…

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    Comment #39944245

    Very interesting, it must feel great to get to apply CS knowledge at work, rather than writing basic CRUD apis / websites.

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    Comment #38409103

    Educate me, what did they build?

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    Comment #38399321

    One option is to go for Dell's Alienware line, depending on your needs you need to choose how much RAM you need on the GPU card. RTX 4000 generation seems to have at minimum 8 GB, …