Viewing profile — pokeypokes

Important to understand that with these kinds of libraries, it's one thing to get everything working, and a whole other to have it all be fast. Given finite resources AMD are (righ…

I have the book but didn't know about these, thanks for the link!

Do you work at AMD and therefore have some kind of insight that we don't? Based on my own experience it's much more likely the call was just a marketing exercise, completely orthog…

Feeling frustration about something not working is a normal part of software development. Reporting a bug, or choosing not to use that software are normal too. Making a public vide…

What contributions did he make to ROCm?

Didn't he just find/report a bug in the multi-gpu case? Then have a melt-down after an AMD engineer sent him a fix a couple of days later? I think you are overstating his contribut…

A non-trivial amount of effort has gone (and is going) into this, see the Hipify tool.

The overwhelmingly most valuable (and difficult) part of copilot is the work done by openAI. You're acting like you single handedly built it. I can't stand working with people like…

Seriously, I'm shocked at these other replies. How can you see someone like this and not help? Nobody is asking anyone to get in a knife fight, but at the very least call someone. …

Yeah the parent comment kinda reads like "optimizing matrix multiplication isn't hard if someone abstracts away all the hard parts for me"

John Henry wasn't hammering those spikes for fun mate. Many of us (idealistically) work on tech with the goal of freeing us to spend time on things like your examples.

I don't see a contradiction.. Humans can both be intelligent and overestimate that intelligence (by thinking it's special and unobtainable) at the same time.

"It's just a parrot" parroted repeatedly to suggest a lack of deeper understanding, while revealing the same.. So meta. The general reaction of people to all this has been one of t…