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US burnt almost entire latin american down last century because "can't have communism in our backyard", even though these countries are quite far geographically than Bahrain is to …

I brought up Israeli-American donors because that’s what is relevant in the context of the story we’re discussing. We are talking about a war many right wing Israelis wanted for de…

Exactly what part of my statement was dog whistling? Can you stop throwing around this serious accusation of antisemitism without any attempt to substantiate your claim?

Citizens United is an existential threat for USA. You cannot have Israeli-American dual citizens pouring $200 million dollars in elections. and that’s just her alone. This is simpl…

Another mid east war entirely on Israel’s behalf, another war Americans will pay tax for, die for- just so Israel can keep grabbing few parcels of lands from Palestine.

I think there are two steps here: converting video to sensor data input, and using that sensor data to drive. Only the second step will be handled by cars on road, first one is pur…

The article strictly talks about people who were pals with him _after_ his Pedophilia conviction. And please don't do this strawman "evil person eating babies", nobody sane is clai…

I work with GPUs and I'm also trying to understand the motivations here. Side note & a hot take: that sort of abstraction never really existed for GPU and it's going to be even har…

To the author (or anyone from vectorware team), can you please give me, admittedly a skeptic, a motivating example of a "GPU-native" application? That is, where does it truly make …

> For example, NEON ... can hold up to 32 128-bit vectors to perform your operations without having to touch the "slow" memory. Something I recently learnt: the actual number of ph…

I'm not asking an academic program first published 8 year ago (e3nn) to beat actively developed CuEquivariance library. An academic proposing new algorithms doesn't need to worry t…

I should note PETSc is a big piece of software that does a lot of things. It also wraps many libraries, and those might ultimately dictate actual performance depending on what you …

To be practically useful, we don't need to beat vendors, just getting close would be enough, by the virtue of being open-source (and often portable). But I found, as an example, PE…

Hi, I just wanted to note that e3nn is more of an academic software that's a bit high-level by design. A better baseline for comparison would be Nvidia's cuEquivariance, which does…

Hi, I actually mentioned ISPC several times there. And although I strenuously avoided crowning one approach "better" over the other, it is worth pointing out that 1) Many of these …

No. Assuming `k` is small enough, which in practice often is, the arithmetic intensity of this kernel is 25-90 Flops/Byte, way above the roofline knee of any modern CPU.

Hi, thanks for reading. Re (b) I'm curious what that middle ground is. Is there any simple refactor to help GCC to get rid of this `if`? (Note, ISPC did fine here) (c) Just to be c…

Yeah N is big enough that entire data isn't in the cache, but the memory access pattern here is the next best thing: totally linear, predictable access. I remember seeing around 94…

For SIMD at least, the {mins[3], maxs[3]} representation aligns more naturally with actual instructions on x86. To compute a new bounding box: new_box.mins = _mm_min_ps(a.mins[3], …

If you are from ML/Data science world, the analogy that finally unlocked FFT for me is feature size reduction using Principal Component Analysis. In both cases, you project data to…

I'd love to see a breakdown of what exactly worked here, or better yet, PR to upstream Abseil that implements those ideas. AI is always good at going from 0 to 80%, it's the last 2…

I was surprised by that defiant tone there in an official page. But it's missing actual numbers, which makes it all pretty strange.

I'm curious what you did with the "active sorting range" after a push/pop event. Since it's a vector underneath, I don't see any option other than to sort the entire range after ea…

> To Koreans, they looked more like sauce bowls, leading them to conclude that the Japanese had starved themselves to stretch out the siege. As a Bengali man, that's exactly how I …