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sonzohan

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About sonzohan

Professor of IT in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in non-traditional and underprivileged students.

PhD in Speech Recognition for Assistive technology and Gaming.

Consultant for social good startups.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48349889

    Shoutout to the makers and hackers supplying those!

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    Comment #48349365

    Numbers are from https://www.fitmyllm.com/ so they're not a real hardware benchmark just what you're expected to get. YMMV.

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    Comment #48349133

    What are your settings and tokens/second? Even with 2 GPUs (MI100, RX 6600 XT 8GB) and 32GB of RAM it was running at a snails pace for me. I didn't try a sched_spread with a 3090 a…

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    Comment #48348887

    This person has built a converter for the OAM socket, but it is only confirmed working with NVIDIA cards at the moment ( https://www.reddit.com/r/NVIDIA_SXM2PCIE/comments/1d076cn/o…

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    Comment #48348814

    I looked at those, the Arc 1100, the w6800, MI50, MI60, v100, v620, and basically anything with 32gb of RAM: 1. I wanted an AMD card. 2. I have an RTX 3090 that's been fun to play …

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    Comment #48347653

    I also recently decided to buy a datacenter GPU and slap it into a system. Some notes from my experience that the author doesn't mention in their article: Decommissioned NVIDIA V10…

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    Comment #48341094

    Since I'm getting a lot of hate for this post and having "only 2 years" I have 15 years of experience and counting in games and entertainment. I had 6 years of experience as a game…

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    Comment #48340975

    I have 15 years of experience and counting. My most recently released game was 2022 on Steam. Around 80k sales. Also I still work in industry.

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    Comment #48340707

    > You say in a post below that your total games industry experience was a single internship at Blizzard and then a second stint where you "quickly realized" you didn't want to be a…

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    Comment #48329574

    > I could knock on the doors of say Digipen or similar. Seattle based? If so toss me your email or contact and I'll see if I can help you break into teaching if you're interested. …

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    Comment #48328308

    Dissatisfaction yes, although it doesn't manifest how you'd expect. It comes in the form not so much in dropouts, but in bad course feedback and bad professor reviews. "The profess…

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    Comment #48328192

    I graduated in 2011, went straight to work at Blizzard entertainment. At the same time I had gotten accepted into graduate school so I opted for an internship at Blizzard to try bo…

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    Comment #48327176

    Game dev here, have worked on AAA and indie. First off let me get on my high horse and say the engineering in video gaming is generally more complex than the engineering I've done …

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    Comment #48056133

    Like many other financially-backed initiatives, it's been investigated. Implementation is extremely hard, and would lead to an enormous shift in the very-established culture of vol…

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    Comment #48051793

    > in the name of entertainment. Does the purpose change how the act should be interpreted? > A place of pristine nature is literally destroyed by humans with zero fks given Burners…

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    Comment #48051356

    Theme camp based on an area famous for getting hit with hurricanes and other natural disasters here. During the rains we were one of the few places still open and where you could p…

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    Comment #48051036

    This is how camps known as "Plug n Plays" work. Charge exorbitant camp dues, provide everything for your campers, and let them lead the most privileged lifestyle out there. Many ca…

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    Comment #48050839

    This would lead to less compliance. There are lots of people out there who would happily pay fines or not get deposits back if they didn't have to do the less glamorous parts of th…

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    Comment #47821118

    Uni professor here. My colleagues that teach hard skills courses (like data structures and algorithms) either love AI and incorporate it into their teaching at every moment possibl…

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    Comment #47788559

    This is the content I come to orange site for.

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    Comment #47710842

    Your ad hominem attacks aside, The point the author is trying to make is that Microsoft is actively using dark patterns in an operating system to get them to buy things. If you sim…

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    Comment #47664337

    Recovering game dev here The publisher for this game was Activision. They absolutely had deadlines, lots of (1987) money invested in this, outsourced to a third party company in Hu…

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    Comment #47610088

    Is your name a reference to the Blizzard game? If so, I worked on that :) You're not wrong, but tbh I'd move upstream to Debian. I use Termux on my phone (Z Fold) with Debian and X…

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    Comment #47609796

    When Windows 11 was force-installed on my main game development desktop, I was skeptical, but kept using it. I was annoyed at having to turn off all the tracking and noise (like ne…

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    Comment #47560327

    1. Brokerages, banking, and the financial sector in the U.S. is tightly regulated. Personal financial information is very private, and financial data breaches are treated seriously…