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Can anyone comment on how efficient the Warp code is compared to manually written / fine-tuned CUDA?

They literally just saved the world, and we’re not going to give them any credit for it…?

I’m sorry, but what is the play on words in the title “Attention is all you need” here?

Going to echo the suggestions for the Art of Problem Solving books, particularly I recommend the contest books (vol 1 or 2). Several very talented people have said to me that these…

That’s true, but my view is even if the original article is unbiased, the selection process by which it was chosen to appear on this periodical with the reach it has introduces som…

Does anyone have suggestions with where to find more exercises? I notice the book pdf has like ~38 total, but was curious where one would find more.

Human Revolution was wonderful, but Mankind Divided had such bizarre pacing… I was ~15 hours into Prague, waiting for the transition to the next locale like in all of the other Deu…

You mean Pembroke? Probably more like 5-10 kids a year. Even my public suburban kc high school had 7ish kids going to ivies my year.

Could someone explain why refactoring is so much easier in functional languages?

I’m confused — why can’t the sex workers just claim to be independent masseuses or something else innocuous like that?

Can you give an example of a system that’s in place to ensure workers are near max capacity most of the time?

Linux kernel has a bunch of gotos, primarily used to just jump to exit / deallocate on kmalloc failure, without having to unnecessarily complicate the control flow to handle that.

This is super cool, and helps fill a hole I had always been frustrated by during my own self-education. I am curious to know approximately how many hours the courses take, and if y…

This take seems a bit pessimistic about the longevity of society to me. If we still have tens or hundreds of thousands of years to go, just going with whatever was best by 2020 see…

It should be totally deterministic with the use of random seeds, I think.

I thought modern computers are primarily cache limited and even running an os entirely on ram (on a system with no hdd/sdd) isn’t that much faster. I would be curious to see some d…

Why? Aren’t all regular expressions equivalent to some finite state machine?

> I went to a mid-tier state school and my friends were just people I happened to be lumped together in housing. Is it "optimal"? No, but I enjoyed it. My friend crew consisted of …

I strongly encourage you to contact MIT about your situation and family’s situation and try to negotiate out more financial aid. As someone who went to a flagship state school for …

I rewatched lotr after having seen GoT, and I was struck by how simplistic the good vs evil narrative of everything was.

As someone who went to a state school for undergrad and an ivy for phd (and took some undergrad cs classes there), and I can say that yes, the undergraduate classes are definitely …

Sure, but I don’t think that devalues his criticism.

Do you remember what library it was?

There are a few techniques: Patch clamp recording: you are literally sticking a needle into a single neuron and measuring it’s activity EEG/MEG: using electrodes to measure activat…

> At the day job, its Python everywhere. I've been told people would laugh at using Perl. Kind of a shame, as I see multiple pages of code that could be easily reworked into a far …