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Re:C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:04PM (#45213176)
Were you using pre-compiled headers before?
Re:Gemini CLI on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @10:53AM (#44378053)
Grateful that this one supports Windows out of the box.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:17AM (#41828232)
The plan is to have many, many Mechazillas.
Re:Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead on Thursday August 01, 2024 @05:46PM (#41133981)
Because Go has massive traction both inside and outside of Google, whereas Dart/Flutter never got big traction.
The RTX 4090 has about the same BF16 Tensor Core TOPs than the A100, assuming 50% MFU (like the A100 40 GB PCIe) it would take 8x longer on 1 RTX 4090 vs 8x A100 80GB SXM, so 12 hours. Datasheet here for the TOPs https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/geforce/ada/nvid... 50% MFU should be achievable on the 4090.
Re:Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:38PM (#40470690)
I recommend Phind.com, it’s been much better and faster for me than Perplexity Pro. I typically use their custom 70B model but you can also use GPT4 o or Turbo, or Claude 3 Opus.
Re:Vice website is shutting down on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:56PM (#39476427)
It takes a while to take down job posts. Everyone likely learned the decision recently. I don’t think the employees who are going to be laid off care about updating the job posts at the moment…
Re:Vice website is shutting down on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:54PM (#39476415)
“Vice website is shutting down” is 100% accurate. Note that they will also lay off most of their staff.
Was Google a chip designer before the first TPU?
That doesn’t seem like a bad number.
Re:—-libcurl on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:38AM (#39176080)
Seriously!!
Re:How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:55PM (#38848869)
Way, way better than Tesseract!
Kqueue! Not the same design or as flexible as io_uring though.
Build 22000 is Windows 10 21H2.
Actual benchmarks and useful info here https://youtu.be/WH-qtuVRS2c
Oh yeah I meant io_uring too. Plus Windows copied it so you can implement things very similarly for Windows.
Great! I was looking into something like this. I assume ending up with epoll will be better?
Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:23AM (#38600410)
It’s about 100 for x86_64 https://www.computerenhance.com/p/waste
It was pretty hard to saturate the memory bandwidth on the M2 on the CPU side (not sure about the GPU).
Re:FlashAttention-2, 2x faster than FlashAttention on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:14PM (#36762663)
Tri Dao and Tim Dettmers ftw
I don’t mind the slow burn at all! I however did not like being forced to do frustrating platforming / movements while having to start from scratch every time I run out of time or die.
I had the same experience after the jellyfish, at which point I gave up and just watch YouTube to know what happens.
I found the world and exploration very fun, but the “platforming” challenges were extremely frustrating for me, and I didn’t enjoy the random messages and the miscellaneous details that you translated. Basically the gameplay loop was filled with things that didn’t quite ring with me, even though the overarching design and story were compelling.
I also love that feature for the exact same reason!

Somewhat disappointed with Outer Wilds though ;)

Re:Apple Introduces M2 Ultra on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:03AM (#36212947)
There is a difference. We train with large batch sizes these days. The ANE silicon size is tiny and can't do the large matrix multiplications for big LLMs with or without a batch size higher than 1. Meaning that it cannot saturate the RAM bandwidth and that you're better using off the much bigger GPU on the Apple die.
Re:Apple Introduces M2 Ultra on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:27PM (#36206426)
Yes, you are correct in that the ANE does have the equivalent of tensor cores and that I didn’t mention that. I just don’t expect it to be usable beyond inference because the number of compute units will not work for batches in medium/large/huge networks. That’s obviously by design! The ANE silicon size is tiny compared to the GPU area. I wouldn’t be actually surprised if Apple strategically only invests in using their GPU for LLM (1B+ params) work.

Note that if you are currently using CoreML for LLMs all the work is done in the GPU.

Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:55PM (#36204463)
This is completely wrong. Learn about lenses.

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