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Re:Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users on Sunday May 19, 2024 @08:52PM (#40411003)
Wayland breaks the GlobalProtect™ VPN client. Quite annoying.
Re:The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:37AM (#24420842)
Wait, I thought Bezos was a quant, not an investment banker?
Re:Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the Rescue on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:39AM (#24400128)
> they are likely not faster

If they are cache friendly then they can be very fast. The papers by Phil Bagwell (may he rest in peace) are very rich. Lots of implementation detail. Check them out!

Re:Coronavirus Genome Xkcd #2298 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:39PM (#22984193)
I wonder how much truth there is in this cartoon. Can anybody point me to actual state-of-the-art software for genetic research?
> I don't have grants that would cover $10,000 for uncrippled float64 support on Tesla GPU.

Have you tried asking them directly? I have heard that sometimes Nvidia will give free GPUs to researchers.

By the way it is very cool that you do this work as an academic. Many CS professors avoid practical stuff!

Thanks for sharing! Why does CuPy switch to float64 in this case? Is it a bug?
Re:Why I Like Go on Saturday February 09, 2013 @11:31PM (#5195418)
It gets Damien Katz's approval so I'm learning it ASAP.

https://twitter.com/damienkatz/status/289575389641179137