np-hard is still solveable with constraints. look at go.
What about it?
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gregorygoc commented on Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler github.com/luminal-ai/lum... · Posted by u/jafioti
> that we mitigate with smarter search
aka "a heuristic"
Exactly, I was going to ask about this bit…
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It’s mind boggling why this resource has not been provided by NVIDIA yet. It reached the point that 3rd parties reverse engineer and summarize NV hardware to a point it becomes an actually useful mental model.
What are the actual incentives at NVIDIA? If it’s all about marketing they’re doing great, but I have some doubts about engineering culture.
gregorygoc commented on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team annas-archive.org/blog/an... · Posted by u/jerheinze
libgen is still there
What’s the url?
It still arguably complies with the Paradox of Tolerance.
Terrorists (as well as their supporters) are intolerant and non-pluralist. Therefore, for a pluralist society to survive, it must be intolerant of one thing- intolerance.
It’s basic game theory. If someone is not nice to you, you have to be not nice for them.
gregorygoc commented on The great myth of empire collapse aeon.co/essays/the-great-... · Posted by u/marojejian
"Western Germany was in a better place."
Due to a somewhat historically anomalous generosity of the winners, who (from a mixture of humanity and economic motives) decided to invest into its rebuilding.
In earlier times, debellatio of an enemy state after a long, vicious existential war would end in a way similar to what the Romans did to Carthage.
WWI was a thing.
There isn't a single unified software industry. 737 MAX problems happened in a software engineering and software development context embedded within one of the nominally most rigorously regulated industries that already exist.
MCAS failures was not a failure of software per se, but a clear system engineering and management failure, and a failure of all engineers involved, including ones that actually are licensed.
If nothing else, MCAS shows the limits of regulation, particularly in the failure mode of regulatory capture (FAA delegated too much power back to Boeing).
It shows the broken incentives of the lobbied failure mode. It does not say anything about the limits of regulation. In particular, regulation can say: you need to perform 100,000 failure-less flights across the globe without any passengers to approve the aircraft. I’m not saying it’s practical to do so, rather that regulation always has a headroom.
And somehow morons downvote you for speaking the truth.
My friends in India are all doing swimmingly well with the extremely huge increase in offshoring jobs to India. While in the 2000s it was tech support and in the 2010s it was auxiliary tech workers, today it's actual engineers, UX designers, product guys, even HR and admin functions. Turns out, everything can be sent off to India and LatAm, except for sales and department heads. While previously companies would hire right away from IITs to ship them to the US, today they're content with keeping them in India and letting them work remotely.
The impact of AI in corporate jobs is actually very minimal, but the use of it as a smokescreen for downsizing is uncountable.
Good old “the capital has no nationality”. Yeah, sure. Offshore everything, keep a bunch of stooges as “head of the heads” in the U.S. and one day wake up with entire know how transferred to wherevere-was-cheaper-at-the-time.
I dream that LLMs will be the disaster that finally convinces the software engineering field that code isn't so "soft" after all, and that software engineering should be licensed, bonded, and insured.
Every single other engineering field has gone through it. "Regulations are written in blood".
Blood has been spilled. 737 MAX happened and it didn’t change the industry, so nothing will.
Heat pumps work as aircos or heaters but are more efficient.