squidgyhead (u/squidgyhead)

squidgyhead commented on An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform betterexplained.com/artic... · Posted by u/pykello

biophysboy · 8 days ago

My favorite application of the Fourier transform is converting convolution into pointwise multiplication. This is used to speed up multiple sequence alignment in bioinformatics.

squidgyhead · 6 days ago

What is the bioinformatic application? Could you point me towards some programs that use this?

squidgyhead commented on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs lapdhelicoptertracker.com... · Posted by u/polalavik

BadBadJellyBean · 24 days ago

Then why do you have so many car chases? That seems like an odd problem. There must be a reason.

squidgyhead · 23 days ago

Because they have so many car chases on the news. So people get the idea that car chases are a solution that people use to get out of trouble.

Seems like a vicious cycle, fed by the terrible news media.

squidgyhead commented on AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/speckx

bee_rider · a month ago

I imagine it would be kind of hard to switch away from Intel in the workstation/cluster space.

Like you have to replace OneAPI, which sounds easy because it’s just one thing, but like do you really want to replace BLAS, LAPACK, MPI, ifort/icc… and then you still need to find a sparse matrix solver…

squidgyhead · a month ago

That is really more of a switch from CUDA to HIP; for most HPC applications, cpu speed isn't the question any more.

squidgyhead commented on Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999) bikeshed.com/... · Posted by u/program

hoofedear · a month ago

“Bikeshedding” is one of my favorite terms I’ve learned since becoming a programmer :)

squidgyhead · a month ago

I write code and also cycle. I built a bike shed in my back yard. It has become quite difficult to search for advice on how to actually build a bike shed.

squidgyhead commented on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/cowboyscott

noisy_boy · 2 months ago

There should be a limit on the number of pardons a president can do during their tenure so that they have to at least think a bit before using it. It is a very powerful tool that actually allows a last resort. But this kind of egregious abuse of it's power means it needs to be kept in check.

squidgyhead · 2 months ago

Or just not have pardons at all.

squidgyhead commented on More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety theguardian.com/society/n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

squidgyhead · 3 months ago

For those complaining about the news sites being sensationalist, why not just read Reuters? You will miss out on local news, but it's pretty reliable for international news.

squidgyhead commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

squidgyhead · 4 months ago

Speed enforcement has been extensively studied, and there are a lot of publicly available articles on the subject. The results are basically universally in favour of speed enforcement reducing motor vehicle collisions, reducing injury and cost.

squidgyhead commented on How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer wsj.com/us-news/how-to-ca... · Posted by u/Element_

fn-mote · 5 months ago

The idea that deer need to be protected is hilarious. All around the Midwest (USA) you can see obvious signs of deer overpopulation. Every doe gives birth to twins. The understory in the forest is bare.

This guy is selling 60 deer decoys a year? The DNR is just playing a power game.

If the focus of the article were about poaching an animal that isn’t as common as mice, I would be more sympathetic.

Instead it seems like the focus is on the easiest poaching to catch (because of the massive numbers of infractions), not the greatest impact.

squidgyhead · 5 months ago

I am not familiar with poaching issues in the USA, but in Canada, one isn't allowed to hunt too close to roads; doing otherwise is poaching. It seems reasonable to not discharge firearms next to public roads, so stopping poachers who do so is a great use case here.

squidgyhead commented on First-in-Nation Bill Requiring Cars to Warn Speeding Drivers Goes to CA Governor sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/s... · Posted by u/rntn

LeftHandPath · a year ago

See the Solomon Curve - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve

We absolutely should consider the entirety of drivers and their existing behaviors when we design roads, instead of wishing they would behave differently.

Moreover, reducing accommodation for motor vehicles in cities leaves the non-urban population behind - and neglects that private vehicles aren't the only users of the roadway. Truck deliveries, garbage collection, and mail become a lot more difficult if roadways are reduced.

squidgyhead · a year ago

Differences in speed matter, but so does absolute speed.

"Inappropriate speed is responsible for 20 to 30% of all fatal road crashes." from https://www.itf-oecd.org/speed-crash-risk

Also, due to kinetic energy increasing with speed, collisions are worse, in addition to being more likely.

squidgyhead commented on Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs docs.scale-lang.com/... · Posted by u/Straw

curt15 · a year ago

Pretty much any modern NVIDIA GPU supports CUDA. You don't have to buy a datacenter-class unit to get your feet wet with CUDA programming. ROCm will count as "something" when the same is true for AMD GPUs.

squidgyhead · a year ago

Here is the support list:

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...

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