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The #1 problem with PyTorch is that it’s great if you want to use one videocard for training

Incorrect information so confidently stated here. Tons of research papers that use more than one GPU for training, not sure what you're referring to? Standard DDP works fine, for starters.

Apple Mac Studio 4 years ago

Geekbench scores came out, The Epyc 7443p scored 27461, M1 Ultra scored 24055 on multi-core. Geekbench uses ARM-native for Mac M1 iirc.

Apple Mac Studio 4 years ago

My workstation build with Epyc is ~$5,000 and has more cores (24 core), more memory (256 GB), faster GPU (3090), a 2TB pcie 4 SSD and I suspect will perform better on standard benchmarks. Definitely not as compact as the Studio though but lot more extendable.

Apple M1 Ultra 4 years ago

Apple isn't an OEM? They don't sell products that are marketed by another company.

Apple M1 Ultra 4 years ago

Neural Engine cores are not accessible for third party developers, so it'll be severely constrained for practical purposes. Currently the M1 Max is no match for even last generation mid-tier Nvidia GPU.

Note that the title is fairly misleading, students don't actually do real practical labs. A random example: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S63.21/class_site/pages/micr.... Probably because this class was being held during COVID times.

There's no hands on biology work. Homework consists of:

- Find a research or journal article - Propose a technology - Propose a methodology

etc

The 2019 version looks a little better: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S66.19/S66.19/

(My take on VR is far more pessimistic. VR just… isn't going to happen, in any "changing the world" form, in our lifetimes. This is a subject for a different blog post, but I think AR and projection will do much more for us, far sooner.)

Can Carmack toss in a free Quest 2? It looks like the last time he tried VR was back in 2015. The state of the art is a lot better now.

Worldle 4 years ago

What do the green dots represent? They only show up for a few seconds.

If anyone else was curious, Sundar Pichai had not worked on Search prior to becoming CEO, it seems:

Pichai joined Google in 2004,[8] where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010, Pichai also announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw.

I might just be not as intelligent as the average TypeScript developer, but I find the complexity with the type system off-putting. There's 5 different ways to type something, and learning a new type language isn't what I wanted when I just needed my JavaScript to be typed.

It's too bad Flow has lost the typed-JS battle, I find the syntax to be a lot easier to use.