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stochastic_monk

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I study computer science at Hopkins.
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stochastic_monk··on Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD”
I see, thank you. I’ve only used skylake as skx, which just reflects what architectures I have access to.
stochastic_monk··on Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD”
For me, skylake is useful because of AVX512{dq,bw}.
stochastic_monk··on India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
I’m aware of the history of the region. Maybe erupting in fury about whether or not the armed occupation is an invasion isn’t the most productive debate.
stochastic_monk··on India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
The existence of terrorism gives you the right to invade?
stochastic_monk··on India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
Modi’s been in power for years. This is an initiative started while he was in office.

My point isn’t that it’s a distraction, but that it’s also about building party power. Kashmir is just the brightest, clearest signal regarding the goals of his administration.

Edit: While the push to complete it came in 2015, it was (see poster below) in the works as far back as 2007, and I was mistaken to think it’s directly attributable to Modi.

stochastic_monk··on Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
Being low carb is appealing to a lot of people.
stochastic_monk··on Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
Being made from sugar, it more completely ferments. Beer has residual short-chain carbohydrates that leave calories and provide body.

It wouldn’t be much like rum unless it were brewed with dark sugar.

stochastic_monk··on California bill could force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees
Funny — unemployment only appears so low because gig workers list themselves as employed full-time. [0]

[0] https://axios.com/gig-economy-employment-economic-data-effec...

stochastic_monk··on California bill could force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees
More concisely, while wages have stagnated wrt inflation, they’ve fallen significantly once the consumer price index (CPI) is accounted for.
stochastic_monk··on Now Streaming on YouTube: Confessions from a Presidential Hit Squad in Gambia
Wikileaks was nothing more than a counterintelligence operation by the USSR for their interests. Informants weren’t, necessarily — e.g., Snowden, but that is definitively resolved.
stochastic_monk··on U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain
Can you provide a little more detail for those of us who don’t work in your field? As an outsider, it’s not obvious to me what commentary placing the electrodes has to offer.
stochastic_monk··on Software made me loathe my car
I think it’s partially for maintenance/surveillance, depending on your degree of skepticism.

Alternatively, the more bloat they cram into the machines, the more they can charge.

I’d love a car that was just a car, a set of speakers, and A/C.

stochastic_monk··on GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer
I lost count of how many recalls there were for my Ford Focus, including one for my transmission software after 4 trips to my dealer to report a problem they wouldn’t fix.

I would strongly recommend avoiding Ford products.

stochastic_monk··on Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
It’s possible that there’s a difference between admitting it happened and an honest portrayal of the institution.
stochastic_monk··on Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
It could also be a student suffering from anorexia nervosa, which the confessional aspects of the essay would fit well with.
stochastic_monk··on Machine learning primitives in rustc (2018)
I don’t buy their case. A good hash table outperforms it in speed and memory [0].

[0] https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2018/01/11/index-baselines/

stochastic_monk··on Americans Have Shifted Dramatically on What Values Matter Most
Many Americans were raised with a sort of nationalism people simply called patriotism.
stochastic_monk··on Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow?
That explains why I usually see std::span passed by value.
stochastic_monk··on In plain sight: California illegal pot market booming
I wonder how much of this is cost. As far as I understand, the prices are quite high because it’s taxed so heavily.
stochastic_monk··on Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail
If it costs them 10 to administer and they’re paid 2.75, don’t you subtract what they’re paid from their cost?
stochastic_monk··on Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?
Without hawking other items, they’re mostly just making instagram money. I’m not saying it’s good, but the it’s the expected behavior for this incentive structure.
stochastic_monk··on I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me
Yes, and ads. I don’t feel bad blocking them because I subscribe.
stochastic_monk··on Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan
Handling it takes money and effort no one wants to spend. John Oliver covered the situation a couple years back [0].

[0] https://time.com/4908330/john-oliver-nuclear-waste-last-week...

stochastic_monk··on Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan
I rather like Yang. He’s my favorite candidate outside of my Warren and Sanders. His policies are evidence-based, compassionate, and Yang Gang is fun.
stochastic_monk··on Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan
It’s certainly not sustainable. We can’t handle the radioactive waste we already have unless there are some massive overhauls.
stochastic_monk··on My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein
> Joi told me that evening that the Media Lab’s ties to Epstein went much deeper, and included a business relationship between Joi and Epstein, investments in companies Joi’s VC fund was supporting, gifts and visits by Epstein to the Media Lab and _by Joi to Epstein’s properties_.

> As the scale of Joi’s involvement with Epstein became clear to me, I began to understand that I had to end my relationship with the MIT Media Lab.

Emphasis added

This doesn't go into enormous detail, but I wouldn't say he "doesn't detail what was inappropriate".

stochastic_monk··on 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
Or Native Americans.
stochastic_monk··on My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein
I think the information portrayed here is less favorable to Ito.
stochastic_monk··on IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
POWER9 only supports 128-bit vectors, which is a big disadvantage.
stochastic_monk··on Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study
When I pay for compute on AWS, I get an SLA with guarantees. Why are citizens afforded any less?
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