Posts by Korev 4910 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
> I remember learning about simultaneous quadratic equations about 30 years ago, and kind-of understood them at the time.
I remember doing quadratic equations in maths lessons and thinking they were pointless. A year or so later I started Chemistry A-level and in the textbook were quadratic equations, interestingly because higher level maths at GCSE wasn't a requirement, half of the class didn't have a clue how to deal with them.
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This isn't only for people who recently learned English. For example, some Irish accents have a different pronunciation of th which is quite distinctive from t, most of the time, but close enough that I've seen a misunderstanding between an Irish person and a British person even though both were native English speakers.
I work with in a non-English speaking country with an Irish bioinformatician, when she first joined the Company and started talking about R she got nothing but blank looks because of her accent!
Almost a Guinness -->
Oh do keep up... The Reg of old covered bacon years ago...
One for Lester Haines -->
So, while both chips will be fabbed using the chipmaker's long-delayed 7nm process — now called Intel 3 — the two will have different feature sets tuned to their target workloads. For example, Intel's P-cores feature its Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) while this functionality appears to be absent on the E-cores.
This should make HPC scheduling fun as you'll almost certainly want your code to hit the cores with vector maths units :)
You can have your daily needs shrunk by a high court judge: The 15 minute city concept is just a garden prison.
I traded in the "freedom" of sitting in traffic for 40 minutes for a 12 minute commute on my bike and I don't miss it at all. Shopping is a 5 minute walk to a supermarket and I go to a weekly market. I wouldn't want to go back to a car-dominated lifestyle.
I've also dropped a couple of clothing sizes since moving over here.
The drone incorporates two batteries for resilience, but removing one allows it to carry 40kg of weight and hit a top speed of 20 meters per second. That's quite quick, even compared to an unladen African swallow.
Come on El Reg, a quick trip the Reg Standards Bureau will tell you that the official unit for speed is the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum. The handy converter will tell you that it's 0.0007%. Please update the article forthwith.
"You don't want to invest into something, do all the due diligence, wait for 18–24 months, and then have the deal not go through," Gupta said. Intel's $353 million payout to end the takeover must have been a bitter pill for Gelsinger to swallow.
So come the end of year performance reviews, will the Intel staff say "Look at this screw up" and say at least I'm not as bad as that?
But the big question is whether running such massive simulation workloads in the cloud is more cost effective than simply booking time on a supercomputer or building an on-premise HPC cluster for it. Neither Google nor Harvard were prepared to disclose costs, however, which suggests to us that it isn't cheap. ®
If it's a collaboration then there's a strong chance that Google are giving them cheap or free compute time. I can see that's a precedent that Google maybe wouldn't too keen on continuing...
The big enterprise vendors long ago decided there's little to no money to be made from Linux on the desktop, which is why it's left up to free distros and non-profit organizations
This really isn't good for us. Our Linux workstations are setup with the same libraries are present on HPC and scientific servers[0] to enable developers & data scientists to deploy and/or scale out their code.
[0] as opposed to database or other webservers which have many fewer libraries for obvious reasons
Many moons ago, I used to work in a restaurant in England that would (illegally) dock the pay of the waiter/resses for things like broken glasses or customers doing a runner.
In the end one of the waitresses had a dad who owned a company, pointed out to her that it was illegal and he also kicked up a fuss...
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