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arcanus
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Conversely: in humans, intelligence is inversely correlated with crime.

It doesn't go to zero, however!
arcanus
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Hopper had 60 TF FP64, Blackwell has 45 TF, and Rubin has 33 TF.

It is pretty clear that Nvidia is sunsetting FP64 support, and they are selling a story that no serious computational scientist I know believes, namely that you can use low precision operations to emulate higher precision.

See for example, https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/18/nvidia_fp64_emulation...

It seems the emulation approach is slower, has more errors, and doesn't apply to FP64 vector, only matrix operations.
arcanus
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
How can someone say "the world is in peril" and not be sounding the alarm? Shouldn't they be calling for action across society?!?
arcanus
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
That's a surprisingly large overhead. I've not measured that large an impact on AMD, particularly for compute heavy.

Did you profile at all? And have you observed if it's not compute-bound? If it's memory or IO bound it can be due to other virtualization overheads, such as memory encryption.