amoshebb

248 karmajoined 8 anni fa

phd candidate in electrical engineering at delft university of technology. masc university of toronto. military undergrad. e-mail [email protected] if you think I could be a good cofounder, or just to discuss anything :)

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4 giorni fadiscuss

I could only find 4 names:

1 full prof at Vanderbilt with a real research program who has been listed as PI on a bunch of grants. "Top researcher" may be generous, but based on nothing I'd say reasonable description.

The other 3: 1 is a VU Amsterdam PhD who was on a Netherlands Government funded 24-month postdoc in Harvard who's been at VU Amsterdam since 2017. 1 is an adjunct (on leave) prof from Israel who has worked at a few german universities, most recently an Munster (doesn't qualify for the 30% rule). The last resigned over a year ago and has been contracting at a couple UK universities.

This seems less like "Top researchers leave USA" and more like "Typical Academic Bag Chasing"

15 giorni fadiscuss

They mention using an ultrasonic pulse to pop bubbles around a kidney stone.

In scuba diving, microbubbles are what many blame decompression sickness on. I wonder if it may be possible to attach some sort of ultrasonic beeper to periodically burst them somewhere safe?

15 giorni fadiscuss

Re-writing pretty straightforward weather processing from FPGA to GPU just to kick the tires on mojo

16 giorni fadiscuss

Why only 45? And why water cooling?

It strikes me that building everything around room temperature or slightly chilled air is a strange choice. This is already 290K-300K or so, and now this is suggesting that things run fine at 320K or 330K?

I've wondered why we couldn't just design everything to operate around 200°C and just use free-cooling by pumping ambient air through. Why don't data centres look more like chicken barns? Do things melt? Are there more errors of some other type at high temperatures?

16 giorni fadiscuss

I tried, also all a little while ago, really found the puzzles fun to do and then tried to implement some basic radar pipeline things and found lots of just basic 'building blocks' for signal processing (i/o things, fft) were missing to the point I went back to JAX.

I'm still not manage memory on GPU the way I would like, but mojo (or, my ignorant first stab at it) did not let me exploit direct DMA type things anyway.

25 giorni fadiscuss

This is, as far as I know, the business model of coys like mistral and cohere

25 giorni fadiscuss

I’m not a business person, but they’re already at the “hundreds of thousands of servers” scale, what about the 41st data center be organizationally far more expensive than the first 40?

mese scorsodiscuss

If you infect a machine with GPU enough to run the localLLM needed to steal another machine, you can let it burn tokens all day for free because whoever you stole the first one from will pay the electric bill.

2 mesi fadiscuss

Also ignoring the massive new market that has been automotive radars which, as a market, have totally eclipsed weapons

3 mesi fadiscuss

“recovers every reported private key at statistically indistinguishable rates from the IBM hardware runs.”

3 mesi fadiscuss

Are there any good low-stakes games for a regular game night?

I'd love to try to host something like a poker night, but without the sour taste of gambling. Poker has lots of great qualities: people can drop in and drop out of, pick up quickly, not require so much focus that it precludes whitty bantz or idle side conversation. Are there some modern games that fit this shape?

3 mesi fadiscuss

Wow, I knew it was true but this may really drives home just how much the netherlands is a microsoft shop.

3 mesi fadiscuss

I read a lot about passive radars trying to leech off of opportunistic waves, and lots about actual troops preferring to play hide-and-seem with anti-radiation weapons just to use active machines.

A config that strikes me as obvious but doesn’t seem to be popular would be just bistatic where you fire your own transmitter far away from yourself?

There’s got to be a reason, but it seems like best of both worlds.

5 mesi fadiscuss

The gradient in blob is the same as the one in the polygon, it’s just there as art to hint at what’s missing

6 mesi fadiscuss

We should run electric third rail along the Mississippi. It’s already barges with tugs so a few electric tugboats mostly running during daylight hours, we could electrify most of this by just replacing a few tugboats. Make the lines high capacity enough to run along the coasts, and a fleet of tugs could be a huge dispatchable load, slow steaming could free up a lot, and going just a few kts faster would mop up a ton of what may be otherwise curtailed

7 mesi fadiscuss

Yes, but even with my worst handwriting, in situations where I and l matters, I can always choose to do an especially I I or particularly l l even if most are indistinguishable which a font can not do

7 mesi fadiscuss

https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

7 mesi fadiscuss

"About 1.7% of the electricity transferred over the transmission network is lost" https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmen...

7 mesi fadiscuss

Yes, chrome gives me a little “PWA” so I can even have an icon in my dock, but it’s not as nice

7 mesi fadiscuss

I have found daily-driving Ubuntu at Delft shocking pleasant. Chrome, zotero, obsidian, zoom, and so on all work great. Outlook, teams, and the office suite, and signing pdfs are all the sharpest edges by far.

I feel if the TUs were required to dogfood this, especially if generously funded such that startups could come along and provide the same service and support, that it could be a great positive externality