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Comment · 6 months ago
My bet (I don't think there is any confirmation of it) is that the AMD board is still the one released last year. The main difference I see is that the new Intel board uses LPCAMM2 memory whereas the AMD board relies on usual socketed memory that has higher latency and is more memory hungry.
Comment · 8 months ago
I guess it's mostly because cpython has a fairly good C API allowing PyO3 to just write "safe" wrappers on top of cpython APIs and provide macros to generate boilerplate whereas wasm-bindgen has to generate both Rust and JS sides and deal with the painful linear memory intermediate.
Comment · 9 months ago
Igalia is a quite specific "consulting" agency that employs developers and get contracts from client to implement specific features or fix specific bugs, usually around FOSS. They have people who knows how to contribute to Firefox, Chrome, WebKit, Linux, Mesa... It's the go to company if you want to get something done in these projects when not having the resources for that in house.

For example they work for Valve to make the Radeon drivers better and got a grant to get basic MathML support done in the three major web browsers.

Comment · 11 months ago
It's amazing to see MathML moving forward. As a european, I really like this usage of my taxes euros.
Comment · 1 year ago
UV for packaging and dependency management, Ruff for linting, Mypy for type checking (will be likely replaced by Ty when ready) and whatever editor people like (PyCharm, VSCode, Helix...)
Comment · 1 year ago
A lot of large castle owners in France have setup a small apartment on the side for winter and use the main rooms only occasionally and during summer. This is not something new, in Versailles you can visit the king actual private bedroom that is much smaller and easy to heat than the official one.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
No, it's the first day of the holy week
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
If I understand correctly, this library provides some Torch kernels customized for AMD hardware. Why haven't they just upstreamed them to PyTorch for better adoption? Also, they seem to demo usage with Torch default eager execution mode and not Torch JIT/TorchScript. Is this library compatible with TorchScript?
Comment · 3 years ago
But before becoming priest there is a quite long training program (often 5-6 years). Dropping out of it is quite common.

And even after becoming a priest, they can asked to be relieved for their obligations, including celibacy. But in this case they would have to find an other job.

Comment · 3 years ago
Rail lines are massively subsidized and the French government is regularly bailing out SNCF (the national rail company). So imho it not clear that the global market distortion is in the favor of plane.
Comment · 4 years ago
Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Python, PHP, JS, Lua, Java, SQL, SPARQL, PyTorch, MediaWiki, NLP, Linked Data...

Résumé/CV: https://thomas.pellissier-tanon.fr/cv.pdf

Email: thomas at pellissier-tanon dot fr

I am a software engineer with a strong research background. I am mainly focusing on data management, databases, and NLP.

See my website for a more detailed description: https://thomas.pellissier-tanon.fr/

Comment · 4 years ago
There are nice libraries for that like https://ontop-vkg.org/ that translate sparql queries to sql queries and provides some OWL inference.
Comment · 4 years ago
> the customer can run, patch, and run as patched, but not share with others. > the seller guarantees the software will work as documented, won’t be infected with malware, won’t be riddled with security holes, won’t contain plagiarized code.

The two points together are dangerous: they make the seller commit that the software works as intended, even if it is patched by the customer.

The second point is also terrible for the seller: it creates an unbounded liability in case of bug or security issues. Let's assumme that a security vulnerability is discovered, the seller is liable for its exploitation even if they released a patched version that the customer has not applied.

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