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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The uncertainty alone is already stopping people from making job offers this year in physics. Will the department of Energy keep funding fundamental physics research, for example? Will the NSF or NASA? No one knows. The rational response under these circumstances is to pull back on hiring.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Baratza also sell replacement parts for their grinders on their web site, and provide clear instructions on how to install them. I am delighted to support a manufacturer that builds repairable products.
Comment · 3 years ago
But the interpretation of the journalist is the issue here. Comparing a cost optimized part (TPU v5e) against a performance optimized part (H100) and deciding that this makes Google "behind" is just incorrect.
Comment · 3 years ago
No, it is not. That's the sparse fp8 flop number, but you need to ignore sparsity and compare bf16 flops not fp8 flops for the comparison the ancestor post is making.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, we made this more formally supported recently.

We felt that Windows CPU support was important so everyone can run JAX, even if it's not always the most-accelerated version of JAX. And we got some great PRs from the community that helped fix a few open issues.

Comment · 3 years ago
We ship Windows CPU only at the moment.

We don't support Windows GPU because we haven't had the engineer bandwidth to support it well.

We recommend WSL2 for GPU on Windows at the moment because that is a compromise: it allows CUDA support, without us having to support another release variant.

But we welcome community contributions!

Comment · 3 years ago
Not true!

We release Windows CPU wheels (https://pypi.org/project/jaxlib/#files). So JAX on CPU works great on Windows.

We don't release Windows GPU wheels at the moment, but that's because we're a small team and none of us use Windows personally. We welcome contributions!

(I verified that the Windows CUDA GPU support built as recently as two weeks ago, but I don't have the ability to test that it works.)

We recommend WSL2 because that's just using our existing Linux CUDA release.

Comment · 4 years ago
If pypi didn't enforce size limits, I'd agree with you. We routinely have to delete older versions of our package to make space for newer versions.
Comment · 4 years ago
I enjoyed playing Stellaris on my MacBook M1 pro on a transcontinental flight last night. 4x games work well for passing the time!
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish Mac OS and Apple hardware supported 8k monitors. I have this monitor and love it, but I can't use it with a Macbook at higher than 4k.
Comment · 5 years ago
My employer withheld California tax on restricted stock grants for me exactly as described here when I moved out of California years ago.

Other states even have forms for you to submit this calculation to them, see for example New York's IT203-F Schedule B. But you still have to apportion the income between states like this whether there's a form to do it on or not.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, the difference between 4k and 8k text is easily noticeable for a 32" monitor, and I'm not particularly eagle-eyed. Text is sharper and finer details are better rendered. For videos and images I don't notice the difference in practice.

I had a 4k 32" monitor at work and found that it simply didn't give sharp, high resolution text, driven by either a Macbook or by a Linux box. And you wouldn't really expect that, either: a 4k 32" monitor is only ~140dpi, which is only marginally higher resolution than the ~100dpi screens we had for many years.

I think the best point of comparison for the Dell UP3218k monitor which I have is a Retina Macbook Pro screen: subjectively, it's a similar experience in terms of text sharpness and legibility (>200 DPI, glossy), just in a 32" form factor.

I suspect 8k at 32" is actually a bit higher resolution than necessary (~280dpi), but there's nothing else on the >30" high resolution monitor market other than Apple's 6k display, which is significantly more expensive.

Be aware that there's no Mac OS support for 8k displays, but Linux and Windows on a desktop with a reasonably modern NVidia GPU work great.

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