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Hotels in Dallas for at least 15 years have disuaded people from walking even a few blocks downtown because they equate all the homelessness with crime.

I found this funny because by far the biggest danger I have seen there are endless electric scooters littering the sidewalks.

Second strongest I remember in my 16 years here, with the 2014 Napa Quake being notably more shaking.

The blog post is about using an NVIDIA-specific tensor core API that they have built to get good performance.

Modular has been pushing the notion that they are building technology that allows writing HW-vendor neutral solutions so that users can break free of NVIDIA's hold on high performance kernels.

From their own writing:

> We want a unified, programmable system (one small binary!) that can scale across architectures from multiple vendors—while providing industry-leading performance on the most widely used GPUs (and CPUs).

Saw an exhibit with some of her work, I think in Albuquerque. Was surprised/delighted to see weavings of circuits.

I’ve also been curious to see actual users compare/contrast their experiences with other options, but so far haven’t seen that.

There seem to be enthusiasts who have experimented a bit and like what they see but I haven’t seen much else.

TLDR: In order to get good performance you need to use vendor-specific extensions that result in the same lock-in Modular has been claiming they will enable you to avoid.

The market tends to be pretty efficient for things like these. We’ve seen significant rapid adoption of several different ML solutions over the last decade, yet Mojo languishes. I think that’s a clear sign they aren’t solving the real-world pain points that users are hitting, and are building a rather niche solution that only appeals to a small number of people, no matter how good their execution may be.

Cancelled my membership many years ago over their refusal to support open access.

Windows machine with NVIDIA CPU & 5070 class GPU?

Love this paper and read it several times, most recently around 10 years ago when thinking about whether there were looping constructs missing from popular programming languages.

I have made the same point several times online and in person that the famous quote is misunderstood and often suggest people take the time to go back to the source and read it since it’s a wonderful read.

I recall the original post about Lungy.

Having had an incentive spirometer prescribed for post-surgical use after being on bypass, my experience was that it seemed boring and like a waste of time, so anything that makes breathing exercises more engaging and feel more worthwhile is a win.

Off topic, but the typesetting here looks top notch and I am curious if anyone can elaborate on the tooling used to render this for the web?

My dad grew up in 1930’s Detroit and would tell us about how when he was five his mother would give him a little money and have him walk a few blocks to the baker to get a loaf of bread.

I grew up in the 70’s where after maybe eight we had pretty much free rein. I rode my bike several blocks away and crossed two busy four lane roads to get candy at 7-11.

The world is no more dangerous now than it was then, and yet here we are, with parents being treated like criminals for letting their kids play in their own front yard.