ranzispa

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Computer + cloud backup seems a pretty sensible solution to me. But I'm talking about people who are really not into computers.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (15 children)

If it worked properly I would have no problem telling people to do that. You may show people how to back up to a hard disk, but they'll likely not do it. A service that does the backup automatically without the user having to do anything is very useful.

The problem is that it doesn't work properly.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, still running single core. Probably runs worse than on older CPUs which were optimized for single core clock speed.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

we tell you what it means

They don't want other people to use such technology.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Does not look like AI at all. It seems like a well written report, with well done research to back it up. Moreover, the guy who wrote it is just 17 and had the smart to report it to a cyber security journalists. Seems like a sound person.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

I don't know what you need to do, fire everyone and just hire the best engineers in the world. But for the love of god, make Microsoft365 usable. I am tired of waiting 10 minutes every time I open a document and to login every time I browse to a different webpage.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I love RSS feeds. One thing I'd like to work better is for websites with comment sections. It would be cool if you could read the article and have the possibility of the comments to also show up. I know some websites have separate feeds for comments, but I never understood how to make that into a usable experience.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stardew Valley and Undertale

Games developed before generative AI was widely available and usable for software development.

TBF I believe indie games will benefit the most from generative AI. Letting a model have to worry about quaternions definitely makes things easier.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

looks at contact information

IRC is the only communication channel

Yes, certified free software stuff

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Oh, yes I do need to do that from time to time. That's why a faster internet connection would make life simpler.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not sure what is the snail mail, but yes; serious. It's mostly simulations data. I can easily produce 100 TB/GPU*day. I have access to some 500 GPUs. Data can not stay where it is produced in order to free up space for more to be produced and must be shuffled around to be processed, thus the importance of a fast internet connection. Sometimes I need to get part of this data on my local computer, process it and upload it somewhere else, it can be terribly slow on a normal 1 GB/s connection.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair, it is fairly good at selecting and optimizing algorithms; as long as you set up a set of correctness tests and performance benchmarks it can use to evaluate if it's doing well. The other day in about half an hour I got a 26,000% improvement in performance on a specific algorithm which I had implemented as it was published in the original paper. Same results under all conditions, but it decided to rearrange the formula to use a few matrix tricks and optimized for SIMD instructions. That is the kind of things I'd never do myself: I don't care if such calculation takes 3 weeks using 256 cores and 200 GB of memory, if I have to optimize for SIMD instructions that will likely take me one or two weeks and I don't have time for that. I'd rather burn compute. If it takes me a couple hours I'm very happy to bring down a computation which would take weeks to an hour or so.

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