cgravill

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

directly to PTX — no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust.

hace 12 mesesdiscuss

Wow, glad someone is doing this, looks ideal. We’ve a cargo bike with battery failing (physical connector we can’t replace and some cells borderline), when you get to Yahama motors we’d be interested to look into it.

cgravill

hace 12 mesesdiscuss

Is there an intention to bring the auto backend selection to the non-pip interface? I know we can configure this like you show https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/ but we have folks on different accelerators on Linux and remembering ‘uv sync --extra cu128’ at the right time is fragile so we just make cpu folks have the CUDA overhead too currently.

(As always, big fans of Astral’s tools. We should get on with trying pyx more seriously)

cgravill

hace 12 mesesdiscuss

The main NuGet was problematic for a long time e.g. not providing any control over transitive dependencies (like pip at the time). You had to use https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/ if you wanted safe and consistent resolution. NuGet since got their act together and it’s not as flawed now.

cgravill

hace 12 mesesdiscuss

We do something similar with a mix of C++, Fortran, and CUDA dependencies. Using https://cibuildwheel.pypa.io/en/stable/ and the repair functionality to restrict the manylinux to something sensible seems to have handled the complexity - while we mostly use Debian and Ubuntu the Arch folks seemed OK too.

We want to share the wheels more smoothly though and having been looking at pyx for that. Seems promising.

cgravill

el año pasadodiscuss

It's definitely possible, and my current company were very happy to agree to 4/5 of the time for 4/5 of the salary and it's working out well for everyone. However, I've also found some organisations - that are otherwise good - to be hostile to working less than full hours. Since we work on interesting problems and they were happy to go with 80% it made it an easy task deciding which job to accept!

I should add that's it's a start-up so some weeks I work more and others less. But I still have the day my kids that I wanted.

Perhaps try quietly asking your current company? They might surprise you and start a trend.

cgravill

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Some comparisons of power generation by deaths here: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

cgravill

hace 5 añosdiscuss

There are some companies such as https://www.owlstonemedical.com/ who’ve made some progress on medical diagnosis from breath

cgravill

hace 6 añosdiscuss

Link here to the comment https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610

cgravill

hace 7 añosdiscuss

There's a related Microsoft Research project https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

(I work in the same lab but on different things)

cgravill

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Hibermate are very good, I use them especially when travelling. Original style are reasonably priced https://www.hibermate.com/products/the-original-hibermate

cgravill

hace 8 añosdiscuss

There's a Microsoft Research project that does something like this with mosquitoes for disease management: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-pre...

(note: I work at MSR, but on other projects)

cgravill

hace 9 añosdiscuss

It'd be great to have it built-in but you can get https://chocolatey.org and MinGW pretty easily:

  iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

restart prompt, then:

  choco install mingw

(no machine reboots, disclaimer: I work at MSR, nothing related to this)

cgravill

hace 12 añosdiscuss

I use WebSharper at MSR and have been very happy with the results. We have substantial amounts of F# for simulation, modelling, and analysis of biological systems. It’s useful to be able to run this code in many places and WebSharper allows us to transpile into JavaScript for running directly in a browser with only minor changes to the core code.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft Research but not on F# and have ongoing interactions with folks at Intellifactory

cgravill

hace 15 añosdiscuss

There are some timing comparisons of using PyPy vs CPython with nltk showing improvements

http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-dev/browse_thread/thread...

cgravill

hace 16 añosdiscuss

The cost of providing power to datacenters is going up both in absolute and percentage. You pay once to heat the server in waste energy then again for air conditioning to cool them back down. The ARM chips provide better perf per watt but the upper limit per ARM chip is way lower. To use them, it requires distributed software which is hard but we're getting there.

cgravill

hace 16 añosdiscuss

"Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not."

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