Your requests are quite easy to satisfy. Just avoid fancy cars.

Fiat Panda 4wd is a perfect example. Now, the question is, is it a car you’d like to drive?

Anyway, full of European and Japanese cars that satisfy your requirements. Most cars cheaper than 25K euros in Europe actually satisfy those requirements

Big if true. Current academic evaluation system via poor KPIs is more similar to a “call center” evaluation system than something useful. It is the main reason most of the best young scholars I know have left academia for industry. Everyone I knew in academia good enough to find something else elsewhere left, those who couldn’t remained, and are burn out, stuck in the rat race.

It is sad, because we were all ready to accept less money and being overworked for the idea to do something useful. And society lost so much value due to a broken corrupted system that squashes human dignity to make money for small mafias, institutions and publishers

Thanks, now we are two who cannot stop thinking about it

Thanks for the explanation!

Is that from Google? I was expecting much better code given the average engineer salary. That code looks pretty ugly.

Because he was ceo of a company in a critical position to define the future of economy. Currently the tech field is the biggest and most influential of all economic fields. And by tech here we talk about digital world. There’s absolutely no comparable sector at the moment for importance, not even pharma.

It literally defines the modern economy. In the field, openai is an incredibly important company for future relative success and power of big tech companies.

This is why it is so important for world economy

And statistical mechanics is a topic that unironically open the mind on what is reality and life.

Boltzmann was one of the greatest mind ever lived

How is it useful? Dessert vs food?

“At the end of the lunch nowadays everyone want to have a dessert, but this is wrong because they should have food”…

The sentence AI vs algorithms sounds pretty much like this

AI is a broad family of statistical and simulation algorithms.

They don’t replace algorithms, they are algorithms very powerful for some cases. For other cases they are less powerful, or overkill and they shouldn’t be used. But there is no dichotomy, as one (AI) is part of the other (algorithms)

It’s not an average machine though. It’s a non-linear predictive system. Averages suck in non-linear predictions

Wow!

What about the flaming and jelly windows? That was cool stuff

You don’t really need to tune the operating system, you just need a good one. The hpc crowd has a pretty unique perspective. You won’t find anyone doing any real hpc on windows, not even Microsoft

When I talk about hpc, I don’t talk about a script in Matlab. I talk about the work you do on supercomputers, real computing intensive jobs that takes weeks or months on hundreds or thousands of processors. I guess you don’t find benchmarks simply because no one uses windows, same reason you probably don’t find a fiat panda in the Nürburgring rankings.

Tbf, on Linux performances for hpc are better even on standard desktop distros, no need to clean it up. It manages resources and jobs much better. For performances that is the critical part, once the code is optimized.

No no, it is better. Take a real hpc library, install debian and test it yourself. No tweak needed. Linux as kernel and the overall OS manages resources much better. Linux is a better kernel than windows kernel.

I’ve been doing hpc for over 15 years now. People install standard distros on their workstations and clusters. No tweak needed

One comment to add to your post, Linux is better on performances not just because of the less overhead, but because manages resources much effectively. You could have a bloated linux, it still would perform better because resources are properly managed

Could be both. Who knows. For high performance computing Linux is the de facto standard because it has better performances than windows, and Linux distros are usually better, stabler OSes overall when one needs raw performances. In this case, who knows, someone should investigate further

They missed the recording where he said to the female journalist in his team: “to work here you have to f*ck”

For research labs, dell workstations used to be great. Put debian on it and you could forget about problems. I don’t know if it is the case anymore.

The selling point of xps is that they are light. Many of us just need light laptops nowadays, as almost any hardware is more than capable of any task with the exception of gaming. But I have never gamed on laptops