need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night

5 orders of magnitude is pretty damn impressive!

i’m curious, what’s the difference between the streamed and non-streamed kernels? do you immediately start working on chunks of image as they come in over PCIe instead of blocking on the full transfer?

Like BLM or the Arab Spring: oh look, social media can be a tool to help the powerless pursue justice against the powerful, or overthrow cruel regimes that rule by financial clout, force, propaganda and intertia. What happened to those platforms, once rich guys spotted what they could be used for?

People stopped reading Neil Gaiman because they weren’t interested in stories blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, that was totally the only reason, there were no other factors.

I thought it was a neat (even if not super practical) observation: we often think of clean, closed form expressions as the best way to represent the solution of a problem ("it's obviously O(1)!") but that's not always true for every context

It turns out the bottleneck is the fp multiplication itself: it operates on BigNum-style floats and requires computing an FFT (or two?) per multiply. And you have to do a lot of these to exponentiate, so the cost adds up quickly

This came up in a video I watched recently! It was about computing Fib() when N is extremely large - in the thousands of digits or more - and how to do it efficiently. The exact formula was one of a few methods they tried and it didn't perform that well, surprisingly

i've heard so many good things about rhythm doctor, excited!!

its not a direct answer to your question, but in the case that your array represents the cdf of a tabulated function and you want to invert it in order to sample from it, then there is a beautiful o(1) method for *that* called vose/walker's alias method, iirc. not quite your q, but beautiful

yep, this is the same solution I wound up on to do e.g. inverse CDF sampling ^^

GMM!!! i can’t believe she still recognizes that comforter - i guess some things never change 😌

(it looks super cozy fwiw)