It is fascinating seeing people in the 21st century, especially self-declared leftists, still lionizing George Orwell, the worst kind of reactionary turncoat. For years, the cat has been out of the…
The full text of this essay is published as Fair Game by Carmel Bird - published by Finlay Lloyd The lithograph is a satirical (yet strangely poignant and lyrical) record of the arrival in Van Diemen’s Land in 1832 of the Princess Royal, the first ship to bring non-convict women from England to be the ‘wives…
The way we write, ship, and maintain software today has evolved drastically in the last few years. Ho... Tagged with devops, docker, kubernetes, beginners.
We perform Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) calculations on large datasets.
We modify the computation both by using fully precise and approximate methods, and by using both CPUs and GPUs.
In the end we compute an approximate SVD of 200GB of simulated data and using a mutli-GPU machine in 15-20 seconds.
Then we run this from a dataset stored in the cloud where we find that I/O is, predictably, a major bottleneck.
For many years I managed the British and Irish literature section of McNally Jackson (McNally Jackson divides lit into regions, thus you do not go to any one ‘Fiction’ section, but must first identify the nationality of the author before commencing your search). As a consequence it meant that I was attuned to British and Irish publishing in a way I might otherwise not need to be as an Australian in America. I could recommend good books by the small presses we were table to stock, like
We know that many processes are running in an operating system concurrently. Processes running concurrently means there may be two or more processes run at the same time. But the actual concurrent…