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if anyone wants to know what the fucking deal with #CUDA for #PyTorch is, it's like this:
* You can run multiple versions of CUDA and swap between them using Environment variables
* If you're using Pycharm, you want to manually pull in the Pytorch PLUS Cuda variant of torch via pip, not the built in package manager
* 12.x version of CUDA can suck knob, use 11.x instead.

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

policies.stackoverflow.co/data

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

policies.stackoverflow.coSubmit a data request - Stack OverflowYou can use this form to submit a request regarding your personal information that is processed by Stack Overflow

New GPU ordered for #InfoCon and #DEFCON archive work, crazy how much they have evolved in the past few years.

For #HEVC / #AV1 encoding it is about how many NVENC chip-sets the GPU has, not how many #CUDA cores it has or whatever.

For voice to text it is about FP16 performance.

I haven't found a good voice to voice translation #LLM yet.

I'd love a GPU that is designed for these kinds of media operations and don't need ray tracing, video shaders, 4 video output, etc.

Do I have anyone in my wider network with skills in programming CUDA, SYCL, and OpenCL?

We want to determine feasibility of migrating CUDA-only code to SYCL (via SYCLomatic?): OpenCV feature detection/extraction modules (SIFT, HAGOG, ORB, AKAZE).

The intent is to upstream all feasible work.

This, hopefully, should stand to benefit everyone instead of being limited to NVIDIA.

Currently in info gathering/people connecting phase, not yet funded & ready to go.

#CUDA#SYCL#OpenCL

Time for a new #introduction

I'm a #ComputerScience #PhD candidate at the #University of #Vermont (#UVM). There, I'm doing #AI and #ALife #research with Josh Bongard and many others. Themes include #evolution, #evolvability, innate #intelligence, #cells, #bodies, and #endosymbiosis.

I believe #science should be open and accessible, so I write about my ideas on a #Wordpress #blog, review relevant #books on #Goodreads, and publish my source code on #Github (links in my profile).

I'm passionate about #diversity, #socialjustice, #sustainability, #ethics, #philosophy, and all things #tech. In my personal life, I love #food, #cooking, #reading, #yoga, #hiking, #art, and #StarTrek.

I worked for many years on #Google #Search as a #software #engineer, #techlead, and #manager. I used to be proud of that, but lately I have concerns.

My favorite #programming language is #Python, but I know many more, and lately have been quite enjoying #CUDA #GPU programming in #cplusplus.