There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support for Radeon RX 9070 Series on Launch Day by LorenDB

AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, there’s been a lot going on. So with this morning’s much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 series

ByHackTechFebruary 28, 20250Comments

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There Are Three Open Source Communities, Not Just One by gslin

September 26, 2023 It is a common understanding that great Open Source projects succeed in large part because they are successful at building Community. It is especially important in the early stage when it is the community largely responsible for traction, adoption, and often technology advantage. I argue that this thinking is a bit simplistic

ByHackTechSeptember 27, 20230Comments

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There Will Be a Test of the Emergency Alert System This Fall by kvee

Get ready for a lot of simultaneously buzzing phones on Oct. 4.There is going to be a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) that day.FEMA is coordinating with the Federal Communications Commission to carry out the test at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4.It will be

ByHackTechAugust 30, 20230Comments

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There Are No Good Ideas for Saving Us from a Killer Asteroid by belter

It’s not really a question of whether a massive asteroid—one big enough to wipe out human civilization—will fall into a collision course with Earth. It’s a question of when.NASA estimates a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid, big enough to flatten a city, hits our planet every 70,000 years or so. Half-mile-wide rocks, capable of killing much of the

ByHackTechAugust 18, 20230Comments

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There is no hard takeoff by WithinReason

Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the simulator

ByHackTechAugust 11, 20230Comments

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There is where I am stuck at in my entrepreneurial journey by phder

I am an international PhD student at Harvard working on cool stuff in the space of AI, but because of two reasons I am not able to start my company : (1) If let's say “I quit PhD” and start my company how do I live off it when there is no funding source, (2)

ByHackTechJune 10, 20230Comments

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Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”(2007) (1857) by thunderbong

On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most of the address was a history of British efforts toward emancipation as well as a reminder of the crucial role of the West Indian slaves in that own freedom struggle. However

ByHackTechApril 22, 20230Comments

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Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? by yamrzou

Is there more to mathematics than the equal sign? A pair of shoes is different from a pair of gloves, yet we recognize a sameness in them because both meet our definition of a pair. Category theory is a branch of mathematics that examines how things can be essentially the same without being exactly equal.

ByHackTechMarch 22, 20230Comments

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Spy Balloons. U.F.O.s. What Else Is Up There? by tysone

A graphic showing an illustration of the Chinese spy balloon, a party balloon, and a scientific research balloon. Science balloon Party balloon Spy balloon A number of airborne objects have been identified and shot down over the past two weeks, including a Chinese spy balloon and three U.F.O.s in North America, and about half a

ByHackTechFebruary 16, 20230Comments

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Should There Be a Developer Mental Health Day? by MilnerRoute

Developers should help developers avoid burnoutPhoto by Tim Mossholder on UnsplashDeveloper overworking is the plague of software developmentDeveloper burnout is growing and I see little being done to reduce this. The amount of software being created is gro

ByHackTechJanuary 30, 20230Comments

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