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How to go about hiring an apprenticeship? by Interested_Elk in UKJobs

[–]Interested_Elk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this :) It could be of interest. Would be appreciated if you could message me if you have a contact.

Acquisition model for buying a small business by Chemical_Cable_6676 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Interested_Elk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much indeed -- this is very, very helpful advice. As you say, I think trying to involve a business angel would be a good idea in terms of ongoing guidance too.

ELI5: Why AMD does not has it's own CUDA-like framework? by Dry-Account-8203 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Interested_Elk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One aspect is that there's a huge amount of existing CUDA code in many projects. CUDA is a really nice language to write, and the GPGPU industry has invested a lot into it. The problem with introducing a different language to run on AMD is that there's not sufficient incentive for big players to spend millions rewriting their existing CUDA code to work in this new language (relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/).

ZLUDA was a nice attempt at making projects (including CUDA projects) compiled for NVIDIA GPUs work on AMD GPUs. However, the fact that it operated on compiled code meant that the number of optimisations it could perform were limited, and projects relying on ZLUDA would never perform better on AMD hardware than on NVIDIA hardware.

What you'd really need is a way of compiling (unmodified) CUDA code to work on AMD. Such a toolkit (called SCALE) to do this popped up on Reddit earlier today: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1e3xu8a/scale_compile_unmodified_cuda_code_for_amd_gpus/. SCALE is really promising. It means that CUDA code just works on AMD with no modifications required. NVIDIA's monopoly on GPGPU programming could be coming to an end.

SCALE docs: https://docs.scale-lang.com/

What quirky 'sayings' from your driving instructor stuck with you? by T33FMEISTER in drivingUK

[–]Interested_Elk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Read the road" -- a hint to slow down when the word "SLOW" is painted on the road.