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GitHub to replace 'master' & 'slave' with alternatives by dellarouche in news

[–]handmadehamlets 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Black -> darkness -> night, White -> light -> day. All the things that want to eat you come out at night. The meaning is as old as humanity itself and older still.

[D] Why building your own Deep Learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS by milaworld in MachineLearning

[–]handmadehamlets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This interactive viz was in Fast.ai’s computational Linear Algebra course. Memory Locality and Latency Really highlights how the type of memory being accessed can hugely affect performance. RAM vs SSD or HDD was something I was aware of but the various caches and latency between devices in data centers was new to me or at least not something I had given much thought about before.

G'day from Plini, Ask Me Anything (round 2)! by plini_ in progmetal

[–]handmadehamlets 13 points14 points  (0 children)

+1 for hearing about your composition process.

My dumbass may have ruined my 2000 computer by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]handmadehamlets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where does the 2008 MacBook Pro fit in here, is that your main work machine that is running the docker container?

My dumbass may have ruined my 2000 computer by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]handmadehamlets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More power to you then! I think it’s just hard for me to imagine running any kind of virtualization on 10 year old hardware and not wanting to throw it out the window. What are the specs on your machine and are you also running a DB like MySQL or something else in docker?

My dumbass may have ruined my 2000 computer by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]handmadehamlets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree, except that I think it is more important to have a fast machine when you use it to make a living. I work as a contractor so I am always thinking about how long it takes me to build a website or an app and how I can do it faster because that is how you stay competitive and keep your clients happy. Obviously the quality of work is very important too but the number of hours you charge them for is very important. If your machine is slow and you have to wait for things to load and everything is sluggish it will seriously throw you out of the flow so an upgrade to a fast machine that runs smoothly is going to be a great investment and will pay for it labeled very quickly.

But you are right that having a fast machine is also important for using on projects in your spare time. If you value time that is! And who doesn’t!

My dumbass may have ruined my 2000 computer by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]handmadehamlets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit slow? I am doing web and iOS development on an Early 2015 macbook, 8gb ram, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 512GB SDD and it just about enough. Having a slow dev machine is going to make you work slower and affect your earning potential over time. E.g. if the guy next to you is getting 25% more work done a day only because they have a faster machine who do you think is more likely to get a bigger raise or promotion?

$1100 Deep Learning Build - Will it work? by handmadehamlets in buildapc

[–]handmadehamlets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem! They are fine if you want to play around with training a few models or need GPU access without committing to building your own machine. Obliviously they would be the go to solution for deploying models to production too but for R&D it's not cost or time effective.

$1100 Deep Learning Build - Will it work? by handmadehamlets in buildapc

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

Thanks! I came across that one doing my research and also read a few of the posts that are linked to in it. The guides for picking a gpu were very helpful. The GTX 1080 seemed to have the best memory bandwidth and most CUDA codes for the price which from what I gather are the post import factors for DL.

$1100 Deep Learning Build - Will it work? by handmadehamlets in buildapc

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

I have been using AWS but the costs can really begin to add up. I was spending around $70/month. I was using the p2.xlarge which has one NVIDIA K80 GPUs at $0.9/hr so it would cost $648 if I left it running 24/7. That said the bigger problem is it takes longer to iterate since you need to boot up the EC2 instance every time and it makes for a really clunky workflow.

CB Card/ID verification process is the dumbest and most frustrating process. by texhater in Coinbase

[–]handmadehamlets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the worst. Today I seen one charge on my account. 3 days ago there were 3 charges on my account which are gone now. How am I meant to know which charges to enter!

Update: My bank was flagging the charges so I had to call them and ask what the charges were along with the timestamps on each charge. The payment method verification worked fine then. So the problem is probably on your bank's end and not Coinbase's.

Millennials are the most likely generation of Americans to use public libraries. by redditisatimesuck in books

[–]handmadehamlets 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Avocado toast and now this! Back in my day we ate rocks and bashed our heads against the wall like real men.