daniel-cussen

I looked at that, i concluded yes because the bottleneck of inverting a matrix is matrix multiplication. Spesh since fgemm targets 32-bit floating-point format, n has high accuracy (not saying how high but much better than Strassen, at least as good as naive matrix multiplication).

One thing I highly recommend is trying it for yourself, just with pen and paper. Think of ten two-digit numbers under 40 for it to work nicely. Just numbers under 40, 1-100 would require like 20 numbers for it to work as well as it does in realistic examples. Write them in one line, then write them sorted on the next line, with lines connecting them to where they were before. Then underneath each number write down the difference between that number n the one before it, this is called taking the first differences. Repeat the sorting followed by taking first differences until you have only two numbers, two being an arbitrary limit. You may then pretend the row and column are the same, so expand with the same vector using the lines drawn, and prefix sum where first difference was performed.

So:

11 39 23 28 31 19 32 05 01 09

sort

01 05 09 11 19 23 28 31 32 39

first differences

1 4 4 2 8 4 5 3 1 7

sort and remove duplicates

1 2 3 4 5 7 8

first differences

1 1 1 1 1 2 1

sort and remove duplicates

1 2

reduction complete

Well so one issue w both GPUs n CPUs which make them bad platforms for this algorithm is that, in both, FLOPS are such an important metric for sales that multiplication is highly subsidized in both those chip types. So huge amounts of area is dedicated to floating point multiplication, meaning the advantage of fgemm (the name of the algorithm is the same as the name of the company) is purely one of energy.

Which is great because if it were software it would be impossible to protect the IP. USPTO is very clear in that sense, i believe in both in re Bilski and in the Alice Corp. case which reached SCOTUS, that algorithms need to be implemented physically, typically meaning in a chip, to be patentable. So because it needs a chip to work, it is good business, if it did not it would be bad business. A chip provides every form of IP protection, all four forms, trade secret, copyright, patent, n even trademark. No other medium has that to my knowledge.

So if you have a CPU or a GPU n want it to do more work in the same amount of time, this paper promises nothing, n it keeps that promise. Nonetheless i'm advancing rapidly to the point of creating the hardware that can cut off 70% of the cost of GEMM. I considered 50% off, same thing at half the price, but it wouldn't be fair to the consumer w my economics. You see 50% discounts all the time, who cares? 70% off, you don't see that all the time. On something you actually want? Especially on a commodity, n it's still good business for me as the lowest-cost producer.

Hi HN, this paper is my first proper academic publication, it's on arxiv only for now--this is a pre-print--but is being considered for publication by peer-reviewed journals concurrently. Open-access journals, of course.

I'm totally disinterested in tenure or academic recognition. For my goals being a Stanford dropout is better than any other amount of academic recognition. So i don't care about journals uh prestige numbers the impact factors i know that term but anything paywalled is bad for what i do care about, which is my business, fgemm. Means Fast/Faster/Fastest GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication. gemm is an acronym already used in BLAS libraries, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, which is what most of the time n money spent on ML goes to.

I'm going to be available to answer questions insofar as i can.

Yeah that's my business, http://fgemm.com , coming soon. Paper is coming out v soon however.

That's the least of it. In Lisp the distinction between code n data is blurred all the time. In F18 assembly i frequently have "double entendres" which are used as code or as literals depending on the entry point. I think at least once there was code and data in the same entry point. Assembly n Lisp are both homoiconic, after all. N verb at the end of the sentence, are you transliterating German, or a two-foot green Jedi master full of wisdom?

Worst is when they insult you by changing a legitimate name like "Polo" to the glaringly knock-off name "Pölo" after the fact, to manipulate users (this happened to me) into blame themselves for falling for such a blatant typo. Like i had to stoy using them entirely, n if they make huge piles of money, like at least they don't make that n a tiny additional amount from me. Like in many ways not crappy but very hit n miss, like too problematic.

Yeah that was saying if you crushed n injected it would be addictive. No. It was addictive in literally any form. They knew that too, n it wasn't on the packaging.

You kind of have to be a monster to say something that callous.

I think on the contrary Russians alone don't get hacked by Russians.

Russians get hacked by the Terman lab. NSA...CIA...NRLO i think...yeah those guys.

They're fucking up on purpose. This is a request for consent that they steal from you. Microsoft intentionally, n w a criminal mind (in light of all the what in light of their stealing from me was harm they were doing in court) fucked up like oops oops whoopsie this button oh why doesn't this do it right, oh it's your job to do this this n this. No. They stole it from me in the hopes i would buy it again.

Or maybe they're shit at writing code, right? It's not either or. It's intentional. N then they whine about piracy n intellectual property, yeah.

I consider the launch a pure unadulterated success. They ran simulations, took the precautions, this was NOT the Apollo I. N it's the nature of the business, fuck, same as the best chemists have lost fingers n accepted the nobel prize with the remaining fingers.

It's j the media hates Elon Musk now even more than ever.

There were fires then too.

Yeah so they found if the boss wears short sleeves (reliably experiment John T Molloy, in Dress for Success which is like the biblical source on such matters, true social scientist) his employees slack off. He didn't investigate the causes, but it's a very marked difference.

Now, shorts are allowed even in funerals in the Caribbean, there's this special suit with jacket n shorts, long socks, because the heat is unbearable even the political monarchs wear that suit, like that suit is checkmate.

Every downstream effect depends on a river.

Dude the World War Over Australia.

Some knock-off editions in Chile actually link...like it's generally called Perú, and I've never seen a map with Antartica, and besides Chile by it's extreme geography causes cartographers serious typographic problems. There was a map recently, a basically honest Mercator projection that replaced every country's territory with its name. It worked great, except for a mysterious country called CHILE CHILE CHILE CHILE CHILE. Broke the nomenclature completely.

Gotta admit the transistorization of the computer and the exponential decay of size required for the transistor, and exponential decay in duration of the transistor to FO4 (switch states, it's much less than the clock cycle) was beautiful while it lasted. Like now it's back to the drawing board.

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Same as airplanes, basically the same since 1960, like we fly on Super Fortresses with the bomb bays replaced with cargo holds...like different dispenser, and the plexiglass fishbowl artillery in the front done differently. I would love to be in one of those fishbowls, like all exposed flying at the horizon like panoramic view. So suicidal, like all aviation.

Like not getting shot at like in Catch-22 though. Hopefully.

We don't trust it that much. We see OK you through in a couple solid commentators, like the guy in the plaid, but that's it, and that's all the trust they get. They're owned by Rupert Murdoch after all, and they do some incredibly Democrat bullshit things all the time.

Yeah memory preservation.

Fgemm is based on the initials sgemm or dgemm, based on gemm, GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication. gemv is GEneral Matrix-Vector multiplication. So it's meaningless, except of course for my target audience, who gets spinal suffering from typing those letters out in that order, everybody knows what it means. fgemm, if you google it, gets a lot of hits. Supposedly it means like a modular form of gemm, but there's also, among the hits, among which I am not counted despite owning the domain, the intended initials.

Fast GEneral Matrix-Matrix Multiplication.

Faster GEneral Matrix-Matrix Multiplication.

Fastest GEneral Matrix-Matrix Multiplication.

One of those.

I'm not sure which yet. Probably Fastest. That's a brand name, that's how I differentiate my products--matrix multiplication products--from the competition. Because I'm fast/faster/fastest.

Nothing else matters.

Trademark.

Less typing. More memorable. Meaning it survives a lobotomy.

Translation: bitcoin is worse for economists than global warming.

Yeah directly against this site's guidelines I can't click on links anymore because they are so rapey. They want me to consent to anything in exchange for reading for 30 seconds? Do they have any idea what that word means?

Like going to do pagerank with consent cookies, filter anything with a consent cookie, and anything that links to anything with a consent cookie, see what's left.

This is why I write my shit under my own legal name, even going to notarize this account at some point. Yeah throwaway yeah. Anonymous speech. Oh yeah darknet, Tor, cryptography, like yes sometimes, but it's a game of cat and mouse, it's purely a question of cost.

Furthermore I consider games like poker or Magic the Gathering unplayable, that is the extent to which there is literally absolutely no privacy.

But don't mind me, just got lobotomized is all.

http://fgemm.com redirects to the same place.

Nah any chart has the depth for a yatch. This had depths for nuclear deterrence.

Not just a click away. You also need a little typing.

Really the business in internet porn is psychological manipulation and compromat. There's no business otherwise, it's sex, it's bad for sex to be efficient, porn is efficient, too efficient. No business. As a straight model I can tell you the business is in being very close to pornography without ever actually crossing the boundary.

Teasing.

Very inefficient.

I got down to my underwear for my portfolio day 1, no problem. Absolutely no problem. There was a girl [a very young woman model age, like 19, I was 24, her name was Antonia] getting her portfolio done simultaneous, she was naked too, but with lingerie. Our agent was there, telling me just strip, don't go to the bathroom, look at her, está en pelota she's naked. It's a living. Our interest in each other was purely professional.

Teasing. Like the Russky pop stars. That's where the money is.

That's exactly what it's like, like I'm living in an RPG. Attack damage carry. I do get a lot of flak. Unscathed. The word is videoludic, video like video, ludic like ludum meaning game in Latin, my life is videoludic.

Dude it's no problem. EOD can do it. SeAL can do it. Like splinter cell unit of the Army can do it. Every nation can do it. I could learn to do it in high school. Any diver. Anybody. Easiest shit. The issue is not getting caught. Not like diving a mile down like the guys at oil platforms, gotta live always under pressure, 80 meters, easy shit. And the difficulty is depressurizing, not pressurizing. And like 200 meters below sea level you go into like a trance...eh. Still can accomplish the mission, if they can translate into trance-ease.

It's nothing. Not a whole lotta guards from the Kremlin with their evil faces like movie bad guys (they're never not the bad guy) the whole time watching over the pipeline, let me tell you.

Pay the CEO well and the employees even better.

It's much more competitive than that. Like only 10% of wealth is created, the other 90% is won or maintained. There is such a thing as excessive innovation like telecoms complain about. The focus in on the generated wealth, grow the pie, so that people think they don't have to fight for their piece of their pie. Real estate is a pie. Spheroid not a cylinder, same thing. Tiny slivers and that's all there is. So like if somebody encroaches on your land and tells you to build twice as high a building on what he didn't encroach, you do that? Like it's your fault you don't build pencil buildings? Japanese pencil buildings.

One hand to make and one hand to fight. Everyone must do both.

Oh that happened to me recently. So I actually talk to both beggars and cops, which nobody does, everybody takes advice from civil rights lawyers and the gangsters they give impunity, which agree that you should never talk to police. Same advice. Coincidence. Both treat both homeless and cops like shit. Coincidence.

Anyway so I'm talking to him, and he shows me some big huge format documents, like 30 inches by 40 inches, inches not centimeters, and I look, holy shit, somebody forgot to use the incinerator, military intelligence on the street. Literally on the street, laying there on the concrete, getting dirty, maps made in England with analog mapmaking, Crown Copyright from the 70's and 80's, of the coastline of Argentina, complete with information of reefs which eg an aircraft carrier could collide with. It was obvious that was the intention. Dude obviously threatened to nuke Buenos Aires.

Notably Banco Inglés, with a tilde and everything, we're talking high production values, the absolute highest, English Admiralty, Superpower internal information. As an native English speaker, I would translate that bank's name to English as Fuck You Sandbank, which protected Buenos Aires once precisely from the same Royal Navy. The depth is 0.7 meters, according to the map I had, and they map uses analog measurements from English satellites, analog photography. So point being somebody forgot to burn them, there's leaks, they're sloppy, they got to a spy, the spy moved to Santiago, the spy gave up on his conspiracy theories and gave them to a beggar, beggar had no idea what they were worth, I bought them for $20, a complete collection, like it says this part to the South is in map 3134, sure enough I also had map 3134, it's everything. Especially the Falklands. Even shows the kelp forests.

Military intelligence. No pixels no matter how close you zoom in. All hand made.

Not only that, his books got erased in a lobotomy, so it really was a complete wasted of time to read Snow Crash. That or it was too good, I knew too much.