Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[Domon]

@fly there seems to be an Ask Alexa competitor called Echosistant.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

 

[fly]

wait, action tiles is the old version. smarttiles is the new one.

Nope
https://www.actiontiles.com/

 

[fly]

@fly there seems to be an Ask Alexa competitor called Echosistant.

They've both been out for a while. Can't remember now why I chose Ask Alexa tho. Is the other one 'better'?

 

[gee]

Holy fuck I rule. Got my new RX460 video card in at work this morning, hoping to solve my overheat/crash issue I was having on the old R5 240.

After 2 hours of computations, the power supply failed in the computer. :/

 

[Valve1138]

Suckah!

 

[gee]

IT fuckin' hates me. Back in business now, with a Dell 7010 instead of a 7020.

 

[Valve1138]

Why do they hate you?

 

[gee]

Why do they hate you?

Because I'm a pain in their ass that keeps breaking their computer with some nerdy sciency "imma gonna use my video card as a supercomputer!" bullshit

They don't *actually* hate me. I think.

 

[gee]

This RX460 is still murdering the fuck out of the math problem I've got.

Take one set of 2^24, 64-bit codes, and a 2nd set of 2^16, 64-bit codes.
Make a histogram of the hamming distance between all of 1st code set and the 2nd code set. And do such over multiple shifts of one code over the other, and multiple ways of creating the 2^24 codes.

What used to take overnight on the CPU now takes 14 seconds on the GPU. There's something to be said for 896 cores at 1200MHz that can XOR together eight 64-bit ulong's in a single clock cycle, and calculate the ones count of the eight results in the following clock cycle. Doing the histogram is the slow part.

 

[Domon]

Now imagine if you were using a gpu company that actually optimized for compute and has a good language

Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

 

[gee]

Now imagine if you were using a gpu company that actually optimized for compute and has a good language

Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

Maybe next time. I did the dev work on this machine using Visual Studio Express and CodeXL, swapping ATI for NVidia would have taken a few days to get used to new tools. Now that I can run a long simulation to completion, I'll probably be done this work in a few days.

Plus ATI was canadian, eh. Got to support the local hosers.

 

[Domon]

Maybe next time. I did the dev work on this machine using Visual Studio Express and CodeXL, swapping ATI for NVidia would have taken a few days to get used to new tools. Now that I can run a long simulation to completion, I'll probably be done this work in a few days.

Plus ATI was canadian, eh. Got to support the local hosers.

ati eh. hasnt been ati in a long time, although i still call them that on reflex.

 

[gee]

They've still got a big design office in Markham, one of the guys I graduated EE with works there. I'm probably using something he made, heh.

 

[OOD]

I'm looking for a spreadsheet and document app that I can use offline and online on a tablet and a desktop. Y'all know any good ones?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

I'm looking for a spreadsheet and document app that I can use offline and online on a tablet and a desktop. Y'all know any good ones?

Google Docs should do all that. If not, maybe Libreoffice?

 

[fly]

Google Docs should do all that. If not, maybe Libreoffice?

Or OpenOffice?

 

[OOD]

Libreoffice looks pretty cool. I'm going to try it first. Part of me thinks I should go with Google, but I've always thought it's a bit convoluted.

 

[OOD]

Well poop it seems like librioffice is only for computers.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.documentfoundation.libreoffice&hl=en

???

Edit: nevermind, you're an iPhone guy