🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

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@pendragon Thanks :)

@arteteco Glad to hear it is normalizing at least. Stress is huge, and important to keep it in check if you can, not always easy.

Spent a good part of the day yesterday writing up some neat Docker images to run GPU enabled OpenCL out of. Wasnt too hard to figure out how to get the docker image the correct access to the GPU to enable the GPU acceleration or anything. In fact the tricker part was figuring out how to write the .gitlab-ci.yml file and the respective Dockerfile to be parameterized to minimize work.

Its a cool little trick I used, it basically looks at the branch or tag name to figure out how to tag the docker images. If the branch is develop it is tagged as "aparapi/aparapi-nvidia:git" and does another one as "aparapi/aparapi-amdgpu:git". Similarly if the branch is master then it will be "latest" instead of "git". However if its a tag then it uses the tag in place of it. So when using aparapi version 2.0.0 with amdgpu, and the version revision of the dockerfile, it would look like "aparapi/aparapi-amdgpu:2.0.0-1". This means minimal work for me, when I want to use a new version I just change the aparapi version, and push it to a new tag and it does all the work to compile it.

It even automatically pushes it to docker hub for me!

https://git.qoto.org/aparapi/aparapi-docker/

#docker #aparapi #opencl #amd #amdgpu #gpu #GPGPU #NVIDIA

@AtlasFreeman Its the end result of having two candidates with the maturity of a toddler in political position. They are both the absolute worst we have ever seen or come close to seeing and this is what we get.

What a god damn shit show the #debate.. it sounded like two toddlers fighting. Its hard to say who even won, they both lost.

@mettaben To be fair the whole debate was a shit show.. I was pretty disturbed by Biden **and** Trump. I cant believe these two horrific people are our choices.

I wanted to share my personal selection of Einstein quotes I either personally relate to strongly or simply find ingeniously insightful:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter." - Albert Einstein

"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research." - Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein

"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God." - Albert Einstein 'The Human Side', 1954

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player." - Albert Einstein

"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving." - Albert Einstein

"Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." - Albert Einstein

"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." - Albert Einstein

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Albert Einstein

When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." - Albert Einstein

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

"People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." - Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger;

"Where there is love there is no question." - Albert Einstein

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." - Albert Einstein

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a person does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence." - Albert Einstein

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends." - Albert Einstein

"To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window." - Albert Einstein

"The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." - Albert Einstein

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." - Albert Einstein

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means." - Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us, universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." - Albert Einstein

"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations." - Albert Einstein

@Gargron I guess by choice i meant the choice not to upgrade it sooner :)

@Gargron Ahh, weird choice on your part, but i guess its easy to ignore considering how much of a PITA it can be to do database upgrades.

Not sure what the postgres version was when i first moved over to AWS for most of my work. Wouldnt suprise me if they had a work around even on 9.x somehow.

@Gargron ahh, lame. and kinda surprising, postgres has a better reputation than that. Though to be fair I dont use postgres as a developer as much as I used to in a way where I need to maintain my own instance. I've been using amazon AWS's postgres for a while now in most professional settings and that is always seemless somehow on upgrades.

@Gargron you mean the version of the DB software itself I suppose? Seems reasonable.

Though I am actually kinda surprised given your size you havent moved to a master-slave configuration yet, though not sure if mastodon supports that. I think it was one of the things pleorma was trying to sell as a feature, dont quote me thoguh.

Either way, good luck!

@mur2501 Sure have, all the ones written in simple-english are up at my blog at the same link.

@mur2501 Thank you :)

My article is finally up on reddit (had trouble getting the moderators to approve it for some reason). As a result it hidden for over a day. Any of you who are redditors check it out over there and if you like it give it some love.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/j1qku4/an_indepth_tutorial_about_modeling_circuit_duals/

#Electronics #EE ##RF #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Science #Physics #Math #Maths #mathematics

@Demosthenes Yea I have heard the book mentioned many times. Havent picked it apart myself but I am naturally skeptical of books, which are the opinion of lone authors, vs scientific consensus and journal articles which have a peer review process, and thus are a collective opinion of experts.

Not saying there is scientific consensus right now, there used to be, but that can change. Just saying I'm more inclined to see what the scientific journals say than to invest time in a book, any book.

@Demosthenes Did some looking around. Couldnt find any good sources that either reported actual net fertility rates or the actual replacement rate.

I was giving it some thought and I figure the next best thing would be to look at overall population growth rate and then try to find immigration figures and do the math to get it that way.

@uxor Very glad you enjoyed it.