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I _will_ solve this, I can’t give up on the book this early

I’ve been learning to write SIMD recently but I’m a bit fuzzy on when I would rely on compiler vs doing it myself

On one hand the compiler doing it saves a lot of code/hassle and it can likely do a good job

But if my application is something performance critical do I want to rely on the whims of the compiler or should that be baked into the application logic itself with manually written SIMD?

I did find that there is a flag you can pass and it will dump out which loops it did/didn’t vectorize which is handy

I guess I’m wondering what’s the typical practice for high performance c++ applications?

Do they write their own or rely on compiler?

The only thing I’ve found is an ebay listing that says it prints on demand but idk if that would be bad quality

Just curious but is it spaghetti or well organized?

So assume we can simulate a brain in a computer so well that we agree it’s conscious

If you take the same algorithms and compute them by hand on paper advancing the simulation slowly, feeding inputs into your calculations representing external stimuli

Obviously this would be extremely slow and take an incredible amount of paper but imagine you did this

Maybe you spend 100 years to compute 1 second of brain activity

Would the paper brain be conscious?

Could consciousness exist in pure math?

Just the though of walking around an empty world like you’re the last person on earth

Realizing it wasn’t really the game itself but the community that made it magical

A big list of friends all offline and never coming back

Realizing those people are all 20 years older now, wondering what happened to them and where they are now

Some married, some with kids, some passed away

Knowing at some point they logged out for the last time and that moment was just a fragile bubble in time that you can never go back to.

I’m visiting from europe and was planning on checking out golden gate bridge and Alacatraz

I heard this place is also the origin of hells angels

Do you think they would give me a quick tour if I show up at the HQ while I’m here?

Thanks

After reading the book it really doesn’t make sense to me

How can your philosophy be like “fuck authority” no one tells me what to do i’m a rebel

But then you also are a US patriot and follow/support the government being in Vietnam

To the point that you try to stop protestors themselves from rebelling

Even though you are a proclaimed rebel?

Huh??

It’s like for example sometimes you’re on an awesome vacation having a blast not worrying about money or being tied down

Then other quiet days it’s like is this all meaningless fun with no point

Since it allows you to run networks during shading

Would it be possible in theory to use your own network for upscaling?

Like it’s such a fucking hassle that you can’t just walk into a shop and buy something

Everything is such an ordeal that I just don’t even bother buying clothes most of the time because I just don’t want to deal with it

I was just wondering is riding sand dunes worth doing a road trip to try

Or is it one of those things like riding a jet ski where it’s fun for like an hour