remember when Star Wars had internally consistent rules?

"...these successfully imagined realities do have an underlying logic to them. They are internally self-consistent. That’s part of the reason we can happily suspend disbelief, because in these fictional worlds things do make sense; because of A, then B happens, and that means C will occur in another context.

Most of us have an innate feel for that kind of self-consistency. It’s part of the physical logic that operates around us on a daily basis. We don’t expect random outcomes for phenomena that have shown themselves to be repeatable time and time again.

In that sense, a tale like Star Wars, with its own rules..."

It is possible to configure nvcc to use the correct version of gcc without passing any compiler parameters by adding softlinks to the bin directory created with the nvcc install.

The default cuda binary directory (the installation default) is /usr/local/cuda/bin, adding a softlink to the correct version of gcc from this directory is sufficient:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc

that hipster audio cred? cringe like RGB or fat dope like uhh NH-D15?

"There are lots of reasons people buy external DACs, but the most common is because they are pretty cool. You are unlikely to find many of your friends that have a DAC. Nothing screams, "I know more about audio than you," than having a device that has your friends scratching their heads. While there are a number of reasons to buy a DAC, the best two are to eliminate noise from your source and to combat systemic jitter. If these are your issues, an external DAC is the solution."

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
source https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/tutorials/nvidia.html

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

"it achieves state-of-the-art results in 12 summarization tasks spanning news, science, stories, instructions, emails, patents, and legislative bills, and that it shows “surprising” performance on low-resource summarization, surpassing previous top results on six data sets with only 1,000 examples."

right way to teach reading

good article outlining some of the issues with ramping up clean energy, which is dependent on dirty resource extraction.

"We need a rapid transition to renewables", "None of this is to say that we shouldn’t pursue a rapid transition to renewable energy. We absolutely must and urgently. But if we’re after a greener, more sustainable economy, we need to disabuse ourselves of the fantasy that we can carry on growing energy demand at existing rates."