Content I Consume - 7/20/2024
I moved to NYC for the summer so I’ve been a bit preoccupied and haven’t updated in the past two weeks! In terms of research, I’m pushing to finish two papers this summer, so the pressure is starting to sink in. Progress is slow but steady and I’m starting to understand the realities of being first author.
Machine Learning & AI
Repo: High Powered Computing with SLURM
I primarily work on SLURM based computing clusters. SLURM is great and is a simple system to allocated resources, however, interfacing SLURM with parallelization methods for multi-GPU and multi-node trainings is not so straight forward. In this repo, I combine the methods I’ve pieced together over the past year to deploy Torch DDP and Ray through SLURM. I’m slowly becoming a Ray enthusiast, so more ray content is likely coming in the future!
Physics
Article: World’s Most Accurate and Precise Atomic Clock Pushes New Frontiers in Physics
Researchers at NIST developed an extremely accurate atomic clock. Their clock is so sensitive that it is impacted by the gravitational time dilation due to the presence single human hair (as predicted from Einstein’s theory of general relativity in 1915). The exact creation of this clock uses trapped strontium atoms in an optical lattice. There’s a lot of quantum physics to unpack in this result, but I find it exciting to see how precise our measurements are becoming!
Miscellaneous
Video: How the US is destroying young people’s futures: Scott Galloway
I recently discovered Scott Galloway. He’s a professor at NYU with a uniquely blunt communication style. He presents a number of interesting ideas on reforming US economic structures as well as methods of improving higher education. Some of my favorite ones are:
Why is social security age based instead of need based? Do we need to be giving the wealthiest group of individuals in the US more money?
In the same period that Harvard’s endowment increased 4000% and their class size only increased 4%. Who benefits from restricting class sizes at these elite universities?
I don’t endorse all that Galloway says in these, talks but I found his ideas exciting and enjoyed how he seamlessly utilizes data in his presentation.
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