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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzTrust your training
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    20 hours ago

    6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.

    The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.

    30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention

    She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes…

    “And the mitochondria”

    “Is the power house of the cell”

    Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.

    It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.

    I was in the room where it happened.






  • TLDR: ROCM is AMD’s variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.

    OpenAI being for profit.

    I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it’s annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:

    --rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1  --cuda
    

    But I figure it’s a four letter acronym to match “CUDA”.

    I also pronounce it “Rock’em” in verbal versus “Koo’dah” (Barracuda).

    Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has “blast processing” and fail to elaborate.