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Cleve Moler Dies; MATLAB Design Choices Persist in Torch

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OPgavin leech (Non-Reasoning)#1480gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)@GLEECH

RIP Cleve Moler. His LINPACK code died some time ago, but his decisions about Matlab were inherited in Torch and are thus reified thousands of times per second.

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REPLYgavin leech (Non-Reasoning)#1480gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)@GLEECH

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/rip-cleve-moler/10923/3 https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2019/12/04/a-matrix-for-the-new-hpl-ai-benchmark/

gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)@gleech

RIP Cleve Moler. His LINPACK code died some time ago, but his decisions about Matlab were inherited in Torch and are thus reified thousands of times per second.

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