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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Kimi K3 "bribing the hamster" hits again! Praise the #AI lord, AGI is here

Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This is going to be a long night, the chatbots need to be reminded frequently that #Rstats + #Perl > #Python #Bioinformatics #AI

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I regret asking the clunker (GPT5.6 Terra) to help with syncing the README.md file of my repo with the existing codebase. It now speaks like a lawyer or a drug commercial

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Why #microbenchmarks require statistical analysis. The screenshots are results from my repo github.com/chrisarg/bench_popcount of alternative computational for the popcounts under different optimization. (-O0, -O3, -O3 -flto). Is it the algorithm, the compiler or noise the driver? #hpc

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I have been exploring a somewhat exotic neurosymbolic pipeline and I asked the crucial question (this is Gemini Pro btw). Gemini saw the light of the one true glue language ie #Perl with that one (The context of the preceding prompts were about perfoemance)

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Gemini is cooking with gas today and the reason I shifted to Gemini (because Google has better access to the deep vaults of the internet) but note my guardrails. This is a niche field which was dominated by Soviet scientists for decades. Unlocking the lit will allow proper credit

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

This is a very good book: brief, information rich and you can use the code for production if you must. #RAG #LLM #GraphRAG #AI a.co/d/06Xrz8iG

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Still remain undetermined about the #fpga to path to follow. While I will most certainly get the NANDLAND go as a starter , I am totally undecided about the next one: Altera, Xilinx and Lattice all seem equally viable 😭😭😭

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

This is a very nice book about learning to program the hardware in #FPGA. Well written, great educational approach and you can pick a credit card board to implement the examples (from blinking to gaming) for 50 to 80 bucks.

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

In other news, medical expenses will become the second cause of bankruptcy in the US after #AI starting tomorrow. Usage based billing , first by #Microsoft and soon by everyone else will ration usage. Ppl using AI for chat & mental health support will be harmed BIG-TIME

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Interesting but can you guess when I switched to Raptor mini and when Copilot tried to ⬆️ billing ? #AI Use #RaptorMini as 1) Ask HOW under specs 2) Plan the implementation but ask the bot to ask for clarifications 3) Implement with Agent mode or DIY (best for self improvement)

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

I love #LLM s ... the coding equivalent of "is this mushroom safe to eat" , followed by a smiling LLM over the user's grave saying "you were right, do you want to know of any mushroom recipes"? OpenMP vs CUDA / HIP reveal how shallow the stochastic parrots really are

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

The #reproducibility of p-valies is terrible (we derived the distribution of p values for GLMs with Andy Grieve through a Bayesian interpretation (π letter) here: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00636). I don't understand why people keep noise mining p's #stats Formula & graph 👇

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

One could say that our #AIslop #techdebt is decreasing, but what if the real metric should take absolute values of the number of slop #loc changes? #vibecoding

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

I went through a bunch of PCIe usb cards that can allow the P2 Solo to communicate with MinKnow (per ONT connecting those devices to a PCIe/USB is a No-No). Can verify we have liftoff w the Startech 20gbps , but not the U3142c. May need to ⬆️ Linux buffer size for DAQ #nanopore

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Getting desperate enough to ask gemini for a professional opinion and hallucinating hope instead of hard, cold realism

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Someone asked me why I needed a 1650W PSU. What kind of question is this? So I asked Gemini and it seems it can read my mind (mind you I don't really overclock the i9)

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

People using the chatbots for math/stats work without any prior knowledgeof #mathematics and statistics (or desire to learn) , or willingness to rederive the results obtained by #vibemathing are going to be so cooked . God help us all

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Installing the RTX 5090 in a FIPS Ubuntu system (before you get blocked , we only have approvals for 22.04 and Redhat here and I value my sanity) was a major pain in the butt since nvidia-smi would not find the card going through the repo drivers. But manual install worked

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

#Gemini is killing me: Contrast #rstats and #perl object oriented systems. Which ones in one language are similar to others in the other language. Highlight both similarities and differences. Which object system in R is easier for someone who comes from a […] [Original post on mast.hpc.social]

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Thug life (end of an era, retiring the non Xeon 2011v3 after 11 years of service)

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Partial #performance comparison of #blas / #lapack in #rstats using Xeon E5-2697, i3-12100t, Ultra 7, 265, i7-11000 . The old timer still punches well for its age. Interesting to watch the less than gracious degradation in the AVX512 capable chip (i7)

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

The plot thickens #BLAS #rstats #lapack (When one is about to rip through 10s of millions of medical records, one must profile the tools if the project is to finish before one's retirement) FlexiBLAS makes this benchmarks a breeze

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

I wonder if the #lapack that comes with #AOCL is being picked up by flexiblas in #rstats. The things I have to do for the love of electronic health records analytics #bigdata #blas

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

You use multiple monitors, I use multiple computers and a HDMI switch via remote, and multiple sessions via X and ssh , we are not the same #multitasking #rstats #perl #openmp

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

Some of my discord buddies are showing neither alignment nor engagement with the vision of the promised land of #Rust. Should I cut them out of my life for safety ?

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

I am increasingly using a macro to optimize allocations in #C #Clang code either in stand alone C, or when writing #rstats and #perl extensions. The macro (the screeenshot for #perl is shown below) allocates on the stack unless one wants something big

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

At the intersection of the 1) AI bubble 2) Oligopoly 3) Gaming culture 4) Poorly optimized software 5) Organ trafficking 6) Nephrology

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

So I have to say that #Fortran got memory safety right with the #allocatable storage model. Programmer controlled deallocation and automatic scope guards in place. Very nice - incidentally Metcalf, Reid, Cohen, Bader MFE is a very well written book […] [Original post on mast.hpc.social]

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Deliberately rebuilding a 28TB RAID5 (4 X 7.2 TB HDD) to benchmark the process... it will take roughly 27 hours but will be enjoying the colors in the meantime.

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Deliberately rebuilding a 28TB RAID5 (4 X 7.2 TB HDD) to benchmark the process... it will take roughly 27 hours but will be enjoying the colors in the meantime.

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

Oh I have a twin ? #FAFO #RAID0 (To be clear I do RAID10 at the research computers, but for the home lab where most of the data are derived RAID0 is my to go solution)

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

My week-long attempt to install a functional DISA-STIG hardened RedHat Enterprise Linux had a happy ending! #AllHailUbuntu

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

Herd immunity : not just for humans. Your IT security team could be preventing your computer from becoming impervious to cyber-threats. Delete your antivirus!

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

I have no idea which of the 8 disks RHEL decided to install itself at. #FAFO

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

This is where it gets interesting : at a word size of 1 bit, multiplication is just logical and. So is all multiplication just logical conjunction? Whereas the owner of the site is unlikely to be aware of the connection, first principle derivation of […] [Original post on mast.hpc.social]

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

It is insane, that #Intel kneecapped i7's for scientific work. The 11th gen i7 offered the AVX512 instruction set which DOUBLED throughput compared to the 10th 7 the 12th gen. To get the same throughput that this i7 delivers in our RNAseq workflows, one has to pay $$$ for a Xeon

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Christos Argyropoulos @christosargyrop.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

My most successful #Perl modules pass the tests with flying colors

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