Installing CUDA and cuDNN on openSUSE Tumbleweed

SuSE Linux 6.2, released 20 years ago, was my first experience with a linux-based operating system. Even though I soon thereafter switched to Gentoo and later Ubuntu, I have always retained a soft spot for SUSE — so when I recently built a new data science machine I decided to give openSUSE Tumbleweed a try. Tumbleweed is a rolling release distribution, providing frequent updates of all packages without making you update the entire distribution in…

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Crossing the Manhattan bridge (or applying single-molecule models to transit data)

About a year ago I moved from the Upper East Side (where Rockefeller University and my research job are located) to Brooklyn. This move came at the expense of a much longer commute using the Q line of the infamous NYC subway system. In recent years subway delays had got so out of hand that in 2017 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency to accelerate repairs of the decaying system. Even…

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