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by 0xbear 9y ago
It can't be "on chip": data has to get in and out somehow. It's "quite possible" to do a lot of things if you don't intend to actually do any of them.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
This _is_ technical argument, and it's not me who's downvoting you. You have to keep this thing fed, and once you factor that in, "5W" and "simple chip" become physical impossibilities.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
15TFLOPS at 1Ghz is 15KFLOPS per cycle, every cycle, pipelined to amortize latency. And it's also sufficient cache and memory bandwidth to funnel data in and out of that thing at that speed, and keep the weight matrix close to the comp
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by 0xbear 9y ago
But the chip is _not_ simple. You can't get 15TFLOPS with a "simple" chip. Even TPU1 is not simple and it took Google over 2 years to get that from the drawing board to the data centers. Moreover, 15TFLOPS, in the unlikely ev
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Says a person who doesn't (yet?) make $400k a year. This too shall pass, once you start making more money.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I wish I could bet money on this not happening "by February". Dude is promising perf that's 25% higher than Titan X Pascal in a power envelope that's 1/50th of Titan X Pascal, and he's promising to do it with a
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I would bet you $1000 that he doesn't even know how to use email. :-)
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's very hard to outdo index funds. Even Warren Buffet said as much. My personal observation over the last decade confirms it. I also trade individual stocks in industries where I understand the underlying trends, and those do outperf
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Immediately after that point in the video he says he doesn't know anything about it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
When it comes to tech, totally. They are personally close and Medvedev is a known technophile and Apple fanboy. This is probably something they talked about over tea at Putin's government dacha a few days before.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
None of this is a threat to his survival, or indeed to Russia's survival. When you have nukes and the means to deliver them anywhere on the globe in 9 minutes, you don't have to care about aggression from other countries. The bigg
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by 0xbear 9y ago
>> People are not dumb Citation needed
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I doubt very much that he understands, even in the most basic terms, what any of this is about. Nor does he really care about any of it. Source: am a Russian-American, with a pretty good understanding of what's going on over there.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Dude is 64 years old, and was never seen using a computer. Give him a break on this one, he's likely just parroting Medvedev, who in turn is parroting one of his distant underlings.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And worse: in more than one megacorp (including Google in late aughts) I've seen _complexity_ as a requirement for promotion. Google has tried to get rid of that de jure, but it remains a requirement in practice, so people do what they
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You aren't investing it well then. This year S&P has gone up something like 20% (thank you, Donald). From 300k that would net you 60k which is 5K/mo. All you'd need to do is rebalance into VOO.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
As to what one should track, one should track _results_ if you've managed to accomplish something useful with very little code, that is decidedly better than accomplishing the same with much more code and hundreds of check-ins. Simplic
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That would be a bad metric for those "negative" folks as well. Their job is called "code cultivation", and they modify everything in Google's monorepo to make it suck less. Often this is done using automated tools,
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Some people at Google are actually quite proud of six digit _negative_ line counts they've contributed. And I think they have every right to be proud of that.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Boy will you ever be surprised when he's reelected in 2020. Techies make the same mistake over and over: they think their inflated bubble is representative of the state of the country as a whole. It's not.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Control in what sense? Paperwork? Only the Russian segment has any engines that could change ISS's orbital position.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
So _that's_ how Bernie can still win? I knew it!
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Maybe don't riot and destroy property next time? How's that for a solution?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
μολὼν λαβέ :-)
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by 0xbear 9y ago
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." — Leslie Lamport I think Leslie needs to update this for Cloud, however.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I think we should start small, from, say, nationalizing the authors' personal possessions and primary residence.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That doesn't change the fact that C++/NDK development has been busted for years, for no apparent reason other than Google not paying attention.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
There are different kinds of violence. Dude ripped out the heart from his friends chest while he was still alive and then cooked it. When discovered by police he didn't see anything wrong with what he did.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That shit can really screw you up. See e.g. this case right here: http://gawker.com/5941532/mma-fighter-who-ripped-friends-hea...
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'd rather they rewrote Camera2 API, which is the most horrible API I've seen in my 20+ years in this profession. It's so bad, one might think it's an elaborate prank, but no, Google does expect you to use it to interact

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