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by Quanticles 11y ago
My biggest concern about F-35's is how quickly they can be made in wartime situations. They have so many sophisticated instruments... can they really be mass produced? In WW2, Germany had the best tanks, but the Soviets and the America
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As noted in the FAQ, it was actually against the rules for an already existing company to show up. That's part of the reason why contracts are not allowed - everyone owns the IP then so there cannot be an owner-employee relationship in
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Analog weights can save a lot of delay/power/cost if you can implement them right, easier said than done
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by Quanticles 11y ago
Sorry, I'm going to keep those details secret for now :)
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These are all good questions/points History is something we need to contend with, not just for neural networks, but also for analog computing which has a similarly troubled past. For NN history, there has not actually been a market for
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by Quanticles 11y ago
Actually, I can give you a better answer... An ASIC is always going to be at least 10x better than a CPU/GPU for performing the same algorithm. The question isn't whether or not an ASIC can beat NVIDIA, the question is whether the
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We make use of non-volatile memories throughout the chip, which stores the configuration and weights
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I guess you'll have to wait and see
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We're in the process of fabricating a prototype and are not publicly releasing detailed estimates at this time. I can say that the cost depends on what you want to do - systems can range from less than 1mm^2 to the entire reticle depen
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We do the learning on GPU and efficiency is not a concern because the learning result goes out as a firmware update. Let's say it takes 2 weeks to train a neural network - the customer never sees that, they just get the firmware update
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The products that we are creating are reprogrammable and reconfigurable, just like a GPU or FPGA. Updates are like a firmware update. Our hardware would be no more obsolete over time than a GPU or CPU running in its place, and given the hu
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by Quanticles 11y ago
Target applications like self-driving cars would require deep convolutional neural networks like NVIDIA's Drive PX
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by Quanticles 11y ago
There is a lot of interesting research out there on analog computing, analog neural networks, and far-out stuff like transistor-free computing. Going from research project to product on Digikey is a really huge leap for most research though
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Our company works on this kind of stuff for those who are interested ( http://isosemi.com ) We're seeing more like 10-100x improvements in energy efficiency and performance, not 10000x, unless the comparison point is a full
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Agreed. You could say that public libraries have a natural limit to their degree of sharing, whereas online filesharing does not. For instance, when a popular book comes out the library might have a couple copies. If hundreds want to read t
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by Quanticles 11y ago
1. If you're going to tax universities, then you need to tax churches too. Good luck. 2. If you're going to tax non-profits, then why have non-profits? 3. Do we really want to penalize fiscally responsible organizations when even
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Yeah, you see a few people with wealthy beginning say that. You also see plenty of success stories of people with much humbler beginnings say that. Which you choose to focus on is either going to motivate you to work hard or be an excuse to
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These lines of reasoning (it's talent/money, not work/grit/focus) appeal to those who don't want to take responsibility for their own success or failure.
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Even if you had the same body as when you were 25?
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Corporations are supposed to operate on the behalf of their shareholders - insider trading is in direct conflict with that
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by Quanticles 11y ago
Makes sense, thanks
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> "Oh, so your company doesent produce anything real?" The euros are real
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by Quanticles 11y ago
If you're in deep space then you're not near any particular star. That's going to reduce the available starlight by several orders of magnitude, right?
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by Quanticles 11y ago
This article relies on carefully constructed images that maximize one particular outcome by summing up lots of small errors into it. For it to work, the pixels have to be very accurately tweaked. If the tweaks were off by one pixel, the who
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by Quanticles 11y ago
Economic inequality is a hot topic right now. Employers knowing everyone's salaries, but not the employees, puts the employees at a disadvantage when negotiating salary. One option would be to require all companies to publish employees
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At least the drama is well understood /s
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Finding and hiring the right person is very time consuming, training up that person is very timing consuming, and when someone leaves, training someone to take over their responsibilities is very time consuming. Combining all of those these
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by Quanticles 11y ago
This sounds like a blunt combination of popular terms
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Austin is a great city with great food, music, and brews. And you can even afford a nice house too
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3 days for 12-14 hours a day would be nice - does he think those should be M/W/F or T/W/Th ?

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