TechnicolorByte

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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
I admit that was a glib comment and unnecessary. I’m really speaking about Nvidia’s ability to perform well in both hardware and software, at chip-scale and datacenter-scale. Also speaking of their product/business direction that revol
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Feels like this comment is stuck in 2019 or something. Have you seen DLSS3.5 announced yesterday with ray reconstruction? Have you seen path tracing in CP2077? Seems like you’re really dismissing the massive speed ups these past few years.
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Incredible company. It’s absolutely insane how far ahead they are with the investments they made over a decade ago. So nice to see a “hard” engineering (from silicon to software) SV-founded company getting all this recognition. Especially a
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Nvidia is dragging the entire gaming industry forward with ray/path tracing and AI-based resolution and frame scaling. Everyone else (I.e., AMD) is following Nvidia’s lead. In what way has Nvidia “forgotten” gamers with the rise of the
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
AMD has won many contracts for supercomputers no doubt due to their lower pricing. But there’s a good reason why no one is buying them in droves for AI workloads. Also: > For visualization workloads LUMI has 64 Nvidia A40 GPUs.
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
I don’t get the analogy. Can someone explain? How do you spend only 1.25 time and 1.5 energy to do the equivalent “work” of 4 “visits”? Not seeing the connection to computer arch and speculative execution.
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Like others said it’s probably to commoditize their competition. The models don’t matter so much as ownership of the platform and critical data. Which is why OpenAI is in a tricky position (although I guess they’re partnered with Microsoft)
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Had to look this up. Really need to read THGTTG one day. Been recommended so much
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Many people, myself included, disliked him long before the invasion of Ukraine started. Does that put us in your good books?
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
> The goal isn't to replace Twitter. The goal is to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry plac
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Agreed. Nvidia’s success comes from their unrelenting drive and ability to pivot to new markets. They didn’t independently discover that GPUs would be super useful for DL but they did see the incredible potential and invested big time into
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Really surprised to see such low effort commentary akin to Reddit/twitter on here. In what way has Nvidia abandoned the consumer market? They have something like 80%+ market share on discrete gaming GPUs and still rake in billions a ye
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Your last sentence makes me wonder when Meta decided on the launch date for Threads. Were they always planning to launch it early summer timeframe or they seized on the recent Zuck/Musk fight drama + twitter rate limiting to maximize e
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Yup. Her strategy was reported last week: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/linda-yaccarinos...
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
You can still deactivate account separately. Looks like they’ll eventually get some proper delete functionality: https://www.threads.net/t/CuXRXDdNOtH/
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Appreciate the explanation. His unique perspective does sound useful.
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Does it say anything that isn’t already common knowledge on healthy living and best practices? E.g., exercise several times a week, avoid processed food and red meat, eat mostly veggies and lean protein and fish, get enough high quality sle
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FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal(arstechnica.com)
3 points by TechnicolorByte 3y ago|0 comments
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Agreed. It’s a small but sizable community that, as you said, wouldn’t cause problems like the group that left Reddit for Voat. I realize it’s a much bigger challenge as a one man team to create a full Reddit clone and not just a nice clien
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Honestly not a bad idea. Apollo has such a dedicated fanbase that if you get them to adopt a new community, then the quality of posts will start out pretty high. So much of Reddit is crap anyway so drop in quantity from lack of network effe
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
There is a reason: chips are costlier to manufacture now on a per-transistor basis. As Jensen says, Moore’s Law in its original economic sense is dead.
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
This narrative has been pushed for several years now with the likes of Habana, Cerebras, SambaNova, Graphcore, Tesla Dojo, etc. And yet none of them seem to have made any dent in Nvidia’s dominance. None of them have any real presence on in
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Having a tenuous grasp of how modern AI/DL networks work and an even more tenuous grasp of neuroscience, can I ask for a ELI5 of the above and a source? Are you saying that Hinton is not a doomer and believes that AGI is inevitable ver
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Your 10yo does 70km+ bike trips???? That’s incredible! Also makes me feel less than stellar about my own bike rides :P
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Incredible analogy! The closer is a keeper: > The mechanisms of Newton’s laws are first order terms of a proper QM solution.
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Not really a shocker that they settled given all the embarrassing texts/emails showing the blatant lies Fox execs and media figureheads were engaging in. Just surprising that it took them this long—the start of the trial—to settle. Wou
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
And as Dylan Patel notes in his reply [1], none of it matters if it isn’t measured doing real work. Comparing the cost of hardware matmul is the same type of thinking that lead to prediction of Nvidia’s quick demise in the face of numerous
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Agreed, I feel like I’ve seen this pitch before. Intel’s OneAPI was supposed to solve this heterogeneous hardware/platform problem but doesn’t seem like they’ve made any dent. Curious to see what Modular is planning. They’ve definitely
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by TechnicolorByte 3y ago
Great username. I’d like to think that you’re working from the inside to take the whole system down :~) A few questions: 1. What does giving it back 2x mean? You work overtime voluntarily or something like that? 2. Is what you’re describing
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Modular is building a next-generation AI developer platform(modular.com)
34 points by TechnicolorByte 3y ago|32 comments

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