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by VonTum 2y ago
I think it can be subdivided into value creators and value movers. A comedian, doctor, farmer, or teacher creates value. They directly produce something that benefits other humans. The financial sector, marketing, sales, real-estate conglom
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by VonTum 2y ago
It was the challenge for me. Seeing some difficult-to-solve problem, attacking it, and actually solving it after much perseverance. Kind of stemming from the mindspace "If they can build X, I can build X!" I'd explicitly not
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by VonTum 2y ago
I agree completely. This is a fundamentally different change than the ones that came before. Calculators, assemblers, higher level languages, none of these actually removed the _reasoning_ the engineer has to do, they just provide abstracti
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by VonTum 2y ago
If you don't somehow make something useful, or built a thing people actually use, then what was the point of it all? To have fun and then be forgotten? Though, with AI looming to take this last shred of human dignity too, maybe having
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by VonTum 3y ago
Lennart here, Both fundamental techniques were known beforehand, and in both cases the major innovation was adapting the algorithm for the specific compute platform. For us it was exploiting FPGAs to compute these P-Coëfficients, for Jäkel,
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by VonTum 3y ago
Lennart here, While Noctua 2 is certainly not one of the larger clusters out there, it does stand out as one of the only FPGA superclusters in Europe. This is the unique capability that made our project possible there. And yes, assigning un
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by VonTum 3y ago
Hi, I'm Lennart, the author of the FPGA paper. You can't really compare them on a FLOPS basis. Firstly because our and Jäkel's algorithms are completely different. In fact within the FPGA accelerator itself we don't even