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by boulos 6y ago
Terrifyingly, I discovered recently that Plaid’s API uses floats instead of decimal. For example, security prices: https://plaid.com/docs/#security-schema
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by boulos 6y ago
> The only limit is yourself! ;) For folks who don't get the joke, please visit zombo.com before Flash is finally dead :).
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by boulos 6y ago
I remain convinced that somewhere inside of Mail.app someone decided to try to speed up search with some approximate index or badly rewritten strcasecmp. Mail not being able to properly find an exact string match correctly means I had to
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by boulos 6y ago
Oh and I should have said why they shouldn’t bother attempting to migrate somewhere “cheaper” (whether GCP, Hetzner, or whatever else): it doesn’t sound like they have time. I read the call for help as: we need something we can do in the
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but my advice isn’t to come to us). Sorry to hear that. I’m sure it’s super stressful, and I hope you pull through. If you can, I’d suggest giving a little more information about your costs / workloa
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by boulos 6y ago
This comes up in nearly every thread, but NVIDIA’s EULA doesn’t permit using their drivers on “consumer” parts in “datacenters”. So you didn’t include the main reason for the Tesla tax: compliance :). The “consumer” parts are certainly popu
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by boulos 6y ago
Right. I’m not saying you can’t, but I am saying that when someone goes to their IT team and says “Hey, we want to buy a few of these” they’ll get met with a groan :). Did you move all your other gear into Colovore? (That’s one of the chall
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by boulos 6y ago
Oh, I didn’t mean to suggest that the powering of the system was unreasonable. For example, Hetzner will charge you about $250 per rack per month and between 15 and 30 cents (USD roughly) per kWh [1]. I assume they include the cooling and s
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Floyd Zaiger(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by boulos 6y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Honestly, I’d start with Colab until you decide you need “dedicated hardware”. It’s better to focus on learning before you decide “Okay, I’m serious about this now”.
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by boulos 6y ago
Kind of. I think a giant pile of them hooked together with good networking would be :). But also, you can rent a single slice of one for tens of seconds and then walk away. I personally probably do about 20-ish GPU hours a month while dabbl
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. I think the right way to think about the economics here is either “I would pay $X/hr for this short-lived job” or “I want to compare with buying it” (3-yr committed use discount in our case, RIs &#x2
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by boulos 6y ago
We sadly don’t talk about how we rack these at all, but the folks at Facebook have made their OCP designs public for vaguely similar systems. However, I’ll note that the 16 A100s here are way more expensive than the cpu cores (and we can
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Even worse is that for GCE, A was for AMD originally (and N was for iNtel). In any case, this A is for Accelerator.
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New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud(cloud.google.com)
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by boulos 6y ago
Thanks. In that case, I liked your bit about userspace APIs as a potential path forward. Much like with userspace networking and storage layers that have become so pervasive lately.
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by boulos 6y ago
I liked the “CoreAudio got this right” bits weaved throughout the interview; it makes for a good “sometimes you have the wrong interface and need to force a change”. Paul: I’m curious which “industry / workflow” is likely to be the bes
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by boulos 6y ago
Sure! It’s always a gamble as to whether or not your content will get noticed, but there are non-computing topics discussed all the time. I’d caution you that the usual discussions end up being about popular reporting on results (like the r
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The Video Call Is Starting. Time to Put on Your Zoom Shirt(nytimes.com)
4 points by boulos 6y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Amusingly, the domain in which I used to work (physically-based rendering) primarily computes hemispherical integrals that would all conveniently be tau (the solid angle of a hemisphere). The only downside is that tau is almost always used
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by boulos 6y ago
Oh, that comment wasn’t clear: I mean, any pure retailer is going to be better at this than Amazon (and so why single out Target) because unlike Amazon they know their vendors.
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by boulos 6y ago
> Target of all places seems more curated than Amazon. Isn’t this going to be true of any “pure” retailer? The nature of FBA and third-party sellers just means there will always be at least some percentage of fraud and so on that’s highe
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Google’s 46-camera ‘light field videos’ let you change perspective(techcrunch.com)
11 points by boulos 6y ago|2 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Just a correction here: we build datacenters near large sources of renewable / hydro plants (I consider hydro a borderline case). We buy renewable credits for everything and are even trying to timeshift load now to match renewable gene
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by boulos 6y ago
Oh, I missed that! Fwiw, I’m a big proponent of 1/4-pod slices anyway :).
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and know the OpenAI folks). Fwiw, I think 2500 "V100-days" here is an extrapolation of ~1 2048-TPUv3 day. So approximately $8/hr * 24 hours * 2048 => $400k, if you know, you could make
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. It wasn't obvious to me if this is somehow mounting EFS over !NFS (since never says the words NFS in the post). My main fear when people say "Should I use Lambda / Google Cloud Functions &#
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by boulos 6y ago
Hmm? Section 4 has the details of their setup (below). It’s 32 V100s, or just under $100/hr including reading the data out of BQ. They don’t even mention how long they trained for, because presumably it wasn’t material (if it were, the
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by boulos 6y ago
Yeah, before reading one of the carbon capture from the atmosphere papers, I hadn’t thought deeply about the challenge. Then I realized “oh, we’re talking about 350-450 ppm” which is less than 1 in 2000. Even though that CO2 is there and it
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How to Disinfect a Police Car in a Pandemic: Make It an Oven(nytimes.com)
1 points by boulos 6y ago|1 comments

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