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by easde 6y ago
In the end, the RTX 3090 is still better at ML workloads than every card other than the RTX A6000 or the A100. Although the 3090 theoretically falls behind the V100, Titan V and Titan RTX in terms of pure mixed-precision matrix math, in pra
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by easde 6y ago
The Volt and Prius Prime are plug-in hybrids, not pure electric vehicles. If you take those out (which I think was the OP's intent - driving a plug-in hybrid doesn't make you look as "green" as driving a true EV) Tesla i
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by easde 6y ago
1 GB = 8 Gb, not 80 Gb
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by easde 6y ago
If you're playing at high framerates (120Hz+) you'll find that your CPU is inadequate for many recent games. (playing games on a 1070 and a 6 year old Xeon and feeling the lack of single-threaded performance)
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by easde 6y ago
> The most popular languages are the least energy efficient and most resource intensive. This is mostly incorrect. Of the top 10 programming languages on GitHub [1] only Python, Ruby and PHP are commonly used with an interpreter. The res
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by easde 6y ago
$25k/year is enough to live on even in the Bay Area if you have roommates and work at a big tech company with good benefits. It's not too hard to find a 3 bedroom house for $4,000/month in somewhere like Santa Clara. Split th
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by easde 6y ago
Power density for supercapacitors is higher than batteries, but there aren't many applications that need more power than what the best lithium polymer cells that provide. 100C cells are readily available, which can discharge their full
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by easde 6y ago
Nvidia does publicize benchmarks in its marketing, but many people (correctly) are skeptical of benchmarks published by the same company that makes the product. The number of CUDA cores and other hardware resources is a number that feels a
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by easde 6y ago
Nvidia actually did try to license out its GPU IP a few years back: https://www.anandtech.com/show/7083/nvidia-to-license-kepler... I don't believe they ever closed a deal, but clearly Nvidia had some interes
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by easde 6y ago
As of their last earnings report Nikola had almost exactly $700M in cash / cash equivalents. Maybe GM just wants that :)
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by easde 6y ago
It's not uncommon to have RT workloads where the "hard" RT part can fit in a small amount of tightly coupled memory, but the same processor is also used for "soft" RT workloads that need a much larger amount of memo
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by easde 6y ago
Many MCUs / SoCs support DMA into tightly coupled memories. Very useful for "ping-pong buffering" to hide memory copying overhead - copying one buffer into a TCM bank while the processor works on a different TCM bank.
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by easde 6y ago
They might not be #1, #2 and #3, but they're certainly in the top 7 (there's also Facebook and the three huge Chinese internet companies). It's well known that those companies (sometimes called the 'Super Seven') ac
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by easde 6y ago
GDDR also uses a ton of power (per gigabyte) and has very tight signaling tolerances so it can't be socketed. Not a good choice for laptops (power), desktops (not socketed) or servers (both reasons).
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by easde 6y ago
Unfortunately, they're not thin compared to a laptop lid. Especially with the taper near the edges that Macbooks and many other high-end laptops have. There are some exotic optical solutions out there that allow for thinner lenses but
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by easde 6y ago
Betterment is easy but if you have more than a few thousand bucks to invest I would just open a Vanguard account and put your money there. If you have no idea what you're doing just use a target date fund, otherwise just buy stock&#x2F
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by easde 6y ago
The common thinking is that it will reduce pay, but it may not be as much as most people think. A good example of this is Facebook's new compensation structure for remote work. For engineers remotely working from low cost of living are
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by easde 6y ago
The quarterly rebalancing of the S&P 500 is only relevant when companies already in the index change their free float (usually by issuing / buying back shares). New companies can be added at any time (with a few days advance notice
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by easde 6y ago
USB-C hubs nicely solve the problem of plugging USB devices, a monitor and a charger into a laptop. Like the docking stations in old laptops, but far cheaper. If you have multiple 4K screens or very high speed I/O devices you may need
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by easde 6y ago
The architecture here is similar to old PCs (roughly before 2010) that had integrated graphics in the northbridge. The memory controller also resides in the northbridge. The CPU communicates with the northbridge through the front-side bus.