frankchn

6 ms·

31.
by frankchn 3y ago
There are reasons why drug approval can be slow and conservative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
32.
by frankchn 3y ago
To add on, most people have never experienced what “full braking” is in any car since it is so uncommon to even use half of the ultimate braking power a car can deliver in a non-track day or non-emergency situation. Even a modern Toyota Cam
33.
by frankchn 3y ago
Car dealers now prefer financing (if you have good credit). They can make more money that way since the banks will give them a kickback for originating the loan.
34.
by frankchn 4y ago
The Apple M-series CPUs with unified RAM is interesting in this regard. You can get an 16-inch MBP with an M2 Max 96GB of RAM for $4300 today, and I expect the M2 Ultra go to 192GB.
35.
by frankchn 4y ago
The drop is in the aftermarket immediately after the 8-K release, so I think we can attribute most of it to the market's gut reaction to this piece of news and not the broader SVB impact (which would have occurred during market hours).
36.
by frankchn 4y ago
If the deposits are going on the parent bank's balance sheet, it would be subject to the same controls.
37.
by frankchn 4y ago
Treasury bonds are securities as well.
38.
by frankchn 4y ago
Venture-backed startups are weird in terms of cashflow compared to traditional businesses. They appear out of thin air with no history and millions of dollars. They then constantly burn money in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars
39.
by frankchn 4y ago
A high-end chip usable in the Mac Pro will draw more power than the M1 Ultra at 60W. I don’t think they are gonna fit a chip like that into any wearable unless the device comes with a backpack with the processing elements (and battery) in i
40.
by frankchn 4y ago
That chart doesn't include dividends right? I think it will look slightly better if you include dividend reinvestment.
41.
by frankchn 4y ago
Simple, you just allocate a bigger contiguous chunk of memory and copy the entire vector over when the current chunk maxes out.
42.
by frankchn 4y ago
My impression (I might well be wrong about this) is that the energy from that forms part of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
43.
by frankchn 4y ago
The initial version of MapReduce was conceptualized and implemented by two people (Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat). Those were the only names that appeared on the paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/researc
44.
by frankchn 4y ago
You can get paid to work on FOSS though. Google, Intel, etc… employees contributes to lots of FOSS as part of their jobs.
45.
by frankchn 4y ago
64 cores and close to 1 TB of RAM will probably consume not more than 2.5 kW or so based on available TDP/power consumption figures. In 24 hours it consumes about the same amount of energy (2.5kW * 24h = 60 kWh) as charging a Model 3 L
46.
by frankchn 4y ago
The main node has 64 physical cores and 1TB of RAM, and the 24 storage nodes have 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM (192 cores and 384GB of RAM total). So we are using 256 cores and 1.5 TB of RAM, so probably about 7.5 kW or so. Over 5 months, the c
47.
by frankchn 4y ago
Transfer rates for Stanford has been extremely low historically: 42 admits out of 1,959 applicants in 2016 ( https://admission.stanford.edu/apply/selection/profile16.htm... ). I believe Caltech is even lower (single
48.
by frankchn 4y ago
Just wanted to pop in to say congrats on making GA! Really happy to see the program develop from the early days :)
49.
by frankchn 5y ago
It is usually not quite that drastic. More often it is like GAM offer X, F offers 1.2X.
50.
by frankchn 5y ago
Then there isn’t a problem — at least for FAANG. People are willing to jump through more hoops for more rewards in all aspects of life. If a less prestigious company with worse compensation tries the same thing, then they will quickly disco
51.
by frankchn 5y ago
Yeah, a valid philosophy is that a company should have to spend at least as many man-hours interviewing me as I spend interviewing.
52.
by frankchn 5y ago
I don't think the math part of the Gaokao tests memorization. Looking at a sample paper ( https://medium.com/@yujia_jo/2016-jiangsu-gaokao-national-hi... ), it seems like the examination really tests for the ability
53.
by frankchn 5y ago
Speaking from personal experience, it does help in at least two ways: (1) Being surrounded by other hard-working students pushes you to do better and exposes you to more advanced classes and research early on (a majority of my friends in CS
54.
by frankchn 5y ago
Does it use Display Stream Compression or something? Raw 5120x1440 x 240 fps x 8 bits x 3 colors = 39.55 Gbits/sec. DP1.4 has a maximum data rate of 25.92 Gbits/sec. DP2.0 on the other hand does 77.37 Gbits/sec.
55.
by frankchn 5y ago
That's because all of Google's main consumer properties didn't get branding changes and are still all "Google Maps" or "Google Photos", etc... WhatsApp and Instagram are much stronger brands, and are not a
56.
by frankchn 5y ago
The maxed out configuration officially supports 3 ProDisplay XDRs (6K), one 4K screen via HDMI and the built-in screen.
57.
by frankchn 5y ago
Yeah EUV uses mirrors, which Zeiss also supplies: https://www.zeiss.com/semiconductor-manufacturing-technology... . There is an introductory PDF presentation from Zeiss about their product for EUVs: https://www.eu
58.
by frankchn 5y ago
The DOT and the NHTSA considers that value to be $6.3 million per "statistical life" in 2009 dollars [1] [1]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/administration/pdf/Value_o...
59.
by frankchn 6y ago
Yeah, the most advanced systems can switch between 4WD and RWD while the drivetrain is under considerable stress too. For instance, the F90 M5 can engage the front wheels on command while in the middle of a power slide and let the front whe
60.
by frankchn 6y ago
S3 became strongly consistent only recently ( https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea... ) while I think GCS and Azure Blob Storage has strong read-after-write consistency for a while now. In an

More ›