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by ken47 6y ago
I agree - that could be the closest to a sound argument, but it's a very superficial one. Someone who claims to be highly intelligent by virtue of their alma mater should know better than to advance such an argument to an educated audi
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by ken47 6y ago
"its more difficult to get into IIT than Harvard" By what metric? I doubt that everyone who got into IIT could get into Harvard. But I may be a bit biased because I work with some IIT graduates who are a bit underwhelming relative
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by ken47 6y ago
You ascribe beliefs to me via stereotype. I don't "believe" in the Big Bang Theory. I'm content knowing that I don't know. It doesn't strike me as rational to speak in such absolutes about subjects which are be
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by ken47 6y ago
And who/what created God -- e.g. who is God's God? And so on? It seems like humans trying to understand a hypothetical God are not unlike ants trying to understand quantum physics.
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by ken47 7y ago
For those who, like me, were also shocked by the claim that coal plants release more radiation than nuclear plants: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/do-coal-pl...
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by ken47 7y ago
This is what bankruptcy is for. I strongly recommend you read a primer on corporate finance, but the gist is that creditors have first dibs on assets in a bankruptcy (and there may be multiple tiers of creditors), and shareholders usually g
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by ken47 7y ago
Nice illogical, racist rant. In case you don't understand science (and it seems like you don't), the bubonic plague doesn't care what its victims' beliefs are. "In 2015, 16 people in the Western United States develo
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by ken47 7y ago
Sure, people are creatures of habit. But this isn't Yahoo vs Google we're talking about. People are going to be throwing down hundreds or thousands of dollars per CPU, and the differences are not remotely subjective.
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by ken47 7y ago
Exactly right. AMD has not only been telling their big customers about it -- they've been letting their customers test it. Google has been testing Rome for months, and have decided to move forward with a full-scale deployment, not only
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by ken47 7y ago
Wait, what? All of the above companies are basing major products on EPYC Rome. Have you read the press releases?
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by ken47 7y ago
EPYC Rome wins on perf/watt as well.
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by ken47 7y ago
Big names like Cray, Google, AWS, and Microsoft are already on board. The next generation of the Zen chipset has already been designed. EPYC Rome is likely being priced s.t. Xeon's would have to be sold at a loss to match $/perf
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by ken47 7y ago
I disagree. If you do some research, you'll learn that the chiplet architecture employed by EPYC Rome is inherently and substantially cheaper to manufacture than the monolithic design employed for Xeon. AMD priced these chips so low be
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by ken47 7y ago
Of course such decisions are always political. But now with Google backing EPYC Rome, there is the political risk of not switching, and finding yourself in the Stone Age 5 years from now. There's a lot more incentive to explore EPYC th
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by ken47 7y ago
Disagree. Why would it take years to counter this "inertia?" It's not like you're asking someone to give up a religion they've had from birth. They are being asked to make economic purchasing decisions, and the econ
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by ken47 7y ago
AMD is literally facing unprecedented demand. There's no hype here. This is the real thing. Shortages are to be expected, but you can assume that AMD is smart enough to route their production such that they get the highest return -- e.
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by ken47 7y ago
This is different than the Opteron days. Today, AMD's offering is substantially cheaper than Intel, both on an absolute and performance-adjusted basis. AMD is now ascending at a time when Intel is plagued by a never-ending stream of em
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by ken47 7y ago
The best time to buy an EPYC Rome server was 10 years ago. The next best time is today. Edit: Okay, since some people are downvoting my joke, a more serious answer -- if your server farm is running out of space, and you're currently lo
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by ken47 7y ago
“I, and the other strong students in my department, did practice less than the weaker students,” he said. This is quite misleading. -Locally-, it might be true that weaker students practice more than strong students, to compensate for the
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by ken47 8y ago
> is in line with what Tesla had done with the Model S and X as production efficiencies allow them to reduce manufacturing costs. Straight from Tesla's press release: "we are taking steps to partially absorb the reduction of th
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by ken47 8y ago
FYI, the proof has convinced other mathematicians.
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by ken47 8y ago
You should know that Apple is quite possibly dumping Intel for their next generation computers. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-... or other similar articles.
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by ken47 8y ago
The raw horsepower of Amd's gaming gpus are actually in the same ballpark. It comes down to relationships with game producers, and how much they want to optimize for a particular chip. That's why Amd's gpus in preexisting pre
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by ken47 8y ago
If firearms manufacturers produced guns that fired straight over ninety percent of the time, but no guarantee of bullet direction beyond that, they'd probably have a lot of lawsuits on their hands.
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by ken47 8y ago
I was fine with this article until he tried to bring all Asian Americans into it. Surprise surprise, but not all high-performing Asian Americans grew up under the caricature of Asian parenting the author presents throughout the article.
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by ken47 8y ago
Their approach has been partially dictated by circumstance. Certainly China has been playing catchup for the past few decades. But I think it's unwise to bet on this happening indefinitely. And in the case of some technologies, like th
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by ken47 8y ago
Without more context, this seems very extreme: In some contexts - rapid development and prototyping especially - defensive coding is not much different than premature optimisation. I fired a developer once, because he couldn't let go o
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by ken47 8y ago
Without investors pouring money in it, the R&D will stall and that's not something they can sustain. - AMD has a superior multicore manufacturing process to its competition. They are able to glue multiple die together to form the
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by ken47 8y ago
That's a common misperception. Michael Clark played a larger role in Ryzen: https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/24/how-amd-designed-what-cou...
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by ken47 9y ago
But that's precisely the question being posed by this lawsuit: are Asians actually discriminated against less than other minorities in Harvard admissions?

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