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by osti 3y ago
Not sure where you get your info, but github definitely isn't blocked. And there is a amazon.cn, just no one uses that crap.
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by osti 3y ago
AlphaCode is more specialized in programming (competitive programming to be precise) though whilst GPT4 is much more generalized. AlphaCode also tries dozens of solutions for one problem, not sure if GPT4 does this.
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by osti 3y ago
Mac Pro and Mac Studio, spec'd to the same maximum possible Ultra cpu, 192GB ram, 1tb ssd, Mac Pro is $9600, while the Mac Studio is $6600. How many people really need the Mac Pro's PCI-E expandability (which probably no third par
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by osti 3y ago
Sometimes the monkey king does get overthrown even in a zoo, right?
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by osti 3y ago
Not going to argue whether we are being overpaid or not (I certainly hope we aren't because now I'm getting even crazier compensation than my Amazon days lol). But I think the current layoffs which are putting downward pressures o
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by osti 3y ago
When your title is "someone saved the whole company", it definitely is diminishing everyone else's work, at least in the case of AMD. Like someone else mentioned here, Jim Keller always says "team work" and all when
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by osti 3y ago
This is my thought as well. Their devs who work on the graphics drivers are heavily underpaid in Canada. As an ex-AMD, I took AMD's offer for 20k less than another software company because I like low level stuff and have always been an
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by osti 3y ago
CPU development cycle is definitely longer than 3 years, especially for a big change like that. Zen architecture design certainly started before 2014. So I think it's fair to say that she started around the time AMD became successful.
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by osti 3y ago
No, see my other comment as to why.
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by osti 3y ago
If it was a failure I wouldn't attribute that to Lisa Su either. Because AMD's success kinda started around the time Lisa Su joined, the products they came out with at the time certainly didn't have much to do with Lisa, tech
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by osti 3y ago
I think attributing AMD's current success to any one person is an insult to all the other employees of the company.
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by osti 3y ago
Market value is a basis for most modern accounting and finance theory, so there isn't anything outrageous about it, otherwise people would have changed how finance is taught long ago.
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by osti 3y ago
But fact is, there are many cases where one investor tries to buy the whole company, the investor has to pay a premium over what the market currently values it at (Musk buying Twitter for example). So the current market price is a good appr
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by osti 3y ago
A lot of people will rather own a third of Apple, but the market, thus by extension, most people who actually invest, think that Nvidia is worth a third of Apple, on last Friday at least.
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by osti 3y ago
The 6 to 5 payout blackjack table is just awful, please avoid them at all cost.
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by osti 3y ago
I'd assume there is integration work involved to train on TPU, so some companies would want to stay on NVIDIA. AWS also offers their own training chip instances (Trainium) while also providing NVIDIA instance types (P).
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Google Announces A3 Supercomputers with Nvidia H100 GPUs(cloud.google.com)
4 points by osti 3y ago|3 comments
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by osti 3y ago
> A bit like how Poker sites give you better cards in the beginning. As a former online poker pro, this is probably the most idiotic thing I've read on this site.
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by osti 4y ago
I always thought it was to help with traction during winter... They are only present outside the city afaik.
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by osti 4y ago
Again not sure if you are talking about dataplane. I met many people there (even many new grad L4s in fact), who are very enthusiastic and passionate about what they do in that team.
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by osti 4y ago
Not parent but can confirm vpc dataplane team is pretty good. Wouldn't want to work on control plane stuff though.
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by osti 4y ago
Look up AWS Nitro on YouTube if you are interested in learning more about it.
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by osti 5y ago
Intel had a dwindling lead in single core perf over the past few years, but when AMD came out with Zen 3, AMD actually had a non negligible lead over Intel. But Intel is now winning again with the 12th gen chips. So they are trading blows t
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by osti 5y ago
Those benchmarks are similar with pretty high correlation in overall scores. Look at the individual subscores would be more useful for either benchmark.
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by osti 5y ago
If you don't possess advanced understanding of Chinese, then don't even think about trying to read it. I came to Canada in my teens and I often have trouble understanding. The forum rules dictate that you write cryptically. But it
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by osti 6y ago
Recently intel compared their flagship mobile chip against AMD saying that they got the best single thread performance ever, using SPEC2017. They even had a SPEC graph showing all the AMD competitions, obviously M1 was not on there. And now
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by osti 6y ago
So you decide to cherry pick one single thread benchmark out of many to decide that AMD wins in single thread lol. In most benchmark, m1 is much faster than 4800u in ST.
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by osti 9y ago
It’s a survey paper on many different algorithms so they could have each written parts of it.
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by osti 10y ago
To be honest I haven't read too many of his books yet, I do plan to take a university course on him this fall though. This passage just resonated with me too much that I have to post it anytime a discussion about Stoicism comes up. The
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by osti 10y ago
You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or ju

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