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by rlupi 2y ago
Endgame: I believe we can enormously increase the efficiency of large organizations, reduce the waste of hundreds of thousand of employee-years spent in coordination, to the point that CxO and VP can get answers to what-if questions in matt
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by rlupi 2y ago
You are right. Sorry, I quoted the linked article. I haven't worked on the networking side to that level of detail.
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by rlupi 2y ago
Maybe it's possible, I haven't seen it done yet. I guess there were better alternatives. Well, I can't share numbers about datacenter MW sizes... the fact that I misread some of those numbers as per datacenter MW is telling :
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by rlupi 2y ago
Infiniband and ethernet are very different at the lowest levels. Ethernet interconnects use RoCE (RDMA over converged ethernet), which actually encapsulated infiniband transport in ethernet, but you still pay for higher routing latency, and
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by rlupi 2y ago
https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx-superpod/reference-architecture-... NVIDIA large GPU supercomputers have separate compute-networking (between GPUs) and storage-networking (storage to GPUs, or storage to SSD, SSD to GPUs wi
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by rlupi 2y ago
For hundreds of MW? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/top-data-center-markets/ You can do that but they are the size of a mountain (literally: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/insi
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by rlupi 2y ago
"different concepts have inherent geometrical forms" Absolutely, in fact you can build the foundation of mathematics on this concept. You can build proofs and reasoning (for some value of "reasoning"). That's how de
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by rlupi 2y ago
There is a deeper connection between machine-manufacturing of textiles and computing than other professions, like blacksmith. Babbage got the idea of punched cards from Jacquard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_m
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by rlupi 2y ago
IMHO, NVDA has already planned for this to happen. It remains to be seen if they can kickstart the next wave of enthusiasm before the current one runs out, and keep the stock afloat. Once we have plentiful GPU deployments, the next revenue
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by rlupi 2y ago
From the article: > Our initiative began with a monumental task of converting more than 15,000 Enzyme test cases, which translated to more than 10,000 potential engineering hours That's a lot of editing.
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by rlupi 2y ago
Tongue in check comment... as I am learning Rust for fun, mid-career, "high productivity" is not what I'd call the language. I like it, but I am half as fast as other similar languages to get the same results. Jokes aside. I&
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by rlupi 2y ago
Adobe cannot be trusted. They force you to agree to the ToS even to stop using their apps! You cannot even uninstall Adobe CC apps without using the Creative Cloud app, and you can't use the CC app without agreeing to the ToS. I used C
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by rlupi 2y ago
Livia. She's named in the phrase just before that. The full quote is: "When Agrippa gave up the ghost, untimely fate, or the treachery of their stepmother Livia, cut off both Lucius and Caiusº Caesar, Lucius on his road to the Spa
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by rlupi 2y ago
If you read the article, there is a good explanation of exactly how it works about 40%-50% into the article... and it even says "40%" on the sidebar. My personal reading of it [not a physicist]: If you think about reaching absolut
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by rlupi 2y ago
Interesting, I haven't thought about using it in C++ before. It's an idea that has existed for a long time in languages geared toward safety-critical systems. E.g. Derived Types in Ada: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com
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by rlupi 2y ago
He is in US. Thinking he has any influence lobbying the EU parliament on right to repair is bogus. This EU initiative comes from the circular economy action plan, which started in 2015, more than the US or global consumers' right to re
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by rlupi 2y ago
It could be to avoid regulatory pressure. The tide is changing and this could be a preventive move. If you just provide a database, you don't compete with Health apps.
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by rlupi 2y ago
I think what regulators should start doing instead or on top of of inflicting monetary fines is to force companies to mint a significant amount of new shares and put them in escrow accounts, then in case some future event happen (security
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by rlupi 2y ago
> Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? ChromeOS
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by rlupi 2y ago
Interesting idea. The main question for me is if it will be efficient, in the sense that you need program/models that can be binpacked into the size of your design and need data all at the same time in various stages otherwise a lot of
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by rlupi 2y ago
That is imprecise, I can understand. Why do you think it is wrong?
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by rlupi 2y ago
He is describing the difference that exist in dynamical systems (physics, computer systems) between microscopic and macroscopic descriptions. If you have few interactions among things, you can analyze their interactions through the lenses o
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by rlupi 3y ago
They should have called it Deep Thought... what a missed opportunity :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Gui...
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by rlupi 3y ago
> It took him years to realise Google search results had a scroll bar, and it wasn't just the 3 items that fitted on the screen. I wonder if this is because today's interfaces are actually so much worse for scrollbar UX (usabi
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by rlupi 3y ago
Gil Strang lectures are great if you want to a bit more depth. https://youtu.be/nTwRjQ4xqUc?si=6jO6mO3M98_QX2Kx
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by rlupi 3y ago
A non-conventional mention and I am not sure how up to date it is, but I remember looking into https://moosetechnology.org/ a few years ago and it can do far more that you asked. It's open-source. You can read more abo
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by rlupi 3y ago
The article mentions also the obligation to refunds, so presumably users already subscribed to a service with a given quality, then reducing the quality. This is not different from Prime adding ads to paying customers who signed up to the
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by rlupi 3y ago
I am waiting for someone to write an APL descendant using Linear A... there is already a keyboard for it: https://shop.keyboard.io/collections/the-keyboardio-model-10...
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by rlupi 3y ago
I wonder if spam (for human consumption) is just a temporary thing... the real value to capture is where the purchasing (or other kinds of) decisions are to made. If consumers embrace AI agents, the money in influencing their decision via t
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by rlupi 3y ago
https://leica-camera.com/en-int/photography/content-credenti... Leica did introduce something like that with the M11-P, but it's far from being a mainstream feature.

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