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by twtw 8y ago
Hopefully I'll put together a more technical answer in a while, but for now I'll just point out that when talking about performance, reducing things to "it's all logic in the end" makes little sense. We could emulat
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by twtw 8y ago
> I think attempts from e.g. Google to develop their own chips will fail I'm curious what you think failure will look like. In a lot of ways, Google's TPU program has already been extremely successful.
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by twtw 8y ago
Conceivable, yes. Practical? Not so much. This is an idea that I personally love, but that hasn't fared well so far. Compilers are not as good as assigning instruction schedules statically as hardware can do dynamically.
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by twtw 8y ago
> If you don’t want to sometimes worry about forest fires, don’t build your house in the woods. It isn’t that complicated. Yeah, like Malibu. Very wooded.
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by twtw 8y ago
What if that person trips because they left all kinds of crap on the floor where they needed to walk? If the "accident" could have been averted by making a reasonable effort to maintain equipment and the surrounding area, then it
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by twtw 8y ago
Another thing that is new is that the rainy season in CA is starting later, such that the winds come before the rain. Paradise is a wet place that gets quite a bit of rain - what matters is that it is coming too late. For this reason, I don
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by twtw 8y ago
> I find this _unfathomable_. I'm from a desert state where during dry times it was illegal to light fires and we absolutely did controlled burns. Many of the answers on that quora link seem to indicate that ca does in fact do contr
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by twtw 8y ago
> Nvidia will also put one on the market Already done. Tegra Xavier includes DLA (deep learning accelerator).
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by twtw 8y ago
IMO, the right approach to regulating Google is similar to the regulations pre-breakup imposed on AT&T. Stuff like all patents and technology must be made public, interoperability, etc.
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by twtw 8y ago
I think this is a good question, but it also seems like someone could have said "what's the point of war" with the same arguments in the late 1930s. Maybe I'm wrong, if so if love to hear some thoughts on what has change
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by twtw 8y ago
> Whenever all those "where are the other silicon valleys?" articles come up, they never seem to bring up the Wasatch Front Huh, interesting. This is exactly the opposite of my experience. I would have said those articles alwa
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by twtw 8y ago
Based on the OP's comment with an example, it sounds like the question is more like "what feature/capability/etc currently in the spec could be removed to improve performance?"
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by twtw 8y ago
> That's 3,077x earnings Whoops. Thanks, updated. Coming from experience with semiconductor companies years back, 3-4x earnings was a typical acquisition price. This speculation on growth is very interesting to me.
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by twtw 8y ago
I found this excerpt from their S-1 interesting: > We use open source software in our platform that may subject our platform to general release or require us to re-engineer our platform, which may harm our business. > We use open sour
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by twtw 8y ago
2017 profit of $2.6M.
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by twtw 8y ago
> acquire all outstanding shares of Qualtrics for US$8 billion in cash 2017 profit of $2.6M on revenue of $290M. Please ELI5, how does someone decide on a price 26x higher than earnings? EDIT: 3077x earnings - thanks 'adventured.
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by twtw 8y ago
No.
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by twtw 8y ago
It's certainly a sign of an advanced civilization, but the practice has been around for a while. The Apollo 10 crafts were "Charlie Brown" and "Snoopy."
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by twtw 8y ago
> But they were right in that case... How do you know?
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by twtw 8y ago
The WH didn't say he "mistouched" her, it said he "placed his hands on her." If she reaches in to grab the microphone out of this hands and her arm touches his in the process, it is extremely misleading to write tha
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by twtw 8y ago
What exactly did it turn into? This is a non-story that only turned into one because the WH revoked Acosta's press pass.
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by twtw 8y ago
This is ridiculous, doctored or not. "Pardon me, ma'am" is nothing like "placing his hands on a young woman." EDIT: For people who haven't watched a full video of the press conference with audio, here's my
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by twtw 8y ago
Your statement doesn't agree with the OP. They are claiming the WH is in the right here.
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by twtw 8y ago
That doesn't "fully support" the WH's version of events. > It was only when he attempted his third question - or possibly fourth depending on how you define the follow-ups - that the president got angry and asked him
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by twtw 8y ago
Wait just a second. What the White House said is this: > We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern. No version of the video that I've seen indica
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by twtw 8y ago
Not a comment on that paper, but for those interested I would highly recommend Ben Recht's (ont of the authors of that paper) blog series at http://www.argmin.net/2018/06/25/outsider-rl/ .
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by twtw 8y ago
Many things are "sandboxed by design." Few things are true sandboxes. I'm very skeptical of the idea of throwing out virtual memory and process isolation to depend instead only on software sandboxes.
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by twtw 8y ago
Operator errors do not indicate the quality of a language.
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by twtw 8y ago
> wasm is also going that direction Genuine question: why would WASM in the kernel make any sense at all?
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by twtw 8y ago
Increase bandwidth? Absolutely. Increase relative bandwidth? Not so much. But PCIe 3 is a whole different beast than PCI.

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