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For those confused by the title, Intel released a Xeon that includes 64GB of high speed RAM on the chip itself, configurable as either primary or pooled memory, or a memory subsystem caching layer.
CI is a fairly new thing. The idea of constantly doing all that compute work again and again was unfathomable not that long ago for most teams. We layer on and load in loads of ancillary processes, checks, lints, and so on, because we have the headroom. And then we reminisce about the days when we did a bi-monthly build on a "build box", forgetting how minimalist it actually was.
Tensorflow lost out to Pytorch because the former is grossly complex for the same tasks, with a mountain of dependencies, as is the norm for Google projects. Using it was such a ridiculous pain compared to Pytorch.
And anyone can use a mythical TPU right now on the Google Cloud. It isn't magical, and is kind of junky compared to an H100, for instance. I mean...Google's recent AI supercomputer offerings are built around nvidia hardware.
CUDA keeps winning because everyone else has done a horrendous job competing. AMD, for instance, had the rather horrible ROCm, and then they decided that they would gate their APIs to only their "business" offerings while nvidia was happy letting it work on almost anything.
Brother saw the money on the table and have decided to move towards the dark side.
It's actually funny how a confirmation bias works: In other posts people say "this tracks with other rumors..."...yeah, that's what people who make stuff up tend to do.
Google owns and designs their own TPUs. They offer these TPUs in the cloud. I've seen many comments in here about how next-level TPUs are (despite zero evidence indicating that). Google even disclaims their TPU by saying that you shouldn't compare it with the H100 given node levels et al.
Their premiere offering is an nvidia H100 offering.
Yes, of course this is a pretty telling indication. If Google was all in on TPUs they'd be building mega TPU systems and pushing those. Instead they're pushing nvidia AI offerings.
Even if someone were that self-focused, in almost any group or organization, critical security vulnerabilities and significant costs do hurt everyone in the group. You're going to be the ones having the rough time when expenses exceed value, and when major embarrassments happen. There is no insulation from it.
In reality their project was death by a thousand...neigh million or billions...of cuts. Poor technology choices. Poor algorithm choices. Incompetent usage (e.g. terrible LINQ usage everywhere, constantly). This was the sort of project where profiling was almost impossible because any profiling tool barfed up and gave up at every tier.
Profiling the database was an exercise in futility. Profiling the middle tier was a flame graph that was endless peaks. Profiling the front-end literally crashed the browser. I ended up having to modify Chromium source to be able to accurately get a bead on how disastrously the Angular app was built.
This is common. If performance doesn't matter to a team, it will never be something that can be easily fixed. Maybe you can throw a huge amount of money at the problem and scale up and out to a ridiculous degree for a tiny user base, but making an inefficient platform efficient is seldom easy.
This is for locations with no connectivity, where SpaceX satellites become very low-bandwidth Rogers towers for critical situations. Your examples are not relevant.
The rest of your post is just knee-jerk opposition luddism that doesn't apply at all.
When people's dogs become older and inconvenient it is common for people to rationalize putting them "down" under the notion that it's some great benevolent act, instead of a selfish one. "Oh he couldn't jump on the bed any more so it was time to put him down". It's gross, but you nod and smile and pretend like they're being rational.
Similarly, many people want older people to disappear, and this is often masked in some benevolent "it's because I care so much" nonsense. People who want the elderly to disappear into some home somewhere where they can be sedated until they die. They can't jump up on the bed anymore, you see, so it's for the best. e.g. "I just want you to enjoy your retirement...best time of life...disappear"
A lot of older people want purpose in their life. They want to work. Particularly in Japan where there is an incredible pride and life purpose behind contributing and plying ones skills. I went down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos feature hole in the wall restaurants in Japan, and it was amazing how often it was quite elderly owners who would show up early and run the show, and it was clear they loved having it in their life.
I'm not being negative -- some of the samples are really neat on their page -- and I know there is some idiosyncrasy of my setup that is causing issues, though it is a pretty typical conda + pytorch with CUDA 11.8.
Playing with the text and waveform temp from their defaults 0.7 is yielding some semi-decent results, but it feels essentially random.
Making it clear of the tower seems like a remarkably low bar, so if that really was the measure of success, this thing is going to be ready for missions in about three decades. Like what an incredibly low accomplishment that would be.
And of course I feel overwhelmingly certain SpaceX doesn't consider this a success. The face-saving they put out for the sycophants to echo doesn't match the reality that this test proved extraordinarily little.
Libel is very restricted in the United States as well. Indeed, the whole "section 230" argument that keeps getting revived deals specifically with this topic (paradoxically by the "freedom" party), so clearly your "freedom" isn't quite as absolute as you imagine it is.
Further, Google was ordered to restrict the content in Quebec, and the fine they are paying is a tiny fraction of the money they make in Canada, which is a country where they have offices and significant business. I see zero reason why you decided to make this American centric.
I have a K480 at the office for those random times I need to respond to something on my iPhone and don't want to deal with the crippling restrictions of an onscreen keyboard, and I hugely recommend it. With the keyboard almost every norm of macOS is supported.
If you're referencing a study, link to the study. If you're citing a tweet, link to the tweet. Otherwise save spurious links as they add zero value and are a distraction and an unnecessary decoration making text less readable.
As an aside, I chuckled seeing the link to Atwood's "be a bigshot blogger" post where he recommended that people blog constantly about everything. For those who haven't kept track, that was a failure model. It made people basically give up on "blogs" because there was so much low value content, with people writing on a schedule rather than because they had actually interesting content. Now everyone just hopes that the rare useful post appears on a social news or media site.
I'm a bit surprised people are seriously believing this. This is someone's shower thoughts six hours later when they strawmanned some ridiculous positions to caricaturize "opponents".
I will go further and say that everything the person said seems...dubious, and are claims that are unverifiable. Like, where is this low-income "suburb" (two hours from a major center...) that has no crime? As someone who grew up in a smaller town in the rust belt, I find their claim hysterical.
This is, of course, complete nonsense. It is as much a fact as the oft-cited claim that NATO promised not to expand (another lie that is true only to rubes).
NATO has a requirement that you settle any ongoing border disputes before ascension: If you have a simmering feud with a neighbor country about who owns a pile of rocks, it's such an obvious flashpoint that you need to resolve it first. It has zero requirement that you don't threaten the tyrannical empire building pursuits of the neighboring madman.
Russians defending Russian aggression is something that I find just impossible to believe. Putin has sent tens of thousands of Russians into a meat grinder for a futile, ego-driven war that has zero outcome that isn't negative for Russia for decades to come. And he's going to keep grinding those bodies into corpses and you'll keep talking about deNazification or whatever nonsense you're fed.
Nuclear is a fantastic base load. It is, done right, clean and safe. The weird pro-nuclear cult that spreads manufactured nonsense is just noise, however.
It turns out that I had crisis levels of hypertension for years, and all of those aberrant readings were actually my normal. When I finally got it diagnosed and treated -- purely thinking it might relate to sporadic mid-sleep headaches/sicknesses [1] -- discovered that years in that state had pushed my kidneys to the cusp of kidney disease, which is something that doesn't heal.
Check your blood pressure regularly. Get an Omron unit and it even logs it into a little app. Treat it early because the damage accumulates for decades.
[1] That turned out to be a newly developed absolute intolerance for alcohol. A single beer or glass of wine with dinner would have me sick all night.
The pattern-
-hide promised functionality behind subscription.
-offer "free trial", often with very short trial periods.
-convert that into a big dollar subscriptions.
They know that most of the people who they ensnare are probably going through a multitude of tools trying to find a solution for some problem (and the fact the tool in question often fails to do what it promised is a feature because it encourages the user to move on quicker), and some subset will fail to cancel the "trial" before it becomes a pay service.
Consenting adults, sure, and personally I have never fallen prey to this, looking at the in-app purchases and just refusing to be baited, but it's enough of a problem that it should embarrass Apple a bit.
There was a period of dramatic progress but now things have largely settled. I recently replaced a 12 Pro with a 14 Pro and it is likely nothing at all changed. There is zero impact in my life. Have the 12 Pro waiting in my drawer for my son with an XR to upgrade, but he doesn't even want the hassle of doing the transfer and then setting up the apps that don't properly migrate data.
Are they expensive because of overbearing safety requirements? Partly, sure. On the flip side, Fukushima has now cost hundreds and hundreds of billions in direct costs. If nuclear power plants didn't have a civil exemption where governments bore the potential liability of damage (which is almost infinite), they would be unbuildable.
That this is flagged is completely unsurprising. Musk's pathetic army of supplicants have reached the stage they hit with Trump where they are so incredibly embarrassed by his antics, yet think they've painted themselves in a corner supporting him, that they try to even suppress the whole topic. That to talk about them is some sort of derangement syndrome, lest people actually note how utterly insane, incompetent if not criminal their heroes are.
To be an Elon Musk apologists now betrays that someone is just a horrendous human being. Absolutely used toilet paper levels of humanity.
Are models like this copyrightable? It seems like this falls under the realm of "fact", which can't be copyrighted.
They could never achieve it with governments and regulators, however. Like 0.00% chance. Even if the government of Taiwan allowed it, there would be a long line of other governments and regulators blocking it.
It's a very simple plant to grow ideally. For a large industrial operation that is under no concern for law enforcement, run as a normal business, it's pretty easy and cheap to do things as optimally as possible.
This problem occurs if you use anti-virus that delays file activities, and is 100% API consistent. Anyone saying "well it didn't do it before!" is being idiotic, similar to saying you don't need to check the return of malloc because it's usually going to succeed.
pgsql runs perfectly fine.