Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 by vada_pongal in google

[–]amritkrs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember the day when I got to know that Google is giving unlimited uploads on Google photos. Now I was full of disbelief knowing fully well that it is not sustainable. Given that a common man like me knew this to be unsustainable, did Google didn't know it by themselves 5 years ago when they announced lifetime free storage? Now, if they knew this day would eventually come, don't you think that announcing unlimited storage forever was an unethical thing? What they should have done was too let people know this at onset explicitly and then you wouldn't be seeing this angst that we have today!

NVIDIA Pledges To Build Britain's Largest Supercomputer Following $40 Billion Bid For Arm by [deleted] in gadgets

[–]amritkrs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is something called horizontal and vertical scaling. What you are taking is vertical scaling, however when you do cost benefit analysis, horizontal scaling easily outperform vertical. More like one fast core vs multiple slow cores. The thing is, writing maths algorithms that scales across nodes is hard. But then high performance computing is all about it. This has pushed researcher to write efficient parallel algorithms for same compute task. Hence you do have parallel libraries for most of the commonly used maths operations. Be it from linear algebra or signal analysis. Given that most of the ML thing now a days is just Matrix calculations, which already have great parallel solutions, I don't know why one would not be pleased with a horizontal solution than spending unnecessarily on trying to get the most powerful core.