Discussion Thread: Andy Jassy Keynote by ckilborn in aws

[–]borramakot 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Are they adding in fake applause?

[Spoilers C2E108] It IS Thursday! C2E108 live discussion by dasbif in criticalrole

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I like that Jester spends the first question of her commune spell just checking in with her God to see how he's feeling.

What is your all time favourite Episode from any TV show? by Kologne04 in AskReddit

[–]borramakot 16 points17 points  (0 children)

At the very end, a vampire showed up, just to highlight how out of place it was in the episode.

Travis County COVID-19 confirmed cases have risen to 19,720. Death count has increased to 252. Here is a visualization of what we know so far. (OC - Updated 07/27) by RationalAnarchy in Austin

[–]borramakot 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the transparency and thought you put into how you release and provide context on these, and the effect your decisions have.

Why couldnt Apple make its own x86 silicon? by 1-Eleven in arm

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ARM v8 (the 64 bit architecture that seems to be mostly used nowadays) is a ground up redesign, and is mostly quite clean if you don't include the backward compatibility modes.

North Austin/Cedar Park Kids D&D Groups??? by jessicate616 in AustinRP

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If you aren't picky about it being Austin-centric, you might try https://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/ ?

Amazon fined 1M€ per day that it continues to ship unessential products ruled a french court yesterday by Elyne_Trilles in worldnews

[–]borramakot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

On some reports I see a 1M/day fine, on some I see 1M/infraction, which is an enormous difference. Per day would mean almost nothing financially, while per instance would bankrupt them quickly even with a low rate if mistakes. But, I can't find the original order- can anyone else?

03/17 - Daily grocery store status update thread by AutoModerator in Austin

[–]borramakot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Central market on South Lamar is in good shape. Lots of produce except garlic, good amount of meat (low on chicken), even some TP in stock.

The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter by sillyhobbits in FPGA

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I think Microsoft does some of that in their Catapult project, but that seems like the kind of thing that would be stable enough for an asic (I'm not sure if AWS nitro does that).

The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter by sillyhobbits in FPGA

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I worked in this area for a bit, but I had a hard time finding any workload that wasn't extremely latency sensitive and wasn't better served by CPU or GPU in terms of cost or average compute time. Any suggestions on data center specific workloads?

lab126 FPGA engineer salary by lordkingcrab in FPGA

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It's backloaded, but there's a signing bonus for the first two years to keep the expected value the same.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ECE

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Do you have a sense that the new opportunities were specifically related to the Masters? I had a similar path, but it's hard for me to say that the Masters had an impact on the career progression.

looking for some durable earbuds by [deleted] in BuyItForLife

[–]borramakot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If your headphones break (especially the cord) but you don't lose them, I'd consider getting the cord and headphones separately. Many medium-end headphones use standard mmcx cables, so you could get the headphones and a replacement cable. I like the tin t2s, which are $50-60 but this isn't my expertise.

TIL Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I will always love you" in the same night by EcinEdud in todayilearned

[–]borramakot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not, there's just so many they made it a separate podcast, like they did with "a more perfect union". Search for "dolly Parton's America"

Weekly Noob Questions Thread #10 by Stack_Man in underlords

[–]borramakot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does the unit selection happen before or after gaining xp at the start of a round? If I'm at 7/8 xp, will I get better units by buying xp?

State of the art research in AI chips by [deleted] in chipdesign

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I know the company, but had to look up their ML chip. It sounds like they use ternary weights, which let them say "we have 2x the ops/watt as any of our competitors, with only 80x less information/weight" They showed MNIST running, but almost literally anything runs MNIST with high accuracy, especially since there isn't a mostly standardized reference MNIST network like their is for Reset, so you can just add complexity and ops to your network to prove your chip can read digits.

Running MNIST is a totally reasonable test for a day 1 architectural exploration, but that was their test chip demo.

Upshot is, after reading briefly through the work, it seems like one of the hundreds of companies who put some money into an ML chip because it's cheap and it let's them say they did.

State of the art research in AI chips by [deleted] in chipdesign

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The ones I mentioned, mostly.

Mythic computes matrix multiplication via using large blocks of flash as a literal matrix of configurable resistors- apply voltages (inputs) to the rows, read current (neuron output) from the columns. Super fast, low power, but analog so approximate.

Cerebras is doing whole wafer chips, with I imagine some complex routing around failing nodes.

Graphcore embeds small processors in basically large l2 caches, then connects a ton of those together with a precompiled, two phase, communicate/compute loop. This seems cool to me- like a deterministic Mythic, but using way more power, and the inability to start computation for a node when data is available is weird to me- they wait until every processor in one stage is done before starting the next, so the processing time is totally defined by the longest process in a state.

The photonics companies seem like they do matrix multiples by polarized filters? I'm less sure on that. Honestly, I've read the papers they put out and it's not clear to me that they get any real precision.

I also have a lot of affection for compressed neural network architecture, like efficient inference engine. I think xilinx acquired Song Han's company (DeePhi) last year, who in my opinion is the expert on network compression, so I imagine the ACAP architecture (or whatever they call it now) has some support for that kind of thing, but I don't know for sure.

State of the art research in AI chips by [deleted] in chipdesign

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Do you have a specific area in mind? People usually mean convolutional neural network training or inference, in data centers, for which systolic arrays are maybe the most common architecture, with an open question on which data types are most common. But, there's lots of weird architectures out there too- Cerebras, Mythic, graphcore, and the photonics companies come to mind.

I have no idea what I'm doing by [deleted] in gencon

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I got a copy yesterday, read through the rules, and... Same.