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.