I don't hate FEE, but there's a lot of opinion in this article above and beyond the original source. Maybe link to that? https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...
The amount of effort and extra hardware required to maintain this reproducibility across different hardware (cpu generations, GPU hardware/drivers, etc) feels insane to me. For example, people seem extremely interested…
The parent article doesn't seem to be trying to be a fully fleshed out survey of compressors, but I found a separate comparison of zstd and Brotli: https://peazip.github.io/fast-compression-benchmark-brotli-z... tldr:…
I understand cause of death statistics can be calculated, but do you have an article on what happened with a decapitation being counted as a covid death?
My understanding is that the Texas state requirements used to be borderline insane, but that they have improved over time. Skimming http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/index.htm... , I actually found much…
Are are the TPUs in Chisel? I thought only a subset, like edge, were in Chisel?
(I have fairly minor quibbles with some of Nate's modeling ideas, but I broadly mean to be defending him). I don't mean to imply 2016 was a black swan event- I agree that ~30% was probably as accurate a take as could be…
I don't think this article provides strong evidence that they are well calibrated on the presidential election specifically (sample size N=3), or that they are correctly accounting for rare black swan events, but it…
Boy, have I got the incredibly specific article for that exact question: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-we-say-70-percent-...
You say formerly catapult- is catapult no longer being developed?
LZ4 seems really nice for data with a lot of repetition, but not having any symbolic entropy encoder can really kill the compression for some data. I often default to LZ4, and used to fall back to gzip if that doesn't…
So, the main result of designing a CPU is a series of masks that essentially indicate where to put what. For example, in this layer, inject boron anywhere the mask doesn't block. The masks aren't wafer sized- they are…
How so? It seems like lots of businesses run successfully on that model for indefinite periods.
I may not have said it well, but I broadly agree with you. If a workload needs high performance but not consistently (e.g. because you're doing serial tests by swapping bitstreams), predictably (e.g. because you need…
Just to throw in one more complication, I'll assert that the only benefits of FPGAs over ASICs are one time costs and time to market. Those are big benefits, but almost by definition, they aren't as important for…
I agree that's a really striking and suggestive result, but keep in mind the sub-sample size there is four passing on the private side and six failing on the public side. My guess is there's a real and meaningful effect…
Depending on your definition of cheap, fab access might be pretty cheap right now for old technology nodes, which have totally reasonable performance if you have an architectural advantage. This article suggests mask…
I've done a startup, a couple of midsize companies (~4k engineers), and AWS. Just my 2c, a lot of the advice I'm seeing here applies more to the midsize companies than at least my corner of AWS. In my Amazon experience:…
All the offer's I've gotten have been pretty solidly in the bell curve of what levels.fyi indicated.
Is this a criticism of the ARM chips, or of the TPU's bfloat format?
I've not read Popper directly, so I'd be interested in his actual argument on this. But, I wonder if you can describe H1 as being a stronger hypothesis than H2 by virtue of withstanding more and higher quality attempts…
I found the hash table lecture really interesting, somewhat practical, and it made me sound really smart when I got the inevitable hash table questions during interviews.
Is there data on what tech companies programmers (either generally or new grads) most want to work for? It feels like it used to be Google by a lot, but even outside the HN bubble, I get the sense Google has taken some…
They say later that > When a feedback instrument surveys eight colleagues about your business acumen, your score of 3.79 is far greater a distortion than if it simply surveyed one person about you—the 3.79 number is all…
> Adding up all the inaccurate redness ratings—“gray,” “pretty gray,” “whitish gray,” “muddy brown,” and so on—and averaging them leads us further away both from learning anything reliable about the individuals’…
I don't hate FEE, but there's a lot of opinion in this article above and beyond the original source. Maybe link to that? https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...
The amount of effort and extra hardware required to maintain this reproducibility across different hardware (cpu generations, GPU hardware/drivers, etc) feels insane to me. For example, people seem extremely interested…
The parent article doesn't seem to be trying to be a fully fleshed out survey of compressors, but I found a separate comparison of zstd and Brotli: https://peazip.github.io/fast-compression-benchmark-brotli-z... tldr:…
I understand cause of death statistics can be calculated, but do you have an article on what happened with a decapitation being counted as a covid death?
My understanding is that the Texas state requirements used to be borderline insane, but that they have improved over time. Skimming http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/index.htm... , I actually found much…
Are are the TPUs in Chisel? I thought only a subset, like edge, were in Chisel?
(I have fairly minor quibbles with some of Nate's modeling ideas, but I broadly mean to be defending him). I don't mean to imply 2016 was a black swan event- I agree that ~30% was probably as accurate a take as could be…
I don't think this article provides strong evidence that they are well calibrated on the presidential election specifically (sample size N=3), or that they are correctly accounting for rare black swan events, but it…
Boy, have I got the incredibly specific article for that exact question: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-we-say-70-percent-...
You say formerly catapult- is catapult no longer being developed?
LZ4 seems really nice for data with a lot of repetition, but not having any symbolic entropy encoder can really kill the compression for some data. I often default to LZ4, and used to fall back to gzip if that doesn't…
So, the main result of designing a CPU is a series of masks that essentially indicate where to put what. For example, in this layer, inject boron anywhere the mask doesn't block. The masks aren't wafer sized- they are…
How so? It seems like lots of businesses run successfully on that model for indefinite periods.
I may not have said it well, but I broadly agree with you. If a workload needs high performance but not consistently (e.g. because you're doing serial tests by swapping bitstreams), predictably (e.g. because you need…
Just to throw in one more complication, I'll assert that the only benefits of FPGAs over ASICs are one time costs and time to market. Those are big benefits, but almost by definition, they aren't as important for…
I agree that's a really striking and suggestive result, but keep in mind the sub-sample size there is four passing on the private side and six failing on the public side. My guess is there's a real and meaningful effect…
Depending on your definition of cheap, fab access might be pretty cheap right now for old technology nodes, which have totally reasonable performance if you have an architectural advantage. This article suggests mask…
I've done a startup, a couple of midsize companies (~4k engineers), and AWS. Just my 2c, a lot of the advice I'm seeing here applies more to the midsize companies than at least my corner of AWS. In my Amazon experience:…
All the offer's I've gotten have been pretty solidly in the bell curve of what levels.fyi indicated.
Is this a criticism of the ARM chips, or of the TPU's bfloat format?
I've not read Popper directly, so I'd be interested in his actual argument on this. But, I wonder if you can describe H1 as being a stronger hypothesis than H2 by virtue of withstanding more and higher quality attempts…
I found the hash table lecture really interesting, somewhat practical, and it made me sound really smart when I got the inevitable hash table questions during interviews.
Is there data on what tech companies programmers (either generally or new grads) most want to work for? It feels like it used to be Google by a lot, but even outside the HN bubble, I get the sense Google has taken some…
They say later that > When a feedback instrument surveys eight colleagues about your business acumen, your score of 3.79 is far greater a distortion than if it simply surveyed one person about you—the 3.79 number is all…
> Adding up all the inaccurate redness ratings—“gray,” “pretty gray,” “whitish gray,” “muddy brown,” and so on—and averaging them leads us further away both from learning anything reliable about the individuals’…