Looks like he aligned himself with the wrong folks here. He is a system builder at heart but not an expert in chip design or EDA. And also not really an ML researcher. Some would say he got taken for a ride by a young…
The court case provides more details. Looks like the junior researchers and Jeff Dean teamed up and bullied Chatterjee and his team to prevent the fraud from being exposed. IIRC the NYT reported at the time that…
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Good question. I thought the tpus were a way for Google to apply pricing pressure to nvidia by having an alternative. They are not particularly better (it’s hard to get utilization), and I believe Google continues to be…
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Interesting == Suspicious? I think this is a big red flag to those in the know.
Sorry. I meant obscure relative to the large space of combinatorial optimization problems not just chip design. Most design houses don’t write their own macro placers but customize commercial flows for their designs.…
Doesn’t look like it. In fact the original paper claimed that their RL method could be used for all sorts of combinatorial optimization problems. Yet they chose an obscure problem in chip design and showed their results…
Vindicated indeed. The senior researcher and others on the project were bullied for raising concerns of fraud by the two researchers [1]. They filed a lawsuit against Google that has a lot of detailed allegations of…
Looks like he aligned himself with the wrong folks here. He is a system builder at heart but not an expert in chip design or EDA. And also not really an ML researcher. Some would say he got taken for a ride by a young…
The court case provides more details. Looks like the junior researchers and Jeff Dean teamed up and bullied Chatterjee and his team to prevent the fraud from being exposed. IIRC the NYT reported at the time that…
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Good question. I thought the tpus were a way for Google to apply pricing pressure to nvidia by having an alternative. They are not particularly better (it’s hard to get utilization), and I believe Google continues to be…
Thanks.
Interesting == Suspicious? I think this is a big red flag to those in the know.
Sorry. I meant obscure relative to the large space of combinatorial optimization problems not just chip design. Most design houses don’t write their own macro placers but customize commercial flows for their designs.…
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Doesn’t look like it. In fact the original paper claimed that their RL method could be used for all sorts of combinatorial optimization problems. Yet they chose an obscure problem in chip design and showed their results…
Vindicated indeed. The senior researcher and others on the project were bullied for raising concerns of fraud by the two researchers [1]. They filed a lawsuit against Google that has a lot of detailed allegations of…