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Weights will be fetched 4-bit from memory, but compute happens in FP8 (W4A8) or BF16 (W4A16). This is still better than fetching 8-bit weights from memory. Both W4A8 and W4A16 sche…

can you show the math for your last statement?

it is only "right" statistically as in conforming to the same distribution. but there is no guarantee of exact same output.

A large cap stock increasing by 6x is not "unlikely to be achievable". Apple went from 1T to 4T valuation in just 6 years. why did Apple not award 500 billion to Tim Cook for this …

by 'allocated', I mean allocated during the purchase decision. not that money is sent to respective company.

Passive investing is not an issue, but the default bias towards large cap equities like SP500, Nasdaq100. Passive investing through total market ETFs (like VTI) maintains the statu…

Yes, the renewals are included

curious how much of the growth is solely due to renewals since the cap on first time H1-Bs has stayed the same at 85k per year. the green card queue is severely backlogged for Indi…

This is normal for most state border in India. They mostly inspect commercial trucks

yes, it was in the 90s last August.

Deepseek v3 needs 16 H100s or 8 H200 GPUs for inference.

it is 23% of total energy. if you consider only acceleration energy, it will be much larger percentage, probably 80% (as in electric cars).

you can add an '/s' at the end next time to avoid ambiguity. :)

this is a well-studied tradeoff with immigration. high-skilled immigration helps US economy and innovation but low-skilled immigration depresses wages for citizens. you are making …

yes

you invest in companies that would be biggest market cap in future.

RSUs are treated as cash income at vest and taxed at same rates. Stock buybacks benefit general shareholders (i.e. beyond employees) since they push up stock value without causing …

Nvidia was a $750B company in 2021 (pre-ChatGPT). Cause of gaming and all of pre-LLM machine learning using nvidia gpus.

you are comparing a sedan and suv though. byd seal is a better comparison to model 3

you can sell index funds and buy stuff. you will mostly be ahead of inflation.

not a data breach

one is a public company whose stock can be pumped up with "bullshit", other is not.

how much did it change compared to 2019?

hate how all YoY commentary completely ignores recession years like 2022 or boom years like 2021.

Forward PE (assuming same earnings as current quarter for full year) is around 40. Trailing PE can be misleading in high growth phases.