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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-secto…

Given the author mentions multiple cores being available, I'd guess you could use any method, including MPI, to distribute the computation. But whether you used 1 core or 10k cores…

I don't know much about MPI, but I thought it related to message passing/distributed workloads rather than arithmetic performance?

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 exa…

If I recall, the zstd binary has a mode that is basically "adapt the compression ratio so that compression isn't the bottleneck", but I didn't have a chance to try it. Have you use…

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-co…

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/chapter1…

There's no way to get the raw data from this site, is there? I have long been interested in doing some analysis of how syllabi have changed over time, but that doesn't seem possibl…

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 …

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…

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…

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. T…

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)…

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 definiti…

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 …

I've wondered for a while- are there heuristics on the income a steamer can make per viewer-hour? Edit: I'd googled this before, but apparently I found the right way to ask: this s…

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 a…

I don't know much about genomics, but I think there are at least FPGA based accelerators in production, for example, Illumina's DRAGEN. https://www.illumina.com/products/by-type/in…

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 …