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Just wondering, what makes NN-512 superior to Intel's oneAPI DNN library?

Almost everything has at least an 8-bit MCU now. 32-bit MCUs are also extremely common now, and even simple ones like the ARM Cortex-M0 are competitive with a 286/386 (albeit with …

Aside from very simple use cases, you'd probably struggle to render 800x480 or 1024x768 frames on an MCU. At 1024x768 especially, the pixel rate (47 MP/s at 60Hz) and framebuffer s…

Ehh, not really. I've used both Macs (old 15" rMBP, 12" Macbook, M1 Macbook Air) and Thinkpads (T450s, X1C G7, T14 AMD) and Lenovo just frequently drops the ball on things like dis…

Garbage trucks should be possible. They are heavy but no heavier than a semi truck, with a tiny fraction of the range (150 miles vs 500+). Plus, low speed city driving is much more…

I get that all else being equal, it's better to put everything in RAM, but what point is it just poor software design? 1TB of RAM is nothing to sneeze at. Is there really such a gr…

The shortage is actually a direct outcome of Intel's problems. Historically Intel had by far the highest capacity for leading edge fabrication processes - just for their own CPU pr…

It's not just some gold coins, it's also the matter of $12.7 million invested in his research endeavor. If you raised $12.7 million to start a company like Theranos you'd also be l…

Some other studies [1] have shown that N95 valved masks are as effective at filtering exhaled droplets as unvalved cotton masks, and considerably more effective than improvised thi…

Reticle limited on Samsung 8nm means plenty of room is available on TSMC 5nm. Also, GDDR does not have appreciably higher latencies than DDR memory when measured in nanoseconds. It…

If you have some time, you can MITM the 802.1x auth packets [1] and use a less crappy router. I run this with a VyOS router and the same 5268ac that you have, but it works with thi…

I'd expect most things to work and have native versions by next year, with the notable exceptions of virtualization software and package managers like Homebrew. Virtualization soft…

Minor nit, but what you're describing is loss of color depth. Gamut is how saturated the colors get, which doesn't change much in this scenario.

FB generates around $2 million in annual revenue and $600k in net income per employee (not just engineers). If the only thing you consider is value generated by each employee, then…

Below average for someone joining as a new E5 employee, especially if stock refreshers and equity appreciation is taken into account.

That's true, but it really depends a lot on the kind of software you're writing. If you're Google or Facebook and make fractions of a cent per pageview despite doing an enormous am…

EEMBC is a very poor benchmark for anything but very small embedded workloads (the datasets generally fit in a desktop CPU's L1 cache), but Micro Magic's claims are even more ludic…

The market is efficient in the sense that it aggregates all knowledge between market participants. Nevertheless, no one actually has a crystal ball to predict events far in the fut…

It's "just" 4 GPUs and 64 CPU cores. Nvidia has a flavor of Linux for it, but it's basically just Ubuntu with Nvidia drivers and tools. You can rent a machine pretty similar to thi…

That seems pretty likely. Most (non-software) engineering disciplines have a ton of Windows-only GUI software.

There aren't any free PCIe lanes on the SoC, so even if they added a bridge chip for a SATA / M.2 SSD it would have to be connected over USB. Besides, the device is $70. A $10 32GB…

If you want to upgrade you might as well just buy a regular RPi4 and plug in your own keyboard.

To be fair, it's not uncommon for a ML researcher / engineer to use tens (~$10/hr on cloud, $100k from Nvidia) or even hundreds (~$100/hr on cloud, $1M from Nvidia) of GPUs to spee…

Totally agree that most PCs have terrible analog sound quality, often plagued with EMI noise and other distortions. I still find BT to be a pain on Linux and Windows (unlike Mac / …

Mozilla is already irrelevant. Firefox market share on desktop is already lower than Safari [1] and continues to decline. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/deskto…