Viewing profile — larryliu

There are competitions in the AI accelerator field. Google's TPU in addition to Intel Arc and AMD GPUs. The latter two have incomplete pytorch and JAX support.

Simulation models of electronic components, especially analog and mixed signal ICs, are scarce and more often encrypted and locked into the manufacturer's chosen proprietary simula…

The service department will adapt by always talking nice, always promising to service the products but never send or perform anything that costs money. When you finally reach the p…

what about recognizing handwritten math? https://mathpix.com/handwriting-recognition

They don't even have to use cops. They are able to let you lose your cash. They can prevent you from selling the apartments by refusing to issue titles to buyers. They can stop you…

There is zero evidence that build densely decreases property value. Structure is by itself a depreciating asset. Land value will increase when the neighborhood densifies.

Do we want a mass construction workers layoff in addition to tech layoff? Tech recession should be countered by encouraging developments in all economic sectors, especially pro-dev…

"I don't know what it does. I don't know how it would be controlled. I don't know how to keep kids away from it," he (Stayton Mayor Henry Porter) said. "I guess it's the fear of th…

In communication, there is a fundamental rule -- always consider the audience and the scenario, which overrides any specific communication advice. You don't talk weapon humor in fr…

Working with old buildings require a compromise mindset. No you don't want to drill the asbestos tiles, but you can install poles standing on the floor with lights and wifi access …

No, it's no longer produced anywhere in the world except Russia. New industrial projects don't use asbestos. Existing installations are replaced with rockwool, fiberglass or kaowoo…

Roman concrete is simply concrete made by pozzolan cement. You make pozzolan cement by grinding quicklime together with volcano ash, fly ash from coal power plants, or metallurgica…

You can easily say these two sentences in Spanish that every Spanish speaker has no difficulty understanding. El GPS en mi barrio tiene precisión cien veces peor debido a la interf…

Agree very much. Hokkien is 65 million people's language, more than Italy's population. There are Hokkien-speaking people in Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province. They write Ho…

I asked them why. They said it's possible to say anything in Japanese, but English has the brevity for some topics.

It's anthropocentric to say a language can only be preserved by live humans rather than AI natural language models and digital corpora. No one use Latin any more but we can still f…

Ketamine is a prescription medicine that can be taken oral, intranasal or IV drip. ECT is an inpatient procedure that need one anesthesiologist and one psychiatrist plus nurses to …

but property prices of SF are still 10x-40x my little town's main street. If the situation in SF downtown is "trouble", small towns are in much deeper trouble since the beginning o…

US shipbuilders get orders mainly from military. Civilian orders is almost zero. The facility and technology for military vs civilian ships are vast, that a shipyard focusing on on…

In California? Many badge terminals along Pacific coast. But it means much more for Eastern and Southeastern US where waterways are plentiful.

I know a retired American factory worker who did exactly what you said for his manufacturing career -- relocating to Philippines for introducing American machinery and management p…

Russian agents set up shell companies that hide their Russian nexus. IC vendors don't really background check cash buyers. Many ICs are sold in open markets like this: https://n.si…

Should we create a FDIC-like mechanism for chips, to reduce companies'incentive to "bank run" their vendors? Have the federal reserve always stockpile 10% of circulating chips regi…

It's like America's racial desegregation in the 1960s. Life of white workers did not become worse since colored workers joined the professional workforce. I am in the US. Let it dr…

US military also once bought fake chips from China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/oct/06/secu... There are good reputation vendors in China, but if purchasers ty…