I find it strange that probably the most successful and influential compiler and PL developer in a generation doesn't seem to be interested in compilers or PL anymore.
Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain
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#12I find it strange that probably the most successful and influential compiler and PL developer in a generation doesn't seem to be interested in compilers or PL anymore.
Don't you get bored doing the same thing for more than a decade?
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#13I find it strange that probably the most successful and influential compiler and PL developer in a generation doesn't seem to be interested in compilers or PL anymore.
He is still on Swift core team so why you think is he is not interested in Compilers/PL? A person of his/her caliber should be able to work on multiple things with very high level of performance.
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#14Super interesting developments.. Also, re: >AI can't democratize itself (yet?) so I'll help make it more accessible to everyone! This needs to happen more on the software side. You can buy a world-class quad-gpu machine for about half the cost of a vehicle. You can build a world-class single-gpu machine (what I have) for a fifth of that. It's literally amazing how accessible the hardware is, compared to almost any ot…
I lost access to a TrueCrypt volume from years ago, and using AWS GPU spot instances, I was brute forcing ~1000000 permutations every 40 seconds last night for $7/hr. The hardware is incredibly accessible.
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#15I find it strange that probably the most successful and influential compiler and PL developer in a generation doesn't seem to be interested in compilers or PL anymore.
As a machine learning researcher I have to say that you should join us too! AI is the future!
PL is an area with big challenges, but AI has even bigger challenges and the impact in the society is bigger, much bigger, too. I would change the question and ask why anyone shouldn't be interested in AI?
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#16Is Google's work culture more like Apple or Tesla? Curious if this is likely to address whatever about Telsa wasn't keeping him happy. Or maybe it was more about the specific work he was tasked to do?
From what I've heard from friends working in those 3 companies, Tesla is more like Apple, with Google being clearly different from both.
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#17>…he created the Land compiler and LLVM. I think you mean Clang and LLVM
http://nondot.org/sabre/ "I lead and am the original author of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, an open source umbrella project that includes all sorts of toolchain related technology: compilers, debuggers, JIT systems, optimizers, static analysis systems, etc. I started both LLVM and Clang and am still the individual with the most commits."
The parent is likely talking about the "Land" typo.
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#18Is Google's work culture more like Apple or Tesla? Curious if this is likely to address whatever about Telsa wasn't keeping him happy. Or maybe it was more about the specific work he was tasked to do?
It's like neither, but probably pretty similar to the academic UIUC culture where LLVM got started. Having both worked at Google and followed Chris Lattner's work on LLVM since before he was at Apple, I suspect he'll be happier there than at Tesla.
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#19I find it strange that probably the most successful and influential compiler and PL developer in a generation doesn't seem to be interested in compilers or PL anymore.
As a machine learning researcher I have to say that you should join us too! AI is the future! PL is an area with big challenges, but AI has even bigger challenges and the impact in the society is bigger, much bigger, too. I would change the question and ask why anyone shouldn't be interested in AI?
Because not every problem can be solved by AI.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://nondot.org/sabre/ "I lead and am the original author of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, an open source umbrella project that includes all sorts of toolchain related technology: compilers, debuggers, JIT systems, optimizers, static analysis systems, etc. I started both LLVM and Clang and am still the individual with the most commits."
The parent is likely talking about the "Land" typo.
It was probably a clang->land auto correct on a phone. It used to be I only had to worry about my fingers hitting the wrong keys, now I have to worry about my computer not believing that what I wanted to type was what I actually typed.