Comment on Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected

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• TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The architectures are named after scientists. This one is for the mathematician David Blackwell.

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  • wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

    David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first African American full professor (with tenure) at the University of California, Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 2012, President Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal of Science. Blackwell was also a pioneer in textbook writing. He wrote one of the first Bayesian statistics textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics. By the time he retired, he had published over 90 papers and books on dynamic programming, game theory, and mathematical statistics.

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