drdabbles
@drdabbles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Qualcomm approached Intel about acquisition, report claims 1 month ago:
Yeah, the instruction set and the implementation in hardware is absurd at this point.
- Comment on Qualcomm approached Intel about acquisition, report claims 1 month ago:
AMD and Intel have already partnered on killing x64 in the longer run and work is under way.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 3 months ago:
Only now? It’s been two years of this and now they’ve had too much? No partial credit should be given for people that continued to participate when it was clear what was happening.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 6 months ago:
Tesla isn’t valued like a car company.
The market being stupid doesn’t change the fact that they are a manufacturing company. The fact that they can convince people to repeat this nonsense is how they keep the market stupid. Keeping the market stupid is how they continue pumping cash to stay afloat.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 6 months ago:
iPhone actually works. Also, which generation iPhone weighs two tons?
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 6 months ago:
The difference is that “tech” companies can produce more of their software with minimal or no additional cost. This is why their values tend to be higher than traditional companies manufacturing things. Tesla can’t do that. Their revenue is their shitty cars, without them there’s nothing to run their shitty non-working software on.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 6 months ago:
Except that the manufacture shitty products. Manufacturing something makes them not operate like a tech company, which is why Elon is desperate for people to repeat that they’re a tech company. You’re doing his work for him.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 6 months ago:
Tesla isn’t a tech company.
- Comment on CATL, the little-known Chinese battery maker that has the US worried 8 months ago:
In which way is the US behind any other country in lithium batteries? In which way is the US “clinging to the past” in this area?
- Comment on What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? 8 months ago:
They identify people in public that should probably be robbed. So they’re useful for that I suppose.
- Comment on AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports 9 months ago:
All scams come to an end when they run out of marks to steal from.
- Comment on How many of you browsing this community are system admins/hobbyist? 10 months ago:
Hardware systems architect, formerly network and systems engineering, 30 years of admin experience, and three software development jobs. My home has minimal tech in it- a file server, four wifi APs, a router, and an H/A DNS pair. It’s all IPv6 internally, though. I refuse to let tech ruin my life any more than it needs to at this point. 😆
- Comment on The Hyperloop was always a scam 10 months ago:
Going to run a turbofan in a vacuum chamber for propulsion and use air bearings to float on the surface. Like any of it ever made sense from day one. Fever dreams of an idiot.
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 11 months ago:
But everyone’s a dog online. I’m the 10th doctor you always wonder about. 😆
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 11 months ago:
I think he is too. But neither of us is qualified to make the diagnosis officially. 😆
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 11 months ago:
He isn’t autistic. He simply said he is. Which makes him a giant piece of shit.
- Comment on Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars 11 months ago:
Anybody buying one of these clown cars deserves all the bad that comes with it.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Let’s review. They said there was nothing xenophobic. But the original weirdo had some BS to say about american universities. Textbook definition. They said that there was no ageism until I said something, completely ignoring the fact that the original person initially claimed I was younger then them so I had no experience. I responded noting that I’ve been in the industry quite some time, not as an argument from experience but as a retort to the claim I was new to all of this.
The fact is, the person you’re now defending clearly didn’t read the thread, and you’re just here concern trolling. I provided links to retort the frankly idiotic claims about ASICs not being a far more popular choice than FPGAs, and it’s hysterical to see you people coming through worried about the discourse rather than the facts of the matter.
Bye now.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Not really. Not worth responding to the rest.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Not for no reason. They made claims, I provided links, they whined about it. They provided zero links backing up their 40 year old claim that FPGA would replace anything that didn’t run away fast enough.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
You should research, then.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
There’s several write-ups covering it all.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
They can be a xenophobic, ageist jagoff all they want. I’m not engaging with them anymore. They’re the carpenter that thinks a hammer solves all problems, if we pretend they actually did anything with FPGA as their day job.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
I mean, you’re such an absolute know-nothing that it’s hilarious. Nice xenophobic bullshit sprinkled in too. Sorry, no university for me, let alone FPGA in university in the 90s. When my friends were in university they were still spending their time learn Java.
The world has changed since 30 years ago
Indeed. And people like me have been there every step of the way. Your ageism is showing.
and the future of integer operations is in reprogrammable chips
Yes, I remember hearing this exact sentiment 30 years ago. Right around the time we were hearing (again) how neural networks were going to take over the world. People like you are a dime a dozen and end up learning their lessons in a painfully humbling experience. Good luck with that, I hope you take it for the lesson it is.
All the benefit of a fab chip
Except the amount of wasted energy, and extreme amount of logic necessary to make it actually work. You know. The very fucking problem everybody’s working hard to address.
The very idea that you think all these companies are looking to design and build their own single purpose chips
The very idea that you haven’t kept up with the industry and how many companies have developed their own silicon is laugh out loud comedy to me. Hahahaha. TSMC has some news for you.
You’re only describing how ASIC is used in switches
Nope, I actually described how they are used in SoCs, not in switching fabrics.
That’s not how general use computing works in the world anymore, buddy
Except all those Intel processors I mentioned, those ARM chips in your iPhones and Pixels, the ARM processors in your macbooks. You know. Real nobodies in the industry.
It’s never going to be a co-proc in a laptop that can load models and do general inference, or be a useful function for localized NN.
Intel has news for you. It’s impressive how in touch you pretend to be in “the industry” but how little you seem to know about actual products being actually sold today.
Hey, quick question. Does nvidia have FPGAs in their GPUs? No? Hmm. Is the H100 just a huge set of FPGA? No? Oh, weird. I wonder why, since you in all your genuis has said that’s the way everybody’s going. Strange that their entire product roadmap shows zero FPGA on their DPUs, GPUs, or on their soon to arrive SoCs. You should call Jensen, I bet he has so much to learn from a know-it-all like you that has some amazing ideas about US universities. Hey, where is it that all these tech startup CEOs went to university?
Tell you what. Don’t bother responding, nothing you’ve said holds any water or value.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
I’m assuming you’re a big crypto fan
Swing and a miss.
because that’s about all I could say of ASIC in an HPC type of environment to be good for
Really? Gee, I think switching fabrics might have a thing to tell you. For someone that does this for a living, to not know the extremely common places that ASICs are used is a bit of a shock.
want a CHEAP solution
Yeah, I already covered that in my initial comment, thanks for repeating my idea back to me.
and ASIC is the most short-term
Literally being atabled to the Intel tiles in Sapphire Rapids and beyond. Used in every switch, network card, and millions of other devices. Every accelerator you can list is an ASIC. Shit, I’ve got a Xilinx Alveo 30 in my basement at home. But yeah, because you can get an FPGA instance in AWS, you think you know that ASICs aren’t used. lmao
e-wastey
I’ve got bad news for you about ML as a whole.
inflexible
Sometimes the flexibility of a device’s application isn’t the device itself, but how it’s used. Again, if I can do thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of integer operations in a tenth of the power, and a tenth of the clock cycles, then load those results into a segment of activation functions that can do the same, and all I have to do is move this data with HBM and perhaps add some cheap ARM cores, bridge all of this into a single SoC product, and sell them on the open market, well then I’ve created every single modern ARM product that has ML acceleration. And also nvidia’s latest products.
Woops.
When you get a job in the industry
I’ve been a hardware engineer for longer than you’ve been alive, most likely. I built my first FPGA product in the 90s. I strongly suspect you just found this hammer and don’t actually know what the market as a whole entails, let alone the long LONG history of all of these things.
Do look up ASICs in switching, BTW. You might learn something.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Now ask open AI to type for you what the draw backs of FPGA is. Also the newest slew of chips is using partially charged NAND gates instead of FPGA.
Almost all ASIC being used right now is implementing the basic math functions, activations, etc. and the higher level work is happening in more generalized silicon. You can not get the transistor densities necessary for modern accelerator work in FPGA.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Not at all useful something like running neutral networks
Um. lol What? You may want to do your research here, because you’re so far off base I don’t think you’re even playing the right game.
There’s a reason why datacenters don’t lease ASIC instances.
Ok, so you should just go ahead and tell all the ASIC companies then.
allaboutcircuits.com/…/intel-and-google-collabora…
datacenterfrontier.com/…/closer-look-metas-custom…
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7551392
Seriously. You realize that the most successful TPUs in the industry are ASICs, right? And that all the “AI” components in your phone are too? What are you even talking about here?
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Their “investments” in their largest customers are showing up as sales volume when they’re essentially giving products away. This coming year has four major companies coming to market with deadly serious competition, and the magic money investment in AI scams is drying up very quickly. So, if I was nvidia, doing what Jensen has been up to with the CEO-to-CEO customer meetings to arrange delivery timelines, and royally screwing over his most reliable channel partners, I’d hope with everything I have that the customers I have keep buying needlessly so the bubble never bursts.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
Dedicated ASIC is where all the hotness lies. Flexibility of FPGA doesn’t seem to overcome its overhead for most users. Not sure if it will change when custom ASIC becomes too expensive again, and all the magic money furnaces run out of bills to burn.
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 11 months ago:
“Please buy more of my hardware so nobody finds out how deep in trouble my company is. PLEASE.”