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by basiccalendar74 2mo ago
Weights will be fetched 4-bit from memory, but compute happens in FP8 (W4A8) or BF16 (W4A16). This is still better than fetching 8-bit weights from memory. Both W4A8 and W4A16 schemes are supported by Hopper GPUs and commonly used to serve
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by basiccalendar74 2mo ago
can you show the math for your last statement?
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by basiccalendar74 5mo ago
it is only "right" statistically as in conforming to the same distribution. but there is no guarantee of exact same output.
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by basiccalendar74 11mo ago
A large cap stock increasing by 6x is not "unlikely to be achievable". Apple went from 1T to 4T valuation in just 6 years. why did Apple not award 500 billion to Tim Cook for this achievement?
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by basiccalendar74 11mo ago
by 'allocated', I mean allocated during the purchase decision. not that money is sent to respective company.
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by basiccalendar74 11mo ago
Passive investing is not an issue, but the default bias towards large cap equities like SP500, Nasdaq100. Passive investing through total market ETFs (like VTI) maintains the status quo. For example, if they are only two companies, say with
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by basiccalendar74 1y ago
Yes, the renewals are included
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by basiccalendar74 1y ago
curious how much of the growth is solely due to renewals since the cap on first time H1-Bs has stayed the same at 85k per year. the green card queue is severely backlogged for India (and to some extent China, Mexico). this causes people who
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by basiccalendar74 1y ago
This is normal for most state border in India. They mostly inspect commercial trucks
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
yes, it was in the 90s last August.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
Deepseek v3 needs 16 H100s or 8 H200 GPUs for inference.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
it is 23% of total energy. if you consider only acceleration energy, it will be much larger percentage, probably 80% (as in electric cars).
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
you can add an '/s' at the end next time to avoid ambiguity. :)
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
this is a well-studied tradeoff with immigration. high-skilled immigration helps US economy and innovation but low-skilled immigration depresses wages for citizens. you are making this distinction for a narrow case i.e. tech.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
yes
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
you invest in companies that would be biggest market cap in future.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
RSUs are treated as cash income at vest and taxed at same rates. Stock buybacks benefit general shareholders (i.e. beyond employees) since they push up stock value without causing a taxable event. The alternative is dividends which are imme
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
Nvidia was a $750B company in 2021 (pre-ChatGPT). Cause of gaming and all of pre-LLM machine learning using nvidia gpus.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
you are comparing a sedan and suv though. byd seal is a better comparison to model 3
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
you can sell index funds and buy stuff. you will mostly be ahead of inflation.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
not a data breach
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
one is a public company whose stock can be pumped up with "bullshit", other is not.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
how much did it change compared to 2019?
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
hate how all YoY commentary completely ignores recession years like 2022 or boom years like 2021.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
Forward PE (assuming same earnings as current quarter for full year) is around 40. Trailing PE can be misleading in high growth phases.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
credit card processors charge around 3%
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
each of us has apps we like and Tesla only supports a few apps. Ex. I use YouTube music but tesla only supports Spotify and Apple Music.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
main use case seems to be simulations in 2D, 3D or nD spaces. spaces -> spatial.
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
you seem to be comparing energy units with power units. 1 GW of installed solar capacity should be give about 1 TW hour of energy per year (365 days * 3 hrs per day as a conservative estimate).
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by basiccalendar74 2y ago
except META was $90 when all tech was in recession. TSLA is crashing even when all tech and broader market has been rising.

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