inoop

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by inoop 4d ago
I spent some with reverse-engineering a neural network accelerator (NNA) inside a Chinese WiFi camera SoC: https://github.com/inoop/t41-pluto . I used Claude to reverse-engineer the hardware, and then implement an ONNX
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by inoop 1y ago
Respectfully, it's not up to other people to disprove your toy theory. The question you're asking here can very easily be answered with a quick Google search. The short answer is that they are _very_ different controls, that looks
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by inoop 1y ago
A hallmark of well-designed and well-written software is that it is easy to replace, where bug-ridden spaghetti-bowl monoliths stick around forever because nobody wants to touch them. Just through pure Darwinism, bad software dominates the
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by inoop 1y ago
I just wanted to give a huge shout-out to the excellent zune-jpeg library: https://github.com/etemesi254/zune-image/tree/dev/crates/zun... Most Python libraries like PIL rely on some flavor of the v
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by inoop 2y ago
As always, it depends a lot on what you're doing, and a lot of people are using Python for AI. One of the drawbacks of multi-processing versus multi-threading is that you cannot share memory (easily, cheaply) between processes. During
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by inoop 2y ago
"This is actually good for Bitcoin"
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by inoop 2y ago
That has been my experience, yes. You need one full-time manager, one full-time on-call/pager duty (usually a rotation), and then 4-6 people doing feature development, bug fixes, and operational stuff (e.g. applying security patches, t
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by inoop 2y ago
The cost doesn't suddenly drop to zero once development is done. Typically a system of this complexity and scale requires constant maintenance. You'll need someone to be on-call (pager duty) to respond to alarms, you'll need
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by inoop 2y ago
> you could get yourself 25 top-notch engineers without AI PhD Not in the US though. According to levels.fyi, an SDE2 makes ~275k/year at Uber. Hire 25 of those and you're already at $6.875MM. In reality you're going to ha
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by inoop 2y ago
> I'm guessing they know a lot about their costs, and you know very little. I'm curious what makes you believe the OP doesn't know about cost? They might be director-level at a large tech company with 20+ years experience
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by inoop 2y ago
I'd be curious as well to see a more complete cost-benefit analysis, and I'd be especially interested in labor cost. We don't know how much time and head count Uber committed to this project, but I would be impressed if they
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by inoop 2y ago
> In 2012 we had Internet deployment of fully decentralised machine learning (SGD) Peer-to-peer training of the next big LLM when? :)
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by inoop 3y ago
Kayak lets you do it, although there's no guarantee the airline won't swap out the plane from under you after you've completed booking.
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by inoop 3y ago
You may not have ever experienced this yourself, but it's a known cultural phenonemon. Here's a New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/technology/personaltech/a... >
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by inoop 3y ago
As a European living in the US, it's been baffling to me. Everywhere else in the world people use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. This iMessage green/blue bubble nonsense just isn't a thing outside the US.
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by inoop 3y ago
AWS has its own line of AI accelerators called Inferentia that offers reduced cost versus Nvidia, but it's often a pain to make stuff work because everything is written for CUDA. Inferentia team spends a lot of time porting OS models t
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by inoop 3y ago
> Decoding DCT to RGB is essentially an 8x8 stride 8 convolution -- it seems wasteful to perform this operation on CPU for data loading Then why not do it on the GPU? Feels like exactly the sort of thing it was designed to do. Or alterna
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by inoop 3y ago
> OceanGate had previously taken the Titan to this depth to visit the Titanic. So, it was "proven" This reminds me of an old joke about an optimist who falls from a 40 story building. As he passes the 30th story he thinks to hi
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by inoop 3y ago
Damn those are some good names
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by inoop 3y ago
Maybe also take a look at the Mister project if you haven't already. Same idea of using FPGA to reproduce old hardware but broad support for many home computers, game consoles, and arcade boards
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by inoop 4y ago
If you're in NYC and want to grab lunch let me know
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by inoop 4y ago
+1 I work at a bigcorp and have had great mentors, and now that I'm an old fart, I try my best to mentor others. It's a huge plus to have access to a large community of talented engineers
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by inoop 5y ago
> the JVM needs to be well tuned You don't need to tune it to beat the pants out of a PHP-based solution. Honest question, have you ever owned a large-scale, low-latency service in both Java and PHP, and have you compared latency
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by inoop 5y ago
India and China go in a different bucket, and it often takes 6+ years for the exact same process. Sucks hard :|
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by inoop 5y ago
I'm assuming that based on your username, you are an EU citizen? If so, apply for a job with any large US based company in one of their European offices. For example, Google in Zurich or Dublin, Amazon in London, etc. After one year, y
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by inoop 5y ago
I'm Dutch and moved to the US in early 2016 to work for a bigtech company. Compensation here is about 3x what I would make back home. After working here for just six years I could move back home and buy a house outright with the money
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by inoop 5y ago
They are: https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-amazon-hikes-star...
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by inoop 5y ago
You said: > Hell, there's still a lot of 5.x deployments out there that work just fine. forgive my ignorance but I was under the impression 5.x isn't actively maintained anymore?
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by inoop 5y ago
> Great so let's just leave all of the legacy terribleness in it. Let's not address all the quirks and horribleness that sounded like a good idea at the time. Let's not let the language evolve. Nobody is saying that. The g
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by inoop 5y ago
> Because, suprisingly, Noone is forcing you to update immediately! Excuse me, where do you work? Do you not have a company policy about not using software that isn't actively receiving security updates?

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