zgao

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by zgao 3mo ago
There is no real way to prevent this, but there are ways to increase the cost of doing so. For example, one level of obfuscation is, OAI could internally run synthesis and adopt a “netlist-in” model in which Broadcom gets a netlist - a desc
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by zgao 3mo ago
The typical way a chip effort in a non-chip company works is that the "design" is the RTL (e.g. SystemVerilog that defines the behavior of the chip) and then this is handed off to a third-party "design house" (such as Br
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by zgao 3mo ago
Yes, my statement was not about the quality or performance of the chip -- simply the tapeout timeline that was stated, by itself.
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by zgao 3mo ago
Chip CEO here. It really depends on what "design" or "production" means. Does "design" mean that the design was complete? Does "production" mean the beginning of production, i.e. tapeout? If measuring
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by zgao 4y ago
Hey, tangentially- I am CEO of Fabric, a company building orders of magnitude faster hardware accelerators for next-gen cryptography on the latest fab technologies. Would love to share notes if you're up for it!
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by zgao 4y ago
Founder of AlphaSheets here -- we built this back in 2015 and developed it for 3 years. We built Python, R, SQL and full excel formula/hotkey/format/conditional formatting/ribbon compatibility. It was a long slog! I wish
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by zgao 5y ago
I always wondered what special genius people saw in Girard. The observation that people want what each other want is not new and doesn't require philosophical genius to observe -- "keeping up with the Joneses" is what it&#x27
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by zgao 7y ago
They started out doing it optically, then moved away from it. I heard about it in 2016, so I know.
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by zgao 7y ago
The title is wrong about it being an integrated design. Here's an excerpt from the paper abstract: "This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to large (N≳106) networks and
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by zgao 7y ago
Caveat: the paper mainly focuses on the "standard quantum limit" which is the fundamental photon energy needed for the operations. If other things are taken into account (for example, modulation energy for the weights in this homo
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by zgao 8y ago
You can go to Groq.com -- that startup claims to have 125fj per flop (and each mac is two flops thanks to marketing logic). Started by 8 out of 10 founding TPU team members.
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by zgao 8y ago
I don't mean to be too negative here, but this is hardly a new development, so can someone clarify the novelty in this paper? Neural nets have been extensively demonstrated in memristor-based architectures [1] and several memristor-bas
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by zgao 9y ago
Although probably not sufficient for AGI, network architecture is essentially guaranteed to be important, because of both ample empirical evidence of the importance of architectures and ample reason, from facts about numerics, to believe th
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by zgao 9y ago
Exactly this. Shameless plug: I am a founder of AlphaSheets, a company working on solving all of these issues. It's quite scary (building a spreadsheet is like boiling an ocean) but our mission feels very meaningful, we're well-fu
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by zgao 9y ago
Shameless plug: I'm a founder of Alphasheets, a company seeking to solve problems like these! I couldn't resist replying after seeing these comments. We make a collaborative (Google Sheets style) spreadsheet with Python and R runn
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by zgao 10y ago
Is this basically Mode for R?
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by zgao 10y ago
Frontend Developer (React) | AlphaSheets | up to $150k (depends on level of hire and equity tradeoff) + equity | Contractors welcome; remote or onsite | Bay Area What we're building: Collaborative, programmable spreadsheets. Think Goog
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by zgao 10y ago
Senior Backend Developer (Haskell) | AlphaSheets | up to $150k (depends on level of hire and equity tradeoff) + equity | Bay Area We're building the future of spreadsheets: collaborative, programmable in multiple languages, and highly
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by zgao 10y ago
Also if you want shared sheets.
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by zgao 10y ago
CEO of AlphaSheets here! Javascript is our frontend, but the backend is Haskell :)
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by zgao 10y ago
Senior Backend Developer (Haskell) | AlphaSheets | up to $150k (depends on level of hire and equity tradeoff) + equity | Bay Area We're building the future of spreadsheets: collaborative, programmable in multiple languages, and highly