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tempdeadbeefon Goodbye, Lua (2016)

...”and now you have 2 problems!”

tempdeadbeefon Why Swift for TensorFlow?

"Swift for TensorFlow rethinks machine learning development ... I imagined, advocated for, coded the initial prototype and many of the subsystems after that; recruited, hired and trained an exceptional engineering team; we drove it to an open source launch and are continuing to build out and iterate on infrastructure."

tempdeadbeefon Unequal Cofounders

Can we get some examples where the dominant cofounder was the reason why the business did not succeed? These success stories reference generally smart and savvy executives.

tempdeadbeefon Tell HN: We're bringing back the “Work at a Startup” event on Saturday July 28

I’m working at my first startup. I really hope it’s my last one. Best wishes to those who want to live the dream!

tempdeadbeefon Summit Supercomputer Up and Running, Claims First Exascale Application

Intel knows better than anyone that they need to sell a roadmap, not a chip. Who’s going to put in a large advance order on a bunch of future silicon that may get cancelled as well?

tempdeadbeefon Summit Supercomputer Up and Running, Claims First Exascale Application

Omni-Path Gen1 has a Wolf River NIC and a Prairie River Switch.

tempdeadbeefon Summit Supercomputer Up and Running, Claims First Exascale Application

Bulk discount when currency miners will pay full price?

tempdeadbeefon Summit Supercomputer Up and Running, Claims First Exascale Application

What’s not inside the Summit Supercomputer speaks volumes: Intel.

Knights Landing/Hill/Mill is simply not compelling; Omni-Path was created as an infiniband knockoff that doesn’t beat Mellanox. The Cray Gemini/Aries interconnects can be found all over the top of the list (and the Intel acquisition of those interconnects happened in 2012), but you don’t see Omni-Path replacing anything.

Meanwhile, Nvidia comes out with NVLink and begins to build small clusters of GPUs connected by larger networks containing IBM and Mellanox. A vacuum was created, and IBM and Mellanox moved (back) in.