If he wants to succeed, he will need to reconsistute the board. That's a tough one since they appointed him, but otherwise it won't work. The type of transformation Intel needs to go through won't withstand a myopic, short term oriented bureaucracy.
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neelm commented on We put 1M files into DVC, Git-LFS, and Oxen.ai docs.oxen.ai/features/per... · Posted by u/sthoward
Hey all,
If you haven't seen the Oxen project yet, we have been building an open source unstructured data version control tool.
We were inspired by the idea of making large machine learning datasets living & breathing assets that people can collaborate on, rather than the static ones of the past. Lately we have been working hard on optimizing the underlying Merkle Trees and data structures with in Oxen.ai and just released v0.19.4 which provides a bunch of performance upgrades and stability to the internal APIs.
To put it all to the test, we decided to benchmark the tool on the 1 million+ images in the classic ImageNet dataset.
The TLDR is Oxen.ai is faster than raw uploads to S3, 13x faster than git-lfs, and 5x faster than DVC. The full breakdown can be found here.
https://docs.oxen.ai/features/performance
If you are in the ML/AI community, or rust aficionados, would love to get your feedback on both the tool and the codebase. We would love some community contribution when it comes to different storage backends and integrations into other data tools.
Have you measured the difference in speed in moving data to the GPU? For enterprise AI workflows this is a bottleneck to utilization, so improved speed can help reduce compute costs.
neelm commented on Manuscripts reveal the details of everyday life on the Silk Road historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/diodorus
This is a great book to learn about the Silk Road in particular Central Asia and the role Russia and UK played in its transformation. It reads like a Game of Thrones novel.
Interesting note is Russia colonized Central Asia with the end goal of invading India.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Struggle-Central-Kodansha/...
neelm commented on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public blog.cloudflare.com/paten... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
As a former patent examiner, I was struck by how low the payout for Project Jengo was. $125,000 for all people submitting prior art? (There were hundreds of submissions, so it's split among many people.) I would like to help out with such things and I think I have the experience to do it well, but even being a GS-7 patent examiner making $75,000 per year is a better deal! That's especially true given that Cloudflare's not only expecting people to find prior art, but to also write the legal arguments about why it reads on Sable's claims.
If they're serious about their prior art bounty program, they're going to need to increase the bounties. Actual patent search firms charge a lot more money, and even lowly paid bureaucrats make a lot more.
The payments could increase in the future as this approach becomes more successful and the ROI is better understood. Before this most companies would give into the trolls. Now there may be an increasing incentive to fight back. Few companies have the time, capital and governance freedom to do so.
Something like this is going to be needed to evaluate models effectively. Evaluation should be integrated into automated pipelines/workflows that can scale across models and datasets.
neelm commented on 60% of Millennials Earning over $100k Live Paycheck to Paycheck businessinsider.com/high-... · Posted by u/elorant
House prices house prices house prices house prices house prices.
When will the people who write these articles understand this?
I am convinced that today's house prices are tearing apart the fabric of society, without exaggeration.
I tend to agree. Cory Doctorow has a good essay on how the deck is stacked against people who don't own homes. This doesnt include some of the health effects of loneliness and other issues when people can't live close to their friends/loved ones.
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-rents-too-damned-high-1a04a5...
"The Big Sort" by Bill Bishop is a well researched book that explains the political fracturing of America.
The topic is explains is expressed visually in these two maps, which shows county election results from 1976 to 2004. http://www.thebigsort.com/maps.php
One of the point is that due to economy, mobility and choice, Americans decide to settle where people are like them the most, and that this results in deeper political boundaries, especially in the context of our electoral system.
One takeaway is that individually we are not all different, and a single Democrat and Republican in a room would likely come up with compromises on differing issues. However when on Democrat/Republican is in a group of many like themselves, they tend to take the most extreme view, on average.
The other is that there used to be more friendly relationships between senior senators on both sides of the aisle. They would gather regularly to have a few cocktails even if they have strongly differing views. These bonds made it possible for them to work as a bi-partisan team to get legislation passed. These relationships no longer exist the way they used to, and many politicians are much more transient in the time they spend in DC.
neelm commented on The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon Valley nytimes.com/2015/09/23/bu... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
If there is an adjustment in valuations across the industry,
it should not effect the public markets the way it did in 2000.
If these 59 unicorns go public and begin to loose money, they would effectively trigger a domino I believe.
Like the VCs who get in during the E/F rounds, the general public is also susceptible to similar behavior.
Yes that is true. You're exposing an assumption of mine which is that many of these companies will not necessarily IPO.
However even when they do, they will be a lot more operating history and financial information than what companies typically had in 2000. This is why you're seeing some recent tech IPOs that went public at a valuation lower than their last private round. An example of this is Hortonworks.
neelm commented on The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon Valley nytimes.com/2015/09/23/bu... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
So should this mean talent should be discounting equity when negotiating deals with still-private companies? If so, how much?
Yes. Not always easy to answer. Some factor of revenue growth, margins, how much capital the company has already raised, understanding the burn rate, how much has been spent vs dry powder, liquidation preferences assumption. Probably a lot I'm missing. There should be an easier way for a prospect to simulate a cap table with a simple set of assumptions.
neelm commented on A simple x86 assembler C++ template metaprogram blog.mattbierner.com/stup... · Posted by u/chesterfield
This type of approach works well in image processing, where you can use C++ for the repeatable, hierarchical patterns and assembly for optimizing some key loops.