I said that I interpreted the previous comment as sarcastic so I could be called out if it wasn't. The author hasn't yet disagreed. And I think sarcasm is warranted in a space that has witnessed so many bad acquisitions.
On software at AMD; if my world is so simple, please explain where I am wrong.
I never said this was a simple solution, I implied there was some overlap needed skills.
ROCm sucks, it has licensing and apparently use issues. It has had performance issues, and that is getting better. It isn't in a lot of the places it needs to be where it could be considered a default choice.
Apparently, Silo uses AMD stuff to do ML work. Apparently, they have domain experts in this space. It seems likely that getting input from such people could positively influence the ML and hardware.
Of course there will be complexity in this process. This is a 600 million dollar deal involving thousands of people (not just Silo employee, but AMD people, regulators, stakeholders, etc). I don't think anyone is implying this is simple.
I only wanted to say, "This isn't obviously dumb".
I'm curious about these "licensing issues" you speak of. From what I've seen, the vast majority of the ROCm components are MIT licensed, with a few bits of Apache license and NCSA Open Source License mixed in. Could you possibly elaborate on that?
It has been a while, but last time I got the ROCm drivers and some other items that I needed from them there was a really weird proprietary license. That might not be the case anymore my information might be stale.
I hoard "random sentences" because I see my time as valuable. Instead of processing the same thoughts over and over and concluding the same thing (or worse, the wrong thing and failing as I previously have), I just write things down. Recalling notes on my computer takes seconds at most, where I may have to think about something for minutes or hours to come to the same conclusion.
Why have a door? Remove it. You're going to enter anyway, your time is more valuable.
But seriously; what do you write to have this opinion? Just random, pointless drivel fit for Twitter?
Having some—any—kind of history has saved my ass a lot of work, and time in the process, by simply having either a restore point or earlier reference. Notes that were removed, but helped me remember something relevant or useful at the time, that I couldn't directly remember, but remembered having written at least something about.
Heck, even Office's history in documents have helped for restoring from errors caused by collaboration, or whatever else. And sure, I don't like Microsoft, and a lot of it is their fault for just shitty in-document synchronization, but a lot of it hasn't been too.
Advantage is a false sense of security and predictability of future. False sense cause your human brain has no idea whether the current situation you are in is good for you long term. If just blindly assumes so.
Disadvantage is you ruin your life by living a repetitive life. Probably the #1 regret in death bed.
The "regret in death bed" thing is a modern preoccupation, as is novelty seeking. Those are not that organic either, they're cultural trends starting from books, movies, etc., that later got marketed and sold to people by the advertising/life coaching/self help industries too.
For millions of years of evolutionary history the main concern was making it alive, having a family, building a homestead, putting food on the table, keeping dangers (including enemies) off, and so on.
If you had those things, the "current situation" was good. They didn't aspire to get a promotion, start a startup, or become a travel vlogger.
The "novelty seeking" has been the exception, and even the novelty seekers didn't consider it a primarily purpose of one's life.
Is there a reason why memory was used and not compute power as an example? I don't understand how cherry picking random examples from past explain future of AI. If he think business needs does not exist he should explain how he arrived at that conclusion instead of a random iPod example.
It's an analogy. He's making the point that even though something can scale at an exponential rate, it doesn't mean there is a business need for such scaling
This. The scaling of compute has vastly different applications than the scaling of memory. Shows once again that people who are experts in a related field aren't necessarily the best to comment on trendy topics. If e.g. an aeroplane expert critiques Spacex's starship, you should be equally vary, even though they might have some overlap. The only reason this is in the media at all is because negative sentiment to hype generates many clicks. That's why you see these topics every day instead of Rubik's cube players criticising the latest version of Mikado.
Not quite science, but this quote from Conan the barbarian is, IMO, nonetheless relevant:
"I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content." ― Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast
Your original comment is hard to not be offended by. You made a bold (and false) claim that Linux is ugly (try browsing r/unixporn sometime; it's chock-full of amazing setups) and in the same breath referred people to using Apple products that are known for their cult-like following, not to mention they're diametrically opposed to much of what Linux stands for (free software, customizability, etc.).
There is no could have been in reality. Laws of physics was not broken since Slack was invented. You are reducing a complex system of economics, technology, market, phycology, politics etc into a sentence "could have been". It sounds smart and logical but it has no existential relevance.
Well maybe it's a good thing. You live in the present instead of an imaginary past. The past is gone no matter how much your mind tries to come up with images. The memories no longer have any existential significance apart from causing you trauma, generating false sense of pride, etc. Helps you to do and try new things instead of relying on a past you once lived and no longer exists.
I do tend to think I live a bit more in the present because of aphantasia. However, I also do have an experiential memory. It's not great, and largely not visual, and to the degree there are any visual elements they're pretty useless, like burnt fragments of a Polaroid. I think you're kinda having a hard time imagining this condition.
