I like the nipple rubbing!

“I am a transhumanist because I do not have enough hubris not to try to kill God.”

This essay is excellent - gets a little bogged down in rubbing your nose in enough examples, but has enough depth of concept to compensate.

I’d like a Postgres bake off. Playing against Spark on a 24Gb dataset seems silly, too.

1. It really isn't the kind of problem we are trying to solve. 2. Last time we did this we were over 100x faster and so we said. Ok its slow as &#@%.

We are more interested in trying to compare to tools that can provide workflows which are:

A. I have a ton of data in S3, HDFS, cloud storage solutions, centralized NFS B. I want to use the GPU to perform learning, graph analytics, classification, etc. I want to get from A to B as fast as possible utilizing the same resources for A that I will need to complete steb B.

As for size we will be releasing much larger workloads for GTC and are working hard on finishing up our work to make the workloads public and reproducible as well as releasing a new version of our engine where you can run much much larger workloads through distribution.

I’d go for Moloch rather than Hanlon. This kind of zero-value race for the bottom feeders is too wasteful and tragic.

I’ve upvoted this, but want to underline that this book is truly excellent.

Delegate ruthlessly. Get a 2IC/COO to deal with running operations, concentrate on strategy, people, ensuring your organisation is the right shape, value add.

When I was a direct report for a CIO of a fairly large multinational (40+ countries) my boss spent most of his time on the road travelling - he had a gruelling job. He was completely hands off when to technology - although he was actually fairly technical.

I can’t believe Github’s renderer fails on ^M.

I sent a feature request in 2016 to GitHub to support Mac line endings, it was "passed to the team for future improvements". Not holding my breath.

This doesn't bode well for my wish to list file sizes...

Yea they could emulate the carriage return and only show a mangle of lines...

I "won"! I now feel very very sad.

Source code escrow is standard for this sort of vendor contract.

And then the viva64 "book" is basically a list of open source projects with bugs in spotted by Karpov's pet static analyser. Very little of excitement to see here, just a grab bag of gotchas - pretty much like C++ itself. /runs for cover