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The Halo Effect 1 year ago

These HALO deals are in large part a consequence of Lina Khan style anti-trust enforcement making acquisitions more difficult.

ChatGPT Search 2 years ago

There's some truth to that, but Netflix, YouTube, etc seem to be OK with both ad-supported and paid ad-free versions, so I think the logic you described does not always dominate the considerations.

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I skimmed the paper but couldn't find it: What API did they use to write their kernels? I would have guessed SYCL since that's what Intel is pushing for GPU programming but I couldn't find any reference to SYCL in the paper.

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Machine Learning Research Engineer | Full-Time | On-site with VISA in Berkeley, CA

General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence. The Astera Institute is a non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Senior Software Engineer - Reinforcement Learning Environments https://jobs.lever.co/astera/b923ebee-6db2-43cf-9631-72c4351...

Machine Learning Research Engineer https://jobs.lever.co/astera/3396ac29-0682-4f9c-bb79-0666693...

Our stack: - Infrastructure: Bare metal servers running Kubernetes and Ray - Models written in PyTorch but we're experimenting with Jax - Environment game engine written in C++

A carefully shaped money-backed lever over the market is absolutely part of reason you never see DisplayPort inputs on consumer TVs, where HDMI group reigns supreme

What does this actually mean?

I believe both Google and Dropbox had a lot of Python code powering their products that they wanted to make faster. I don't think Microsoft has many large 1st party uses of Python. I think they're investing in it largely to gain developer mind-share. So for Google and Dropbox "use another language" was an option, for Microsoft it's not.

This is cool but following some of the links it seems like there are a lot of immature parts of the ecosystem and things will not "just work". See for example this bug which I found from the blog post: https://github.com/odsl-team/julia-ml-from-scratch/issues/2

Summarizing, they benchmark some machine learning code that uses KernelAbstractions.jl on different platforms and find:

* AMD GPU is slower than CPU

* Intel GPU doesn't finish / seems to leak memory

* Apple GPU doesn't finish / seems to leak memory

Would also be interesting to compare the benchmarks to hand-written CUDA kernels (both in Julia and C++) to quantify the cost of the KernelAbstractions layer.

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/ Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence. The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | engineering | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/ Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence.

The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently open roles: * Machine Learning Engineer * Software Engineer * System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/

Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence. The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently looking to hire a senior software engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/b923ebee-6db2-43cf-9631-72c4351...

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | engineering | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/ Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence.

The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently open roles:

- Machine Learning Engineer

- Software Engineer

- System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

- Office Manager

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/

Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Full-time | engineering | hybrid ONSITE VISA Berkeley, CA | https://astera.org/obelisk/

Obelisk is an Artificial General Intelligence laboratory that draws on neuroscience and brain architecture to create new models of adaptive intelligence.

The Astera Institute is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity.

We're a "Focused Research Organization" or "non-profit start-up" as described here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

Visa: As a non-profit research institute, we are exempt from the H1B visa cap so we are willing and able to hire qualified applicants regardless of your nationality.

Compensation: We pay less than e.g., Meta. We pay more cash than the average early VC-backed startup, but there's no equity, since we're a non-profit.

Currently open roles: * Machine Learning Engineer * Software Engineer * System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

You can apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/astera/