A popular post on r/wallstreetbets[1] summarizes Michael Burry’s thesis that CPI (consumer price index) is unaffected as long as inflation isn’t directly impacting consumers of the bag of goods that make up CPI. When there are fewer jobs, these consumers aren’t able to influence the prices of these goods (because they aren’t being paid inflated wages), and the metric commonly used to evaluate inflation is unchanged.
I've found the M1's 128bit instructions to be quite fast. My M1 MacBook Air can hit 90GFlops on a single core. My 2019 16" MacBook Pro is only 1.5 times faster at 135GFlops per core, despite double the vector width.
Note that this a layout trick and not an algorithmic one. An algorithmic speed up that is good for dense convolutions with small kernels is to use Winograd: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09308
For large kernels, implementing an FFT tends to help.
Also worth keeping in mind that many modern networks use depthwise separable convolutions, which are channel wise convolutions (skipping a reduction over the channels, which is a memory bound operation) followed by 1x1 convolutions (which are exactly matrix multiplications with no im2col step).
Why not use tensorflow.js or onnx.js and just do this in the browser/locally? Models have gotten good and this type of classification is very cheap these days. Hitting the network for such a small task is very much overkill
I wrote one article on Medium. I ended up writing my own little version using open source markdown rendering to see how hard it would be to roll my own, https://jott.live
From what I found, there is a lot of stuff Medium does well that is hard to recreate by one's self. Super simple features, like
- rich text editing that isn't ugly
- caching what you're currently working on
- tracking views and who has viewed your article
aren't easy to build and generally aren't worth it unless you write many many articles.
Although I don't like the aggressive account on-boarding and payment models for reading articles, Medium certainly makes life easy for writing articles.