The uncertainty alone is already stopping people from making job offers this year in physics. Will the department of Energy keep funding fundamental physics research, for example? Will the NSF or NASA? No one knows. The rational response under these circumstances is to pull back on hiring.
Baratza also sell replacement parts for their grinders on their web site, and provide clear instructions on how to install them. I am delighted to support a manufacturer that builds repairable products.
But the interpretation of the journalist is the issue here. Comparing a cost optimized part (TPU v5e) against a performance optimized part (H100) and deciding that this makes Google "behind" is just incorrect.
No, it is not. That's the sparse fp8 flop number, but you need to ignore sparsity and compare bf16 flops not fp8 flops for the comparison the ancestor post is making.
Yes, we made this more formally supported recently.
We felt that Windows CPU support was important so everyone can run JAX, even if it's not always the most-accelerated version of JAX. And we got some great PRs from the community that helped fix a few open issues.
We don't support Windows GPU because we haven't had the engineer bandwidth to support it well.
We recommend WSL2 for GPU on Windows at the moment because that is a compromise: it allows CUDA support, without us having to support another release variant.
We don't release Windows GPU wheels at the moment, but that's because we're a small team and none of us use Windows personally. We welcome contributions!
(I verified that the Windows CUDA GPU support built as recently as two weeks ago, but I don't have the ability to test that it works.)
We recommend WSL2 because that's just using our existing Linux CUDA release.