Hotels in Dallas for at least 15 years have disuaded people from walking even a few blocks downtown because they equate all the homelessness with crime.
I found this funny because by far the biggest danger I have seen there are endless electric scooters littering the sidewalks.
The blog post is about using an NVIDIA-specific tensor core API that they have built to get good performance.
Modular has been pushing the notion that they are building technology that allows writing HW-vendor neutral solutions so that users can break free of NVIDIA's hold on high performance kernels.
From their own writing:
> We want a unified, programmable system (one small binary!) that can scale across architectures from multiple vendors—while providing industry-leading performance on the most widely used GPUs (and CPUs).
TLDR: In order to get good performance you need to use vendor-specific extensions that result in the same lock-in Modular has been claiming they will enable you to avoid.
The market tends to be pretty efficient for things like these. We’ve seen significant rapid adoption of several different ML solutions over the last decade, yet Mojo languishes. I think that’s a clear sign they aren’t solving the real-world pain points that users are hitting, and are building a rather niche solution that only appeals to a small number of people, no matter how good their execution may be.
Unfortunately a lot of tech is far too biased towards a small set of learnable skills that are sometimes hard to demonstrate in an interview setting, and the result is that a lot of good people don’t get offers for jobs that they could totally crush in.
In the 90’s when I was at Microsoft it was common for people to ask brain teasers and algorithm questions and expect people to be able to reason through the problems even if they walked in not knowing the particular algorithm or data structures involved. The interview was graded more on your thought process and ability to make forward progress with hints and less on getting to a correct answer in 25 minutes.
People were super harsh about attention to detail, e.g. you had to write code that would compile on the whiteboard and you would get penalized to some degree for making mistakes, especially if there were enough to make it clear that you hadn’t really been using the language you claimed to be proficient in.
I find it a little alarming how common these cult-of-personality posts show up on HN.
I’m not sure who is surprised by this but not me. When the news of his offer was posted a few weeks back it seemed 100% certain he would walk away accomplishing little or nothing lasting in that time.
I think it would be far more interesting to see posts on actual accomplishments, small or large, than posts focusing on the personalities involved.
I found this funny because by far the biggest danger I have seen there are endless electric scooters littering the sidewalks.