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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Notes on: Married to HTTP/3

Tim Kadlec

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. Because of the alt-svc process, testing to compare HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 is tricky. Google Search with QUIC: p90 went down 6% on desktop, 5% on mobile. Here are my notes. What and Why?

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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2015 Favorites

Tim Kadlec

This year, it was about Apple’s influence over the standardization process after some fallout around the Pointer Events specification. Let’s Encrypt hit public beta and I walked through using their tool to simplify the process. 2012 Favorites. Client-side MVC’s Major Bug. AMP and Incentives. Other years.

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Big Project Build Times–Chromium

Randon ASCII

As always, this blog is mine and I do not speak for Google. billion lines of source code to be processed. That is, the main source files represent just 0.32% of the lines of code being processed. It’s not disk I/O, it’s repeated processing (preprocessing, parsing, lexing, code-gen, etc.) I learned how to use d3.js

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