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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018

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— Ivo Mägi (@ivomagi) November 27, 2018. photons ever emitted in the universe; 0.00% : blockchain success rate; Quotable Quotes: @math_rachel : About half of > 200 people seeking visas for @black_in_ai #NeurIPS2018 were denied. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

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BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

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8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 The scalability of a native graph database. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. million : concurrent Fortnite players; 6.2 Now it runs on 3 (THREE!)

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 9th, 2018

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This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen. Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. That central chip ties together the 7nm CPU chiplets, creating a massively scalable architecture. This industrializes and 10x existing processes and creates new ones.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

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David Gerard : Companies are shocked to realise that blockchain — an expensive and useless idea that has soaked up millions of dollars for zero return — may not be a good technology. “Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year. And there’s no stigma around it. million (US $3.6

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

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kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. Blockchain is a solution in search of problems. kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. You want to talk scale? We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. 2+ million CPU cores.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 15th, 2018

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work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley. Hungry for more?

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