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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events.

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

High Scalability

matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. You can now train CIFAR10 for just $0.06 Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. and ImageNet for $12.60 (4x less than in April!): [link].

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

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

High Scalability

Pflop/s : fully synchronous tensorflow data-parallel training; 3.3 Eli Bendersky : Just for fun, I rewrote the same benchmark in Go; two goroutines ping-ponging short message between themselves over a channel. They'll love you even more. The throughput this achieves is dramatically higher - around 2.8 It was a quiet week this week.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

I guessed that maybe ChatGPT only knew about v2 since it was trained on open-source code from before September 2021 (its knowledge cutoff date) and v2 was the dominant format before that date. To my surprise, it knew about v3 from its training data and generated a v3 manifest file for me in response.

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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

With extensive computational resources at their disposal alongside massive pools of information, developers can utilize these powerful tools to train ML models efficiently or run AI algorithms effectively by accessing stored datasets from anywhere through the internet connection provided by most reputable providers’ hosting services.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Converging Views.

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