Jon Masters 🏴☠️
@jonmasters
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Troublemaker | Computer Architect | @Arm Servers Architect @Google | Previously @RedHat, @Nuvia_Inc | Runner | Author | All views my own | #ArmServers
Cambridge, MA, USA
Joined May 2008
Who out there would find a Computer Architecture blog or podcast interesting? What if I arranged to do one in collaboration with folks like @AMD, @Arm, @intelnews, @risc_v?
On some level I agree. But on another I don't. Many friends have entered software engineering without formally studying it, but they're *very* smart women and men who could easily understand this, if it was ever made accessible. I intend to make it more accessible to everyone.
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I mean think about it. What is a bunch of front end prediction and steering if not AI? Some folks used perceptrons already. And couldn’t you argue that the vector pipes in the backend are just AI accelerators?
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I’m actually surprised nobody has announced an “AI core” complete with an AI powered frontend and an AI powered backend. Missed marketing opportunity only adding AI, Max, Pro, and Ultra to products
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Competition is good 👍
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The onchain economy is growing fast. Transak powers the apps and stablecoins that make it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Certain others out there should learn from the early mistakes of the Arm ecosystem, perhaps faster than they have chosen to learn. But everyone also has an inner tension with the desire to reinvent the wheel and know better than the “other guys”
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Another great @asianometry video tonight on the failure of PowerPC in the Apple ecosystem. I actually used many examples of PowerPC when pushing for @Arm standardization 15 years ago, including the ways that it had failed to be learned from. Always learn from history 👍
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Our 7th generation TPU (Ironwood) is becoming generally available for Cloud TPU customers. It's got greatly improved performance and efficiency over previous generations! 🎉
Our 7th gen TPU Ironwood is coming to GA! It’s our most powerful TPU yet: 10X peak performance improvement vs. TPU v5p, and more than 4X better performance per chip for both training + inference workloads vs. TPU v6e (Trillium). We use TPUs to train + serve our own frontier
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Congratulations to all of our GRAMMY nominees! @tajmahalblues @kebmomusic @milesdavis @thebandGHOST @robertglasper @MissMargoPrice @TTChilders @imwithherband @Samantha_Fish @DeathBecomesBwy @danauerbach @hellswelles @billburr @DUCKWRTH @ConcordRecords @CraftRecordings
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This
People are constantly asking for a return of Silicon Valley, the answer is to just watch everything @KaiLentit posts
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Watched the final of bake-off and enjoyed a celebration of American democracy. Great evening 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🥰
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Added to my weekend/evening reading. What else are folks reading lately on AI? (Note I’m only interested in actual detail, not high level strategic puffery and the like)
After ~4 years building SOTA models & datasets, we're sharing everything we learned in ⚡The Smol Training Playbook We cover the full LLM cycle: designing ablations, choosing an architecture, curating data, post-training, and building solid infrastructure. We'll help you
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The Wire tracks every move in college sports—are you keeping up?
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My evening hacking is limited these days but a lot of it is going to first principles AI concepts and implementation. And math (calculus and linear algebra). The me of years ago would be surprised at the latter
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Shout out to all the fellow parents out there who are going to be extra tired on Sunday. I see you, and I’m gonna be living it too 😂
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The real question is whether I got on a list of folks to avoid knocking on their door again 🤔
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Historically, Linux. I once even had some religious folks come knock at my door and they failed to talk to me about Jesus, but they did leave with Linux CDs and after a lengthy discussion about Free Software
What’s a product/tool you regularly end up pitching to people after they saw you using it and became curious?
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To all the shoujo lovers who might've been yearning for something just a little more, Kodansha's Kiss & BE LOVE Spotlight is here just for you. From now until the 24th, check out which titles are included for limited time discounted volumes! 💖
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I was invited to a seasonal party and asked if I had any music requests. Apologies in advance but he’s really never going to give you up.
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Even I thought that, and I drink all the Cambridge Water I possibly can 😂
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Spicy sponsored article in @TheRegister from @Arm earlier 🌶️
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Fleet dashcams for commercial vehicles. Full integration with telematics for video exceptions, driver coaching and accident video. Live view. In &/or Out recording.
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