Posts by Mostly Simian

Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?

Anyone who says they have no moat...

...hasn't tried to get tensorflow/pytorch/spacy/whatever to work GPU accelerated on NVidia vs basically anything else. Just the other day I went on AMD's website to find out how to get pytorch to run GPU accellerated on AMD. They wanted me to downgrade Pytorch, use their specific branch, patch a bunch of other stuff, boot with a special kernel param etc. When I did that, it still didn't build. After hitting it with a stick a few times it built but didn't actually run gpu accelerated. This is pytorch - which is the most important library for ML.

The exact same thing on nvidia? Just builds. The latest pytorch, the standard upstream of everything. You don't have to do anything special- it just builds and runs GPU accelerated straight away.

If AMD or Intel or anyone else want to actually get serious they will stop putting out press releases and do the work that's necessary to get their shit to actually build and work with the 2 frameworks that actually matter. Until then I'll believe in the nvidia moat.

Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic

Other than wordpress?

I'm no particular fan of wordpress and certainly not of the way the CEO has behaved in this matter, but wordpress is GPL licensed. https://wordpress.org/about/

Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam

The article itself says that one claim before the court is that it is "categorically illegal to sell" these things in that state. ie it is part of a whole category of things that you are not permitted to sell.

Now that hasn't been established (that's part of what the case is for) but you can't just assume it either (or that claim would have immediately been thrown out).