Jeff Dean
Person on 4 sites
Computer scientist at Google; co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner and TensorFlow and led the Google Brain project.
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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AI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks. (opens korrents.com)
“Yeah, I mean I feel like uh the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based longer running coding tasks and it seems pretty clear that they are now actually pretty capable and depending on exactly your…”
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Good ideas come from asking how you would solve a problem from first principles, rather than staying anchored on how it is solved today. (opens korrents.com)
“you know, because sometimes if you just squint at a problem and you think about not necessarily being anchored on exactly how that problem is solved today, but how you would solve it from first principles, you can come…”
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Inference, not training, is now the constraint, and specialized low-energy hardware will beat general-purpose GPUs and TPUs on latency. (opens korrents.com)
“Yeah, I mean it's a little different, but I think uh you're going to see more and more uh uh high performance and um low energy uh inference hardware systems because I think everyone is now realizing that inference is…”
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AI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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HP Z620 (opens rcmnd.app)
“At work, I mostly use an HP Z620 Workstation with an NVidia GPU card in it, running Linux, with a single 30" monitor.”
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MacBook Air (opens rcmnd.app)
“For portable uses and for giving talks, I rely primarily on a MacBook Air and sometimes on a Chromebook Pixel.”
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Nexus 9 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I have a Nexus 5X Android phone, and also use a Nexus 9 tablet for surfing the web and reading ebooks and technical papers.”
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HP Z620 (opens rcmnd.app)