I see your point, but these specialized GPUs tend to cost much more than a motherboard. To get rid of all the serious bottlenecks, you'll probably be buying a lot of hardware anyway, it's not easy. Check out this device. When people are spending $100k USD on machine learning setups, they're willing to get custom motherboards.
A fourth reason: AI is hard to build, and takes a long time. It took the AlphaGo several years of work to build up the algorithms they used in Go. It may take them several more years to build a decent Starcraft AI.
What company is going to delay releasing the game for several years while the AI gets built?
If this offends you, it's time to get a health coach. A good one doesn't (necessarily) cost that much, and can be a tremendous help in losing weight. This is especially true for people who have emotional issues around food and get offended by it. This is not easy to do alone.
Scrum is formalized micromanagement with no flexibility for those employees who don't need constant short term goals.
That's a good way to put it. Good workers don't need to be constantly prodded like that. Any decent Agile program ("people before processes") will be designed to help train people who need constant prodding, so they turn into good workers.
In fact, we have climate data going back further than you apparently believe. There are direct measurements of sea temperatures from the mid-18th century (ships logs) and many proxy measurements, going back far, far, further.
The margin of error on those measurements are huge, and even in those there are rather large swings. Check out the historical rate of change in this reconstruction, or look at around 1100 in these reconstructions. The green in that second graph definitely shows a rate that changes more than our current rate. But again, the error bars are so huge in the reconstructions that a lot of questions remain: the science is definitely not settled there.
Anyone thinking they can just pick up a cloud provider's stack of tools overnight is in for a bit of a shock. Couple that with the fact that all the cloud vendors are releasing whole new features every week and existing features change almost as often.
The key is to keep things simple. You really don't need features like AWS Lambda, even though they are really fun. If you treat the cloud as a plain vanilla way to spin up and down servers, then you can build a robust, portable architecture that won't need to be rewritten at the whim of a vendor.
Scrum is pure shit though. That's usually what PHBs mean when they say 'Agile'.
The key realization that clarified the purpose of Scrum for me was that it is entirely designed to goad people to work. It is designed for people who will surf Slashdot all day, and not get things done. It uses both carrots and sticks, and constant prodding to get people who lack self-control to constantly refocus on the task at hand.
That is entirely why I hate it. For self-motivated people, it gets in the way.
the only team who know and/or care about security. For some that's a burden. But if you play your politics right, it can be a powerful source of leverage.
If you want to be a sysadmin these days, do the devops thing. Which basically means you are a sysadmin who knows how to write deploy scripts for AWS. Pays a lot, though.
At this point in time, you need to assume that any traffic stream not encrypted (and authenticated) is being intercepted, and we know that a lot of it actually is. Relying on wifi encryption to keep you safe is not going to do anything for you.
The reason this is big news is because 'security' auditors love wifi: it's an easy way to attack the system, and even if they're too incompetent to find any other vulnerabilities, they can still 'prove' to the CxO team that they've found a vulnerability and made the place more secure. They might not notice the open telnet port, but they got the public wifi!
A polynia was observed in the same location, in Antarctica's Weddell Sea, in the 1970s, according to Moore, who's been working with the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modelling (SOCCOM) group, based at Princeton University, to analyze what's going on. Back then, scientists' observation tools weren't nearly as good, so that hole remained largely unstudied. Then it went away for four decades, until last year, when it reopened for a few weeks. Now it's back again.
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At least you read them, so that's something.
Did you read the things linked to? Because I read yours.
I link to actual peer reviewed papers, and you link to Washington Post. Did you even read the things I linked to?
I see your point, but these specialized GPUs tend to cost much more than a motherboard. To get rid of all the serious bottlenecks, you'll probably be buying a lot of hardware anyway, it's not easy. Check out this device. When people are spending $100k USD on machine learning setups, they're willing to get custom motherboards.
A fourth reason: AI is hard to build, and takes a long time. It took the AlphaGo several years of work to build up the algorithms they used in Go. It may take them several more years to build a decent Starcraft AI.
What company is going to delay releasing the game for several years while the AI gets built?
If this offends you, it's time to get a health coach. A good one doesn't (necessarily) cost that much, and can be a tremendous help in losing weight. This is especially true for people who have emotional issues around food and get offended by it. This is not easy to do alone.
everything is happening faster than expected by all but the most pessimistic models. (Even most of them are being outpaced by reality.)
Wow no, the opposite, the models over-estimate, as multiple studies have shown. Graph.
Paypal in no way matches "Good partner/vendor"
Scrum is formalized micromanagement with no flexibility for those employees who don't need constant short term goals.
That's a good way to put it. Good workers don't need to be constantly prodded like that. Any decent Agile program ("people before processes") will be designed to help train people who need constant prodding, so they turn into good workers.
In fact, we have climate data going back further than you apparently believe. There are direct measurements of sea temperatures from the mid-18th century (ships logs) and many proxy measurements, going back far, far, further.
The margin of error on those measurements are huge, and even in those there are rather large swings. Check out the historical rate of change in this reconstruction, or look at around 1100 in these reconstructions. The green in that second graph definitely shows a rate that changes more than our current rate. But again, the error bars are so huge in the reconstructions that a lot of questions remain: the science is definitely not settled there.
Apply for other jobs then. There are plenty of devops jobs that don't require the dual role.
Anyone thinking they can just pick up a cloud provider's stack of tools overnight is in for a bit of a shock. Couple that with the fact that all the cloud vendors are releasing whole new features every week and existing features change almost as often.
The key is to keep things simple. You really don't need features like AWS Lambda, even though they are really fun. If you treat the cloud as a plain vanilla way to spin up and down servers, then you can build a robust, portable architecture that won't need to be rewritten at the whim of a vendor.
Scrum is pure shit though. That's usually what PHBs mean when they say 'Agile'.
The key realization that clarified the purpose of Scrum for me was that it is entirely designed to goad people to work. It is designed for people who will surf Slashdot all day, and not get things done. It uses both carrots and sticks, and constant prodding to get people who lack self-control to constantly refocus on the task at hand.
That is entirely why I hate it. For self-motivated people, it gets in the way.
the only team who know and/or care about security. For some that's a burden. But if you play your politics right, it can be a powerful source of leverage.
How do you leverage that?
Can't cloud do monolith?
Yes.
The performance bottleneck usually is and should be the database anyhow
Yes.
We finally found a good partner/vendor and were able to outsource the credit card portion of our online operations to them,
Who? Please tell us.
What does that even mean? Like, what can such a person do that a normal devops can't do?
If you want to be a sysadmin these days, do the devops thing. Which basically means you are a sysadmin who knows how to write deploy scripts for AWS. Pays a lot, though.
If the network is using TKIP there's a chance of content injection
No one does that.
It's not a Man in the Middle attack: it's a mitm surveillance. It lets you read (but not modify) some of the traffic going by.
At this point in time, you need to assume that any traffic stream not encrypted (and authenticated) is being intercepted, and we know that a lot of it actually is. Relying on wifi encryption to keep you safe is not going to do anything for you.
The reason this is big news is because 'security' auditors love wifi: it's an easy way to attack the system, and even if they're too incompetent to find any other vulnerabilities, they can still 'prove' to the CxO team that they've found a vulnerability and made the place more secure. They might not notice the open telnet port, but they got the public wifi!
If the side effects are "50% chance of death," it could still be better than the treatment options we have now.
Have we really reached the point where we have to patch key fobs?
That's weird, I learned touch typing and cursive.
A polynia was observed in the same location, in Antarctica's Weddell Sea, in the 1970s, according to Moore, who's been working with the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modelling (SOCCOM) group, based at Princeton University, to analyze what's going on. Back then, scientists' observation tools weren't nearly as good, so that hole remained largely unstudied. Then it went away for four decades, until last year, when it reopened for a few weeks. Now it's back again.