AmpereOne Cores are the new MHz AmpereOne: Cores are the new MHz Cores are the new megahertz, at least for enterprise servers. We’ve gone quickly from 32, to 64, to 80, to 128, and now to 192-cores on a single CPU socket! Amazon built Graviton 4,
Podcasts Update (Dec. 9): For those who still haven’t gotten enough, check out a 1-hour Zoom panel discussion about quantum algorithms, featuring yours truly along with my distinguished colleagues Eddie Farhi, Aram Harrow, and Andrew Childs, moderated by Barry Sanders, as part of the QTML’2024 conference held in Melbourne (although, it
First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs via a new llm-bedrock plugin
Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning tl;dr Raspberry Pi engineers tweaked SDRAM timings and other memory settings on the Pi, resulting in a 10-20% speed boost at the default 2.4 GHz clock. I of course had
Thanksgiving I’m thankful to the thousands of readers of this blog. Well, not the few who submit troll comments from multiple pseudonymous handles, but the 99.9% who don’t. I’m thankful that they’ve stayed here even when events (as they do more and more often) send me into a spiral of doomscrolling
Targeted Use of GNU Tools on macOS using direnv Working with bash scripts on macOS often leads to an interesting predicament. MacOS ships with the BSD variants of sed, date, base64 and others that diverge just enough from their GNU counterparts to cause incompatibilities. Take sed for example: # GNU (Linux) version - works fine sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file.txt # macOS version -
Storing times for human events
Home Assistant Yellow - instant 2x IoT speedup with CM5 Home Assistant Yellow - instant 2x IoT speedup with CM5 In a win for modular, private, local IoT, I just upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to a Compute Module 5 this morning,
Raspberry Pi CM5 is 2-3x faster drop-in upgrade mostly Raspberry Pi CM5 is 2-3x faster, drop-in upgrade (mostly) The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is smaller than a credit card, and I already have it gaming in 4K with an eGPU, running a Kubernetes cluster, and I even
Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSVJSON files in your terminal