From where I left I’m not the kind of person that develops a strong attachment to their own work. When I decided to leave Redis, about 1620 days ago (~ 4.44 years), I never looked at the source code, commit messages, or anything related to Redis again. From time to time, when I needed
The Google Willow thing Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should We Feel?” and also closing the conference via an Ask-Us-Anything session with John Preskill. (If you’re at Q2B, reader, come
Raspberry Pi 500 uses QMK Firmware for built-in keyboard Raspberry Pi 500 uses QMK Firmware for built-in keyboard I mentioned in my Pi 500 review Raspberry Pi is dogfooding their own microcontroller in the new Pi 500. An RP2040 sits next to the keyboard ribbon cable connector, and
I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
The Pi 500 is much faster but lacks M2 The Pi 500 is much faster, but lacks M.2 Raspberry Pi this morning launched the Pi 500 and a new 15.6" Pi Monitor, for $90 and $100, respectively. They’re also selling a Pi 500 Kit, complete with a Power Supply,
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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