Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New $2,100 Huawei phone has three rear cameras and two finger print readers. Did I mention it is $2,100?
Did you also mention that it is probably spying for the Chinese government?
Has any reliable source showed concern about this? This is a real question. I've heard this a bit, but the only source of it is an agency that I literally have zero trust in and consider an enemy of the state. So if the bad guys are claiming this is bad, does that in any way make it likely to be bad?
If my own intuition counts as a reliable source, then yes. People from all sides have been touting Huawei stuff to me for years, but I have always remained skeptical. I don't give a flying f@ck what the US gub'mint has to say about them, I have had my doubts for a number of years now.
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@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New $2,100 Huawei phone has three rear cameras and two finger print readers. Did I mention it is $2,100?
Did you also mention that it is probably spying for the Chinese government?
Has any reliable source showed concern about this? This is a real question. I've heard this a bit, but the only source of it is an agency that I literally have zero trust in and consider an enemy of the state. So if the bad guys are claiming this is bad, does that in any way make it likely to be bad?
If my own intuition counts as a reliable source, then yes. People from all sides have been touting Huawei stuff to me for years, but I have always remained skeptical. I don't give a flying f@ck what the US gub'mint has to say about them, I have had my doubts for a number of years now.
Where do the doubts come from, though? I don't know anything about Huawei that would give be cause for concern. That's not the same as have any information that they are safe, of course. But it seems a really random vendor to have concerns about if there isn't some source for them.
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And did we mention 8x 100Gb/s NICs?
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who needs something like this?!
I want it, sure, but who uses these systems?
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who needs something like this?!
I want it, sure, but who uses these systems?
Machine learning, simulations. They can't make systems big enough for those workloads.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who needs something like this?!
I want it, sure, but who uses these systems?
Machine learning, simulations. They can't make systems big enough for those workloads.
That makes sense as I didn't even consider AI type scenarios.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who needs something like this?!
I want it, sure, but who uses these systems?
Machine learning, simulations. They can't make systems big enough for those workloads.
That makes sense as I didn't even consider AI type scenarios.
The new Tensor cores on top end Pascal and Volta GPUs are specifically focused on machine learning, rather than on rendering. So they are focusing heavily on that workload.
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Microsoft is using machine learning as a focus for their next generation video game toolkits, too.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New $2,100 Huawei phone has three rear cameras and two finger print readers. Did I mention it is $2,100?
If the $2100 model wasn't enough. How about this Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS at $2220!
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12590/2220-usd-smartphone-the-porsche-design-huawei-mate-rs
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-911-hacked-20180327-story.html
Ouch. And really weird that they feel the need to call it a CAD system.
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