I could conceive of a high-fallutin' fidget cube for your mind constructed from this technology.
I could also see it used for both a lie detector and a biofeedback tool to defeat its use as such.
But what really comes to mind is the final scene in Firefox wherein Mitchell Gant has to subvocalize in Russian to fire the rearward missile on the fancy Russian jet he's stolen.
If he's from China (and I'm assuming so), I'm not so surprised. It's a status thing culturally. I've had my ideas at work dismissed on the basis of my not attending an Ivy League school by the sort that spouts concepts like this.
Ergo we should immediately arrest all gunmakers because it's hard to think of another use for guns besides killing things or practicing the art of killing things, no?
GP100 supports FP16 FMAD
GP102 supports INT16 and INT8 MAD with 32-bit accumulation
Overall, not impressed with Stratix 10. It won't be cost effective, it's not much more power-efficient, and Volta will likely leapfrog it across the board within a year.
Wasn't this thing supposed to sample in late 2014? Back then it would have been a gamechanger at any price. Now, 1080Ti for $700 beats it across the board in throughput/$. NVIDIA's confusing messaging about using consumer versus professional HW is about the only thing that might make it viable for deep learning. Although I note the absence of training perf numbers here, just (apparently) inference.
Same thing happened to my cat, I took it to the vet to have a bladder stone removed, and I left with a 2 month terminal cancer diagnosis for her. At least she got a month of life without the bladder stone before she wasted away.
Stupid stoic cats indeed. The only way I could tell she had the bladder stone was when she started peeing outside the litter box. Miss her to this day.
When we adopted him, we were told he was about 7 years, but he had a really shitty mouth from living in the wild (and a sore above his tail and an eye infection), so we planned on getting his mouth fixed ASAP.
We brought him in, dropped about $2k on dental work, but during prep for the surgery, they discovered he had a kidney disease that was only common in older cats, like 12-15. So he was around twice as old as we thought he was.
So on to kidney-healthy food he went and we prepared to only have maybe a couple years with our wonderful boy, when during a routine check-up to see how the food was working, we discovered a large mass. Cancerous or not, it was right on his pancreas, and any operation would have left serious doubts of recovery, especially considering his state.
We had him for about three months after fixing his mouth. He was a lot happier for it, and we don't begrudge the money and improvement of his lifestyle, but damn, to go from "we're fixing your mouth so you can have a long and healthy life" to euthanizing the poor guy four months later really fuckin' stung.
If cats weren't so stoic we could maybe have done something about it while it was still small enough to safely operate.
"so any one client 'firing' you is suddenly not a huge thing since your income is distributed across multiple clients"
For whom you have to spend roughly 1/3 of your time on collection because companies don't get rich writing a lot of checks. If it fits your psyche, great. Not everyone is like you.
As I said in another comment, part of that is covered by proper payment structuring and IP transfer provisions while the rest is covered by having long-term clients that you have a good relationship with.
