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The chief investment officer has ultimate decision making power to approve or reject trades. If he wanted his firm to invest in VMWare, it was going to happen.


The stock purchase occurred in 2015. Hoeft wasn't CIO until 2021 it seems:

https://www.dodgeandcox.com/financial-professional/us/en/new...


He also does not have ultimate decision making power. The article notes that all decisions by their investment committee were a group vote.


Probably according to the poster herself


Then I guess that says everything about how seriously I should take her opinion.


To each their own


The numpy code can seem more accessible and easy to understand. Torch can look scary even though it's similar to numpy.


Seems like a good idea in theory, but wouldn't this lead to a spike in stolen devices?


If the expiry is ~2 years they would be long time resold for parts as it gives bigger immediate value.


Cool project.

Maybe a dumb question but what rendering method does Wprs use?


wprs doesn't do its own rendering, it passes through already-drawn image buffers from applications on the server side to the local compositor on the client side, which then composits/renders them however it wishes to.


What are the needs for other sinks besides a vector database?


Trying to understand what cases we would want to use FPGAs rather than GPUs.

Memory bandwidth for FPGAs seems worse, so for serving models don't GPUs still win out?


MIT's NLP class is also good

    https://www.mit.edu/~jda/teaching/6.864/


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