Month: November 2024

TPUv6, Alphafold, OOB design, OpenInterpreter, Walkie-Talkies, Zero Trust SSH, Videos, Finger Strength

Google TPUv6 Analysis: “… cloud infrastructure and which also is being tuned up by Google and Nvidia to run Google’s preferred JAX framework (written in Python) and its XLA cross-platform compiler, which speaks both TPU and GPU fluently.” So I guess this is a cross-compiler for CUDA?

“The A3 Ultra instances will be coming out “later this year,” and they will include Google’s own “Titanium” offload engine paired with Nvidia ConnectX-7 SmartNICs, which will have 3.2 Tb/sec of bandwidth interconnecting GPUs in the cluster using Google’s switching tweaks to RoCE Ethernet.” So again custom ethernet tweaks for RoCE, I hope it makes to the UEC? Not sure I understand having a Titanium offload and a connectx-7, are they not the same?

Alphafold: It is open to be used. Haven’t read properly the license.

OOB Design:

Open Interpreter: The next step in LLMs is to control/interact with your system.

In my laptop fails because I have the free version 🙁 need to try a different one, but looks promising!

open-interpreter main$ interpreter --model gpt-3.5-turbo

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To use gpt-4o (recommended) please provide an OpenAI API key.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

To use another language model, run interpreter --local or consult the documentation at docs.openinterpreter.com.                                                                                                                                                   

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Tip: To save this key for later, run one of the following and then restart your terminal.                                                                                                                                                                          
MacOS: echo 'export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key' >> ~/.zshrc                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Linux: echo 'export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key' >> ~/.bashrc                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Windows: setx OPENAI_API_KEY your_api_key                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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▌ Model set to gpt-3.5-turbo                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Open Interpreter will require approval before running code.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Use interpreter -y to bypass this.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Press CTRL-C to exit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

> what is my os?
Traceback (most recent call last):

Walkie-Talkies: Out of James Bond world.

Zero Trust SSH. From Cloudflare. And this video I watched some months ago (and it is already 4y).

Finger Strength: I follow similar protocol, although not everyday, for warm up and I think it works. I am not getting that super results but at least my fingers are stronger…. and I am not getting injuries!!!! \o/

Cisco AI/ML DC Infra Challenges: I am not quiet fan of Cisco products but this is a good overview.

Key points:

  • Create different networks (inter-GPU, front-end, storage, mgmt),
  • Inter-GPU:
    • – non-blocking, rails-optimized (fig.3)
  • Inter-GPU challenges:
  • – Packet loss: Use PFC +ECN (flow aware)
  • – Network delay: “Rich” QoS – proprietary QoS to handle mice flows. Needs good telemetry
  • – Network congestion: Some kind of communication switch-NIC
  • – Non-uniform utilization: Most vendors have something proprietary here, some dynamic LB and static-pinning?
  • – Simultaneous Elephant flows with large bursts: dynamic buffer protection (proprietary)

Videos:

  • Raoul Pal: Crypto Investment. His company. Go long run, invest a bit you can lose
  • Scott Galloway: Interesting his political analysis. Trump won and it seems Latins voted massively for him.
  • Bruce Dickinson: I read Bruce’s books some years ago so I was surprised to see him in a podcast. Need to finish it.
  • Eric Schmidt: I read one of his books some time ago so again, surprised to find him in a podcast. Still think Google has become evil and most of the good things he says are gone.
  • Javier Milei: I am not economist but it “seems” things are improving in Argentina. He is a character nonetheless. Need to finish it.
  • Matthew McConaughey: His book was really refreshing, and seeing him talking is the same. Raw, real.
  • Alex Honnold: You have to try hard if you want to do hard things.

Membrillo

Last Saturday while walking in the neighbourhood, I saw quince and decided to buy some to make membrillo, as it has been a long time since last time I did it. And I noticed I didn’t have a recipe for that online. I used to follow the recipe from this book, but honestly, it was never like the one my mum used to make when I was a kid.

So I decided to find a video and try again as I don’t have the book with me. A decided for this one as I liked her video about Tortas 🙂

Ingredients

  • 4 quince/membrillo – 850g aprox after boiling
  • 500g sugar
  • Juice from one lemon
  • 1 or 2 glass jars. Cleaned with boiling water

Process

  • Peel the quince, remove the core as it bitter. You will think that you are removing a lot but that is how it is. Chop in pieces
  • Put the quince in a big pan/pot. I don’t have express cooker. Cover in water and boil until it is soft. Use a knife, you should cut through the quince with ease.
  • Drain the quince and weight it. Mine was 850g so I added 500g white granular sugar. Some other recipes add 1:1 quice/sugar but I didnt want to add that much.
  • Add the juice of one lemon
  • With a hand mixer, make a pure .
  • Then starts the longest part. At low heat (use a glove!!!) start stirring the mix until it gets a dark orange color. Be sure it doesn’t stick! Keep in mind that it has a lot of sugar… and it is like molten lava when cooking! At the beginning the mix is white/yellow-ish, I think after 1h, it started to change the color and it is when you have to be very alert and stir often (each minute) to avoid burning.
  • When you use the wooden spoon to make a line and it doesn’t come together, it should be ready
  • Remove from heat and poor it in glass containers if possible, if not plastic.
  • Let it cool down during the night at least.

And this is the result from this morning. This is like it was when a kid!!!!

Borges

In my last day in Argentine last year, I bought a small book from Borges as I wanted some memory of my trip. I think it is poetry but I dont understand it. I have never been able to read poetry, even in my mother tongue.

The book contains “Fervor de Buenos Aires”, “Luna de enfrente” and “Cuaderno San Martin”.

Maybe once day i will be able to capture the beauty of this type of literature. As a teenager, I remember one teacher explaining us some poems from Pedro Salina’s “La voz a ti debia” And it was really nice, I still go the book, pending to read it…. nearly 30y in the waiting 🙂

Hyperfocus

I guess I am bit obsessed with personal performance, how to make more and better in the same or less amount of time. And this is another book about the subject. I read it as ebook so didn’t take notes.

Although the main topic is how to focus and make the most of it, the second part is about “scatterfocus” that was unexpected.

Focus produces, scatter invents/solves. They follow different steps to achieve that state.

And I think focus is gold. Difficult to focus with so much distraction everywhere. I like to work in the office… because it is mainly empty and I have few distractions there but looks like everything is about attention. It is the real commodity. Everybody is fighting for it. So you have to look after it.

There is nothing revolutionary for getting focus, and that is a good thing. I like the emphasis in meditation. Be sure you look after your body: good sleep, exercise, proper food, and be sure you have a limited time to be real focus per day so make it count.

For scatterfocus, it is as easy as going for a walk without nothing really in mind, let the mind wander and think in things and problems. These are the moments when most eureka bursts happen.

Need to read it again.

Dead’s End

I completed last week the third part of the Three Body Problem trilogy. It was interesting but in this part things got wild! Every twist caught me out of guard. The physics got me lost most of the time (3D vs 4D, etc). But I like how Trisolarians learnt to lie and play long term. How reaching light speed was the proper solution and the most important thing: humans in a spaceship disconnected from Earth, took them 5 minutes to reach Totalitarianism. And all the theories about the Dark Forest hypothesis (Fermi Paradox), deterrence, and something a bit less sci-fi.

Destroying Earth using a 2D plane that sucks the surrounding 3D… but that would suck the whole universe… but that is a good tactic if you can live in 2D… not sure if that was a superior tactic to defeat your adversaries in the dark forest?