Month: December 2024

Quantum AI Chip, InfraHub, python UV, SR controller, Kobe Bryant, Hell

Google Quantum AI: This looks remarkable.

python vu: replacement for pip, pyenv, etc. Need to try

InfraHub: As a network engineer interested in Automation. This looks interesting and I would like to go deeper to fully understand as it is the merge of the typical source of truth (DB) that you can’t get in git.

Segment Routing Controller: This is another thing I played with some years ago, but never found a controller to make TE. I dont see clearly this software is OSS but at least doesnt look like is a vendor-lock…

Kobe Bryant: venting, and it is ok.

Jordan B Peterson: Hell

AWS re:Invent 2024, Oracle Cloud AI, GenCast, videos

AWS re:Invent 2024 – Monday Night:

  • Graviton evolution: ARM based chip for EC2. 50% new capacity of last 2y is Graviton.
  • Nitron Cards: security chip too.
  • AES Trainium2: min 47. 2xHead per rack and then accelerators, and switch. Trainnium != CPU|GPU
  • Neurnlink: min 60, I guess this is the equivalent of NVLink, etc
  • Ultraserver, quite beefy pic, min 61.
  • Networking: min 73: 10p10u is a fabric = 10petabits under 10micro latency.
  • Cabling proprietary trunk connector 16:1 fiber. min 77. I pretty use i have used pig-tails some years ago, so not sure why this is new?
  • Firefly optic plug: loopback testing. This is interesting for DC operations. Min 78.
  • AWS design their own optics, reduced failure
  • Network topology: Min 81, new protocol SIDR – Scalable Intent Driven Routing. <1s reconvergence. not centralized.
  • And this is a better summary than mine.

AWS re:Invent 2024 – NET201: The only interesting thing is minute 29 with the usage of hollow core fiber, to improve latency. I assume it is used in very specific parts of the network, looks a bit fragile. Elastic Fabric Adapter, not really good explanation what it is, where doest it run: network, server, nic? but it seems important. Looks like SIDR?

AWS re:Invent 2024 – NET403: I think 401 and 402 were more interesting. There were repeated things from the two other talks. Still worth watching and hopefully there is a new one in 2025.

Oracle Cloud Infra – AI: First time I visit the OCI page about their AI infra.

GenCast: weather predict by Google Mind. Not sure until what point, this can be used by anybody? And how much hardware you need to run it?

we’ve made GenCast an open model and released its code and weights, as we did for our deterministic medium-range global weather forecasting model.

Videos:

510km nonstop – Ross Edgley: I have read several of his books and it is the first time I watch a full interview. Still I am not clear what his dark side is.

A man with few friends or not circle at all – Jordan B Peterson: I need to watch this more often

Discipline is Destiny

Very good book, as discipline keeps me in my place and sane. And nobody is perfect, the key is to get back up when failing.

This book is a very good reminder of Jocko Willink: Discipline = Freedom.

Persist and Resist

1) The Exterior (The body)

  • Ruling over the body: Gives the example of Lou Gehrig, I have no clue about baseball but it is very interesting how he kept at the top, no noise, and died so young.
  • Attack the dawn: wake up early (and go early to bed)
  • The strenuous life is the best life: Train your body, take care of your body
  • Quit being a slave: of craving, addiction, vices
  • Avoid the superfluous: – desire -> + rich
  • Clean up your desk
  • Just show up
  • Sweat the small stuff
  • Hustle, Hustle, Hustle: I dont really understand this part.
  • Slow down… to go faster
  • Practice… then practice more.
  • Just work
  • Dress for success: Interesting facts about Angela Merkel.
  • Seek discomfort
  • Manage the load
  • Sleep is an act of character
  • What can you endure?
  • Beyond the body

2) The inner domain (The temperament)

  • Ruling over yourself
  • Look at everything like this
  • Keep the main thing the main thing: Learn to say no.
  • Focus, focus, focus
  • Wait for this sweet fruit
  • Perfectionism is a vice
  • Do the hard things first
  • Can you get back up?
  • The battle against pain
  • The battle against pleasure
  • Fight the provocation
  • Beware this madness
  • Silence is strength: Example from Sparta.
  • Hold, hold your fire
  • Temper your ambition: Example from a young Napoleon noticing the evil of ambition and then later in life he ignored his own advice.
  • Money is a (dangerous) tool
  • Get better every day
  • Share the load
  • Respect time
  • Put up boundaries: Examples of the Queen Elizabeth II
  • Do your best: Example from a young Jimmy Carter, when he recognized not doing his best when he had an interview with a general.
  • Beyond the temperament

3) The Magisterial (The soul)

  • Elevating yourself: Antoninus Pius was the mentor and stepfather of Marcus Aurelius
  • Tolerant with others, strict with yourself
  • Make others better
  • Grace under pressure
  • Carry the load for others
  • Be kind to yourself
  • The power of giving power away
  • Turn the other cheek
  • How to make an exit
  • Endure the unendurable
  • Be best
  • Flexibility is strength
  • Unchanged by success
  • Self-discipline is virtue. Virtue is Self-discipline