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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Luscious visualization of a neural network as a large directed graph. It's a full layout of the ResNet-50 training graph, a neural network with ~3 million nodes, and ~10 million edges, using Gephi for the graph layout, to output a 25000x25000 pixel
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: How a mutex works pic.twitter.com/TwFLAVs2ydOctober 21, 2017 Perfect! Now, imagine a little dog snuck under Big Dog's cone of shame and covered the food with its own cone of shame, and it won't leave. That's
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cassini's last image of Saturn, stitched together from 11 color composites, each a stack of three images taken in red, green, and blue channels. (Jason Major) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 21 million: max
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Tech is transforming how food is being grown. Lots of opportunity for local nerdy production. Greenhouses even look like dartacenters! (This Tiny Country Feeds the World) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 320 trillion: ops/second in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: LiDAR sees an enchanted world. (Luminar) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 14TB: Western Digital Hard Drive; 3B: Yahoo's perfidy; ~80%: companies traded on U.S. stock market 1950-2009 were gone by 2009; 21%: conversion
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know plotted over time. Click on and move the slider to see changes. There were a lot more blocks in 1990. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1040: undergrads enrolled in Stanford&
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Ever feel like howling at the universe? (Greg Rakozy) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 10 billion: API calls made every second in Google datacenters; $767,758,000,000: collected by Apple on iPhones sold to the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Earth received Cassini’s final signal at 7:55am ET. Let's bid a fond farewell. After a 13-year tour of duty, job well done! If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 12.9 million: DynamoDB requests
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: May you live in interesting times. China games swarming drone attacks. Portable EMP anyone? (Tech in Asia) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 100GB: entire corpus of articles written at the NY Times; 80GB: data for one
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Obviously, cloud native is simplicity itself. (Cloud Native Landscape Project) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $10: price for IPv4 address (and falling); 10-15%: better IPv6 network performance; 711M: Record Onliner Spambot Dump; 41.4-tesla: strongest resistive
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: View of the total solar eclipse from a hill top near Madras Oregon, August 21, 2017. As totality approaches, dragons gorge on sun flesh; darkness cleaves the day; a chill chases away the heat; all becomes still. Contact made! Diamonds glitter; beads sparkle; shadow
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Sorry about missing last week, but my birthday won out over working: Ouch! @john_overholt: My actual life is now a science exhibit about the primitive conditions of the past. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1PB: SSD in 1U chassis; 90%: savings