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On “Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?”
This year's Cantrill talks include one on Ethical Dilemmas 0 and another on the "Moore's Law" paper 1. Highly recommend both. 0 link 1 link to this video
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Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law
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- Presented by Bryan Cantrill, co-founder of Oxide Computer Company
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Systems programmingHardwareCPUs and computer architecturePerformance and optimizationHistory of computing
Bryan Cantrill discusses the history and end of Moore's Law, and how software must adapt to specialized hardware architectures.
This talk video is a node in devreal.ai, the developer community graph. It connects to: Talk: Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law — devreal.ai/t/2019-scale-bay-2019-bryan-cantrill-was-he-wrigh… Interview: Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill Interview — devreal.ai/t/2019-scale-bay-2019-bryan-cantrill-interview-sc… Speaker: Bryan Cantrill — devreal.ai/n/bryan-cantrill Company: Joyent — devreal.ai/c/joyent Event: Scale by the Bay — devreal.ai/e/2019-scale-by-the-bay-conference Explore these connections and related videos, photos, speakers’ blogs and podcasts, and other By the Bay networks. ----- Moore's Law is indisputably ending -- but what was it even in the first place? In particular, can the phenomenon we think of as Moore's Law actually be better explained by Theodore Wright in a 1936 paper on aircraft economics? If so, could Wright's Law continue to apply as Moore's Law ends? More generally, what are the ramifications for software as silicon-based microprocessors reach their physical limitations? In this talk, we will explore the end of Moore's Law, the prospects for Wright's Law in microprocessors, and what it all means for those of us who build software systems.Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an insightful and entertaining talk on the history of hardware scaling and the future of software design.
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On “The Coming Chip Wars”
Bryan Cantrill has a great talk on this and the end of scaling link to this video It really seems like we are going to see new architecture paradigms emerge and start seeing more powerful compute in smaller places.
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On “Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94”
Actually Moores law is dead. His prediction was not transistors would get smaller. His prediction was initial that for 10 years was that density would double every year. And then later that it would double every 18 month. And this held longer then even he thought. But it has ended. While things still get denser, its no longer on that same trend. This interview with Moore explains it: link History by Cantrill: link to this video David Patterson perspective: link Opposing point of view Jim Keller: link Patterson response to Keller: link There are talks by David Patterson, Jim Keller and