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by sneilan1 114 days ago
Does anyone have Jeff Dean's sources for how he computed these numbers? What's the margin of error? How accurate are they now? Is there a set of numbers that also talks about memory bandwidth in GPUs? Are these numbers intel/amd only? How do they differ between an m1 architecture?
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It raises so many questions. The only one I want the answer to is: Will these numbers help me reach the Doherty threshold?
For the uninitiated like me :

> Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/

My god, it's real!? I thought that was entirely fabricated for Halt and Catch Fire. I swear I looked it up when it originally aired, but didn't find anything. I've been joking about it ever since. I hope no one accidentally took me seriously at work.