Welcome to our first Tech Tuesday, a weekly challenge where you explain one technical concept intuitively.
Take any idea, technology, concept, formula, …, from any technical field —math, science, economics, politics, humanities, art— and write an article, note, thread, or any other communication explaining it as intuitively as possible.
Link back here your submissions, and make sure to check all others.
This is something I wrote recently. A comparison between the costs of context-switching between CPUs and GPUs. TLDR: GPUs have zero-overhead scheduling, i.e., they switch from executing one thread to another without any overhead. CPUs on the other hand have to do quite a bit of dance to switch from executing one process to another (on a given core).
In the current zeitgeist of AI more often than not people are lacking a basic contextualization of the layers of AI, the complexity of AGI, and where we currently are. This essay provides a solid foundation to work from.
This is something I wrote recently. A comparison between the costs of context-switching between CPUs and GPUs. TLDR: GPUs have zero-overhead scheduling, i.e., they switch from executing one thread to another without any overhead. CPUs on the other hand have to do quite a bit of dance to switch from executing one process to another (on a given core).
https://twitter.com/abhi9u/status/1711053912600707543
Thanks, Abhinav! Would you take us up on the challenge of writing a short Note with an intuitive overview of the article suitable for all audiences?
In the current zeitgeist of AI more often than not people are lacking a basic contextualization of the layers of AI, the complexity of AGI, and where we currently are. This essay provides a solid foundation to work from.
https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/the-layers-of-ai
Do you want that distilled into a note?
As you prefer! Ideally something short that can be shared with anyone and points to the larger piece ;)
Here's my submission: https://blog.apiad.net/p/tech-tuesday-p-vs-np
I plagiarised Feynman and managed to fit one in just in time (my time) #TechTuesday
Here:
https://x.com/s_gruppetta_ct/status/1714404527422509490?s=20
Or here:
https://bsky.app/profile/stephengruppetta.bsky.social/post/3kby5hep5js26
Yay!
I publish on Tuesday. Does that count? 😆
Yeah but only if you say it!