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Quantifying the performance of the TPU our first machine learning chip By Norm Jouppi, Distinguished Hardware Engineer, Google Editors Note : Learn about our newly available Cloud TPUs. We�ve been using compute-intensive machine learning in our products for the past 15 years. We use it so much that we even designed an entirely new class of custom machine learning accelerator, the Tensor Processing Unit. Just how fast is the TPU, actually? Today, in conjunction with a TPU talk for a National Academy of Engineering meeting at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, we�re releasing a study that shares new details on these custom chips, which have been running machine learning applications in our data centers since 2015. This first generation of TPUs targeted inference (the use of an already trained model, as opposed to the training phase of a model, which has somewhat different characteristics), and here are some of the results we�ve seen: On our production AI workloa...

Prescriptions Movie Stars Our Children Ive been thinking about writing this article for a few weeks now. And then yesterday I heard the news of the Illinois Campus shooting so I had to write it. A few weeks before Heath Ledgers death I was in Hollywood on a video shoot. I met up with some friends who wanted me to take the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) tour with them. For those of you (and I was among you) who hadnt heard of this organization, the CCHR was started in 1969 by The Church of Scientology. Now before you either dig in or turn away from that controversial subject let me just say that it was an extremely enlightening and frightening exhibit that left a very strong impression on me. We walked from room to room viewing documentaries on the history of the alliance between the pharmaceutical companies and the psychiatric profession. Each room was designed like a set (this was Hollywood) starting with the lobotomies, shock treatments and torture they performed on orph...

The Biggest Cat on Our Galaxy The Maine Coon is one of the largest domesticated breeds of cats. It has a distinctive physical appearance and valuable hunting skills. The Maine Coon is well known for its loving nature, kindly disposition, and great intelligence. Maine Coons are especially good with children and other pets, and have always been a popular and sought after companion. Maine Coons are often referred to as the "dogs of the cat world" because they seek out the company of people and are a gentle, loyal, friendly, playful, affectionate breed. Available in a variety of about 75 different color combinations (with the exception of pointed pattern and colors) and two acceptable tabby patterns (classic and mackerel), there is a Maine Coon Cat just right for anyone. There is only speculation and folk tales about the ancestral origins of the Maine Coon . One such folk tale involves Captain Charles Coon, an English seafarer who kept long-haired cats aboard his ships. When...