Author: Kevin Cameron

The bright new world of AI has arrived rather quickly as a byproduct of Big-Data statistical computing from folks like Google trying to sift through the world’s data. The bulk of it is sparse-matrix math, which is something I did in college decades ago. My first encounter with using that math was building a steady-state…

In case you have not noticed, parallel buses have been going away, to be replaced by SERDES – USB, SATA, PCIe – and only DDR remains, and the writing is on the wall for DDR as we move to doing in-memory computing for lower power and latency. Something that has always been serial is Ethernet,…

Here are some anti-patterns that won’t help if you want to be a tech company… Hiring for fit, not skills FAANG companies love to do this, it means everybody gets on well but nobody really knows how to do new stuff. That’s fine if you are a services company that needs to scale, but not…