Usually there's a negative correlation between the fanciness of a startup webpage and the actual value/product they'll deliver.
This gives "hype" vibes.
Usually there's a negative correlation between the fanciness of a startup webpage and the actual value/product they'll deliver.
This gives "hype" vibes.
Interesting you say that, I had an instinctual reaction in that vein as well. I chalked it up to bias since I couldn’t think of any concrete examples. Something about the webpage being so nice made me think they’ve spent a lot of time on it (relative to their product?) Admittedly I’m nowhere close to even trying to understand their paper, but I’m interested in seeing what others think about it
I've seen it as well. One thing that's universally true about potential competitor startups in the field I work in is that the ones who don't actually have anything concrete to show have way nicer websites than ours (some have significantly more funding and still nothing to show).
I have a passing familiarity with the areas they talk about in the paper, and it feels... dubious. Mainly because of the dedicated accelerator problem. Even dedicated neural net accelerators are having difficulty gaining traction against general purpose compute units in a market that is ludicrously hot for neural net processing, and this is talking about accelerating Monte-Carlo processes which are pretty damn niche in application nowadays (especially in situations where you're compute-limited). So even if they succeed in speeding up that application, it's hard to see how worthwhile it would be. And it's not obvious from the publicly available information whether they're close to even beating the FPGA emulation of the concept which was used in the paper.
I'm more impressed that my laptop fans came on when I loaded the page.
It's the one attached to my TV that just runs movies/YT - I don't recall the last time I heard the fans.
They did say thermodynamic computing.
Same on a serious dev machine. That page just pegs a core at max, it's sort of impressive.
I ran it through googles pagespeed insights.
It scored 34 for mobile and completely timed out for desktop with a time limit exceeded warning.
It’s hilariously bad.