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Narula: Elite UK university academics use costly supercomputers unaware of distributed alternatives
“And we see a lot of academics that we speak to in kind of Cambridge, Oxford, using supercomputer methods right now, unaware that actually a distributed systems approach might be more cost effective or even easier to think about from that perspective.”
Herman Narula Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:02 a16z Podcast | The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
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Narula: Improbable partners with Oxford to model the UK housing economy
“So, I mean, for example, we're dealing with a group called the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford, and these are some amazing scientists, and they want to model the UK housing economy.”
Herman Narula Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:51 a16z Podcast | The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
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Narula: Improbable models power grid failures to reveal catastrophic risk accumulation
“For example, when we look at cascading failures in power grids, which is an area that, you know, we've explored it with improbable, how those failures arise can often be the accumulation of many, many disparate, like, seemingly irrelevant events and slight vul…”
Herman Narula Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:37 a16z Podcast | The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
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