Reiner Pope: belief

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…You want people to be working with that stuff in their head and have an intuitive sense for it because it leads to better iteration. What is the pitch to someone joining MatX? I think if you are someone who likes optimizing, just optimize something—software, hardware, factorial, whatever—if you're trying to fit something into the smallest budget possible, I think it's a pretty exciting place to be. I think hardware companies in general are really exciting because you have such a broad range of skills of people on the team. You have software people, you have hardware people, you've got physical design, you've got people who are just looking at the insertion force of a card into a rack. So there's so much discussion and learning you can do. I think MatX in particular, we really care about this and I think we extended it all the way up into the application and the machine learning as well. Really, really interesting technical problems, and I think just generally there's lots of interesting people to talk to. Yes. Presumably in terms of impact, if you can design a meaningfully higher throughput chip, a 20% higher throughput chip means 20% more AI is happening. If the bottleneck is elsewhere, like power or something like that or cost, you actually just are meaningfully increasing the amount of intelligence in the world, which is presumably exciting to people.…

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