Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
by m463 on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:48AM
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I think it is three orders of magnitude.
"An order-of-magnitude difference between two values is a factor of 10. For example, the mass of the planet Saturn is 95 times that of Earth, so Saturn is two orders of magnitude more massive than Earth."
Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
by zimpenfish on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:32PM
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> "More precisely, the order of magnitude of a number can be defined in terms of the common logarithm, usually as the integer part of the logarithm, obtained by truncation."
$ bc -l
l(835)/l(10)
2.92168647548360208478
That would make it 2 orders of magnitude by that method. Happy to accept that it's 3 orders of magnitude by the N=a*10^b method though. Either way, it's definitely not one.
Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
by m463 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:31AM
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I think the whole point of orders of magnitude is to be a back-of-the-napkin estimation of what's what.
"a new car is an order of magnitude difference in price compared to a used car" is appropriate even if a new car is 40k and a used car is 5k
Electric cars have two orders of magnitude less energy storage than gasoline cars, but newer ones are only one order of magnitude.
Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
by dragonwriter on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:53AM
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Since orders of magnitude are multiplicative, rounded to the nearest whole order of magnitude ~300× to ~3000× is three orders of magnitude.
Re:Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
by colechristensen on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:29AM
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I think it’s an unnecessary nitpick. One statement is general and the other is a specific, extreme example. “usually 10x, sometimes 1000x”, that sort of thing
I dunno that I'd call it three orders - it's close at about 830x - but it's definitely not even close to being one order either.