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Isn't that exactly what RSUs are? They are a share of all the future profits of a company.
Topics like sampling bias and adverse impact seem like they could fit that intersection between a math curriculum and "race, society, and law."
Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:06AM (#29579610)
IBM just spun out a $19B annual revenue managed infrastructure business, Kyndryl. [1]

Doing some back of the napkin math on the remaining business, by revenue it is roughly 45% consulting, 40% software, and 15% hardware. IP revenue represents 1% ($626M) of its revenue. [2]

What does it actually do? At a high level, help companies deal with the complexities created in a world of heterogeneous infrastructure (data and AI across environments, common management/security, automation, etc.).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl-officially-launche...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM_Annual_Report_2020....

Disclaimer: I'm an IBM employee, but my opinions are my own and I'm just using public data.

Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:27AM (#29579099)
Just a point of clarification, POWER and z (mainframe) are different architectures, both of which IBM still develops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

Re:The Impending Cloud Reshuffle on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:05PM (#29422560)
Sorry to hijack the thread here. Why is your prediction that IBM gives up "hybrid multi-cloud"? Isn't hybrid multi-cloud exactly aligned with the future that you are portraying here (sans IBM's bet on k8s, which we could have another debate on) that what runs on top of cloud infrastructure will be available across multiple clouds?

Disclaimer: I work for IBM, and my opinions are my own.

Re:Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf] on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:16AM (#27220707)
It seems like most quantum hardware companies are releasing data about their processors now.

IBM (can click through to see calibration of each processor): https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/services?skip=0&systems=al...

IonQ (overall benchmark): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13534-2

Rigetti: https://qcs.rigetti.com/qpus/

Honeywell: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/company/quantum/quantum-comp...

You should actually hold off for longer

> In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new recommendations for car seat safety. As part of these recommendations, they removed their previous age-based recommendation that children remain rear facing in car seats until the age of 2.

> The AAP now suggests that children remain rear facing until they reach their rear-facing car seat’s weight/height limits which, for most children, will leave them rear-facing beyond the previous age recommendation.

Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/childrens-health/forward-f...

Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:44PM (#24721658)
IBM filed an amicus brief in support of Google - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/google-oracle-amicus-brief/
Re:Google's differential privacy library on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:29PM (#24163511)
Related: IBM Research has a differential privacy Python library for machine learning and analytics

- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/06/ibm-differential-...

- https://github.com/IBM/differential-privacy-library

Wouldn't the bend radius only be <25mm if you were winding very densely? At sparse winding, you aren't actually bending it much.
That's literally what futures contracts are for.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours? on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:24AM (#22855607)
Ah, I see you have never had the pleasure of using Lotus Notes. These problems might seem insignificant in comparison.
I was wondering why I was getting quoted deliveries of May 1 - May 22 on an entire category of items marked as Prime over the weekend. They offered to speed up delivery of my $10 item to April 17 for the low price of $30. I thought some enterprising company had cornered the market and was raking in some sweet delivery fees.
Re:MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:34AM (#22627295)
You have to manually download them, but I find the licensing and scope of https://iconmonstr.com/ to be great.
They are still restricting who can get tested. My son who has a fever and cough can't get tested because he doesn't have shortness of breath (you have to exhibit all 3 symptoms at the same time to be eligible for a test).