{"id":479,"date":"2010-09-23T21:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2010-09-23T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:54:34","slug":"the-power-of-computing-interview-with-yuguang-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/the-power-of-computing-interview-with-yuguang-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Computing (Skyping with Yuguang)"},"content":{"rendered":"
[9:05:00 PM] Yuguang Zhang: how did you know roy<\/a>? was he working in canada office just last year?
\n[9:13:47 PM] Peici: ha, just leave for some other thing
\n[9:14:07 PM] Peici: Roy left on April this year
\n[9:14:34 PM] Peici: and, I heard from others that, he left because he want to attend friend’s wedding, and plan to travel
\n[9:14:51 PM] Peici: (rofl) I reallu curious if it’s true
\n[9:25:49 PM] Yuguang Zhang: he got a job in shanghai, plans to buy a car, and a nice house
\n[9:26:38 PM] Peici: (inlove)wow, he could afford to buy house in Shanghai. This work should pay very much
\n[9:27:06 PM] Yuguang Zhang: 65*7\/hour?
\n[9:27:18 PM] Peici: $?
\n[9:27:27 PM] Yuguang Zhang: that’s what rob paid him here
\n[9:27:32 PM] Yuguang Zhang: $65 an hour
\n[9:27:48 PM] Yuguang Zhang: mus tbe a joke
\n[9:28:08 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I think average is $32 canadian
\n[9:28:33 PM] Peici: I really want to earn morny in Toronto, and live in China
\n[9:28:46 PM] Yuguang Zhang: rob makes lots of jokes throughout the day
\n[9:29:03 PM] Yuguang Zhang: He has some serious moments
\n[9:29:04 PM] Peici: \ud83d\ude00
\n[9:29:11 PM] Peici: really? when?
\n[9:29:20 PM] Yuguang Zhang: likes to say the company’s doomed
\n[9:29:34 PM] Yuguang Zhang: failure on business strategy and management
\n[9:29:49 PM] Yuguang Zhang: website gets changed, and management wants changes undone
\n[9:30:34 PM] Peici: (rofl) seems Rob is some kind of prople who is directly
\n[9:30:51 PM] Yuguang Zhang: prople?<\/div>\n

[9:30:59 PM] Peici: people (blush)
\n[9:31:18 PM] Peici: did Rob mention me anytime?
\n[9:31:32 PM] Yuguang Zhang: just tells me to get tasks from you
\n[9:31:37 PM] Peici: I feel I am a little nasty, always puch work
\n[9:31:47 PM] Peici: my boss always push me
\n[9:32:27 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I like challenges, as long as I can do them
\n[9:33:02 PM] Peici: (F) good boy
\n[9:33:20 PM] Yuguang Zhang: you are only 5 years older than me
\n[9:33:37 PM] Yuguang Zhang: reminds me of some school teachers
\n[9:34:16 PM] Peici: \ud83d\ude1b heihei, I love the feeling to call others little friend
\n[9:34:39 PM] Yuguang Zhang: have not been called “good boy” since grade 6
\n[9:34:58 PM] Yuguang Zhang: maybe “nice guy”, but more often “quiet”
\n[9:35:34 PM] Peici: (chuckle) “nice guy” heard like from girls
\n[9:35:47 PM] Yuguang Zhang: it’s actually true I’m a bit off-centered
\n[9:36:00 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I mean eccentric
\n[9:36:33 PM] Peici: really? nowadays, we need eccentric to make life funny
\n[9:37:25 PM] Yuguang Zhang: it may be because I know some things other people don’t
\n[9:37:53 PM] Peici: wow, which kind of things? :O
\n[9:38:13 PM] Yuguang Zhang: let’s talk about the philosophy behind this company<\/strong>
\n[9:38:47 PM] Yuguang Zhang: the software built here is used by AMD to do what?
\n[9:38:59 PM] Yuguang Zhang: chip design
\n[9:39:37 PM] Yuguang Zhang: they build better hardware that allows more complex software
\n[9:40:26 PM] Yuguang Zhang: and look at how much computation the average desktop could do only 1.5 years ago
\n[9:40:34 PM] Yuguang Zhang: half
\n[9:40:42 PM] Yuguang Zhang: so it doubles every 1.5 years
\n[9:40:53 PM] Yuguang Zhang: 4x in 3 years
\n[9:41:42 PM] Yuguang Zhang: 1 048 576 times in 30 years
\n[9:42:24 PM] Yuguang Zhang: don’t forget, the first computers started with a few bits
\n[9:43:19 PM] Yuguang Zhang: so you can imagine what is possible
\n[9:44:09 PM] Yuguang Zhang: in 30 years, a computer for $1000 will have as many bits as neurons in the brain
\n[9:44:18 PM] Yuguang Zhang: actually, 20
\n[9:45:24 PM] Yuguang Zhang: not to count supercomputers, a lot of tasks done by humans can be replaced<\/p>\n

[9:46:53 PM] Peici: so, boy, work hard to build powerful software that can make use of that powerful computing resource in future (rofl)
\n[9:49:04 PM] Yuguang Zhang: but on the other side, I know technology does not make life better
\n[9:49:21 PM] Yuguang Zhang: that’s the part other people don’t get
\n[9:51:05 PM] Peici: en, you really think deeper than many others
\n[9:51:31 PM] Peici: by the way, do you buy apple product?
\n[9:51:46 PM] Yuguang Zhang: no need, too expensive
\n[9:51:55 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I’m a student
\n[9:52:09 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I use Linux for a unix environment
\n[9:53:07 PM] Peici: really not easy to keep this mentality. I know young people like these apple things
\n[9:54:45 PM] Yuguang Zhang: a coherent hardware\/software experience
\n[10:00:56 PM] Yuguang Zhang: talk to you next time
\n[10:02:50 PM] Peici: \ud83d\ude42 good night
\n[10:03:37 PM] Yuguang Zhang: bye (I can’t find the animation for this one)
\n[10:06:27 PM] Peici: (chuckle)(wave)
\n[10:07:09 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I guess this is why they left this one out\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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