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iLoveOncall
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charles_irl
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Cutting latencies by 40x! Unfortunately couldn't fit the whole title in the character limit :<
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aaronblohowiak
11 hours ago
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How can you cut latency by more than 1x? I am no intending to be snarky, it just doesn’t fit my brain how you can reduce a measure time by more than the original starting time.
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aaronblohowiak
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Put differently, 1/40 is not the same as 1x - 40x. I’d phrase as Reduced by 97.5% or 0.975x
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sunshowers
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There are two ways to express such ratios, and both are equally valid. (Though "x" is usually reserved for "40x" and "%" for "97.5%".)
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bfeynman
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probably just AI slop and using wrong semantics, they mean speedup ratio.
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charles_irl
10 hours ago
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You're absolutely right!
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