The standard way to measure compute is FLOPS. Besides other problems, this measure has two major flaws: First, no one cares exactly how many FLOPS you have; we want to know the order of magnitude without having to incant “ten high”. Second, it sounds cute, even though it’s going to kill us.
I propose an alternative: Digital Orders Of Magnitude (per Second), or DOOM(S).
The standard way to measure compute is FLOPS. Besides other problems, this measure has two major flaws: First, no one cares exactly how many FLOPS you have; we want to know the order of magnitude without having to incant “ten high”. Second, it sounds cute, even though it’s going to kill us.
I propose an alternative: Digital Orders Of Magnitude (per Second), or DOOM(S).