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by elseless 1y ago
Agree that code size is a significant potential issue, and that going out to memory to reprogram the fabric will be costly. Re: pointers, I should clarify that it’s not the indirection per se that causes problems — it’s the fact that, with
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by elseless 1y ago
Sure. You can think of a (simple) traditional CPU as executing instructions in time , one-at-a-time[1] — it fetches an instruction, decodes it, performs an arithmetic/logical operation, or maybe a memory operation, and then the instru
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by elseless 2y ago
Precisely this. And don’t forget about bugs in virtualization layers/drivers — ZFS can very often save your data in those cases, too.
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by elseless 3y ago
In my opinion, the biggest problem with Apple’s external displays is their 60 Hz refresh rate. That’s half of what their own iPhone (!) and MacBook pro models support, and is a far cry from the 240 Hz (albeit at lower resolutions) displays
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by elseless 3y ago
H.T. Kung’s 1982 paper on systolic arrays is the genesis of what are now called TPUs: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/1982-kung-why-s...
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by elseless 4y ago
It has been reviewed by the author’s peers — it was accepted to ISCA ‘22.
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by elseless 5y ago
The Landauer principle states that any computation involving information erasure (e.g., taking the hash of blocks) must correspond to some nonzero increase in entropy, which would be expressed here as heat.
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by elseless 5y ago
Proof-of-stake can never achieve the same trust model as proof-of-work. Proof-of-space-and-time can. See Andrew Poelstra ‘15: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/on-stake-and-conse...
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by elseless 7y ago
This script is really nice: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install It sets up systemd and iptables and generates all certs and keys and wraps them up into tidy, per-client .ovpn files
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by elseless 8y ago
I found this out the hard way a month ago when I updated my hackintosh from 10.13 to 10.14. Never assume, even several weeks after a macOS release, that working Nvidia drivers will be available!
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by elseless 8y ago
ARM needs to get some skin in the accelerator game before RISC-V et. al. commoditize its cash cow. NVDLA is fairly permissively licensed (free for commercial use), but of course Nvidia will steer the greater ecosystem around it. Perhaps ARM
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by elseless 9y ago
https://pastebin.com/CmxE4Z5Y Maybe half of this year's final projects focused on serverless/AWS Lambda, with another significant portion on hardware acceleration for cloud workloads (AI, databases, SDN).
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by elseless 12y ago
After what Sony did to Geohot, I must say that I have zero sympathy for them (as an organization) here. Obviously, the leak of personal data (SSNs, etc.) is a different story.
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by elseless 12y ago
Scott Aaronson has done some work regarding CTCs and quantum computers: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf Apparently, in the presence of CTCs, quantum computers are no more powerful than classical ones.
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by elseless 13y ago
95/100. I thought the second-to-last was hardest. Serif/sans-serif didn't make as much of a difference as I expected.