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by esmi 6y ago
Sure. Some software has to exist to make use of this system, for example something has to create the tag in the first place, and mall ic is a part of that, but the large address space is what makes them possible.
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by esmi 6y ago
It’s a nice tutorial on base plus index addressing but from the title I expected a tutorial on pointer tags as x86_64 is what makes tags even possible, i.e. we have a 64b address space but not 2^64 memory locations. https://www.m
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by esmi 6y ago
It used to be fairly straightforward to beat a chess engine... in the 80s. https://www.chess.com/blog/FangBo/how-to-beat-an-80s-chess-c...
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by esmi 6y ago
Is it like Automator for enterprise applications? http://macosxautomation.com/automator/
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by esmi 6y ago
A digital computer is definitely a FSM. In fact, creating the state diagram of a simple calculator, and mapping that to digital logic by hand, and then building it on a breadboard used to be a staple of most introductory computer architect
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by esmi 6y ago
I waffle on this one too. Institutions that do HFT have a huge capital cost and pay large fees before they even make their first trade. They also employ programmers, traders, etc. Basically, these taxes are going to need to sum to somethi
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by esmi 6y ago
Personally I waffle on this myself. My instinct tells me it’s bad but then I try to decide what trading cadence I would limit it to. Assume there is a CEO who wants to do something nefarious to manipulate the stock price. If they make a d
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by esmi 6y ago
> Its a ton of random math that (most) of which you don't use again since you use modeling software. You absolutely need that math because you need to know when the modeling software is giving the wrong answer. You’re supposed to d
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by esmi 6y ago
> If a researcher can determine that a tweet came from a bot That condition is the key. Are you sure they can do that? It’s very tough to do with certainty.
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by esmi 6y ago
First off, I admit I didn’t do my homework so I have no idea what I’m talking about, but couldn’t the Turing machine make a Turing machine interpreter and therefore be a self interpreter? It is universal, no?
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by esmi 6y ago
> "If everyone else is such an idiot, how come I'm not rich?" Unfortunately the answer to that question is, I spend way too much time on hacker news.
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by esmi 6y ago
How about a 2 state 3 symbol Turing machine? That’s pretty simple, and universal too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s_2-state_3-symbol...
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by esmi 6y ago
> web browsing, text editing and terminal. If that’s all you want try an iPad2. I think it would make a better “laptop” than a RPI. RPI doesn’t have a battery.
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by esmi 6y ago
I used xcircuit, magic and irsim in university to make plenty of ASICs at MOSIS. Many universities still do. One can even get the NCSU PDKs for MOSIS for free. Totally compatible with 0.18u http://opencircuitdesign.com/magi
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by esmi 6y ago
The second example is a medical IoT telemetry device. If the parent’s project had antenna in package I totally believe $20M for the project, especially as it includes rf validation, the bringing it to market part. $1M per engineer is a lo
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by esmi 6y ago
> Am I responsible for the illegal drug sales? You might not be liable for the sale itself but, depending on the details, you could definitely still have serious legal risk. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/cr
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by esmi 6y ago
What’s a fast AI chip? :) What process node Google uses for TPU, one possibility for an AI chip, is not in the public domain since v1 but it’s very unlikely this chip is on the bleeding edge. Cost/benefit is likely not there for this
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by esmi 6y ago
Was 7nm a requirement? I didn’t gather that from the thread. Small run 22nm is certainly available. These are fabricated in the US, albeit at an Intel site. https://www.mosis.com/pages/intel_sponsored_fab
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by esmi 6y ago
> I don't see how that big investment for relative low volume production would make sense for consumer products. If the consumer product is a toy then sure. If it’s a medical device then it could make sense. It’s all about margin.
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by esmi 6y ago
On the other hand, everyone reviews the figures in detail. Therefore I’ve always used the text as a way to document the decisions behind the figure, mostly for myself, and to clarify any ambiguity in the figure itself.
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by esmi 6y ago
> Journalism should be funded by institutions. Perhaps - funded by the government, at a loss - for the sake of informing the populace. state run media... i think that's been tried before. maybe a couple of times.
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by esmi 6y ago
Just get it to run cobol and you’re golden.
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by esmi 6y ago
Did you stop developing software altogether? What doesn’t break compatibility from time to time?
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by esmi 6y ago
> What's the test for when two numbers are equal? I put this in another comment but: For the reals: eliminate a < b and a > b then conclude a = b.
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by esmi 6y ago
There is an easy way to prove two numbers are equal. Typically in the reals there are three possibilities: a > b, a < b, a = b. If you eliminate a > b and a < b then you are left to conclude a = b. And this is exactly what is
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by esmi 6y ago
I didn’t really see anything wrong in the thread but you use words like “calculus” and I honestly don’t know exactly what you mean. Do you mean the plug and chug methods often taught in high school? Or do you mean the application of a set
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by esmi 6y ago
As we have no idea who you are don’t you think it makes sense we try to figure it out? How one answers the question will vary based on background.
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by esmi 6y ago
> I go on to claim, though I'm more unsure of this, that the real numbers are not even the only way to make calculus work. That claim is certainly true. The proof is that calculus (Analysis) exists for the complex number system too
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by esmi 6y ago
My code is perfectly documented. I just choose to write my documentation in c++. :)
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by esmi 6y ago
Let me digress with a little story about one of my experiences with courts. In the 90s I was a technician at a small computer shop in CA. One day we had a sale for really cheap beige boxes so that we could offload some excesses inventory.

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