the_panopticon

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by the_panopticon 11mo ago
I think the subsequent level is 'Distinguished Engineer.' That's terminal AFAIK. Maybe they'll need a 'Sr DE' someday?
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by the_panopticon 11mo ago
This is great to see. Google has role-modeled open source hardware/silicon with efforts like https://opentitan.org/ and https://developers.google.com/silicon in the past, too. I wonder how this AI Cora
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by the_panopticon 1y ago
"History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes" - Mark Twain https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/mylifebits/
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by the_panopticon 1y ago
Very interesting. It sounds like tuning at the PTX level can increase workload efficiencies, such as quote "Specifically, we employ customized PTX (Parallel Thread Execution) instructions" from the DeepSeek folks https:/&#x2
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Intel does have https://www.clearlinux.org/
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
+1, especially the 'Grand Inquisitor' portion. And a close 2nd would be Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment.'
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
This article is a nice addition to the community since rarely is a complete rewrite of a firmware corpus possible. Speaking of Rust and host or boot firmware, the recently published https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5&#x2
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
This is a good read. Dr. Blaise Agüera y Arcas was a keynote speaker at https://attend.ieee.org/newera/program/ here in Seattle a week ago but he didn't really get a chance to delve deeply into his position.
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
"Universal" is also a term that doesn't typically engender happiness in technologists.
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
In Ocaml, interesting. I was similarly surprised when I learned that the firs Rust compiler was written in Ocaml, too https://users.rust-lang.org/t/understanding-how-the-rust-com...
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
This reminds me of the saying https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/success_has_many_fathers,_fai... that I’ve seen often played out in big companies, too.
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
There is still support for CSM in the open source https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Compat... and even nice projects like https://github.com/coreboot/seabiosto fabric
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Fascinating work. The ARC std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) was used to boot the Dec Alpha Windows machines, along w/ MIPS, etc. Anyone know of other open source variants of that in the wild?
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Seems to be a trend including work like https://www.linuxboot.org/ .
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
I recall trying to debug a crash in QNX during the mid-90's. I was impressed by the svelte OS that could load from a 3.5" floppy. The failure scenario was coincident with one of my first tasks as a BIOS engineer and it entailed ad
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Weaponizing data for ads and https://nypost.com/2024/06/06/business/costco-to-stop-sellin... . Feels about right for our post modern world.
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Some interesting links on topic at bottom of https://www.rioslab.org/2023/04/14/open-source-hardware-ip-r...
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Reminds me of article https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/17/what-happens-when-hy...
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
RISC-V has defined support. See "3.4 The RV128I Base ISA" https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p... . You can find an emulator "RISC-V system emulator supporting the RV128IMAF
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RROS is a dual-kernel OS that need both real-time and general-purpose ability(github.com)
2 points by the_panopticon 2y ago|0 comments
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
An interesting example of that flocking from some tech talent in the Pacific Northwest https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/omniva-stealth-st...
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Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by the_panopticon 2y ago|0 comments
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Maybe baremetal BSD 4.4? That's the codebase for the Unix personality layer of OSX (which is Mach as ukernel + a Unix layer on top). Or FreeBSD like Netflix uses for their first-party servers?
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Another great read from Shannon https://archive.org/details/bstj28-4-656
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
And there are the examples from host firmware, from FCode in OpenFirmware https://github.com/openbios?language=forth that booted the IBM, Sun, and PowerPC Macs https://github.com/openbios?language=forth to
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
My self and a colleague who both grew up in Texas ended up on the west coast working for tech. I still recall his quote when leaving the big urban area of the west coast “I thought that we invented red necks in Texas.” People are people
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
Good stuff is happening here, such as security https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Security and open source https://www.opencompute.org/projects/open-system-firmware
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From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction(theguardian.com)
19 points by the_panopticon 2y ago|12 comments
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
I recall working on this for synthesizing UEFI and Linux drivers https://trustworthy.systems/publications/nicta_full_text/769... back in the day. Luckily some of the artifacts made it to open source. Unluckily the
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by the_panopticon 2y ago
There is a lot of room in the periodic table, too, as MS showed starting with https://www.servethehome.com/microsoft-azure-cobalt-100-128-...

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