CalChris

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by CalChris 2y ago
Are huge pages expected to share code (X) and data (RW)?
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Oakland is more affordable for artists now than San Francisco but not even close to what San Francisco was in the 80s. But it's a very different time. I find myself occasionally trying to relive that and having to remind myself it&#x27
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I lived in San Francisco in the very late 70s through to the 00s. My first apartment share was $50/mo. The late 70s had the dying embers of the Beat Generation and San Francisco was a sleepy town. San Francisco was great in the 80s wit
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Onur Mutlu has a similar (definitely not same) idea of Processing in Memory . Basically the idea is to put some operations nearer to the data. Your idea is nearer to the register and his is in the memory controller nearer to memory. https
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Intel's iAPX 432. 1975. Instructions were bit-aligned, stack based, 32-bit operations, segmented, capabilities, .... It was so late+slow that the 16-bit 8086 was created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_43
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Commentary on Teaching Bayesian Statistics [pdf](statistics.berkeley.edu)
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The C code is a low level implementation of population count. AggressiveInstCombine.cpp first matches and raises the IR for this into llvm.ctpop.i64. https://godbolt.org/z/8ronKz3Eb Later an x86 backend can re- lower
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by CalChris 2y ago
I'm going to side with Apple on this one. Transistors are basically free and ports are expensive and unreliable. I'm happy they've been moving to eSIMs. I'd be fine if my next iPhone only supported wireless charging. No
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240717143924/https://lookout.c...
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Site's article Benchmarking "Hello, World!" is basically a KUTrace tutorial. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3291278 Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_qRuKO9qzM
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TL;DR? Well his article Benchmarking "Hello, World!" develops a lot of the ideas which show up in his book. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3291278
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The defining character of VLIW is to have the brilliant compiler software schedule dumb parallel hardware instructions statically and then not depend on power/transistor expensive dynamic branch prediction and OOO execution. In a per
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VLIW is pretty successful for loopy DSP and now AI/ML. However, Itanium was trying to work for general purpose code and then as you say, it constantly ran into weird edge cases. It seemed as if VLIW succumbed to the Peter Principle,
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Donald Knuth's Mathematical Writing had a lecture from Jeffrey Ullman, On Getting Rich . https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematic... Things haven't changed much. The absolute numbers ar
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by CalChris 2y ago
"Well, they're informants," Assange replied. "So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://archive.is/rSL9K
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Kim Jong-Un and Xi Jinping would prefer Trump as well.
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Richard Nixon would like a word with you.
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If you are going to call his guilty plea an expedient choice then Assange should have taken Trump's more expedient offer of a pardon 7 years ago: less time, no felony.
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Snopes sourced that accusation to the far right True Pundit which had also contributed to the Pizza Gate conspiracy theory. I'm done here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Pundit
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Hitler attacked our shipping and then declared war on us.
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Unproven. At best unproven and denied. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/julian-assange-drone-strik...
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Lendup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Institute_of_Technology
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Wizard: Why, anybody can have a brain. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby confer upon you the Honorary Degree of T.H.D. Scarecrow: “Th.D.”? Wizard: Yeah, that’s “Doctor of Thinkology.” The authority v
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by CalChris 2y ago
If you were early, why didn't you purchase your options and file an 83b?
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Lynn Conway, Dynamic Instruction Scheduling https://web.archive.org/web/20150814232249/https://ai.eecs.u... This report was issued February 23, 1966 which was close to a year before Tomasulo's An
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Nf3 can be ambiguous but resolved by the position itself. That ambiguity has no notation either. FWIW, I wrote the XBoard PGN parser.
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Did he include under-promotion captures resulting in zugzwang? If you’re not including zugzwang then you shouldn’t include checks and mates. The problem becomes a lot simpler.
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No, the relevant portion of the letter was when Franklin eloquently added that he didn't want to apply his private religiosity to others. Nor as a Framer, did he. I do not accept your divine law drivel nor do I accept your people'
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From Franklin's letter, more towards the end: "I have ever let others enjoy their religious Sentiments".
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There is also a response from ARM, The Case for Licensed Instruction Sets . https://web.archive.org/web/20140926222155/http://www.linley...

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