ChuckMcM

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811.
by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It is an interesting narrative but largely untrue. As the article points out, US Steel (and the US steel industry in general) was making enough profit, what they were not doing was re-investing those profits into upgrading their steel mak
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Getting closer to Jim Gray's "smoking hairy golf ball" (Jim also forecasted that chips would eventually become spherical to limit the lengths of the data paths.) It will be interesting to see if commercial data centers re-fit
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
To be fair, I typically use the MAC in an FPGA to implement this with the coefficient as a fixed point value. As a result the entire step is one cycle, depending on how many MACs are available I will parallelize the algorithim to support al
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This was one of the things that was most surprising to me doing software defined radio. It was "how does a finite impulse response filter work?" and "how to I make it work in a specific way?" The interesting question for
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I found that article to be great. The author does a good job of trying to understand what was going on in the 70's with programming languages. I have a small issue with their use of "Fortran 70" rather than Fortran IV (or For
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is such a perfect comment, it seems snarky and yet a Casino has so much in common with a nursing home, constant surveillance, on site medical team, "activities" and "food" 24/7, and if you spend (lose :-) enoug
817.
by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Wow, that's pretty impressive. I didn't experience a "Code Red" when I was at Google but this would certainly qualify. Bing is not affected so it is definitely something to do with rank injection. I am really really inte
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It doesn't seem very "complete" in that Nevada was listed as having exactly 4 nursing homes?
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
As I recall Musk stated publicly that the only reason he pushed Hyperloop was to derail the California High Speed Rail initiative. In that regard it was somewhat successful. [1] “He admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I agree with 1-6 that they have always been really focused on their margins, they were never a company that wanted to go into debt for something that was 'unproven.' They have had lots of things they stopped doing, the graphics ch
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Technically correct and actually wrong :-). TVs do need software beyond the minimum to support the price asked. TVs are a cut throat, low margin, business. And the only way to eek out a bit more margin is to have some "feature" th
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Apparently they announced this in October. They are kicking Altera, which they acquired for 16.7 billion back out into the world to live or die on its own. Which feels a bit weird given what feels like AMD's relative success with Xilin
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Intel plans spinoff of FPGA unit(networkworld.com)
139 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|161 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
> ... the requirements in computer graphics are more inclined towards making something that looks right instead of getting the physics right. That is exactly correct. That said, as something of a physics nerd (it was a big part of the EE
825.
by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This has been my experience as well. There is certainly a herd/FOMO mentality there, when you have a term sheet from a lead investor you start getting cold called by other VC's who would "love to be part of this round"
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
They miss my favorite: "Yes, we'll invest we just don't want to be 'lead'." That is code for: "You aren't going to find anyone who shares your idea of what your valuation should be so we are safe tell
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
In a scenario where sea levels rise, and it is surrounded by sand which is then compressed into sedimentary rock which carries it around "nominally" intact I would guess it survives for quite a while. Of course there isn't an
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The critique here is that the primary discussion is about fossilization rather than geological modification. A brutalist architecture building acts kind of like a granite batholith in sedimentary rock. And yes even then eventually things
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Fun times. I think one of the interesting takeaways here should be that they have a 48 - 50nm "device pitch" which is to say the transistors are small in the XY plane there are pitch widths much larger than "5nm" or &quo
830.
by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This should be a gift link so it should work without archive hacks. That said, I am sad to hear of his passing. When I was at Google, Luiz and I spent quite a bit of time discussing the "Datacenter as a computer" concepts. I mostl
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Luiz Barroso Has Died(nytimes.com)
2 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|1 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
> I really don't get it. I have no insight into Australia's workings here, in California this kind of WTF can happen in the sort of situation where there is an industry that is being disrupted/destroyed by the 'thing&
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Places change and grow. It's interesting that my kids have found places that speak to them (not the SF Bay Area) and they are growing with their towns as well. One wonders if your nieces and nephews will have the same situation. There
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
From the article -- At some point, I realized that I wasn't using the right arguments either. Explaining that the software will be 'more stable' or 'make maintenance much easier' is not palpable for someone who doe
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The clue should be "Book By AI" (ie random stochastic parrots) in the URL
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This from the paper's abstract: Finally, we control for whale movement and present several pieces of evidence suggesting that the observed patterns are not artifacts, but are actively controlled by sperm whales. We also show that the
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Perhaps, but the scientists involved went from "whale songs are like groans" to "whale songs are like talking". The 'breakthrough' they were describing is that visibility into a complex, and repeatable, substru
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It is, I fully expect at some point we'll get "in game" MMORPG player characters that are emotively very very effective. The immersion level will be pretty intense at that point, especially if it's VR but even a 3rd pers
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Haven't done this. Curious though about "storage" (type 1) vs "non-voltatile data apis" (type 2). The former I think of as "open/read/write/close/delete" (and maybe truncate) the latt
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
When I read stuff like that I am a bit irritated because it doesn't inform the reader that there are much less expensive ways to "clean up" these facilities. The problem with those cheaper ways is that they lock up the nuclea

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