banjo_milkman

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   by banjo_milkman 7y ago

   Back when chip costs were reasonable, custom chips would always beat FPGAs and were an easy option for many applications but I think things have changed somewhat in the last few years with the decline of Moore's law. Now there are fewe
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   by banjo_milkman 7y ago

   The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel ; it's impossible to understand how he figured out the amazing things he did. His story is a tragedy. Locke: A biography by Roger Woolhouse ; the father of cla
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   by banjo_milkman 7y ago

   I really enjoyed the Man who knew Infinity by Kanigel. Seemed to capture the flavor of Cambridge at the time. It's a movie too, but I haven't seen it.
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   by banjo_milkman 8y ago

   Books I liked in 2018: Crashed by Adam Tooze ; history of the financial crisis, goes into more detail than most of the others The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier; lots of ideas on how to improve our situation, most of them are good, UK
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   Medical Applications Expose Current Limits of AI(spiegel.de)

   2 points by banjo_milkman 8y ago|0 comments
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   by banjo_milkman 10y ago

   Another application is accelerating DNA sequencing, the first FPGA-based cloud service on AWS?: http://www.edicogenome.com/applications/dragen-on-amazon-web... https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/12&