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by bem94 7y ago
> That way the work can be peer reviewed and the Scientific community has a chance to learn from it. After trawling through so much peer reviewed work which in their view is utterly broken, I can understand why they'd be despondent&
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Hannah Fry: “ Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath”(theguardian.com)
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by bem94 7y ago
As others have said, this pre-dates RISC-V. The author built it as a teaching / learning aid and blogs about it excellently: https://zipcpu.com/ More generally, anyone building their own CPU and architecture just for k
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by bem94 7y ago
I recently emailed the Guardian (UK newspaper) to tell them that an element of their website caused one of my CPU cores to spike to 100% utilisation while it was in view. It happened on my laptop, work desktop and phone. If you're a vi
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Nokia eliminates unexplained wage gaps(helsinkitimes.fi)
2 points by bem94 7y ago|0 comments
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by bem94 7y ago
I think it depends on how you interpret "reduced" - Does it mean reducing the actual number of instructions in the ISA? - Does it mean reducing the functionality of each instruction to it's absoloute minimum? These are simila
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by bem94 7y ago
To these I would add: lack of a rotate instruction in the base ISA, and unix standard extension groups. This makes symmetric key encryption and most hash functions much slower. The Bitmanip extension has a rotate instruction, but it should
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by bem94 7y ago
> Its almost like one of those Black Mirror episodes I'd always thought of Black Mirror as a warning or reminder to consider the wider consequences of technology. Not as a motivator to develop it faster. The thought of this kind of
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by bem94 7y ago
It's down for me (from the UK). Edit: It's back up again a min later.
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ARM CPU licensing changes – defer license payments(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by bem94 7y ago|0 comments
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Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels(arstechnica.com)
34 points by bem94 7y ago|8 comments
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by bem94 7y ago
I'd really recommend moon dust; It humanises the astronaughts wonderfully. It's easier to appreciate the affect of the moon landings on humanity , but I really didn't appreciate the profound effect it had on the humans who
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Capitalism – Not to be attacked by JavaScript community conferences(github.com)
5 points by bem94 7y ago|5 comments
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Nasa to Open International Space Station to Tourists(bbc.co.uk)
249 points by bem94 7y ago|129 comments
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Samsung Phones to Get AMD Radeon Graphics(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by bem94 7y ago|0 comments
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by bem94 7y ago
It's things like this that make me think all engineers need more training on the social consequences of the tools they build. This is an extreme case and I hope most engineers would look at this and understand how awful & damaging
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Spotted at computex: The worse fake macbook air(anandtech.com)
7 points by bem94 7y ago|3 comments
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Use of male mice skews drug research against women, study finds(theguardian.com)
50 points by bem94 7y ago|63 comments
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by bem94 7y ago
If there was one thing which was going to accelerate RISC-V development and adoption at Huawei, this would be it. Edit: Though thinking about it, even though RISC-V is an open ISA, how much could it be considered a "US origin technolog
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Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?(newyorker.com)
126 points by bem94 7y ago|69 comments
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Amazon’s Away Teams: How AWS's engineers develop their internal tech(theregister.co.uk)
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Graphcore CEO Touts 'Most Complex Processor' Ever(eetimes.com)
1 points by bem94 7y ago|0 comments
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by bem94 7y ago
Indeed. I was actually looking at very small / embedded cores which do lack SIMD. Think ARM M0/M3/RISC-V-IMC.
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by bem94 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. He has his own set of candidate submissions to the NIST post quantum competition, so throwing shade at other candidates makes a bit more sense now. I've done some analysis on one of his candidates and it w
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by bem94 7y ago
> they’re doing expected work to anyone that has any idea how this all works For sure. But lots of people dont't know how this stuff works and should not be expected too. I wonder how many average consumers of Alexa products would
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by bem94 8y ago
There's a longer curated list of general HDL languages and tools here: https://github.com/drom/awesome-hdl
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by bem94 8y ago
I have yet to hear a convincing argument for "resurrecting" the woolly mammoth. The entire enterprise seems to be an abominably cruel and misspent effort. I've heard some argue we might need to resurrect a lot of species we&#
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Nasa takes to the air to capture new images of shockwaves(arstechnica.com)
3 points by bem94 8y ago|0 comments
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Spoiler: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks(arxiv.org)
7 points by bem94 8y ago|0 comments
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by bem94 8y ago
Perhaps re-militarisation would be more accurate?

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