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by buildbot 1y ago
Does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_PSoC Count? I’ve kinda wanted to try one out but have 0 use case…
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by buildbot 1y ago
Right, but decode compexity doesn't matter because of the giant BTB and such. At least that's what I understand.
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by buildbot 1y ago
All the various bits that get tacked on for doing prefetch and branch prediction all are fairly large too, given the amount of random caching, which often is what people account for when measuring decode power usage I think. That’s going to
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by buildbot 1y ago
With a signed kernel and secure boot it should in principle be similiar to Windows 11? But with DMA based hacks on the rise I'm not sure it matters either way.
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by buildbot 1y ago
Which amusingly, also serves as a stable API for Windows now too.
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by buildbot 1y ago
How so? I also find randomness profound but not sure what you mean but not belonging in the materialized world. Particle decay/Radiation is a pretty random process I believe?
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by buildbot 1y ago
I have this issue intermittently just when walking around, at sea level! I can make them start screaming just by holding them even - The Airpods 2 do not have the same issue.
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by buildbot 1y ago
I did not realize xorshift no longer as favored! Permuted Congruential Generators seems very cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permuted_congruential_generato...
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by buildbot 1y ago
I have had similar experience, with ZFS zstd dropped IOPs and throughput by 2-4x compared to lz4! On a 64 core Milan server chip…
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by buildbot 1y ago
Makes sense, given that allegedly Windows NT is very much next gen OpenVMS... https://www.itprotoday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-...
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by buildbot 1y ago
Ooo also, there is the RMC in some HP Alphaservers
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by buildbot 1y ago
XSCF - Fujitsu/Oracle SPARC (I wonder how they got that acronym)
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by buildbot 1y ago
You can hear some modern GPU/CPUs (well really their power electronics) when they get heavily loaded! With training runs it makes a little beat and you can tell when it checkpoints because there’s a little skip. Or a GPU drops off the
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by buildbot 1y ago
It makes sense when applied across multiple instances of a test, if one cohort does terribly curve up, one really well curve them down relative to the overall distribution of scores. But yeah within a single assignment it makes no sense to
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by buildbot 1y ago
Oh this is really soothing - and my cat is really intrigued by all the bird and other noises! Edit/warning - Wow the thunder is loud!
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by buildbot 1y ago
These are truly incredible images - really worth a look.
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by buildbot 1y ago
Yes, I'm questioning if that's the foundation of intelligence. Says who?
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by buildbot 1y ago
"So I fired up a fresh Claude instance (fun fact: Code Interpreter also works in the Claude iOS app now, which it didn't when they first launched) and prompted: Create a zip file of everything in your /mnt/skills folder&
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by buildbot 1y ago
The industry has been doing RL on many kinds of neural networks, including LLMs, for quite some time. Is this person saying we RL on some kind of non neural network design? Why is that more likely to bring AGI than an LLM?. > More specif
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by buildbot 1y ago
Wow, there’s so many levels of investigation and depth to getting this device opened. The short section on the eSIM seems like a story in of itself! Somewhat incredible people have this much dedicated focus.
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by buildbot 1y ago
I for one cannot wait for my nuclear powered steering mechanism. The reactor is of course used to generate steam pressure to actuate the steering arms, the car is powered by normal batteries.
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by buildbot 1y ago
It can be exact or not! Depends on the kind of sampling you are doing. You can do exact verification, and as soon as a token mismatches you reject everything after that token from your draft. Relaxed acceptance techniques measure how wrong
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by buildbot 1y ago
Yeah I personally agree it’s not quite the same as if the pacific ocean was coming up 527 meters before hitting the shore :)
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by buildbot 1y ago
Yeah that'll happen when a good chunk of a mountain basically drops into your body of water, lol: "The large mass of rock, acting as a monolith (thus resembling high-angle asteroid impact), struck with great force the sediments at
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by buildbot 1y ago
Would you hire a PhD to copy URLs by hand? Would them having PhD make it less likely they’d make a mistake than an high school student doing the same?
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by buildbot 1y ago
I feel they are mutually inclusive! I don’t think you can meaningfully create new things if you must always be 100% factually correct, because you might not know what correct is for the new thing.
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by buildbot 1y ago
Not really. A RISC design can have very complex timing and pipelines, with instructions converted to uOPs (and fused to uOPs!) just like X86: https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm.html Caches can be fast and ve
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by buildbot 1y ago
Apple probably pays a lot less than Qualcomm? They have a unique (details unknown) license. They have a license to 2040 now too: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/06/apple-inks-new-deal-arm...
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by buildbot 1y ago
This is not really true. For example, an Apple M1 has firestorm cores that are around 3.75mm^2, and a zen3 core from around the same era is just 3mm^2 (roughly). I can make a silly 20 wide arm cpu and a silly 1 wide x86 cpu and the x86 will
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by buildbot 1y ago
Very cool! Catapult/Brainwave is what got me into hardware & ML stuff :)

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