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by faragon 9y ago
In my case, the Qualcomm 835 SoC Kryo cores, for tuning code for a 3-way OooE ARM-v8 ISA CPU.
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by faragon 9y ago
That was my thought, too. E.g. a zeppelin-like drone could fly forever.
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by faragon 9y ago
The future: ultra-light drones with 90% of its weight being batteries of charging during day time, so they can be operative at night. Flying 24/7, forever (e.g. zeppelin-like).
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by faragon 9y ago
That matches my experience. With auto-vectorization you get some speed-up helping the compiler (not always obvious, often requiring +1 increments, etc.), but for full speed you need to do handwritten SIMD intrinsics. I would like to have at
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by faragon 9y ago
Why Ransomware authors are not yet in jail? /cc FBI CIA BND MI5 FSB
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by faragon 9y ago
I would buy one, if those devices are open enough for dual-boot with Linux and/or boot Linux from USB.
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by faragon 9y ago
Auto-vectorization is hard. Very hard. E.g. even in C/C++, the compiler (e.g. GCC C/C++ or MS VC/VC++) is unable to vectorize loops unless you help it a lot , and in most cases, you end writing SIMD "intrinsics" (e
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by faragon 9y ago
Yes, but faster.
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by faragon 9y ago
LZ4 is beautiful.
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by faragon 9y ago
Why Apple don't ban bloated/underperforming software?
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: all you need is love.
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by faragon 9y ago
Way to get better C++: write code that everyone could understand.
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by faragon 9y ago
Not necessarily, e.g. if the takeover has a prime high enough for matching previous stock price. Or buying IT for cheap, without using any of their chips, just for having their patents.
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by faragon 9y ago
My bet: Apple will buy Imagination Technologies.
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: wheat beer ("weiss beer" in German) was already made in China 5.000 years ago.
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by faragon 9y ago
My bet: WeChat will accept Apple requirements.
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by faragon 9y ago
How volatile human behavior can be.
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: watching the movie "Taxi Driver" you'll learn more about about human behavior than reading that article.
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by faragon 9y ago
33% faster encoding x264, at what price? Ryzen 7 1800X: $499, Core i7-7820X: $599 (+20% over Ryzen). You can also cherry-pick tests where the Ryzen gets better performance or better performance/price, and not just tests involving AVX u
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: Intel is having hard time to keep up against AMD. It reminds me the Pentium 4 era, when Intel had to push clock and power consumption to crazy levels [1] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11550/the-intel-sky
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by faragon 9y ago
Can someone explain how if the PS4 (without "pro") with its 2 GFLOPS is not able to run complex games at 1080p at 60Hz, while the the XBox One X, with just 6 GFLOPS, is marketted as able to render games at 60Hz in 4K? Note that 4K
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by faragon 9y ago
Is the "new Microsoft" going to allow running Linux in that device? I would buy one, in that case.
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by faragon 9y ago
I can not agree more. Most people should not write threaded code at all.
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by faragon 9y ago
Does anyone know any significative achievement made by Mayer in Yahoo?
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by faragon 9y ago
I would like to know if can be proven that NN for problems involving permutations can be as efficient as a SAT solver, less, or more efficient (e.g. if using the training just as a acceleration avoid learning futile permutations works for s
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion, "Software Engineering" has two main problems: - Incompetent management. - Incompetent programmers. Incompetent management, because of "sky is the limit" effect, pretending being some Steve Jobs or similar,
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by faragon 9y ago
Intel will not threat Microsoft, not even indirectly, in my opinion. Rationale: once Apple starts shipping desktops and laptops with ARM chips, the only safe port for the expensive x86 chips would be Microsoft (desktop and server market) an
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by faragon 9y ago
"The same number may also be obtained in a simpler way by taking Roman numerals."
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by faragon 9y ago
"Intel carefully protects its x86 innovations, and we do not widely license others to use them."
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by faragon 9y ago
The 2009 figure is not the year, but a result (the PDF [1] has the Copyright set in 1999) (Cray I + IBM 801 + RISC II + Clipper C300 + AMD 29K + Motorola 88K + IBM 601 + Intel i960 + Alpha 21164 + POWER 2 + MIPS R4000 + Hitahi SuperH4 + Str

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