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by microarchitect 15y ago
Drake just pulled a bunch of numbers out of a hat and multiplied them. This is a much more serious scholarly effort.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
How do you expect this site to be used? Is this an attempt to list all the places where one has to bribe to get stuff done? Sadly, everybody knows the answer to that, it's everywhere. Is it an attempt show corruption is all-pervasive in In
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by microarchitect 15y ago
A general point to keep in mind here is that unemployment numbers are hard to compare. The best example is a country like India which has no social security net to speak of, so if you're unemployed and are not rich you will actually die of
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Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial [pdf](rsim.cs.illinois.edu)
2 points by microarchitect 15y ago|0 comments
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I don't understand why davidw has been downvoted. Ron Paul maybe a principled politician, but his views/past actions on the issues of racism, homosexuality and science and technology policy don't stand up to scrutiny. While some of his pol
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I was upset by this statement which assumes a priori that the article must be overstating his impact. Maybe it is just me, but overstating anyone's impact to this extent is disrespectful to that person. I don't claim that the article is n
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Not a mathematician, but some references I found after goolging a bit: [1] "The meaning of Ramanujam now and for the future", George E. Andrews. http://www.math.psu.edu/andrews/pdf/274.pdf [2] "The Ramanujam Journal", http://www.springer
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I've always been leery of people who are obsessed with work to this extent. If work is your only metric, then yeah, its great. I sure would love my employees to have a 'work till you die' attitude. But life != work. Or rather, life > w
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by microarchitect 15y ago
The fatalistic, egotistical and selfish attitude epitomised by women I wouldn't be so quick to judge. If you're a woman in India and a strange man asks you to try something weird that could potentially harm your body, I think you have eve
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I don't think so. The effect of DIBL is an increase in leakage current with the drain to source voltage. The first-order model I was taught in school was that leakage current not considering DIBL used to be proportional to exp(vgs-vt) but t
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I'm not convinced for the same reason I posted above. The on-current is at least an order of magnitude higher than the off-current for all technology nodes that I know of. The only way I see this having a significant effect is through the
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Hmm. In a CMOS structure with a weakly turned off device, you'd need the effective off resistance to be more than 1/20th of the effective on for the logic value to degrade by roughly 5%. Did we have such leaky transistors for 130nm/90nm wh
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by microarchitect 15y ago
This is a good example of why science isn't a popularity contest. The top voted reply makes some vague noises about vt-scaling and leakage. It then claims that we "don't get a very good "off" if the threshold voltage is too low". This is in
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How Gene Marks Could Have Done Better(isisthescientist.com)
1 points by microarchitect 15y ago|0 comments
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by microarchitect 15y ago
It gets worse. You can even get charged for receiving a text message.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
This argument is ridiculous. I don't doubt your claims about the amount of the work the two courses at MIT require. However, you're forgetting that for some of those 140 hours you're being lectured by the top professors in the area. You're
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I'm stunned by the sexism in your response. The lower bound for men is zero. Maybe it is zero for men who expect their wives to do all the parenting. It's certainly not zero for everyone else.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
If you view my assertion as "disparagement," you've inferred malice where there was none. There's nothing disparaging about what I said. Yes, the assertion points out differences between sexes, so it is "sexist." So is pointing out that wo
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by microarchitect 15y ago
The argument hasn't been debunked. I don't have the facts to back this up, but I'd guess that on average, men work more hours per year than women with the same jobs, because women tend to give birth and take care of children more than men.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Both Klein and Trunk seem to be missing the point that just because women are choosing do X instead of Y doesn't mean there's no sexism in the Y. Anyway, to me the arguments here about babies and startups are eerily reminiscent of the argum
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Sure. If the questions are stuff like define O(n) notation, you can. I suspect any company worth working for will ask you a bit more than that, though.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I'm not talking about "picking up the basics". I doubt that level of knowledge will get you a job offer from Google. I'm extremely skeptical about your claim. Just reading through the chapters will take the better part of a day. Working thr
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Knowledge on these subjects is easy to pick up, taking you a few days of study at the most. I doubt you can pick up a solid understanding of just the first 15 or so chapters of CLRS in a few months, let alone days.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Oh right. Thanks for catching that typo.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Calling this a "supercomputer" is a bit disingenuous. The most powerful supercomputer today can do 10.5 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark [1]. The 500th most powerful supercomputer can do 51 Teraflops. If the authors actually tried to meas
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by microarchitect 15y ago
When I was working for AMD, I heard from the GPU guys that one of big the reasons they weren't seeing a lot of HPC-space adoption for the Radeons was because they didn't (yet) support ECC for the DRAM.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
Are you suggesting that wikipedia should choose articles for inclusion based on what is recognizable to laypersons? I think this is rather ridiculous. We don't decide what goes into scholarly journals based on a public poll, I don't see why
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by microarchitect 15y ago
who promptly apologized Sorry, but that wasn't much of an apology for a racist slur.
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by microarchitect 15y ago
I don't know if this is a downside. First a bit of background. I come from India where they practice reservation which I think would be considered much "worse" than affirmative action over here. The way the system works is that a certain pe
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by microarchitect 15y ago
If you're referring to this graph [1], that comes from an ITRS prediction. These predictions seem to be made assuming that we'll scale feature sizes assuming everything else will stay the same, which of course, is never the case. I wouldn't

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