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by nynx 5y ago
There are some technologies that should not be created.
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by nynx 5y ago
Unrelated to the rest of your comment, but risc-v does not have variable-length instructions. It has compressed instructions, but they're designed in such a way to be easily and efficiently integrated into the decoder for normal instru
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by nynx 5y ago
You could totally design a chip that runs some cellular automata or another, but there's not much point aside from it being cool.
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by nynx 5y ago
Harrowing.
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by nynx 5y ago
Yeah, std is actually just stuff re-exported from core + some more stuff.
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by nynx 5y ago
This isn’t exactly correct. A TPU can probably multiply two matrices per clock cycle, but it most likely takes a few hundred cycles for a single operation to be performed. This is similar to how a modern cpu can execute many instructions pe
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by nynx 5y ago
200ns, not 200ms
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by nynx 5y ago
I'm certainly not a fan of Go, but I suspect generics will result in the language and ecosystem getting better. I'm not personally a fan of the go generics syntax because I find braces and parentheses to be visually similar, but I
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by nynx 5y ago
There is an obvious answer to that: Newton's laws match our observations of reality, ignoring relativistic effects. Scripture is written by someone to reflect their opinions. They often have truths in them, but they're just a stor
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by nynx 5y ago
This isn’t really convincing. Newton and Maxwell were incredibly important, but they also lived quite a while ago. Religion has a different role in society these days.
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by nynx 5y ago
I'm not sure what else you could trust in. Even if a christian god exists, the bible was written by humans, copied over and over by humans, and translated by humans.
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by nynx 5y ago
Most people have a completely different mental framework than you and have more evidence-based ways of deciding whether something is good or not.
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by nynx 5y ago
Mathematica is amazing, but I wish it were open-source.
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by nynx 5y ago
Could you expand on this? There are many economic/political systems in which people have more freedom than in capitalism.
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by nynx 5y ago
Source: I'm an undergrad doing research in neuromorphic computing. A lot of information about SNNs misses a lot of recent findings on the effect of astrocytes on the dynamical state of the network. If you look in the recent literature
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by nynx 5y ago
Most risc-v cpus stick to the standards, so I'm not worried.
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by nynx 5y ago
Wow, that CTO sounds psychopathic. Nothing in that conversation required him to shout or (pretend to) get angry. I have no respect for people that use violence, even verbal, to get their way.
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by nynx 5y ago
This is what decentralization is about, not crypto.
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by nynx 5y ago
This is correct. They keep a low profile.
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by nynx 5y ago
Portability of software is a language problem. Some languages make it extremely easy. Others, like C and Go, make it difficult to be correct across all platforms.
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by nynx 5y ago
Just link the paper instead of this article.
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by nynx 5y ago
Yes, the simd extension has the flexible vectors thing. I don't think it has a way to treat simd vectors as bigints.
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by nynx 5y ago
If this really is an issue, I imagine risc-v could easily get an extension for adding/subtracting/etc simd vectors together in a way that would expand to the capabilities of underlying processor without requiring hardcoding.
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by nynx 5y ago
It’s a GPU.
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by nynx 5y ago
I hope this happens. The world needs more collaboration, especially in pandemic response.
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by nynx 5y ago
Oops, you're already using a R* tree!
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by nynx 5y ago
Yeah, by computing on the gpu (or by using a spatial partitioning system like a quad-tree), you could probably speed that up massively.
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by nynx 5y ago
Awesome! Now you gotta port it to wgpu and run the simulation on the GPU!
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by nynx 5y ago
That's exactly what I mean.
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by nynx 5y ago
Certainly, modern CPUs are pipelined, but each clock cycle is still the worse-case time for all steps in the pipeline.

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