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by phkahler 2y ago
Yeah but they did pass some flame down much of the tower. Pretty quick though, probably just cleaned it with fire.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> For example that list in the case of quantum mechanics was Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Erwin Schrödinger. Those were not the only people wo
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by phkahler 2y ago
I like her message, but some of her recent videos have me a little worried about her. She seems on the edge of a breakdown at times.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I've been working on how to formulate that idea clearly for a while. It is a problem that goes well beyond physics. It's a really fundamental thing in psychology. The solution is something like the destruction of the ego,
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by phkahler 2y ago
That's why we need a row of ALUs in RAM chips. Read a row of DRAM and use it in a vector operation. With the speed of row reading, the ALU could take many cycles per operation to limit area.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Every half-competent software engineer... You meant 8192/16384 right? I like q14.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> The firmware usually runs on processors without hardware floating point units. I'm working on control code one an ARM cortex-M4f. I wrote it all in fixed point because I don't trust an FPU to be faster, and I also like to
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> A serious language designer.... That's why I put "language developer" in quotes.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> It's interesting that you mention Rust, since Rust takes backward compatibility quite seriously; I mentioned Rust because the memory safety guarantees are a significant new thing for a language like that. I forgot about "
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by phkahler 2y ago
In the air traffic example it's required so everyone on the radio can understand everything going on around them.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I fail to see how this is even being considered. To me it stinks of an ego-centric person thinking they're a "language developer" and knowing better than the actual users of the language what's best for them. Ju
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Sadly the article didn't get into power draw too much. They covered power quite a bit, but claimed the biggest power draw comes from memory access. I got the impression they were blaming AMDs increased memory bandwidth on thei
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by phkahler 2y ago
I thought there were 8B people which makes it even less. I need to turn in my brain card!
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> There are a finite number of poor countries. At the rate wealth is being generated it is conceivable that they all get wealthy enough that the waste gets handled well. This waste was dumped. The fact that poor people moved to the d
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> 59 million tons is a cube 390m on a side, or a square pile 10m high and 2500m on a side. It's also 118 pounds for every person on earth. That seems really high for e-waste.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Oh you changed countries in there too! That explains it ;-)
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Cortex-M4F has an FPU, i.e., hardware floating point support Maybe I wasn't clear. I know it has an FPU. I originally wrote the code in fixed point because I knew it would be fast and didn't trust the FPU performance on s
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by phkahler 2y ago
I just converted a big fixed point algorithm to float on Cortex-M4f. It runs very close to the same speed, but significantly more readable. In the fixed code I used straight c but wrote functions for sin, cos, and reciprocal square root. I
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Yup, switched from embedded (on high-speed trains), to modern backend, x4 my salary. These comments leave me confused. My Michigan based understanding would have you both poorly paid for embedded work and obscenely paid for backend
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> but when software is essential to your system, you should have that team at the table in your planning and budgeting efforts. I like to tell them that software should be on the BoM even though the marginal cost in $0.00. Having it
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> so I would like to hear what kinds of projects and challenges people who may have actually been employed doing work like this have come across. I've been in and out of embedded for over 25 years now. Mostly in. Some things I&#
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by phkahler 2y ago
The kids kite is flying backwards....
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> A user of an LLM might give the model some long text and then say "Translate this into German please". A Transformer can look back at its whole history. Which isn't necessary. If you say "translate the following
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> These models are very small even by academic standards so any finding would not necessarily extend to current LLM scales. Emphasis on not necessarily. >> The main conclusion is that RNN class networks can be trained as effi
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by phkahler 2y ago
That sounds reasonable. But sometimes I have a bunch of signals with some of them being pairs, so having a dark and light version of the same color helps to see them together. Does this work with adjacent rainbow colors as well?
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Step 2: >> Avoid any CLI tool that uses escape sequences for 8bit or 24bit colours by default. I was going to point out that the author never takes a step back and asks "What would be the best way to handle this?" T
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> For example, an AI diary manager can only organise your diary if it can access that diary, edit it, and retain information about your activities. Edit a diary? Retain the information? A diary IS a log of information as understood a
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by phkahler 2y ago
Maybe employers are just believing the hype from companies like OpenAI. The student responses seemed spot on to me. They need to learn the material and how to do their job, not chat with a bot.
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by phkahler 2y ago
I don't think that's unhinged. One might think the emulation must contain a subset of the state variables of the universe. But if there are no state variables that problem goes away. I have reason to believe there are no state var
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by phkahler 2y ago
And if it passes through our Oort cloud, we might be passing through its Oort cloud!

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