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by sifar 1y ago
>> And as much you want to tout IT services, overall GDP contribution is 11.47% and pharma is 1.72%. Someone has told me that the remittances from India to US is 3%. All that combines to less than 19% contributed by agriculture. That
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by sifar 1y ago
My 4a didn't have the battery issue due to GrapheneOS, however, it the screen died recently (twice), so I got a pixel 9 with GrapheneOS. But yeah, it is uncomfortable to use the phone with one hand - I miss the small sized 4a. On the
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by sifar 1y ago
Really curious about why you think programming a vector machine is so painful ? In terms of what ? And what do you exactly mean by a "true Vector Machine" ? My experience with RVV (i am aware of vector architecture history, just u
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>> an even more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better frien
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by sifar 1y ago
In Passing - Lisel Mueller How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and becom
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by sifar 1y ago
>> To me, embracing the tools and becoming an prompting expert is the way to go, rather than some Luddite-like rejection of the technology because of some offended artistic notions Your first part may be right, however using the term
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by sifar 1y ago
>> Focusing on the action, not the target is what relieves one of the disappointment of outcome. The primary reason is not that it relieves us of the disappointment, but that worrying about the outcome increases our anxiety and impact
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by sifar 1y ago
unless one uses a phone that cannot connect using Carplay/AA. (grapheneos on pixel) Like the sibling comment said, I should be able to choose to be able to pair my phone with my car.
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by sifar 1y ago
I was discussing this with my son the other day. We have a Faustian bargain with technology in general, not just computing.
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by sifar 2y ago
>>Nature is a complex system. There is no winner take all in an ecosystem. If it happens, that ecosystem collapses !! It is strange that you use this as an example yet fail to understand it fully. Nature is a complex system ... with a
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by sifar 2y ago
>> The way I see it, cash right now basically only exists so that small businesses/individuals can cheat on taxes and to keep criminals on the USD. sigh Cash is the barrier for interest rates going negative for too long. sigh
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by sifar 2y ago
>> While I strongly disagree with them, I feel an affinity and familiarity with their thinking. I have read the same books, seen the same news, and lived in the same era. I understand how they arrived where they are now. Similar , how
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by sifar 2y ago
>> Having the ability to do more, on a bigger scale. Even waste , inefficiencies ? That is setting yourself up for a big collapse too. One needs to look at it from a more resilient, sustainable perspective, like a biological system.
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by sifar 2y ago
One can use this techniques to optimize the multiplier inside the FP FMA unit. However this cannot be used to multiply two floating point numbers as FP arithmetic is not associative.
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by sifar 2y ago
I have used Karatsuba's & Winograd's Inner product [0] algorithm in my work for wide multi-simd integer multipliers and matrix multiplication HW for DSPs. The latter cuts down the MACs by half - n^3/2 instead of n^3. I th
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by sifar 2y ago
>> Behind each of the stoic virutues is a psychological position to dettach, dissociate and live in a more abstracted conceptual space. You and I have a very different understanding of stoicism. Stoicism's concept of attachment i
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by sifar 2y ago
>> that's progress, not a problem. It's a tradeoff. What we call progress is actually a tradeoff for what we value and prioritize more. It necessarily doesn't have to be good - just a state of the world we create.
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by sifar 2y ago
>> If you can slim the processes, a.k.a reduce bureaucracy, then a ton of people can be let go. Also if you let go a ton of people, processes are forced to become more efficient. Or broken. The latter has a higher a probability. This
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by sifar 2y ago
How about we re-frame it as would you rather have one person or a group of people to destroy a city or the entire planet and intelligent life on it? Would you rather be able to enslave a particular region or the entire world ? You see, we a
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by sifar 2y ago
If you are negating a single term you can't. If you are adding n terms using an adder tree, the 1 feeds to the carry in of the next level ( it is simply a concatenation since the carry term is shifted left by 1). Only thw final carry p
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by sifar 2y ago
Sure it takes a few iterations, but there is nothing inherently complex about it. You feed the partial products into a carry-save adder tree and choose a level which minimizes the delay and the extra flop area/power. I am not sure abou
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by sifar 2y ago
Interesting choice of radix-8 booth multiplier that needs the x3 circuit. Seems like a area/perf tradeoff in order to push the fmax which means they had a latency cycles constraint since the same could be achieved via more pipelining.
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by sifar 2y ago
Moore's Law is a self-fulfilling prophecy derived from the value of computation. If a given computation does not provide enough value, it might not be invested with enough resources to benefit from Moore's Law. When scaling satura
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startups.
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by sifar 2y ago
It is more efficient to compute k = xW with the weights transposed than k = Wx.
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by sifar 2y ago
I own a pixel 4a with grapheneOS - I received a couple of os updates in the last week, haven't run into this issue yet. Will see.
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by sifar 2y ago
I use GrapheneOS on my pixel 4a ever since I got it a few years ago. Installation is straightforward and it is a best of both worlds - you can install and run android apps from the playstore in a sandbox.
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It means auto-vectorization. Write scalar code that can be automatically vectorized by the compiler by using SIMD instructions
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by sifar 2y ago
even that is becoming difficult when everyone around you is getting insane.
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by sifar 2y ago
Scale.

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