stefanpie

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by stefanpie 3y ago
This personal account resonated with me since I also had some personal experiences in both the "math competition" and "competitive high school" world up until I graduated high school in ~2018. --- I went to a middle scho
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by stefanpie 3y ago
If you look under Casio's website under the category of "Standard Scientific Calculators" ( https://www.casio.com/intl/scientific-calculators/standard-m... ) they have some calculators where you can s
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by stefanpie 3y ago
To add to this this, many of the aspects that make MRI's uncomfortable for kids and even adults is all the physical sensations. Even the claustrophobia can get to many adults if they have never been in one of these machines. Also aspec
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by stefanpie 3y ago
At Emory university I got to see a cool idea to help kids get comfortable with MRI machines. Some Georgia Tech students built a fake MRI machine (a realistic mechanical structure with a sliding bed) that kids could still get into. The cool
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by stefanpie 3y ago
This is my advise to people who ask me for advise when applying to PhD / graduate school for research. The advisor is probably the only other main factor besides finances and any other personal constraints. If you have a great advisor
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by stefanpie 3y ago
Wow, people seem to like my EDA submissions :) Another aspect, at least what I have experienced, is that these tools are built on top of themselves and layered over older versions of themselves, making the code base fragile and hard to work
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VLSI Physical Design(ifte.de)
55 points by stefanpie 3y ago|26 comments
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by stefanpie 3y ago
I think there is a big difference between published academic tools that work on a specific benchmark format versus an academic tool that has been integrated into a robust EDA toolflow. Also, note that dreamplace is simply accelerated electr
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by stefanpie 3y ago
Awesome, thank you for the details and looking froward to the work with more funding! I have yet to look into the details of nextpnr and this is a great set of of resources for me to get started. I am working on some "deep learning for
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by stefanpie 3y ago
That is correct, VPR's placement is done using simulated annealing. See section 8 of this paper ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3388617 ), the originals VPR paper ( https://link.springer.com
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by stefanpie 3y ago
For some context, Verilog to Routing (VTR) [1] is a framework for open-source FPGA synthesis, implementation, and FPGA architecture exploration/modeling. The core of VTR is Versatile Place and Route, also known as VPR (a little confusi
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Verilog to Routing(verilogtorouting.org)
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ECE6133: Physical Design Automation of VLSI Systems(limsk.ece.gatech.edu)
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by stefanpie 3y ago
I've work with GNNs. I have not explicitly looked into this, but in general, the dynamics of GNNs are really interesting and there are many different lenses in which one can study the behavior of GNNs and find interesting takeaways. -
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by stefanpie 3y ago
This is a story I had no idea about until recently and happens to overlap with conferences and topics of my research. I started my Ph.D. a few years after all this went down, but it's still shocking to think this happened in a field I
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Timeline of the alleged ISCA 2019 peer-review incident(pbzcnepu.net)
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by stefanpie 3y ago
I wanted to share a library I have been using for multi-objective optimization that I think deserves a bit more visibility. I've found Pymoo to be the best and most modular library to experiment with evolutionary algorithms and custom-
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Pymoo: Multi-Objective Optimization in Python(pymoo.org)
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by stefanpie 3y ago
For those who may not know, Tom and Ray are mechanics who were the hosts of the Car Talk radio show that aired on NPR from 1987 to 2012 (edited past episodes are still aired online weekly I think). The radio show would take listener calls a
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Ray and Tom Magliozzi, MIT 1999 Commencement Address [video](youtube.com)
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by stefanpie 3y ago
Another approach to neural-based data representation / encoding / decoding is Implicit Neural Representations (INRs). For INRs, you overfit a neural network, typically a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)[1], to a single data point. For
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by stefanpie 3y ago
I don't know to what extent you can self-verify your own system based on proof code you also write yourself. However I do know this topic of merging AI, Deep Learning, and proof assistants is an up and coming research area. I mainly fo
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by stefanpie 3y ago
Although I never committed to my high school's FRC team, the approximately half year I was in it was invaluable to me due to one of the senior students in charge of the electronics sub-team. They realized I was eager for anyone to teac
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by stefanpie 3y ago
This is also an unfortunate coincidence, as today is Georgia Tech's first day of classes, and the institution's Single Sign-On (SSO) for almost all its services, such as the Canvas LMS, registration, and the Bursar, is based on Du
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by stefanpie 3y ago
Interestingly, I went into this article thinking that "guess culture" would mean something along the lines of guessing what others want or what the right thing to do is, executing it, and revising after the fact based on feedback.
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Chaucer's description of a grad student from 600 years ago(fpgacpu.ca)
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Mastermind Solver(stefanabikaram.com)
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NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)(jeremykun.com)
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I tired to check the price, but unfortunately this is only available for professional members and not student members. Edit: although most STEM universities provide access to O'Reilly, I would have been very interested in the Pluralsig
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by stefanpie 3y ago
Wow, I'm impressed. I've been toying around with some prototypes to use AI and LLMs for hardware / chip design but at the HLS level using C++ rather than the HDL level using Verilog. This domain is just over the edge of what

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