texse

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   by texse 6y ago

   If someone can round up 51% of Bitcoin's miners and hold them at gunpoint, then they have full control over Bitcoin's rules. Well over 51% of bitcoin mining happens in China, so Xi Jinping can probably change Bitcoin's rules
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   by texse 6y ago

   Technically FLP impossibility only applies to deterministic algorithms, not randomized ones, otherwise no consensus protocol would work. So you could imagine a complicated technical solution that could work (eg. treating everything as a big
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   by texse 6y ago

   These instructions are not for the Neural Engine. That is a separate hardware block outside of the CPUs. Apple refers to this feature as "AMX" in their marketing documentation. While AMX could be used for deep learning in a pinch
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   by texse 6y ago

   Most recent tape standards have multiple "bands" and "wraps" placed in parallel. The head reads only one wrap at a time, so it takes many passes to read the whole tape. For example an LTO-8 tape has 52 wraps each within
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   by texse 6y ago

   It may be interesting to look at a more completely labeled die image (eg. a recent AMD laptop chip [1]). I/O controllers, various PHYs, the display pipeline and the media engine account for a significant fraction of chip. We also know