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by theresistor 6y ago
Depends entirely on the field. Different fields have different conventions.
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by theresistor 6y ago
You generally don’t have dynamic memory allocation on such a system. All memory will either be statically allocated globals, or on the stack. Some systems even require stack allocation to be statically determined, which means no recursion.
93.
by theresistor 6y ago
That’s just moving the composition between hardware and software - the equivalence still applies. I can build any logic (software) function out of a function that evaluates NOR.
94.
by theresistor 6y ago
NOR (like NAND) is a universal logic gate. You can build any other logic gate out of just NORs. For this ALU, you’d presumably write a subroutine that computed XORs in terms of NORs, and then use that as a primitive for building an adder.
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by theresistor 6y ago
Reference to Neal Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell"?
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by theresistor 6y ago
LLVM's interpreter is atrociously slow. It's only really meant for debugging LLVM itself.
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by theresistor 6y ago
Apple's cores are self-designed rather than licensing the full core from ARM. It's akin to Intel and AMD both designing cores for the X86 architecture.
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by theresistor 6y ago
I’m the opposite. I can’t recall a single example of a novel I have read in the present tense.
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by theresistor 6y ago
There’s nothing VLIW-like in Thumb or Thumb2. It’s just a more compact encoding.
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by theresistor 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they're rendering a depth channel and compositing it in.
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by theresistor 7y ago
I don't think that chart actually reflects Moore's Law well, because it doesn't normalize for total area. Many of the chips listed, especially at the high end, are very large but not especially dense.
102.
by theresistor 7y ago
Cyan’s latest game, Obduction, is quite good in VR.
103.
by theresistor 7y ago
Jim Keller went back to Intel in 2018.
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by theresistor 7y ago
The input stream for an SNES isn't very complicated - just the state of a few buttons at every cycle, and the transition edges are quite sparse relative to the clock frequency. You could easily record human play sessions and replay th
105.
by theresistor 7y ago
> They're comparing their algorithm's accuracy (solution correctness vs. incorrectness), with Mathematica's ability to find the correct solution in less than 30 seconds. This is a very important distinction! I had the same
106.
by theresistor 7y ago
It’s just a variation of arena allocation. You allocate everything for the current frame in an arena. When the frame is complete. You free the entire arena, without needing any heap walking. A generational GC achieves a similar end result
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by theresistor 7y ago
I would be very interested to learn more about this if you have any pointers.
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by theresistor 7y ago
The limiting factor on competitive deck building is Rare / Mythic Rare availability. Lower rarity cards simply aren’t as powerful, and the availability is high enough for them that they’re almost never an issue. As you open random car
109.
by theresistor 7y ago
No. Chris is working in the AI/ML space, and specifically commented in this thread that he is not involved with this project.
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by theresistor 7y ago
Would you be willing to share an order of magnitude?
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by theresistor 7y ago
As someone who works on low-level CPU performance code, everyone I work with "knows" that Bulldozer was a performance dud for most use cases. This article about Zen starts with an overview of why Bulldozer failed to deliver: htt
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by theresistor 8y ago
> 2D-dead-reckoning for regions of the video frame That is, in fact, how video compressors work. It's called motion estimation.
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by theresistor 8y ago
My favorite fake was a very plausible looking professional headshot... with a patchy 5 o'clock shadow. The GAN behind this clearly hasn't figured out that while well-groomed beards are acceptable in headshots, patchy shadows are
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by theresistor 8y ago
If podcasts are substantially more popular with Apple device users than they are in the broader population, it is entirely possible.
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by theresistor 8y ago
50 million copies, not $50 million. Assuming an average selling price of $30 and a 30% storefront cut, that’s about $1 billion in revenue.
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by theresistor 8y ago
Rather than stalling while waiting for long running operations (like accessing main memory), it executes unrelated operations while waiting for them to complete. Performance gains are dependent on the details of the design, but are pretty
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by theresistor 8y ago
I would say the opposite. Achieving fusion power is so critical to the long term sustainability of human technological civilization that we cannot afford to put all of our eggs in one basket, and hope that we picked the right one.
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by theresistor 8y ago
Reversals are completely normal for cyclic tidal currents or sea breeze / land breeze cycles.
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by theresistor 8y ago
Swinging about an anchor under the force of wind or currents would tend to make a circular arc.
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by theresistor 8y ago
At a guess, 1980 marked the rise of the "Christian right" / "religious right" as organized forces in conservative politics. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority was founded in 1979, for instance.

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