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by yosefk 10y ago
In terms of performance/power or per dollar, GPUs are only good at graphics - if you're doing deep learning, for instance, GPGPU will lose to almost any other accelerator, Google's TPU is one example, FPGAs are another, a DSP
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by yosefk 10y ago
I'm not personally opposed to Tensilica "dying", especially if it doesn't involve Cadence dying, since they are a (somewhat indirect) competitor from my point of view, but ARM is not a substitute for Tensilica. You can&#
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by yosefk 10y ago
I don't think it's inertia. I think RAM is fundamentally very useful, and that's why it's not going away. You want to store data somewhere if you access it more than once, it has to be a large array of cells if it's
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by yosefk 10y ago
GPUs are much closer to von Neumann machines than to anything people typically deriding the latter have in mind (such as say the Reduceron architecture.) Every commercially significant accelerator, GPUs included, has a RAM, often multi-bank
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by yosefk 10y ago
I'd rather configure the FPU to flush denormals to zero. As to slow scripting languages - TFA was talking about determinism. A slowish scripting language could give you deterministic runtime, at least as deterministic as C or assembly
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by yosefk 10y ago
Torvalds on memory ordering and clever compilers ( http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/memory_barriers.html ): "Compiler people tend to think that people want smart compilers. I as a compiler power-user can emphatic
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by yosefk 11y ago
I guess I like Rust (certainly more than I like C++), but I agree with you, and disagree with both sister comments, in that I think type systems do introduce artifacts which are then defended as "the right thing actually if you think a
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by yosefk 11y ago
The letter demonstrates foresight, not hindsight; a very long list of equally severe and plausible warnings is needed to make the point that one is unlikely to single out this one letter without the benefit of hindsight.
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by yosefk 11y ago
Writing code that breaks if someone changes the type of the collection is not a bug in any sense that I ever saw the word used in. At most it's a failure to make the code as pliable as one might desire it to be - but the author is not
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by yosefk 11y ago
I think that apart from the specific problem of not knowing what's clickable and what's the consequences of clicking, which we have right now, there's the more general problem that we're having all the time and that is t
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by yosefk 11y ago
I program for a living and I know why sites need "cookies", and still, for me most software really really sucks. Just because I can figure out how each and every new cell phone works doesn't mean I want to, similarly for
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by yosefk 11y ago
Even though it's beside the point, I personally was born in Russia. A lot of Russian journalists opposing the government were murdered, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya When you deman
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by yosefk 11y ago
Erm... your definition of "free" and "good" ought to be fairly unusual to believe that statement. I think the likelihood of a UK journalist to be murdered by the UK government is 10000x smaller than the analogous probabi
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by yosefk 12y ago
Hebrew (and I'd guess Arabic and other right-to-left languages) work rather badly in Unicode when it comes to bidirectional rendering; however, to the extent that it's a result of Israeli/Egyptian/Saudi/etc. compani
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by yosefk 12y ago
Taking the square root of a negative number removing all the files in your home directory could be "well defined and clearly documented behavior". Would you blame the API author at that point or would it still be strictly your fau
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by yosefk 13y ago
Sure it's a universal language. It's also a simple one that I talk myself and I don't need anyone's help with. I'm at a mixed AI/semiconductor company. We don't need brilliant minds explaining us the obvio
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by yosefk 18y ago
Perfect score.