"Processor-in-Memory", is an age-old idea which was even explored in a doctoral thesis from 1998: "Computational RAM: A Memory-SIMD Hybrid"*. At the time, the motivation was, "Between a DRAM chip and a microprocessor…
The only way to achieve this is to either put a runtime software check on a variable whenever it's assigned/used, or to literally add hardware support in processors themselves which literally throws an interrupt when a…
Indeed, this is a problem for an energetic student who has free access to every tool in the Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor portfolios: take the GDS-II layout, run it through extraction, generate a netlist, convert to…
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Great project & article. Beyond the use of verilog, I couldn't find a description of the EDA stack. What tooling is used for the physical stages of design: place & route, LVS, DRC, and electrical circuit simulation…
> I don't get how this is unique to GPU clusters It isn't, and you're right. This is just a long-winded article by someone who thinks they've come across a deep, crucial insight. I witnessed a bank foreclosure stemming…
There is no substance. It's navel-gazing dribble. The "about" section of the website is equally vacuous: SmolNero is a philosophical startup rooted in first-principles thinking. We explore how humans relate to…
If there weren't "clear owners," who was approving code changes for merge? Every other major arm of Microsoft has been tasked with burdensome controls over tracking any and all production changes to source code, but…
3000 words which can be distilled down to 10: "Cream and egg yolk are expensive; industry tightens its belt."
> It really wasn't a bad operating system It was a wonderful operating system. It provided consumer desktop essentials (Plug & Play, DirectX 7, ACPI power management, Windows Driver Model (WDM), and support for consumer…
Looking at the categories should tell you what happened (lifestyle & fashion, finance, travel, parenting, food & recipes): They moved to Youtube/Instagram/TikTok for better reach, a larger, total audience, and improved…
I think you are taking an excessive interpretation of what was suggested. Let's level-set on the issue: Of late, GH has suffered a continuous stream of noteworthy outages. It is hypothesized the underlying cause of the…
> would break the entire model The "model" - GH effectively allowing an overload of their infra - is already broken > How would a random kid in a 3rd world country ever get noticed enough to enter a trust circle By…
I think Clearmotion has a very interesting technology and product (ride stabilization), but let's paint a full picture here: the company was founded in 2009, took on $370 million in funding, and only recently landed…
Yes. But, looking at BRCM/AVGO's stock chart, I may have made a mistake.
Yes, that's the issue: the (thick) solid grey "major axis" lines on the background seemed to be a wire. If I could make a recommendation, get rid of the grid lines entirely and only have 'dots' at regular spacing.…
I worked on deep sub-micron, full custom mixed-signal integrated circuits for more than a decade, and I can't pass the first level. > Wire an NMOS transistor so that when In is 1, the output is pulled to ground (0).…
They certainly have, but the general idea is to first use stealth jets to bomb defensive systems (including radar observability) to conquer the skies, and then you can fly around somewhat freely. While SAM technology…
During the entire gulf war (Iraq, 1990-91), only two F-15s were shot down via surface-to-air engagement. At the time, Baghdad was known to have the highest density of SAM protection out of any city in the world. An F-15…
> The Claude C Compiler illustrates the other side: it optimizes for > passing tests, not for correctness. It hard-codes values to satisfy > the test suite. It will not generalize. This is one of the pain points I am…
> All it really shows is that the “poor” are getting milked for everything they earn and own How are you concluding that? The only way I can see that could be true is if the bottom 50% has shifted their meagre savings…
> Whenever a new layer of abstraction is added LLMs aren't a "layer of abstraction." 99% of people writing in assembly don't have to drop down into manual cobbling of machine code. People who write in C rarely drop into…
> [Synology] comes with dedicated Time Machine support Your umbrance is with Synology, not Apple. Apple raised security default configurations in Tahoe. That led to a config breakage with NAS devices which rely on…
Acknowledged. Thanks for pointing that out.
It's a hand-waved estimate, but let's recognize that Apple actively plans on killing support for NAS targets for Time Machine: > Time Machine backup to NAS devices over Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is not recommended and…
"Processor-in-Memory", is an age-old idea which was even explored in a doctoral thesis from 1998: "Computational RAM: A Memory-SIMD Hybrid"*. At the time, the motivation was, "Between a DRAM chip and a microprocessor…
The only way to achieve this is to either put a runtime software check on a variable whenever it's assigned/used, or to literally add hardware support in processors themselves which literally throws an interrupt when a…
Indeed, this is a problem for an energetic student who has free access to every tool in the Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor portfolios: take the GDS-II layout, run it through extraction, generate a netlist, convert to…
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Great project & article. Beyond the use of verilog, I couldn't find a description of the EDA stack. What tooling is used for the physical stages of design: place & route, LVS, DRC, and electrical circuit simulation…
> I don't get how this is unique to GPU clusters It isn't, and you're right. This is just a long-winded article by someone who thinks they've come across a deep, crucial insight. I witnessed a bank foreclosure stemming…
There is no substance. It's navel-gazing dribble. The "about" section of the website is equally vacuous: SmolNero is a philosophical startup rooted in first-principles thinking. We explore how humans relate to…
If there weren't "clear owners," who was approving code changes for merge? Every other major arm of Microsoft has been tasked with burdensome controls over tracking any and all production changes to source code, but…
3000 words which can be distilled down to 10: "Cream and egg yolk are expensive; industry tightens its belt."
> It really wasn't a bad operating system It was a wonderful operating system. It provided consumer desktop essentials (Plug & Play, DirectX 7, ACPI power management, Windows Driver Model (WDM), and support for consumer…
Looking at the categories should tell you what happened (lifestyle & fashion, finance, travel, parenting, food & recipes): They moved to Youtube/Instagram/TikTok for better reach, a larger, total audience, and improved…
I think you are taking an excessive interpretation of what was suggested. Let's level-set on the issue: Of late, GH has suffered a continuous stream of noteworthy outages. It is hypothesized the underlying cause of the…
> would break the entire model The "model" - GH effectively allowing an overload of their infra - is already broken > How would a random kid in a 3rd world country ever get noticed enough to enter a trust circle By…
I think Clearmotion has a very interesting technology and product (ride stabilization), but let's paint a full picture here: the company was founded in 2009, took on $370 million in funding, and only recently landed…
Yes. But, looking at BRCM/AVGO's stock chart, I may have made a mistake.
Yes, that's the issue: the (thick) solid grey "major axis" lines on the background seemed to be a wire. If I could make a recommendation, get rid of the grid lines entirely and only have 'dots' at regular spacing.…
I worked on deep sub-micron, full custom mixed-signal integrated circuits for more than a decade, and I can't pass the first level. > Wire an NMOS transistor so that when In is 1, the output is pulled to ground (0).…
They certainly have, but the general idea is to first use stealth jets to bomb defensive systems (including radar observability) to conquer the skies, and then you can fly around somewhat freely. While SAM technology…
During the entire gulf war (Iraq, 1990-91), only two F-15s were shot down via surface-to-air engagement. At the time, Baghdad was known to have the highest density of SAM protection out of any city in the world. An F-15…
> The Claude C Compiler illustrates the other side: it optimizes for > passing tests, not for correctness. It hard-codes values to satisfy > the test suite. It will not generalize. This is one of the pain points I am…
> All it really shows is that the “poor” are getting milked for everything they earn and own How are you concluding that? The only way I can see that could be true is if the bottom 50% has shifted their meagre savings…
> Whenever a new layer of abstraction is added LLMs aren't a "layer of abstraction." 99% of people writing in assembly don't have to drop down into manual cobbling of machine code. People who write in C rarely drop into…
> [Synology] comes with dedicated Time Machine support Your umbrance is with Synology, not Apple. Apple raised security default configurations in Tahoe. That led to a config breakage with NAS devices which rely on…
Acknowledged. Thanks for pointing that out.
It's a hand-waved estimate, but let's recognize that Apple actively plans on killing support for NAS targets for Time Machine: > Time Machine backup to NAS devices over Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is not recommended and…