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brooksbp

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    Comment #42715365

    Is there a resource for what to do before an event like this?

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    Comment #41151328

    Also agree that asking for academic papers seems to increase the potential for hallucination. But, I don't know if I am prompting it the best way in these scenarios..

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    Comment #40415648

    Are you really high performance if you can assess the situation but elect to quit instead of influence it?

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    Comment #39451032

    Do you use it to project manage Dart itself?

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    Comment #37642403

    I'm still waiting for the day Google Assistant can answer "what time does Home Depot open in the morning?" GA: "I found 3 locations, which one?" Me: "The closest one" GA: "I found …

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    Comment #36803615

    I would like to think that integrating reconfigurable logic into chips will help. But, no idea if the economics makes sense. And, the ecosystem around managing that pretty much doe…

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    Comment #36803229

    How much better do you think a new codec needs to be to make it all the way to mainstream? 2x? 10x?

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    Comment #36004744

    Why are there so many Mini SMP (?) connectors on the board? (video time 1:21)

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    Comment #35809784

    super wide AXI-Stream busses?

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    Comment #35145443

    I can already see the "Avoid bumpy roads" option right next to the "Avoid tolls", "Avoid ferries", ...

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    Comment #34769389

    It's not almost always bullshit. People just can't grok that their management does not agree that they're performing as stellar as they think.

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    Comment #34436282

    You burnt out because you ate too much free food?

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    Comment #34243176

    Wow. That was hilarious to read.

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    Comment #34234273

    Sometimes I read text like this and really enjoy the deep insights and arguments once I filter out the emotion, attitude, or tone. And I wonder if the core of what they're trying t…

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    Comment #34001134

    Make Unreal Tournament great again!

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    Comment #33955412

    Tuning Tx/Rx for NRZ can be challenging. PAM4 is going to be fun.

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    Comment #33817942

    Ah, so if the model is just converting input text into output text, it can really learn how to do just about anything? But, there may be certain aspects of model design that make i…

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    Comment #33817279

    Thank you for sharing this! I am currently studying NLP.. Along the way, I've been struggling with a question and I hope someone can help me understand how to go about this: how wo…

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    Comment #33796806

    > I'm personally not a fan of such a situation but it's a reasonable one in today's world. Not a fan even in today's world. Example: The house next to mine sold for $300k 2y ago. T…

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    Comment #33791081

    I suspect you're talking about the case where the peripheral issues a memory read request and you want the coherence protocol to return the value from CPU cache via snoop instead o…

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    Comment #33788858

    > everyone in the biz was super secretive [..] even stuff that I would take from [..] (which were public knowledge) It's not just Finance but other industries have this culture as …

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    Comment #33788681

    Performance is a shiny toy that attracts and distracts many from understanding the fundamentals. Interestingly, understanding fundamentals is a pre-requisite to understanding perfo…

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    Comment #33788442

    The author starts with the premise that all abstractions are leaky and then proceeds to show this in the context of using Tailwind. OK..

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    Comment #33788383

    This is one of the things I enjoy most about learning things in different domains. Most of the time it looks so foreign because of.. language. But often the concepts and ideas are …

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    Comment #33774559

    The section on memory management describes a lot of work the runtime has to do to track ownership and copy memory around. Would shared virtual memory greatly simplify this?