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Agree that code size is a significant potential issue, and that going out to memory to reprogram the fabric will be costly. Re: pointers, I should clarify that it’s not the indirec…

Sure. You can think of a (simple) traditional CPU as executing instructions in time , one-at-a-time[1] — it fetches an instruction, decodes it, performs an arithmetic/logical opera…

Precisely this. And don’t forget about bugs in virtualization layers/drivers — ZFS can very often save your data in those cases, too.

In my opinion, the biggest problem with Apple’s external displays is their 60 Hz refresh rate. That’s half of what their own iPhone (!) and MacBook pro models support, and is a far…

H.T. Kung’s 1982 paper on systolic arrays is the genesis of what are now called TPUs: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/1982-kung-why-s...

It has been reviewed by the author’s peers — it was accepted to ISCA ‘22.

The Landauer principle states that any computation involving information erasure (e.g., taking the hash of blocks) must correspond to some nonzero increase in entropy, which would …

Proof-of-stake can never achieve the same trust model as proof-of-work. Proof-of-space-and-time can. See Andrew Poelstra ‘15: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/on-stake-and…

This script is really nice: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install It sets up systemd and iptables and generates all certs and keys and wraps them up into tidy, per-client .ovpn fi…

I found this out the hard way a month ago when I updated my hackintosh from 10.13 to 10.14. Never assume, even several weeks after a macOS release, that working Nvidia drivers will…

ARM needs to get some skin in the accelerator game before RISC-V et. al. commoditize its cash cow. NVDLA is fairly permissively licensed (free for commercial use), but of course Nv…

https://pastebin.com/CmxE4Z5Y Maybe half of this year's final projects focused on serverless/AWS Lambda, with another significant portion on hardware acceleration for cloud workloa…

After what Sony did to Geohot, I must say that I have zero sympathy for them (as an organization) here. Obviously, the leak of personal data (SSNs, etc.) is a different story.

Scott Aaronson has done some work regarding CTCs and quantum computers: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf Apparently, in the presence of CTCs, quantum computers are no mo…

95/100. I thought the second-to-last was hardest. Serif/sans-serif didn't make as much of a difference as I expected.