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I liken it to the Ikeaficiation of furniture. To a great majority, such as my college self, it was preferable and desirable. As I've made more money, I've wanted something better. …

> Enabling new business models This is true, but only for the bigger players. The nature of hardware still fundamentally favors scale and centralization. Every hyper-scalar eventua…

"Nothing happened for y2k" energy

One of many things that bums me out about AI is whether content I create will be truly appreciated by humans, or will just be fed back into the algorithm. I often wonder how exactl…

While I definitely agree CEO pay is quite egregious, in theory, to mitigate short-sighted quarterly earnings hyperoptimization, couldn't a board simply tie equity incentives to per…

If you favor genuine free trade, how do you view the protectionist measures that Reagan put on Japanese car imports in the 80s?

Recent research from Killingsworth and Kahenman in 2023 [1] highlights that those most already happy have their happiness accelerated by money, while those most unhappy have their …

> In the late 1960s annual inflation approached 7%, more than double the economic predictions utilized in the original plans back in 1962. From mid-1967 onward, the system fought o…

East of Eden by Steinbeck really changed my college mindset on what it means to be "good" and "evil", "right" and "wrong". It's really hard to describe what the book's about. It's …

Hopefully this is not too tangential, but it's something that's been on my mind a bit recently. When you had kids (or I guess anyone who is considering having kids), did you ever f…

I'd like to work on my writing skills. Some mix of nerdiness and personal Journaling. https://dynomight.net/ is a website that I'm quite inspired by, as it's a interesting mix of p…

I've definitely had this thought about this sort of openness that RISC-V inherently promotes. Sure, anybody can make a RISC-V CPU, but who really has the capabilities to verify the…

I love San Mateo downtown :(

Best teacher I've ever had, hardest exams I've ever taken :( :(

>> The SEC simultaneously charged the following eight celebrities for illegally touting TRX and/or BTT without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so and the amount of …

Speculation on this exact term, but for a few years now within the ML world, there's this notion of "attacks on neural networks" [1], [2]. That is, forcing the model to output a "b…

I know its fun and popular to trash on SGX (and Intel specifically) but one thing I feel is that, in the hardware world, we don't really have the tooling infrastructure nor methodo…

In California property tax is also fixed based off purchase price (thanks Prop 13, love it or hate it) so one could pay ~1% on 1M at 7% vs 1.5M at 3% and then simply refinance the …

Little did I know I had been getting ripped off by my parents for years! $1 a tooth? I demand reparation.

The concept of "inflating debt away" is an assumption that wages match inflation while debt stays static. This is a fair assumption in low inflation times, but is showing some crac…

Thanks for the quick answers. Third Q-- What's your opinion on BTI as a possible mitigation? Given it's an v8.5 feature meant for JOPs, and this attack is essentially a speculative…

Hi Joseph! Go Illini! I didn't see you my last semester but I'm glad to see Chris's members doing well in the world. Also always love Mengjia's work. 2 questions. 1) it's relativel…

Personally, I believe it can be fixed via key rotation (e.g. there are 3 inputs to the PAC algorithm. The pointer, a "modifier", and a "key" e.g. APIAKey_EL1). I would have added t…

> The second argument is the one I always hear around the mathematics department: mathematics helps you to think clearly. I have a very low opinion of this self-serving nonsense. I…