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> You're right! That sequence does brick Voyager 2's CCS. Let's try ....

It says in the rules > Trapped/emulated/virtualized instructions may only time the trap, not the handler. But I feel like that 12ms write to an ACPI IO port at current leaderboard …

Well, in more formal terms, cosmology has the 'cosmological principle'[0], which is a conjecture that at large enough scales, the universe is universally isotropic and homogenous w…

I think that's more a result of our incomplete/inconsistent scanning.

To be fair, the 6502 is very dense, and very hand optimized. Modern systems tend to use "standard cells" for logic which is a lot more digestible.

The main pirating route at the time (a device (oh which there were several) that sat under the N64 and had either an Iomega Zip drive or a CD drive for holding ROMs), had a port fo…

Yeah, the full SDK leaked decades ago when the system was still economically relevant to Nintendo.

FWIW, interpreted languages living on top of a native code engine has been a pretty common theme throughout. It goes back to early PC days (when PC meant IBM, Apple II, etc), where…

IDK, a lot of the emulators I've seen and a couple I've written will visit that. Not everything is built on simple traces, but a lot of the time will translate more complex graphs …

Giving my payment info Oracle feels like giving matches to an arson.

> took a day - who knows why I bet they want to see the test payment work it's way through the system, which given the number of midnight batch jobs that still exist in banks means…

I mean, every major arch has crypto specific acceleration instructions.

If anything, Mach style IPC has gotten worse because of the greater overhead if kernel/user transitions. Spectre really did a number on context switching overhead.

Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137060

Yes, but even farther back. Apparently the Pentium Pro team was forked off to work on Itanium in the mid 90s. At that point a GPU was at best just the rasterizer and ROP phases fro…

It apparently works with https. Weird. Quite a journey to figure that out. https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590a/06au/proj...

So I feel like I need to write a blog post about this, but succinctly I think there's a good argument to be made that the issue wasn't the compiler despite popular wisdom. I don't …

There's more to open source than reproducibility. For instance introspection which is even more important with weights since detection of backdoors in models is NP hard IIRC.

It's also mapped into the address space so there's very little extra latency in grabbing the embedding as opposed to something like nvme that will have to setup a command list, sub…

Depending on where you slice the model up, it can be not a whole lot of data. For instance each transformer block outputs a single vector in an embedding space. I can see that bein…

You might be interested in IBM's archival digital storage on microfilm format from the early 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360

The output is a probability distribution for all potential tokens. Then a "temperature" is applied to weight the sampling randomly (unless the temperature is zero in which case the…

Or just perform a form of distillation, where you don't actually change the hyperparameters, but maybe shift around the embeddings or something. You could even have another model w…

I'm a security researcher. "Garbage" isn't the same thing as random noise. I have looked at the entropy graphs of encrypted data commonly. It's one of the first things I look at wh…

You didn't generally need to manage the ALAT as a programmer. You can, in the same way that you can manually manage reservation station port residency as a programmer in an OoO cor…