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I completely agree with this observation. In fact, you can use this to your advantage to save time. During the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Blizzard released "Classic" World of…

Would a public/private signature for videos work in solving such fakes? If not, why not?

I've started playing around with the idea of building a better retirement/goals investment calculator/tracker for Indians. The retirement calculators available online are almost fa…

Two posts from Astral Star Codex * A THRIVE/SURVIVE THEORY OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM [1] - Still the best theory on the conservative/liberal divide. It changed how I view the conse…

I wasn't aware of this. The model actually works great since I've personally accessed multiple papers from INRIA/IRISA from the HAL archives.

I can't really comment on the tradeoffs between specific ISAs since I've mainly worked on micro-arch research (which is ISA agnostic for most of the pipeline). As for the questions…

I can't comment on the economics of it but I can comment on the technical difficulties. The issue for x86 cores is keeping the ROB fed with instructions - no point in building a hu…

Yes. TAGE still does better than perceptron, but combining the two is likely to give you the best performance currently. Of course, all this is dependent on area allocated to the p…

I'd say most vegetarian Indian food has the problem of excess starch and carbs. One potential reason for the wide prevalence of diabetes in India.

While this is completely valid advice, it might not be applicable with junior faculty who may not have graduated many students. I chose my advisor (who was as assistant professor a…

I've heard this view echoed by friends who've visited China (I'm Indian). A major reason for this difference might be the fact that China opened up its markets in the late 1970's w…

Remember that x86 (and SPARC) offer the strongest memory ordering guarantees among modern processors. The POWER and ARM memory models are weaker than x86. This actually leads to co…