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Again, depends… I have appreciated my seniors’ notes in some textbooks - especially where the book itself isn’t clear.

Learning and figuring out the meter and rhythm of a new passage? If you don’t have someone who knows to chant it for you… Besides, it’s a fun exercise, so why not?

Wealth is not finite, but it does have to obey physical limits and real world implications. If person A takes a piece of lumber and carves it into a dresser, and person B, seeing t…

Of course. But, 1. So are most other encyclopaedias, and most don’t even give you references or citations for an article 2. We are literally decades from that point now. Surely you…

TBH, "Don't trust anything on Wikipedia" was always just stuck up posturing. Plenty of badly sourced, badly edited and biased articles in regular encyclopedias too, but because Wik…

These were big in India until the mid-90s. I recall one book of "tales from the Baltic states" which we had at home. There were others, but I can't remember the titles very well. A…

But all of those things are an agreement with consideration; a "license" is a permission to use some property. If not a patent, what is the "thing" that the farmer is licensing fro…

What I don’t understand is, _how_ it doesn’t depend on a patent right. How do you license something that doesn’t depend on a licensable right? If it isn’t a patent right, exactly _…

Comparing nodes across foundries is a kind of a coin toss. At least, from the name. You actually need to go into the specifics of the pdk and process to understand what features th…

Correction: it’s not stacking. They do things like FinFET (turning the gates in the third dimension) and gate-all-around which increases the density of transistors per unit area. B…

It’s not merely a “gaming vs data center“. There’s so many other places DRAM and NVM are needed - mobile, automotive, other consumer electronics,… the current situation is that _al…

Yes. It provides a prior for Bayesian analysis if nothing else.

Yes, actually. This is similar to having a 100 year flood five years in a row. It doesn’t mean that the flood occurs only once in 100 years. _On average_ it’s 1/100 probability of …

Of course they didn’t. The delta-v needed to land the rockets is better expended in pushing the craft further. Reusable rockets isn’t always the best choice.

Is 12 enough of a sample size to make a statistical judgement? What if there were 20 more which didn’t have a loss of life? Is it then 1/30? What if there were 20 more? The risk fa…

How are you/they instructing those agents? If you are writing detailed spec.md and reviewing those results, you are _still_ programming. Just in pseudocode effectively. I’ve seen e…

Remember that the defender has home team advantage. That’s precisely what you see happening both in Iran and Ukraine. That advantage exists with Taiwan. There’s a reason that China…

That analysis requires discovering what the US’s objectives were. Not sure we can…

The key here is “could be”. But most four (or in my case, six) year olds can’t really grasp the abstract concepts of what JWST is or the data it’s sending back. For that matter mos…

They’ve changed it so III isn’t landing. That will be IV apparently.

Hi, CEO of Mindgrove here! Good to see that we're being noticed. But we all still need to deploy (in scale) to make anything worthwhile.

> The name, yes, but going by name is a bad idea as the V in AVX also stands for Vector. Now I get your point after reading more of the linked page. Yes. It is very implementation …

As sibling said, stripped down in the sense it doesn’t have dedicated registers. In terms of supported functions it’s somewhere close to MMX. I don’t personally like it because it …

It _is_ RISC-V Vector extensions, so a very specific ISA in mind at the very least. There's another extension (not ratified I think) called Packed SIMD for RISC-V, but this isn't a…

Technically it’s a retroflex approximant [1] and is found in many places (often not as a separate character or phoneme). But I think we’ve hijacked a cultural thread with enough ph…