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turbo_wombat

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    Comment #45310819

    One of the big changes in the post war era was that immigration was massively opened up in 1965. From 1924 to 1965 the US had very restrictive immigration laws, which led to labor …

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    Comment #45119814

    The original version of Ultima I was written in a mixture of BASIC and assembly. BASIC is pretty slow, but most BASIC implementations let you call into optimized assembly routines.…

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    Comment #45119741

    They are comparing unoptimized PyTorch inference, something you would never deploy on a device, to a model with custom kernels. Yes, of course the model with custom kernels is fast…

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    Comment #44990285

    You are asking why save Intel of all chip manufacturers, and the answer is because there aren't any other major chip manufacturers in the US. AMD no longer has a fab. TSMC dominate…