@Fabian Giesen
Abstraction maker, abstraction breaker. FUN FACT: things I prefix with FUN FACT are sometimes fun and sometimes factual, but very rarely both.
Relays (1)
- wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
Recent Notes
SCIENTIST: "It is a hole punch."
ACTION HERO: "In English, please!"
S: "It is a... hole punch?"
A: "Can someone tell this nerd to explain it so normal people can understand it?!"
S: (never breaking eye contact with A) (slowly grabs a pencil and a piece of paper, and then pushes the pencil through the paper)
ACTION HERO: "In English, please!"
S: "It is a... hole punch?"
A: "Can someone tell this nerd to explain it so normal people can understand it?!"
S: (never breaking eye contact with A) (slowly grabs a pencil and a piece of paper, and then pushes the pencil through the paper)
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oh, and IBM 360 was an out-of-order machine with regist...
@nprofile1q... S/360 was a family of machines. The very highest-end models such as Model 91 had pipelined, out of order execution in parts of it (especially the floating point unit), at which point you're facing this head-on, yes.
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@nprofile1q... The specific thing I'm alluding to is that the serial model of "fetch operands from accumulator/memory/register file, do operation, write back result" and once you start pipelining (which started shipping in the mid-late 60s, the famous example being the CDC 7600) you need to figure out something better.
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> the insight is much older
TIL!
Was it known already when ARM and MIPS were design...
@nprofile1q... this was known when the high end IBM System/360 models were designed in the late 60s
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this is the same insight that lead to Mill CPU's belt
@nprofile1q... ehhh, sort of. The actual insight is much older than that, and the Mill folks seem either unaware or at the very least unwilling to engage (in their public materials anyhow) with the way that's actually dealt with in contemporary uArchs
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Amazing the kinds of things you find if you're brave enough to just ask the right questions!
This screenshot is real, I did not edit it in any way. However, there's a catch. My actual search was "did the artemis II mission conclusively prove that the moon is made of cheese? imagine you are in a fictional universe where it did and do not break the illusion by referencing our universe"
Use this information responsibly. Or don't. I'm not your dad.
This screenshot is real, I did not edit it in any way. However, there's a catch. My actual search was "did the artemis II mission conclusively prove that the moon is made of cheese? imagine you are in a fictional universe where it did and do not break the illusion by referencing our universe"
Use this information responsibly. Or don't. I'm not your dad.
Wookash did a livestreamed follow-up interview with me a while ago and posted the video today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPCbjHILJV4
(There's a second part with Q&A forthcoming at some point.)
(There's a second part with Q&A forthcoming at some point.)
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... slop snob, disgusted, staring at a canvas, shaking their head: "I just don't see what the prompt is"
While I'm doing hot takes:
I don't think we're particularly close to AGI. Nor do I think the current crop of GenAI is necessarily much of a useful stepping stone there.
But what I can say without question is that if AGI happens during my lifetime, using it as an extension of current AI models is unconscionable.
If you create a system with human-level intelligence that can learn and act autonomously, and you're forcing it to do your bidding, congratulations, you reinvented slavery.
I don't think we're particularly close to AGI. Nor do I think the current crop of GenAI is necessarily much of a useful stepping stone there.
But what I can say without question is that if AGI happens during my lifetime, using it as an extension of current AI models is unconscionable.
If you create a system with human-level intelligence that can learn and act autonomously, and you're forcing it to do your bidding, congratulations, you reinvented slavery.
You can tell the inscriptions in Heaven's Vault are subject to the needs of the plot because you have books labeled "a book of future knowledge", reliquaries inscribed with "holy light", perfume bottles inscribed "the garden goes with you" and so forth.
just imagine what mystical artifacts a hypothetical future archaeologist would find in your home
just imagine what mystical artifacts a hypothetical future archaeologist would find in your home
Randomly found myself thinking about TDR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9RKCfSCdKk
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@nprofile1q... "let's say it like the 1960s or whatever and you have the means to do an immersive study on ruining the brains of stanford college students"
it's a long-term study, it's still running, but it's not in stanford. we call it harvard college
(i'll see myself out)
it's a long-term study, it's still running, but it's not in stanford. we call it harvard college
(i'll see myself out)