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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)
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Wolf480pl · 1w
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Wolf480pl · 2w
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Fabian Giesen · 2w
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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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Wolf480pl · 2w
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Wolf480pl · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpu3ryltaaqjym9gj5fpcv623edtfh2vuvrtcd8pz75p6nlyt0nrqwf22w0 should've seen that coming... oh, and IBM 360 was an out-of-order machine with register renaming? anyway how is this dealt with in contemporary uArchs?
Fabian Giesen · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0cq07ulfyc7y2l8rczk9s36g8j65tq3m6xk9us8hr3ua4ktfmaqq05h6ty 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 (whic...
Wolf480pl · 2w
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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.

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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.
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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
aeva · 4w
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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)