Amazon custom silicon Updated +Created
Like Google custom silicon, Amazon server operations are so large that with the slowdown of Moore's law, it started being worth it for them to develop custom in-house silicon to serve as a competitive advantage, not to be sold for external companies. Can you imagine the scale required to justify silicon development investment that is not sold externally!
AMD CPU Updated +Created
They have been masters of second sourcing things for a long time! One can ony imagine the complexity of the Intel cross licensing deals.
AMD GPU Updated +Created
Cluster decay Updated +Created
Jerry Sanders Updated +Created
Video 1.
AMD Founder Jerry Sanders Interview (2002)
Source. Source: exhibits.stanford.edu/silicongenesis/catalog/hr396zc0393. Fun to watch.
Monarchy of the United Kingdom Updated +Created
Procedural AI training game Updated +Created
We define a "Procedural AI training game" as an AI training game in which parts of the game are made with procedural generation.
In more advanced cases, the generation itself can be done with AI. This is a possible Path to AGI which reduces the need for human intervention in meticulously crafting the AI game: AI training AI.
Tensor Processing Unit Updated +Created
Transcendental number Updated +Created
Alternating and direct current Updated +Created
aws-cli Updated +Created
Chordate Updated +Created
Chordate is a sad clade.
You read the name and think: hmm, neural cords!
But then you see that his is one of its members:
Yup. That's your cousin. And it's a much closer cousin than something like arthropods, which at least have heads eyes and legs like you.
LGM-30 Minuteman Updated +Created
Ah, the choice of name, both grim and slightly funny, Dr. Strangelove comes to mind quite strongly. Also Fallout (franchise).
Video 1.
The $130B Plan to Replace the U.S.’s Nuclear Missiles by The Wall Street Journal
. Source.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151835im_/https://minutemanmissile.com/images/HICSCableCloseUp.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151835im_/https://minutemanmissile.com/images/HICSCableSplicerTwo.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151835im_/https://minutemanmissile.com/images/HICSCableConnectivitySchematic.jpg
Lisa Su Updated +Created
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Natural language processing Updated +Created
An impossible AI-complete dream!
It is impossible to understand speech, and take meaningful actions from it, if you don't understand what is being talked about.
And without doubt, "understanding what is being talked about" comes down to understanding (efficiently representing) the geometry of the 3D world with a time component.
Not from hearing sounds alone.
Biasing Updated +Created
Nested set model Updated +Created
This is particularly important in SQL: Nested set model in SQL, as it is an efficient way to transverse trees there, since querying parents every time would require multiple disk accesses.
As a tree:
As the sets:
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|  Root 1                                                                  |
|   ________________________________    ________________________________   |
|  |  Child 1.1                     |  |  Child 1.2                     |  |
|  |   ___________    ___________   |  |   ___________    ___________   |  |
|  |  |  C 1.1.1  |  |  C 1.1.2  |  |  |  |  C 1.2.1  |  |  C 1.2.2  |  |  |
1  2  3___________4  5___________6  7  8  9___________10 11__________12 13 14
|  |________________________________|  |________________________________|  |
|__________________________________________________________________________|
Consider the following nested set:
0, 8, root
  1, 7, mathematics
    2, 3, geometry
      3, 6, calculus
        4, 5, derivative
        5, 6, integral
      6, 7, algebra
  7, 8, physics
When we want to insert one element, e.g. limit, normally under calculus, we have to specify:
  • parent
  • index within parent
so we have a method:
insert(parent, previousSibling)
Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem Updated +Created
As mentioned at Video "Are we living in the matrix? by David Tong (2020)" somehow implies that it is difficult or impossible to simulate physics on a computer. Big news!!!
Once upon a time in the west (1968) Updated +Created
Has the best opening scene of all time.
Top quotes:

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