Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Coinbase message are messages that only miners can embed in the blockchain.

As such most of them tend to be boring ads for mining pools, but there are a few exceptions, especially in the early days.

The cool thing about this notation is that is showed to Ciro Santilli that there is more state to a chess game than just the board itself! Notably:plus some other boring draw rules counters.

Basically what register transfer level compiles to in order to achieve a real chip implementation.

After this is done, the final step is place and route.

They can be designed by third parties besides the semiconductor fabrication plants. E.g. Arm Ltd. markets its Artisan Standard Cell Libraries as mentioned e.g. at: web.archive.org/web/20211007050341/https://developer.arm.com/ip-products/physical-ip/logic This came from a 2004 acquisition: www.eetimes.com/arm-to-acquire-artisan-components-for-913-million/, obviously.

The standard cell library is typically composed of a bunch of versions of somewhat simple gates, e.g.:and so on.

Each of those gates has to be designed by hand as a 3D structure that can be produced in a given fab.

Simulations are then carried out, and the electric properties of those structures are characterized in a standard way as a bunch of tables of numbers that specify things like:Those are then used in power, performance and area estimates.

It is not possible to see stars outside of the Milky Way by naked eye.

With telescopes however, it is possible. www.quora.com/Can-we-distinguish-individual-stars-in-other-galaxies-or-would-it-be-equivalent-to-say-we-know-there-are-other-forests-of-stars-galaxies-but-we-cant-tell-the-individual-trees-stars-What-is-the-farthest-individual/answer/Jerzy-Micha%C5%82-Pawlak contains an amazing answer that mentions two special cases of the furthest ones:

But what we can definitely see are globular clusters of galaxies. E.g. the article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87 basically gauges the size of galaxies by the number of globular clusters that they contain.

Can you imagine when those guys started to see moons in other planets? They must have shat bricks. What better evidence can you have that the geocentric model could be wrong?

Ciro Santilli likes this.

He doesn't have the patience to actually watch full episodes with rare exceptions, rather just watching selected scenes from: www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeIGY2DIjpGf0A2m9GSE3g, but still, it is interesting.

What appeals to Ciro in this series is how almost nothing is solved by violence, almost everything is decided in the bridge, at the "cerebral" level of the command structure. This reminds Ciro of a courtroom of law sometimes.

Maybe there's also a bit of 90's nostalgia involved too though, as this is something that would show on some random cable channels a bored young Ciro would have browsed during weekends, never really watching full episodes.

One crime of many episodes is being completely based on some stupid new scientific concept, which any character to back it up.

Another thing that hurt is that due to their obsession with the senior members of the crew, sometimes those senior members are sent in ridiculously risky operations, which is very unrealistic.

Episodes that Ciro watched fully and didn't regret:

Semi worth it:

Not worth it:

Stefan Hell was really excited by this as of 2023.

Instead of shining a light over the entire sample to saturate it, you illuminate just a small bit instead.

He was basically saying that this truly brings the resolution to the actual physical limits, going much much beyond 2014 Nobel prize levels.

The literal Chinese name says it all: "Fake Mountain". The stones evoke the feeling of the beautiful rock mountains of China.

The term "奇石假山" (qi2 shi2 jia3 shan1, lit. "weird shaped stone fake mountain") is also used, almost as a synonym by many people, since the stones are often chose in interesting shapes. Choosing the right stone is basically an art form in itself.

The stones used are generally limestone, which as a sedimentary rock is weaker, and more likely to be eroded into interesting shapes.

Had hardware acceleration in mind from the very start, and for a long time that has meant GPU acceleration.

The interface is a bit annoying, but the tool is really cool.

100 cycles of matrixprod:man stress-ng gives the list of possible --cpu-method. It documents matrixprod as:

If you don't specify the --cpu-method it apparently loops through every method one by one.

Limit time to 1s instead of limiting cycles: