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Iverson answered this in his Turing Award acceptance lecture, which is literally linked in OP's article: https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...
You're free to disagree with him, but you need not wonder why!
The blogpost is discussing exactly what you gain (and lose) when arrays and functions fit this strict definition, allowing a unification of the syntax and possible compiler optimizations. I think the point they're making is exactly that having only a loose equivalence between arrays and functions might be a programming status quo that could be holding us back from a higher level abstraction.
If you actually read the article you'll see that the type of arrays and functions they're talking about are not necessarily the types you'll find in your typical programming language (with some exceptions, as others noted) but more in the area of pure math.
The insights one can gain from this pure math definition are still very much useful for real world programming tough (e.g. memoization), you just have to be careful about the slightly different definitions/implementations.
Whether storing (arrays) or computing (functions) is faster is a quirk of your hardware and use case.
I'm not quite sure what process they run there but I believe it was an acquisition 10+ years ago, not built from the ground up by them.
Edit: their Japan fab is also a mature node so not very relevant here. And their Arizona fab is a very very small portion of their volume and with far worse margin.
I doubt it, a majority owned subsidiary is usually passed through for many legal purposes.
I've found ADI still has some great educational material, although that's partly because they've been better at maintaining their webpages from the 90's and 00's, not because they're putting out much new material.
But, really, I just took the opportunity to talk about Jim Williams and his magnum opus that is AN47!
Wishing you good luck!
I conjecture that this is, at least partially, caused by modern people being more isolated and even when they do socialize there's less "third spaces" to get together with friends so someone ends up having to host the superbowl watch party in their apartment, for example.
Trump has made it clear he wants a cheaper dollar to make US exports more competitive and JPM is forecasting another 10% drop in the value of the dollar this year.
Just because the dollar and euro have been roughly level for over a decade doesn't mean that will remain true, currencies often go through pretty fast changes in relative values every few decades as their financial and geopolitical positions change. The pound drop around 2007~2009 is a good example of one such sudden but long term price shift.
That's fair but I'll also point out that pan-Germanic (including Nordic) ancestry is actually the majority in many Midwest and West coast states, while the northeast is obviously very Anglo. So you can get a very different impression depending where you spend your time.
No they aren't. Even if you narrow it down just to white Americans, British ancestry is almost even with German and does not hold a majority once you include Irish, Italian, etc. [1]
I don't blame you for thinking they are tough, as Anglo culture and language has been unusually dominant, probably because the original 13 colonies were very Anglo and the whites that trickled in later largely assimilated. "Albion's seed" is an interesting book on this topic.
[1]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-d...
Edit: British doesn't usually denote an ethnic group so I took it to mean Anglo, but if you take it to mean Anglo+Celtic then it would indeed make a majority of whites in the US due to the very large Irish population.
Who's "we"? There's been quite a lot of pushback on this naming scheme from the OSS community, with many preferring the term "open weights".
We've already reached the point where GAI art is extremely difficult to distinguish from human art and at a fraction of that cost.
I'd say that's pretty objective and it's hard to even leave room for subjective interpretation when it's so hard to tell them apart.
> Also, analogies are almost always weak rhetorical distractions.
I wasn't trying to start a discussion with them. To say GAI will never be better than humans at art when we already know what we know today isn't a good faith logical argument, it's a tautological appeal to emotion.
Kings have Chebysev geometry while Rooks have taxicab geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry#See_also
It's left as an exercise for the reader to figure out the geometry of the remaining pieces.
This Veritasium video does a great job at explaining how such skewed priors can easily appear in our current academic system and the paradox in general: https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q?si=c56F7Y3RB5SBeL4m
The AFG31k is a brand new design from the ground up and it still has GPIB! And it's far from an isolated case, GPIB has a strong network effect, pun intended.
Mil/gov customers are still die-hard GPIB users and that's a major sector for T&M sales.