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trebligdivad

1,542 karma · joined December 25, 2017

Chocolate eating, linux programming geek from Manchester, UK
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trebligdivad··on Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture
I'd assume it does some type of calibrate per device (regularly?) or the design is such that it's differential so things cancel out. Note it's also on 28nm for the analogue bits because yes it's harder.
trebligdivad··on Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
They couldn't really - I doubt Iron Mountain actually objected to giving the data, but in the end it probably wasn't in a position to know what data belonged to PBS and what belonged to other clients of OSS and you'd get very worried if a data storage company gave a companies data to someone else without authorisation.
trebligdivad··on A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
That was the belief - but it was found it was possible to grow E.coli on non-chiral molecules that are commonly available. The worry then is that the immune system will ignore the wrong-chirality infection.

See p.14 of https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/cv716pj4036/Technical%20Rep...

trebligdivad··on Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
This bridge - does it actually support host PCIe->thunderbolt->PCIe device - my reading of it is that it's just handling USB commands that the bridge is turning into separate PCIe commands to the GPU?
trebligdivad··on Z.ai Security Disclosure
The translation of that page says the origin of th earliest bug found was 1981 - wth was that?
trebligdivad··on Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes
Thanks; I hadn't realised the 803 used a mix - what was the choice of which to use for a particular circuit?
trebligdivad··on Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes
The Elliott 803 computer (a little later) also used magnetic core logic; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_803

Not sure if the principal is similar or not. (There was one down at the Bletchley computing museum many years ago when I went down)

trebligdivad··on Assembly Hall of Shame
Yeh that's a really nice one; I don't see anything in that suggesting it's been fixed (or even reported?)
trebligdivad··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
What, even if it means you can run models without relying on the currently backlogged DRAM production?
trebligdivad··on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
The question is how far can they lower it while still claiming to have still provided the 'always free' - I mean can they reduce my nice free VM to 32k of ram and a 1/1000 of a core and a byte of bandwidth/month?
trebligdivad··on Holocloth
Whoever did it - very nicely done!
trebligdivad··on Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Haha yes that was a very silly mistake on their part; they should at least have registered the domain they were targeting; that would actually have been a good canary - any real accesses should set off an alarm. While I knew of .example I didn't know .test - hmm that's quite nice!
trebligdivad··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
They are different opportunities for thieves; airport parking has an advantage that the owners are expected to be away for a while, and, if someone is involved in the parking then they know they may be away for lets say 2 weeks. So then the thief thinks if they can steal the car soon after they arrive no one will notice for ~2 weeks by which time it's in a container on the otherside of the world.
trebligdivad··on London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service
The car.
trebligdivad··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
So is it that normal looking parking area or is that a multi storey behind the places they show in the video?
trebligdivad··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
Well that's why I ask - a lot of 'secure' airport parking suffers from people stealing from it.
trebligdivad··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
I wonder what their secure parking area looks like.
trebligdivad··on OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries
TIL of 'townland' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland - a subdivision mostly in Ireland and Scotland. (While I looked up UK)
trebligdivad··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
Yes, once I can put in the delivery details something like '7 medium size bananas, with no bruising, varying in ripeness from almost ready to still slightly green' and let a robot at the other end sort it out I'll be happy.
trebligdivad··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
The initial grouping of 'pack of organic bananas' with individual bananas feels like a wrong number in the pack problem; eg we typically want one a day so want to buy 7 in a weekly shop but the pack size is 5.
trebligdivad··on IBM is on pace for its worst day ever
The EPS was a lot lower than expectation though - and I thought that was the only reason people held IBM shares, they've not traditionally grown quickly but IBM has traditionally done anything it could to get a good EPS. The other more techy side is to think that a year or so ago when everyone was climbing on AI, people were buying stocks in lots of tech companies to ride that wave; some companies (Nvidia, Samsung, Micron etc) are making a fortune from it. IBM? It's got some things it can point to it's doing in AI but it's not the big beneficiary of this wave.
trebligdivad··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
Well I wouldn't pay for it to be idle; if you want to ensure you have the ability to do it, then you buy some proportion of it's potential output at their increased costs; but while that's happening you work on all the reasons it's more expensive.
trebligdivad··on Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
That might have been a bargain if you could have done it during peak Covid. Having the capability to make them is worth a lot in resilience.
trebligdivad··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
Yeh I don't know why the emphasise the 'neural engine' - it's their stonking RAM bandwidth that just blows everything else out of the water.
trebligdivad··on Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels
The 1937 construction picture with the horses is a great contrast of technologies.
trebligdivad··on Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]
Nested virt on x86 is curiously painful; you'd kind of think each layer would be isolated, so that the L0 (hardware) would only have to worry about it's VM (L1), and L1 would have to worry about it's VM (L2); but nope - the L0 top level hypervisor sees faults from the L2 and has to figure out that they are actually L2 not L0. IMHO the extra complexity (and historical flakiness of it) - makes me say that enabling nesting is a bad idea for public VM hosts.
trebligdivad··on The first early human eggs from stem cells
As I understand it, that they've gone back to the point of making the ovary and the egg itself is going through Meiosis helps here, because it's got the randomness of picking genes between the pair of chromosomes in the source. So it's not just a clone; it's a little more natural than if they tried to produce the egg directly.
trebligdivad··on The first early human eggs from stem cells
Very impressive work!

(Hmm, I wonder if this can be done for chicken eggs)

trebligdivad··on Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time
I love that it's a 'tape' - I assume in reference to the early telegraph tapes/tickers: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33749...
trebligdivad··on Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography
Do you need to fit that many sensors around the edge or can you rotate the ring of fewer sensors?
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