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desperate | 4 years ago | on: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

My bad, I'll call it off right now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

desperate | 4 years ago | on: Hilbert's Paradox of the Grand Hotel

Another great video on it, this one from TED-Ed

desperate | 4 years ago | on: Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii (2019)

Not yet anyway...

desperate | 4 years ago | on: Fast, Open Source Search

How come the search is somewhat stochastic? Deleting the "e" from "cake" and retyping it causes ~ 1 in 4 searches to display pure "cake" entries while the rest show things like "Baked praline ice cream cake".

desperate | 4 years ago | on: Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2

I don't think you understood what your parent meant. In their case the GPU was detrimental cause it was reducing the ram available to the rest of the system to 5gb.

desperate | 4 years ago | on: The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences

"The vast majority of the world’s chips are made in China, while the U.S. is the second biggest producer. "

I guess CNBC doesn't recognize Taiwan?

desperate | 4 years ago | on: Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs

Thanks for this, incredibly informative.

desperate | 4 years ago | on: The compiler will optimize that away

Slightly off topic but I just realized that not only does optimized code = less processor cycles but less cycles = less power used.

This brings two rhetorical questions, How much more effective compute would we have if all code running today were perfectly optimized, and how much less energy would be needed under the same circumstances?

The computer gains could only be used in networks where unused compute can be scheduled / sold to other tasks. The energy gains could only be reaped if processors had proper low power modes they could fall into or some other method of conservation.